Zojirushi NP-HTC10 Induction Heating 5-1/2-Cup Pressure Rice Cooker and Warmer Review
1) Note that better prices can be had offline. I bought this product for 9 at an Asian grocery store and it came with a 20lb bag of rice to boot. I imagine the invoice price is around 0. Someone's making an insane amount of profit selling this for 0+.
2) This rice cooker produces moist, fluffy, chewy, textured rice that exceeds a vast majority of the restaurants out there, including those that cook individual portions of rice in stone pots. It will spoil you and make you a snob when it comes to rice. The menu has different settings for pretty much any kind of rice you want to cook like white (soft, regular, hard), brown, mixed, rinse-free, sushi, porridge, GABA, etc. You can keep the rice warm and tasting fresh for upto 24hr.
3) Good things take time, but this cooker pushes the limit of patience, taking ~50mins for white rice, ~75min for mixed rice, and upto 3.5hr for GABA rice. Fortunately, there's a timer so you can tell it to have rice done by say 6pm, as well as an express mode (25mins) when you are starving. Though still quite good, rice cooked in express mode tends to be slightly firmer and not as impressive as the regular mode. (Minus half star for long cooking time)
4) Compared to the variety I used for a number of years, this one has more parts to clean. The non-stick bowl, the inner lid, and the steam vent needs cleaning after each use as you'd expect. In addition, you need to check if any debris is obstructing any of the sensors, holes, or vents. The air intake and exhaust located on the bottom of the cooker for dissipating heat needs an occasional vacuuming. (Minus half star for extra cleaning required)
5) This unit is rated at ~1230 watts, but that doesn't mean it's using that much electricity continuously like a hair dryer. The cooker turns the heat on and off as needed like an oven to maintain internal temperature and pressure. (Since posting this review, I measured the total electricity consumed by using a Kill A Watt 4460 meter and it came out to 3 cents per use.)
6) Back to the original question, is it worth it? This is really a personal decision based on your budget, utilization, and love for rice. My thought process was I could buy 16 x 20lb bags of rice, or get this rice cooker and enjoy that 1 bag of rice like I never have before. Finding it for 0+ cheaper sweetened the deal too.
Zojirushi NP-HTC10 Induction Heating 5-1/2-Cup Pressure Rice Cooker and Warmer Feature
- 1230-watt 5-1/2-cup rice cooker and warmer with induction heating technology
- LCD control panel; clock and timer; keep-warm mode; end-of-cycle signal
- Vacuum-insulated inner cooking pan for efficient heating; detachable and washable inner lid
- Pressure-control valve; spatula, spatula holder, and 2 measuring cups included
- Measures 14-3/16 by 9-7/8 by 7-7/8 inches; 1-year limited warranty
Zojirushi NP-HTC10 Induction Heating 5-1/2-Cup Pressure Rice Cooker and Warmer Overview
Zojirushi's advanced rice cooker system uses precise heat control and pressurized cooking to create perfect rice. Induction Heating (IH) directs the heat right into the inner cooking pan, which is vacuum insulated to maintain temperature. Three pressure settings are available to steam the rice to varying degrees of firmness; lower pressure and temperature for firmer rice, and higher pressure and heat for softer rice. Precise rice made easy.
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Customer Reviews
Superlative Rice Cooker - Andrew Jackson - Dallas Metroplex
I have never had a better more intuitive rice cooker than this Zojirushi! I am just sorry I had not purchased it sooner. It makes delicious brown rice (I have not tried the GABA yet, but I expect it to be par excelllence). The brown rice is the best that can be made as long as it is washed, as you should with all rice. I love trying new things to add to my brown rice and I am itchin' to try the GABA. I could not recommend this rice cooker with greater enthusiasm, delight and satisfaction.
I cooked Steel Cut Oats on the Porridge setting, and I could not have made it better; as a matter of fact, I was extremely pleased and mine, heretofore, never tasted as good.
Excellent Rice Cooker - 4u2 - Saint John, IN USA
Got this Pressure Rice Cooker and used it the next day. White rice came out better than any other rice cookers I have owned. It was a lot of money, but in my opinion, was so worth the cost. You get what you pay for, and in the case of this rice cooker, I got exactly that -- one excellent cooker! Had no problems with it, just followed the directions and used their provided cup to measure level cups of raw rice. It is a 5 Star all the way!
Total Waste of money - Edward Y. Wong - San Francisco, CA
This is an excellent rice cooker if it was not the their top-of-the-line model at 0. Its well made in Japan, and not in China like the cheaper models. However, the high-end features are pure marketing crap, which is consistent with the final outcome of the GABA Brown setting. After patiently waiting for almost 4 hours for the unit to make the rice, it came out completely overcooked and mushy. I knew ahead of time from previous reviews that this would happen, but I needed a starting point and so I chose to stick with instruction manual. I had to call out for Chinese instead. Fortunately their rice was much better.
When I called their customer service, they didn't offer an apology, but instead, stated that I should use less water as "to my liking". Also, I can find no evidence that alpha starch is better than beta starch or even if that was the case, that high pressure cooking will indeed convert the starches in that manner. As I told the Zojirusi rep, what has been stated by their marketing material on this model is probably the most overblown statement since they said that the Titanic was unsinkable. For this price, I would have expected some kind of "Happy Ending" feature. Save your money and stick to the lower end models like the the NS-LAC05.Zojirushi NP-HTC Induction Heating Pressure Rice Cooker & Warmer - Color: Stainless Brown, 10 cups / 1.8 liters
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