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How to Choose Rice Cooker Size

How do you choose the right rice cooker to last a lifetime? You'll need to pinpoint your personal cooking habits and preferences.

 

1. Identify your Size Requirements

 

Firstly, understand how many cups of rice - the standardized cup that comes with rice cookers - you will cook on a daily basis, not on occasions when you have guests over (more on that later). This is important because rice cookers come in various sizes. A 3-cup rice cooker is the smallest capacity common for major brands such as Panasonic, Tiger, and Zojirushi to carry. The next common size up is a 5-cup and the biggest size (for household use) is 10 cups. For some brands, there are 4-cups and 8-cups available. Each cup of raw rice will yield two bowls of cooked rice:

5-cup rice cooker = yields up to 10-bowls of cooked rice

10-cup rice cooker = yields up to 20-bowls of cooked rice.

So here's our first tip. If you only cook about 1-2 cups of rice daily, a 3-cup rice cooker would be the most suitable size for you. If you cook around 2-5 cups of rice, a 5-cup cooker would be most suitable. And finally, if you cook any more than 5 cups, then a 10-cup cooker would be most suitable. 

A common concern that we often hear in the store is, "what if we have guests over"? If you have guests over and you frequently have guests over, consider buying a slightly larger capacity rice cooker. Why shouldn't you buy a larger rice cooker which is much larger (ex. 10-cup) for when you have guests over? Well, you could buy a much larger rice cooker, but because you would not cook that much daily, it would damage the inner pot of the rice cooker and shorten its lifespan. Furthermore, if you only cook a small amount of rice in a large rice cooker, the heat will not be evenly distributed and the rice will not come out as well.

 

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2. Choose your desired rice cooker types and features

 

A second cooking practice that you have to be aware of is the kind of rice you usually cook, and the features you need for your rice cooker. There are four kinds of rice cookers: traditionaljar-o-matmicro-computerized, and induction heated (IH)

 

Traditional Type

  • User-friendly and fast, auto-adjusts to "keep warm".
  • One-touch button for plain white rice.
  • Single heating element at the bottom produces crust on cooked rice.
  • Glass or plastic lid partially seals in heat.

 

Jar-o-mat Type

  • User-friendly and fast, auto-adjusts to "keep warm".
  • One-touch button for plain white rice.
  • Multiple heating elements on bottom, sides, and sometimes lid for even cooking and no crust on cooked rice.
  • Hinged lid and rubber gasket seal in heat.

 

Micro-computerized

  • Uses 'Fuzzy Logic' to warm your rice before cooking it, cook it at varying temperatures during the heating cycle, and then warm the rice before it is ready leading to fluffier, better-tasting rice.
  • Approx. 50 min cooking time - in a rush, you can override the fuzzy logic function with a 'quick cook' function, to make your multi-function rice cooker cook like a jar-o-mat rice cooker.
  • Features include a brown rice cooking function, which cooks with a different temperature, and amount of water and time, porridge cooking function, slow cooking function, and steaming function.

 

Induction Heating (IH)

  • The IH rice cooker uses electromagnetic power to heat up the internal pot itself. This type of rice cooker is the most advanced, heating the fastest and most evenly.
  • While the most expensive rice cooker option, it produces the fluffiest, best-tasting rice.

 

All computerized rice cookers come with a timer that allows you to preset a cooking time for when you want your rice to be cooked and ready. Some models will have a count-down timer, so you would enter how many hours you would want to eat your rice. Other models have a built-in clock, and you set what time you want to eat your rice. For example, if you first have the rice and water ready inside your rice cooker, plug it in, and set it to 7:00 pm, the rice cooker will turn on to automatic mode and the rice will be cooked and ready to serve at 7:00 pm. If you work during the day and do not want to wait for the rice cooker when you get home, this feature can save you a lot of time.Contact us to get more news.

