Sanyo ECJ-D55S 5.5-Cup Rice Cooker

Pros: Easy-to-use, easy-to-maintain creator of perfect rice.

Cons: Expensive

The Bottom Line: The perfect rice cooker for those who eat rice frequently.

Review: Being Asian, we eat rice every day. Our previous rice cooker was a single switch controlling heat to an aluminum pot. The rice came out mostly fine though sometimes burned grains stuck to the bottom of the pot. Cleaning it involved much scrubbing with a ...

Pros: Makes wonderful porridge and brown rice, as well as white rice; also steamer and slow-cooker.

Cons: None except for absence of a see-through tempered glass lid which some models have.

The Bottom Line: My counter space is limited, but this rice cooker stays out all the time; I couldn't do without it, for breakfast oatmeal and for excellent rice.

Review: I didn't think I wanted or needed a rice cooker until I heard about the newer models that had settings for porridge. I like oatmeal and other hot breakfast cereals, but I had been making instant oatmeal because it was so hard to cook steel cut oats on ...

Pros: settings for any kind of rice cook and steam simultaneously titanium removable inner pot

Cons: water collects under the lid and you need to wipe it off to clean

Review: This machine can basically do it all for a family of 2. It can make enough servings of rice for a crowd, or even chili, soup, jambalaya, pudding, oatmeal as well. It has a timer so you can set it to cook for a specific time and go off and run errands. ...

Pros: Tasty, reliable rice. Attractive rice cooker.

Cons: Poor service network

The Bottom Line: Consider another brand perhaps with a better service network.

Review: The ECJ-D55S cooks pretty good rice. I usually cook short grain 'Japanese style" rice which comes out moist and reliably tasty in the regular cycle. The machine is a fairly attractive plastic bodied rice cooker with metal on the top and front (as the ...