Originally Posted by
Taiwaned
My wife says all rice cookers makes good rice. It's like cell phones, if you want a cell phone that just makes phone calls. It's cheap. If you want it to do more things, it gets more expensive.
Very well put! I make rice quite often, but I use it all within an hour of cooking and do not make anything other than Japanese rice. The Sanyo is great for that, but if I were making anything else or keeping rice overnight, I'd probably get something else.
And I don't think I would consider a Zojirushi a status symbol. This was admittedly a long time ago, but I lived in a student dorm in Tokyo and probably about 1/3 of the students had a Zojirushi in their dorm rooms. It was more practical than anything else.