CUCKOO CR-0375F | 3-Cup (Uncooked) Micom Rice Cooker | 10 Menu Options: Oatmeal, Brown Rice & More, Touch-Screen, Nonstick Inner Pot | White

I grew up eating many bowls of white jasmine rice every day, cooked in a cheap $30 rice cooker. Recently I've ventured in the world of brown rice and upgraded to this machine as it can make brown rice even delicious with its GABA brown (sprouted brown rice) function. The function ferments the rice for 3 hrs before cooking, so total cook time is ~ 3.5 hrs. The instructions recommend soaking for up to 18 hrs before cooking the rice to encourage even more sprouting. This is what I've noticed:1. no fermenting: yuck, kernels are still super hard2. 3 hr fermenting: it's okay, but kernels aren't quite "fluffy" yet3. 3 hrs soak, 3 hrs ferment: quite good4. 12 hr+ soak, 3 hrs ferment: maybe even tastier than white rice???I use regular short grain brown rice mixed with a small scoop of an 8-grain mix (black rice, barley, etc). I looked forever for "GABA rice" at the store, and I think some stores do sell pre-sprouted, but I think you can just use regular brown rice, and the soak + ferment process is what makes it "GABA" rice. GABA supposedly is healthier too but honestly I'm just in it for the taste.I think cuckoo's fancier pressure cooker rice cookers can make GABA brown rice even faster/tastier, because the manuals for those didn't suggest pre-soaking the rice (yes I read all the manuals... can you tell I'm a virgo). But if you don't mind the extra hassle of waiting, this one is quite nice and decently priced!

Perfect for two cups raw (4 cups cooked) white rice. Just add two cups rice and two cups water, close the lid, plug in and press start! Ready to eat in 20 minutes. Perfect everytime. I do rinse and soak my rice before cooking.

Awesome

We loved this rice cooker until the screen burnt out and smelled like it was about to start an electrical fire.

We are very pleased with the rice cooker and very frustrated by the user manual. The rice is so much better than in our old single button rice cooker. Pretty much perfectly cooked. The user manual is very difficult to understand. Unclear directions written by someone who probably does not speak English as their primary language.The markings for water level, inside the pot, are etched in so probably durable, but because they are the same color as the rest of the pot, they are difficult to see. The cooker has a "clean" mode which seems to do a very good job of cleaning the parts if they get gummy residue (such as when we tried cooking faro in the cooker). If there is a delayed start mode, we have not found it yet, given the poorly written user manual.

this is actually a really good rice cooker for its size and value. cooks up to 3 cups which is a lot for 1-2 people and it has a warming function. does not sing or talk like the bigger cukoos.

Looks cute and modern however the biggest design flaw is the open button. You can’t open with just a push of a button. It requires both hands and You got to hold the whole rice cooker to open

I purchased this since all my sons move out of home so I cook for myself and this size is very convenient for this purpose. I previously used a crock pot but it got broken. I hope this product lasts longer. It is only for rice whereas the crock pot I cooked rice and stews.