Best rice cooker?

[Caspianberg]

Any tips or brand recommendations

After messing up jasmine rice, again, I’m open to a rice cooker.

I would like:
Big enough for 3 people
Small enough to store ( I have space in cabinets but not to keep on workside)
Can use for Porridge also
Can have keep warm function ie to make porridge at 7am and eat whenever we are ready
Not millions of £. Up to around £100 if needed

Hopefully easy enough to use Ds might be able to start using it in a few years time

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I have the Yum Asia Panda and love it. It seems to meet all your criteria.

@toastofthetown thank you, I was looking on their website. Is it the mini panda you have?

I also saw the do one called Tsuki mini panda which I think is smaller which seemed to have good reviews. It said 1-2 portions, but then does 2.5 cups of dried rice which seems loads for 2 people?

I think the one you have says up to 3.5 cups of dried rice, for 1-3, does it seems about right portions or is that 3 peoples very large portions? I usually only do about 1/2 cup dried for 2 adults and small child

Do you use it for anything other than rice?

Yep, I wrote out a longer comment basically saying that, lost it and ended up just posting a shorter comment then going to bed! I find 1 cup of rice per person a massive overestimate. I do 1 cup between two adults here so would say it comfortably feeds six for a very rice based meal, and more where rice is more of a side. It can happily cook half a cup of rice at a time too, but the water lines are only in whole cups.

This is the one I have. I’m pretty sure they didn’t have the Tsuki when I bought mine though so don’t know much about it. I pretty exclusively use it for rice. I use it for plain rice, as well as pilaus, corn rice, and one pot rice cooker meals. I’ve made rice and oat porridge in it - I think their instructions for oat porridge aren’t great through and perfecting that is something I want to do. I’ve made a cake once, which was really good but I tried it mostly for the novelty, and I’ve used it as a keep warm vessel for mulled wine! I’ve considered the slow cooker function, but I don’t eat meat, and no slow cooker recipes have really appealed to me.

Porridge in a rice cooker - never even thought of that. Any tips please?

@DriftAlong haven’t tried yet

But this site which does the panda mentioned above and others says they can all do porridge and slow cooker. I think they have some recipes available. Seems like you cook the oats first in water, then add milk or cream etc on the keep warm function at the end.

yum-asia.com/eu/product/tsuki-mini-advanced-fuzzy-logic-ceramic-rice-cooker/

@toastofthetown thats very helpful re portion sizes.

Do you use the steamer tray on yours? That seems to the the only thing the panda have v Tsuki .

I swear by my Zojirushi rice cooker, but I don’t think you can get them in the UK. I’d go with either a Yum Asia one, or a Cuckoo or Panasonic one if you can get them.

The porridge setting on mine is for rice porridge/congee, not oat porridge. I love being able to shove stuff in whilst cooking and it does its thing and switches over to keep warm to wait patiently!

Have you got a microwave? This cooks rice perfectly. ETA the other functions you are looking for can be found on an instant pot. I have the small one which is perfect for cooking for three.

The instant pot also has a rice setting, I've never used it but it does.

https://instantpot.co.uk/shop-all-products/instant/cooking-appliances/multi-cookers/instant-pot-duo-7-in-1-3l/

I have the same one as @toastofthetown I think. I have similar good experience and agree that 1/2 cup per person is about right if serving as side (such as with a curry). I have also done a few one pot rice meals like kedergee to great success. I like the keep warm and timer delay function. Not done porridge, slow cook, or cakes.

I have used the steamer basket a couple of times, mostly for dumplings, but a couple of times for broccoli. It is really quite small and is useful for the odd thing, but it's not something I use much - the size limits its usefulness IMO.

I have this one

https://uk.russellhobbs.com/medium-rice-cooker-and-steamer-27030#

Best things is it goes in the dishwasher too

@shockeditellyou - I did look at that one but it’s way too big I think for what we need.
Im not in Uk so anything that has European delivery is fine. The yum Asia ones have eu site, or Amazon probably

@42PercentCharged - no microwave no.
we have a fairly small kitchen so have limited gadgets now due to space really. So a rice cooker will be used and need a to be moved back into cupboard after as by huge worktops either