Zojirushi NP-GBC05XT Induction Heating System Rice Cooker and Warmer, 0.54 L, Stainless Dark Brown

This is my first review and I'm writing it in case it helps anyone out there similar to me ... so first a little background: I recently decided to change up my diet - I had been on a mostly wild salmon / some-type-of-vegetable diet. I weight train a bit so I've tried to keep my protein high and carbs low, but I decided to totally shake it up after reading a lot of research on vascular health. Despite my carb / low protein fears, I switched to a more/less vegan diet: grains & legumes for fats/protein + vegetables - zero added fat of any type, zero animal protein including dairy and whey protein

First off, there's isn't a huge difference between the standard micom and the IH (Induction Heater) micom. Micom is the "smart" rice cooker. I, myself, as someone who purchased the first of a very long succession of rice cookers dating back 50 years ago, *do* like rice cookers and I *don't* prefer any kind of pressure cooked rice. Having said that, I will occasionally put rice in a stainless steel Tatung rice cooker bowl, pop it in my water filled Instant Pot and make rice in a few minutes. It won't be as good, and I never cook rice straight in the Instant pot bowl. But it is fine in a pinch.

When a product has almost a thousand reviews and nearly all of them call the product perfect it seems fruitless to add one more, but I will because I am not the kind of person who opens something, plugs it in and sits down to robotically give it five stars, or sometimes the other way around, those that leave only a single star because they tried to save a couple of pennies by buying from one of the several listed sources other than the one sold and shipped by Amazon themselves. If they did and in the off chance it didn’t work or got scratched up one mouse click could have it refunded or replac

I had a rice cooker before this, some $30 thing I got at the store out of curiosity. I liked it well enough but it would burn rice to the bottom of the bowl making it a massive pain to clean, and rice generally came out half-mushy / half-dry even after careful water measuring. I was on the fence about spending nearly $200 for a single-function device to fix this when I could just make rice on the stove but now I'm really glad I did. This thing seriously saves me a ton of time making dinner during the week for three main reasons:Cleaning is simple and FAST. The bowl is thick, and the heating el

I’ve been using this rice cooker for a few weeks now and have eaten more rice in that time than the previous year. The rice that comes out of it is great.I have done both brown (using the gaba brown setting), and short and medium grain white rice to good effect.Now, it isn’t quite the perfect, magical experience I was expecting from other reviews and YouTube.Pros:Very easy to cleanI learned I should be washing my rice before cooking.Great white riceI have never successfully cooked brown rice on the stove or in the instant pot that came out as good as it comes out of this. My favorite restauran

I give 5 stars because it makes me five stars happy, almost no imperfections for my needs.i have had it going on 4 years, i use it every morning to make oatmeal with steel cut oats.i have never made rice with it!!! i had wanted to and intended to, but i have been putting it off after learning about arsenic in rice.But i am sure if i did make rice with this cooker, it would make great rice. Taking into account, compared to some other reviewers i read, i wouldn’t know how to make it exactly right if i tried, and as long as it’s not dried out, i would be happy with it.As for oatmeal, even after u

First off - this is not my first zojirushi rice cooker. I had a 10-cup zoji cooker that I used for over 10 years when I still had kids in the house and I was making rice in larger amounts. I am an empty nester now, and learning to cook for one. I wanted induction heating, GABA brown setting, Made in Japan, and a cooker that could make small amounts of rice perfectly. I agonized between the 3.3 cup size, and the larger 5.5 cup model because the price difference between the two was negligible. Finally decided to go with the smaller one and I am so glad I did. It has a very small footprint, so I

Wow, I've been making rice for 50 years and thought it was good. I always wondered why anyone would buy a rice cooker just to make a simple rice. I'm not sure why I actually bought this, because it was a whim, and I thought I would probably be returning it. I am very glad I bought it and I am keeping it! I now know what stellar rice is. Honestly, before buying this I never knew that you should soak your rice for 30 minutes before cooking or how there was a need for an extended steaming time after cooking for the best rice. And, sure, I could do all that by hand, now that I know, but this rice