Rice Cooker 6-Cup (Cooked) with Steaming Basket, Removable Non-Stick Bowl, White

Makes me happy every time I use it. It's one of the best small appliances I ever bought. Would I buy this again? Absolutely! It's the right size--fits on the counter, makes enough for 2-3 generous servings, easy & compact to store. It's flexible--Brown rice, white rice, sushi rice, rice+quinoa mix, rice with veggies on top, veggie steamer, rice casseroles/pilafs/rissoto, oatmeal. !!!Follow the instructions!!! & results are consistently good. Easy & fast to clean--either in the sink or in the dishwasher. Time Saver--I don't have to hover over a pot & tweak the temperatures to get my rice to cook properly. Only 2 things I dislike (My personal preferences--YMMD) The steamer basket & rice paddle are plastic. I swapped them for a silicone spatula & bamboo steamer.

Love love love this. So easy to use, and once it done the rice stays warm . Great product to have if you eat alot of rice. Also would be great for kids going off to school because you can steam you veggie while making the rice. .

This very sm rice cooker is perfect for one person who doesn't want to waste rice . I love it you can put a half cup of dry rice and it will make a cup of cooked rice. It's easy to use easy to clean and takes up very little space on my counter. It looks cute too

I purchased this to replace one I had used (of a different brand) for nearly 20 years. The finish on the bottom of the metal bowl the rice cooks in had begun to scratch and come off, so I felt for health reasons it was probably time to replace it. I loved the simplicity of my previous rice cooker, and looked for something similar. Overall, I have been happy with this purchase so far. I’ll detail a few of the pros and cons below, but I think I would purchase this again. Pros: *The rice is consistently cooked perfectly, and tastes great. This is the most important thing, and why I would purchase again. *The warming feature works well, and indeed keeps rice warm once it finishes cooking. So far, our rice has not dried out with this feature, but we also haven’t had to keep it warm for more than an hour or so. *It is fairly easy to use. The method of water measurement has been a little different from my previous cooker, which is taking a little adjustment (I have to consult the manual each time I use it to remind me of ratios), but once I get my ratios it only takes a few seconds to get rice cooking. I wish they would print ratios on a sticker and put it on the cooker, so I didn’t have to consult the book each time, but I’ll learn the ratios eventually. Cons: *This may just be the difference of buying something 20 years ago vs today, but the quality is noticeably less than my previous cooker. The plastic and metal on everything feels thinner — not as substantial. The serving paddle feels like a thinner plastic — only slightly thicker than what I would consider disposable plastic serve ware. It doesn’t impact the results with the rice, but I do wonder if it will impact durability and longevity. I do not expect that this cooker will last 20 years like my previous one. *This may be a silly gripe, but the serving paddle on my previous rice cooker was designed to rest in the handle on the side of the cooker, and I didn’t realize how much I liked that feature until I didn’t have it. It was great for serving to a crowd without having to set the paddle on the counter. While I technically can put the paddle in the handle of this one, it is clearly not designed to rest there, and one would have to touch the part of the paddle that comes in contact with food to remove it from the handle. Not ideal in a crowd. But, it still works. Like I said, overall I’m happy with the purchase, and if you’re looking for a solid rice cooker, this is a good option. I’m just putting the things in this review that I would have liked to note before ordering.

Great product and nice capacity for a small household. very easy to use and worth the money. I add rice and veggies and I get some healthy source of carbs for the day.

I absolutely love this small rice cooker. it’s compact, easy to use, and built to last. Despite its size, it cooks rice evenly every time and has become a daily staple in my kitchen. I’ve been using it regularly, and it still works like new. It’s perfect for singles, small families, or anyone who wants a simple, no-fuss appliance that doesn’t take up much space. Cleanup is a breeze too.

Works great. I've never owned a rice cooker before but I can certainly see why you would want to. This makes a couple of portions at a time - you can't feed a family with this one but for one or two people it is perfect. Works well, is easy to clean. My only complaint is the markings on the bowl are a little hard to read but once you get used to using it, you don't need them anymore anyway. I'm very satisfied with it.

