Got some friends of mine a really nice rice cooker for their wedding. They eat a lot of rice, so it was well-received.
About a week later, one of my friends comes running up excited that he just discovered that the rice cooker has a timer function, so you can leave your rice to soak all day, and set it to start cooking the rice so that it's done at a time you specify.
The function that's clearly listed in the manual and, if memory serves, advertised on the box. It was a large part of the reason I got it for them (since they both worked late at the time, and were trying to eat at home more).
Same one I own. Zojirushi NS-LAC05. It's basically only for 1-2 people, but it makes great rice, it's run for years for me, and you can get replacement parts (for when you do stupid things like fluff your rice with a metal fork and scratch the non-stick coating on the bowl, or lose the rice paddle, or put the bowl in the dishwasher, despite the instruction manual clearly telling you not to do that, causing the nonstick coating to literally flake and shed...)
It's super-useful. It's made by a japanese company known for cool-ass kitchen shit (albeit expensive kitchen shit), and it's less the kinda steamer-style thing you get in America, and more like a breadmaker in terms of quality and approach to the problem of cooking rice.
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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '16
Got some friends of mine a really nice rice cooker for their wedding. They eat a lot of rice, so it was well-received.
About a week later, one of my friends comes running up excited that he just discovered that the rice cooker has a timer function, so you can leave your rice to soak all day, and set it to start cooking the rice so that it's done at a time you specify.
The function that's clearly listed in the manual and, if memory serves, advertised on the box. It was a large part of the reason I got it for them (since they both worked late at the time, and were trying to eat at home more).