 

Some brands and models of computerized rice cookers also have features for cooking sweet rice, rinse-free rice, sushi rice, and even baking cakes. This brings us to our second tip - if you never cook brown rice, sweet rice, porridge, and don't need a timer, you would probably be happy with a jar-o-mat rice cooker. If you don't cook rice very often and are not picky about the quality of your cooked rice, a traditional rice cooker may suit you. However, if you value special functions and would find a timer useful, then we recommend a micro-computerized or IH rice cooker. 

 

3. Understand the differences of inner pots

 

The inner pot of your rice cooker will not just determine the fluffiness and taste of your rice, but also the speed at which your rice will cook. Figure out what you value in inner pot types: Non-stick, stainless steel, and ceramic.

 

(1)Non-stick

Easy to clean

Uses non-stick coating

Will need replacement upon damage and scratches

(2)Stainless Steel

Scratch-resistant and dishwasher safe

Difficult to clean as rice sticks to inner pot

Cooking may be uneven

(3)Ceramic

Easy to clean

Non-stick with no coating

Heavy inner pot, breakable material

 

How to Choose Rice Cooker Size

 

big size commercial drum rice cooker

big size commercial drum rice cooker

Cool touch operation, convenient to control cook and keep warm Large capacity electrical rice cooker automatically switch to warm mode Accessories: measuring cup, rice spoon Applicable environment: large and medium-sized restaurant, farm and hotel

Smart IH Multifunctional Commercial Large Rice Cooker

Multifunctional Commercial Smart IH Rice Cooker

The smart IH rice cooker features of concave coil plate with full magnetic heating technology, which can improve the power transmssion to the inner pot the heat gather around the inner pot and cook the food faster and evenly.

22L Multifunctional Hotel Restaurant Commercial Rice Cooker

22L Commercial Rice Cooker for Restaurant Use

This rice cooker restaurant is especially suitable for restaurant and hotel use. Intelligent digital control panel to monitor temperature and regulate power. Tridimensional keep warm function for 24hours is available with functions of delay timer, power, short grain rice, long grain rice, porridge and soup, keep warm and etc..

2250w Stainless Steel Commercial Rice Cooker

2250w Stainless Steel Rice Cooker

Stainless Steel Rice Cooker India Rice Cooker Stainless Steel available in two sizes: 8.2L and 7L Intelligent digital control panel to monitor temperature and regulate power. Stainless Steel Rice Cooker Bowl Functions: Delay timer, power, short grain rice, long grain rice, porridge and soup, keep warm. Tridimensional keep warm function for 24hours is available.

Traditional Cool Touch Operation Electrical Commercial Drum Rice Cooker

Traditional Cool Touch Operation Electrical Commercial Drum Rice Cooker

Cool touch operation, convenient to control cook and keep warm Large capacity electrical rice cooker automatically switch to warm mode Accessories: measuring cup, rice spoon Applicable environment: large and medium-sized restaurant, farm and hotel

Smart Multi-functional Digital Panel Rice Cooker

Smart Multi-functional Digital Panel Rice Cooker

Our rice cookers range from simple conventional version to multi functional smart rice cooker. Most of our inner pots are made of food grade multi-ply stainless steel, no coating and no peeling to fulfill various cooking methods.

Cheapest factory price smart rice cooker multi-functional rice cooker

Smart Rice Cooker Multi-functional Rice Cooker

Our rice cookers range from simple conventional version to multi functional smart rice cooker. Most of our inner pots are made of food grade multi-ply stainless steel, no coating and no peeling to fulfill various cooking methods.

350W 0.8L 4 CUPS Stainless Steel Multi-Function Rice Cooker

350W 0.8L Stainless Steel 4 CUPS Rice Cooker

Crafted with a non-stick coating, the 4 Cups Rice Cooker features an easy-to-use control panel that keeps cooking simple.

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Do not rinse your rice inside the inner pot of your rice cooker, as this will scratch the pot's non-stick coating.

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Do not add ingredients such as oil, salt, or other spices into the rice cooker, as this will also damage the non-stick coating.

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Try not to use a rice cooker that is much larger than what you need (ex. using a 10-cup rice cooker to cook only 1-2 cups of rice regularly)

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