Rice Cooker With a Built-In Scale and Water Tank

Most rice cookers hand you a plastic cup and a line inside the pot, and the right ratio changes with the grain, so brown rice, quinoa and beans each mean looking something up before dinner. This one weighs what you tip into the pot and dispenses its own water to match, from the clear tank that stands beside it on the same base, and it will sit loaded and start cooking up to 24 hours later.

The catch every product here has oneThe automation is the whole reason to pay appliance money for a rice cooker, and it is the part buyers divide on: what you are risking is a machine bought to be left alone that you end up standing over, learning its controls, topping up water it did not add and waiting past the hour you wanted to eat. It is also a wide thing to keep out, since the water tank stands beside the pot rather than over it, so measure the counter before you order.

Buyers report

Buyers report the rice comes out consistently well and praise the design as modern-looking. Opinion divides everywhere else: on whether it is worth the money, on how long a cycle takes and how easy the controls are, and on whether the automatic water dosing gets the amount right.

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