Originally Posted by alpen1

I've read through this thread a few times and still can't quite get my head around multiple hundred dollar rice cookers. Growing up in a Chinese household we naturally ate more rice than one would think reasonable and that continues to this day in my house. We never had a fancy rice cooker and they always served the trick and lasted years, I know my father still has the same black and decker one he's had for more than 10 years. We've got a b & d one also and it goes strong week in and week out for 3 years and counting.