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 List Price: $105.00 Sale Price: $89.95 
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Perfect rice, every time. This restaurant-quality rice cooker features a lock-tight lid and moisture preserving steam cap to keep rice fresh and moist for hours. Easy to use with one control and an automatic warming system. Non-stick interior and side condensation tray make clean up quick and simple. Stay cool exterior. Model: NSPC10.
- Cooks 1 to 5 cups rice and keeps it warm, fresh, moist for hours
- Nonstick pan readily releases rice and cleans easily
- Single control for easy operation; cool-touch exterior
- Rice spatula, removable spatula holder, measuring cup included
- 420 watts; 9-1/2 inches wide, 8-3/4 inches high, 12-1/2 inches deep
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We eat rice often. We’ve had a Faberware cooker for years that finaly died. Wouldn’t get another as it cooked the rice unevenly with ‘burned spots’. The Zojirushi costs lots more, but is well worth it. This unit cooks all of the rice perfectly every time. We like the size, it delivers 2 to 5 cups of cooked rice, and it delivers the same high quality rice for any batch size.
I wish we could leave it pluged in, but there is no on/off switch. The overall quality seams very good, what you would expect from a [price] machine.
If you eat rice frequently, and enjoy high quality food, this is an excellent machine and is well worth the cash.
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I found this machine works great – makes perfect rice every time! It takes about 25 minutes to cook 3 cups of rice, and the cleanup is a snap thanks to the non-stick pan. The machine automatically controls the cooking time, so a timer is not necessary. In fact, since 3 cups of rice cooks in 25 minutes using this machine, I can’t imagine ever needing a timer or “stay warm” feature…
So is there any downside to the Zojirushi NS-PC10? Not really… The only (minor) issue is that there is no power switch – the unit is activated by plugging it into the wall (and deactivated by unplugging). The cord is wound around a receptacle recessed into the bottom of the unit (it does not automatically retract).
I really wanted one of the fancy “Neuro Fuzzy” Rice cookers by Zojirushi – but they are just too expensive to justify… The computerized models also require a battery to function (this model does not).
I reccomend this product as a useful, easy-to-use and relatively inexpensive rice cooker.
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I grew up on rice cooked with the old fashioned rice cookers. This new generation of rice cookers is really amazing. The rice is cooked perfectly and stays hot for hours afterwards. I like the simplistic design of this model, no need to program clocks and timers, so we can unplug it and store it away. It cooks white rice from 1-5 cups perfectly. There is a little area on the bottom that gets a little brown but not burnt or crusty. It cleans up easily with minimal scrubbing. I highly recommend this model.
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For years I’ve wished that I could cook “perfect rice”. This little “Zo” has made it possible for me to prepare perfect Sushi-style rice (sumptuously sticky and moist) as well as the perfect cafeteria-style rice (no two grains stick together, and the rice is firm, almost al dente). And the absolute best feature is the impossibly non-stick surface of the cooking pot. Every grain of rice falls out of the pot! Cleaning my previous rice cooker was so repulsive and difficult that I soon stopped using it. You can use a damp paper towel and clear water to clean this Zo!!
The recipe is simple — measure rice, rinse, add water, soak, press the button, let it steam for 15 minutes after the cook cycle has finished, then stir to release the trapped excess steam. PERFECT! The Zojirushi will keep your rice warm for hours, but who can wait that long to eat it? Not me!
If you want to avoid the very tiny bit of browned rice on the bottom, the secret seems to be rinsing the rice for a ridiculous amount of time, at least 5 full minutes.
I heartily recommend this item.
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I bought this cooker to make sushi. It works great even with just a single cup of rice (I don’t think that I’ll ever make a large batch).
Clean up is as simple as stated, and it’s small and attractive on counter (not so important, but it’s right next to the coffee machine and I see it every day).
The only complaint that I have is that it’s ‘always on’ so you have to unplug it when not in use.
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This is the first & only rice cooker I’ve owned – but this little Zojirushi is GREAT! Clean-up is effortless. It’s the perfect size for my small apartment (with very limited counter-space). And it makes PERFECT brown rice each & every time! It also has a rice warmer feature that keeps the rice toasty & moist without any burning.
