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$30 Off store wide when you spend $150 & over. Big Asian Rice Cooker Brands Tiger, Buffalo, Cuckoo, Tefal and others.
$30 off Store Wide ($150 Minimum Spend) @ Rice Cooker World (Shipping $15)
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Don't know about the other brands, and can't comment on whether the prices are good or not, but Tiger is an extremely well regarded Japanese brand.
Edit: you likely haven't heard of them because they aren't widely available here. You need to seek them out from Asian shops who import them in.
Tiger is an extremely well regarded Japanese brand.
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Serious question, is there a difference in results from a $14 Target cooker and a $150 one?
The $150 one beeps when it's finished.
I don't own one. But from the reviews I have read and people's comments on forums there apparently is a huge difference.
If I ate rice every day I would probably have bought one years ago when I was looking this stuff up.
Edit: a quick search of the ozb forums shows that the regular price (for the jnp-1000 at least) is average, so the $30 off makes it a pretty good deal.
@Morien: Cheers. We've basically stopped using our one and just buy the microwave packs when on special. Convenient, quick, and can't taste the difference (well, I can't at least).
I haven't tried a Target one, but the $14 K-Mart rice cooker is rubbish. They die after about 8 months of use (3-4 times per week) and they never really cook rice properly.
We've had two of the K-Mart rice cookers so far, and in both cases we've thrown away the cooker part and kept the pot. She Who Must Be Obeyed (tm) uses the pot from the rice cooker to cook rice straight on the stove.
At risk of being labelled racist (I hereby invoke the "n-word privilege"), I reckon that white people can't rice. By extension, western-designed appliances don't cook rice very well. For the most part, we accept our Breville/Kambrook, Sunbeam and K-Mart/Target rice cookers because we don't know any better, but a true connoisseur (!) won't be satisfied with white-people's rice cooking machines!
Panasonic are a good half-way brand for rice cookers. The brand is known in the west, but from Japan. So you get a decent rice cooker with a brand that white people recognise!
the $14 K-Mart rice cooker is rubbish. They die after about 8 months
12 month replacement warranty.
I can die happy now
In my opinion yes but there are quite a few variables to consider..
TIP: Rice cookers are great for cooking oats when your busy getting ready in the morning too (nicer consistency than the microwave) :p
better rice really
Yes, with the expensive one, rice are more evenly cooked, the water absorption in each grain of rice is uniform, the keep warm function will keep the rice warm at the optimum temp without drying out the rice, and it lasts. Had mine for 7 years, Panasonic with microchip, japan made, daily use cooking japanese rice. Had sunbeam one prior to that, bought it for $50, and it was rubbish, was replaced under warranty in less than a year.
One tip for using rice cooker, never ever wash your rice in the rice cooker bowl, the non stick coating will wear off so much faster. Most chinese owned dollar store sell this plastic bowl made for washing rice, use that instead.I've used really cheap rice cooker, mid-priced ones and expensive ones (btw, $150 is not the most expensive that it can get up to), and I have noticed a lot of difference between how evenly the rice is cooked. The cheaper ones tend to burn the rice on the bottom, and leave the rice soggy on top.
The mid-priced ones don't have this issue, but the rice tends not to be very fluffy and the keep warm function always dries out the rice.
The expensive ones produce very fluffy rice, and the keep warm function works really well. I've left rice in the cooker on the keep warm function (accidentally) for hours and it was still alright :3 (You can get pressure cooker style ones that apparently make the rice really fluffy, and cook the rice much faster).
Tiger is a huge, popular brand in many Asian countries where rice is eaten daily. Just as those not familiar to headphones wouldn't know about AKG or Audio Technica, not surprising it's not a known brand in Australia.
My parents have something similar to Tiger JNP-1000 Rice Cooker (5.5 Cup) Lovely Flower and it makes really good and fluffy rice. Been going strong for over 10 years.
I have something similar to 3 in 1 Electric Tiger Rice Cooker JBA-T10A. Have it for more than 5 years and still going strong.
Comparing the above 2 Tiger models, I cant tell the difference in rice quality but there is a marked difference from your sub $20 cookers. Most cheaper cookers I've used start to have problems after a year and the inside coating starts to wear off.
If you cant tell the difference when eating long grain, medium grain, jasmine, japanese rice, etc then you won't benefit from this :)
The JBA-T10A has many useful functions like timer and settings for different type of rice.