Let's stop lying about this product. It is the least convenient way to make rice I have ever seen. It is much easier to cook rice in a microwave. Like so many people, I watched my Asian friends cook rice in rice cookers. It's so convenient: They scoop the rice in the rice cooker, add water, push the "COOK" button, and it works more-or-less like a toaster. It cooks the rice automatically, and shuts off. They can load it in a minute, start it, and forget it. But NOT this rice cooker. Let's do this in chronological order: The first time I used it, it stunk up the entire house with the smell of burnt transformer windings. I was afraid to eat the rice. Even though I washed it before use, I feared the smell might have been some coating left on the cooking pan which is part of the device. But the real problem is one of "weights and measures:" This is rated as a "3-cup" rice cooker. That means it is supposed to produce 3 cups of rice. For context, a "cup" is defined as a volume of 8 fluid ounces. So, when loaded to the maximum, it should produce 24 ounces of rice. It does NOT. Here is where the story gets really complicated: How do you know how much rice and how much water to add to cook a serving of rice??? This should be simple, BUT NO!!! They caution you to use the supplied measuring cup. If you read the small user's manual accompanying the cooker, you will find it contains the caution that their "CUP", the supplied "MEASURING CUP" is NOT 8 ounces. They claim it is 6. And they claim that if you fill the cooker completely with 1.5 of THEIR 6 oz. cups of rice, it will produce 3 OF THEIR 6 OZ. CUPS of cooked rice. OK. Write this off to misunderstanding due to poor translaation of Chinglish, and move on. BUT that's not the full story: To use this cooker at all, you must follow the instructions VERY CAREFULLY. The instructions say to do things in the following order: 1. Measure the desired amount of uncooked rice into the supplied MINIATURE measuring cup. (This numerically represents half of the cooked volume of rice you wish to prepare;) 2. Pour this rice into the cooker. N.B. this is BEFORE you add water to the cooker. 3. Add water to the cooker (already containing the uncooked rice) up to the numeric measure line whose label matches the amount of uncooked rice you previously measured into their special supplied miniature measuring cup. The first problem everyone seems to encounter is that the nonstandard volume measurement markings on the 2 independent devices do not match any standard volume, nor do they match each other. It is very difficult to make sense of them or the instructions about them. E.g. who has ever heard of measuring water into a vessel AFTER a bunch of other solid pellets have already been loaded? And, trust me, if you add water up to the appropriate marking in the cooking pan BEFORE you add the rice to the cooking pan, it will result in the rice cooker boiling over, making a tremendous mess on the counter, AND there will be lots of dried rice material glued to the bottom of the cooking pan. So be careful to measure the rice and water only precisely as it says in the manual, and only using their "supplied" "measuring cup", and only in the order dictated. Further inconvenience includes: 1. The rice will stick to the bottom of the pan if you don't take the lid off and stir the rice at least every ;5 minutes during the cooking cycle; 2. You MUST use a non-metallic – either teflon, plastic, or wooden – utensil to stir the rice, or you will scratch the teflon off the supplied cooking pan, ruining the cooker; 3. The plastic spatula supplied with the cooker is MUCH TOO LARGE to use with the cooker; 4. The numbers embossed in the tupperware-like "measuring" cup supplied with my cooker are virtually impossible to see. They are so lightly scratched into the clear PVC that you have to hold the cup near a light, and at just the right angle, to see the markings at all; 5. The markings indented into the side of the black teflon cooking pan are even more difficult to see. Since you must compare them to the level of water within the pan, you can only use them from the inner teflon-black side of the pan. It's best to bring a flashlight, OR you can carry the pan – already loaded with rice – to a location near a lightbulb where you can add the water while viewing the measurement levels. I know a bunch of you are wondering: "Why can't I just measure the proper amounts of constituents once, and use a real measuring cup henceforward?" Well, you can, but here's the rub: It turns out the supplied cup is not actually 6 ounces. It's closer to 5 fluid ounces. So if you want to make 10 ounces of cooked rice, use 5 real ounces of rice. But you still have to determine how much water. By carefully measuring the amount of water required to match the "number 1" marking on the cup and the side of the pan while it already contains one of their "measure" of rice, I determine that: A smidgen over 5 ounces of rice requires About 8.5 ounces of water. You don't want to make more than 1 of their uncooked cups of rice, because cooking only one of their (5 oz.) "cups" of rice will cause the cooker to boil over, and the mess it makes is even worse if you fill it further. I have tried the trick suggested by previous reviewers of draping a small towel over the top of the cooker, including the steam-vent hole in the lid. This suggestion certainly helps. But it, in no way, prevents a mess when the thing boils over. The best thing is to just watch it carefully, and when it boils up, remove the lid, and let the boiled-up bubbles recede. If you can catch it before it boils over, at least that is one less mess to clean up. The cooker will automatically switch from "COOK" to "WARM" after about 15 minutes. But, according to the company's directions, you have to warm the rice for 15 minutes more to prepare it properly. (I've tried the shortcut of skipping the "WARM" cycle, and it doesn't result in good rice.) Don't forget that it doesn't have an OFF switch, so you have to unplug it after every use. (Which means you have to wait around for it to finish cooking entirely before you can move on to whatever you had scheduled to do next.) This thing is terribly inconvenient to use. It saves no time; it wastes your time. Rather than start-and-forget, you have to mind it throughout the entire 30 minutes or so of cooking cycle, stirring the rice every ~5 minutes, AND UNPLUGGING THE COOKER WHEN YOU ARE DONE. This cooker NEVER shuts off automatically. It stays on "WARM," which may well be hot enough to catch fire after it dries out your rice completely. AND the claims of how much it rice it will prepare, being derived from the assumption that a "cup" is 5 ounces, are fraudulent. I have been using Black & Decker tools for most of my life. They are usually reliable, dependable, and very high quality. But for Black & Decker to put their name on this product IS A SHAM. FOR SHAME!!! Whoever approved or tested this product at Black & Decker should immediately be fired. SHAME ON YOU, BLACK & DECKER!!! SHAME ON YOU FOR SOILING THE REPUTATION OF YOUR HONORABLE BRAND!!!