HIGHLY recommended!
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this is by far the best purchase i have made in awhile! the rice (i have tried all types) comes out perfectly 99% of the time. the other 1% is when i failed to properly rinse the rice and this results in a yellowish, dry spot of rice on the bottom, but no big deal. the interior bowl which holds the rice is easy to clean requiring only seconds. each morning i set up the rice cooker and by evening i have half of dinner already made. this is an excellent time saver and just too easy.
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Initial purchase around November of 2003: In my house, we mainly eat brown rice & I was concerned that the cooker handle this since rice cookers seem to be designed with white rice in mind. I also wanted to be able to start it in the morning and come back after work and find it perfectly cooked and still hot. I’m happy to report that this cooker performs perfectly at both tasks. For my brown rice, I find that I need a little extra water (ie, fill it a little over the line instead of at the line) but this is a minor quibble. Other than that, it’s very easy to use, the measuring marks for water & the measuring cup for rice make it unexpectadely easy to measure the desired amount of rice. I have also used this with great success with more exotic rices incdluding wild rice, black rice and red rice from Butan (or somewhere around there, I got it at Whole Foods)
Update 10/24/04: After almost a year of use, I still love this rice cooker and recently used it to cook barley very successfully (but you have to measure the water & barley yourself, don’t use the rice measurements that are pre-labeled on the cooker as the water to grain ratio is different for barley than rice).
Also, I’ve abused it by pouring rice into the heating compartment of the unit itself and it still works! I simply forgot to put the rice pot in the unit and poured in the rice without it. By the time I realized my error some had gotten into the innards, where it still lives some months later. Other than the fact that I can hear it, the cooker continues to work flawlessly
Update 8/22/2006. Still working flawlessly, even though there is still rice in the innards due to my carelessness.
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The Zojirushi is easy to use and makes wonderful tender and sticky sushi rice. It is also extremely easy to clean– Less than 30 seconds– if you have ever scrubbed out a normal pot after making sushi rice, you will appreciate what a time saving this is.
We have already used it 10 times in the last month and we have had perfect rice almost every time. (The only time the rice was slightly browned was when we had left the rice on “Keep Warm” for 5 hours after starting it. Normally, we eat the rice as soon as it is done.)
The machine iself is attractive and well made and although higher priced than some of the items for sale at local grocery and chain stores seems more than worth the price.
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I bought Zojirushi® BBCCX20 bread machine last fall and I was pleased with it as appliance. My rice cooker, National® 5 cup with a steam cup holder lasted me over 5 years but few weeks back the pan started peeling off it’s non-stick inside. This was recommended by other uses and my local Chinese grocery store charges over $100 for 5-cup rice cooker with similar features. My wife and I cook rice just about every day and we need a rice cooker to make various types of rice such as basmati, Jasmine, red rice, long grain, parboiled etc. Having born in Asian country means rice, rice baby every day! Beside 1 billion people can’t be wrong! We used the Zojirushi® for nearly five days. Excellent! No complaints it’s smaller than my previous National® rice cooker takes less counter space. Keep the unit to make sure the steam can escape as it tends to release steam from water. Cooking rice without a machine can be done however you will not get the same results like having it using a rice cooker. All my Asian friends use rice cookers as it’s the easiest way to cook rice.
Word of advice, stay away from cheap rice cookers in regular retail store as wal-mart. They are crap and you are wasting your money by getting something cheap. Most of them have no way to control the steam capture system and a good rice cooker should be able to get rice cooked with out being dried and sticking to the pot and be able to enjoy it at least after 8 -10 hours having it cooked. We have left the rice in the pot till next day and it’s still soft and fluffy. I would only recommend this during winter.
This NS-PC10 keeps rice in perfection after being cooked for hours later. Best way to cook rice is to have it soaked at least 10-20 min. but I hardly do it but if you like fluffy rice it’s recommended. If you follow simple instructions of keeping the unit clean and making sure the pan doesn’t get scratched you should get at least 5- years of such a rice cooker.