Yes, big brands. Excellent quality rice cookers made by experts. Tiger appliances are pretty much as good as appliances get. In the rice cooker universe, the likes of Sunbeam and Breville are cheap 'junk' brands.
Yes, big brands.
So why don't Myer / DJ's sell them?
My guess is Tiger don't have an authorised distributor in Australia. But if you were in Japan and buying a rice cooker you would have a hard time not coming across it.
My guess is Tiger don't have an authorised distributor in Australia.
So what happens with warranty ?
Because many Australian retailers deemed Asian-only products as not significant in term of revenue, or they don't want to be identified as "too" Asian. For example, Oakley Australia do not want to stock Asian fit sunglasses for whatever the reasons.
Because many Australian retailers deemed Asian-only products as not significant in term of revenue
Surely if the products are better, that's the job of the marketing team….
It goes from hard rice too "not so hard rice" in a pot, cooker or bowl of warm water.
Not to mention It tastes like rice when it's cooked, why buy a machine above $10Rice is fluffy when you have a nice rice cooker.
Especially so when cooking brown rice.
Unless you have rice almost everyday I don't think it matters..lol@Henryneko: my rice is fluffy.
Its about temperature x time, grain type and if you wash the starches off or not for consistency.@ozy:
Yeah perhaps.
Threw away my trusty cheap breville rice cooker ($25) that lasted 8 years.
It had only keep warm or cook function. Brown rice always tasted yucks.
Bought a tefal one with multiple functions..takes much longer to cook but rice is fluffy and yum. Cost a fair bit more and pray it will last at least another 8 years..haha
Not willing to afford anything above $100 for rice cooker though.@Henryneko: In my teens I worked in "Wok on in" Noosa and Thai Noosa and both used cheap chinese made for Aussie trash cookers like kambrook & sunbeam and they are still running strong 15+ years later.
brown rice always tasted yucks
I bet!
at least I've heard of that brand…
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Can any of these cook my 2 minute noodles faster than my $7 kambrook branded rice cooker?
Should include free shipping, as the correct discount would only be $15!!
I have a hard time finding a review for Buffalo's new model rice cooker.
Please tell me how it goes. They have stainless steel inner pot and it is really appeal to me.
Bought a Cuckoo in Seoul last year. Was a fun exercise stuffing into our suitcase on the way home.
We eat a lot of rice, so it gets plenty of usage. It's a pressure cooker with 'fuzzy logic', so just throw some rice and water in and it turns out perfectly every time. Plays a cute jingle when its done, and can keep it warm for up to 24 hours (unlike the cheap ones which dry out after 20 mins).
Definitely a great purchase.
why would u keep it warm for 24hrs? can u dry rice out? even being the fridge overnight, jusd add a splash of water and reheat snd it's still flyffy. but i do like the music! and can bale a cake in it
Do you guys sell rice dispenser box? The ones where you can chuck in the 20KG bags inside then push button for 1/2/3 cups of rice?
There's such thing?!
lol i just have a big container 10ltr with lid and a scoop. cost $8
Try the Asian homewares stores
any places in Melbourne that sell Tiger or Zojirushi electric water heaters?
Fujimart in Melbourne sells Tiger. I bought mine from there.
i dont leave my rice cooker on benchtop as i have a clear benchtop policy. so anything heavy and big wouldnt work. we still have our sunbeam cooker but havent used it in 10yrs. we have a $10 aldi small one. what i love is that the metal insert is small enough to put leftover in the fridge. we r a family of 5 and that cooks plenty rice for us, usually without any leftovers.
we love rice but high in carbs n no nutritional value that we only eat half a bowl with dishes.
theres no difference between cheap brand and expensive brand. good rice is how you cook it and the quality of rice. some ppl like soft n fluffy n dome ppl like my mum like it a lil hard. we use sunwhite medium grain rice.. its the fluffiest rice.
no brown rice here. it's horrible.
Well, you'll be suprised to see the difference one come out from this proper rice cooker. Also once in a while try medium grain rice from Taiwan or Japan, as for long grain try one from Thailand. As marantz put it on the reply above, I know some people who genuinely can't tell the difference or simply don't care with the sound quality from headphone between the cheap one bought from target or the branded one like audio-technica or sennheiser. The same goes with rice and rice cooker.
Which one of the rice cookers listed has a thicker bowl? Are there any with a minimum 3 cm thickness at the bottom? I'm looking to replace mine but I know Tiger these days only produces thin bowls which reportedly has problems after a while due to leakage (fire hazard) and burnt rice at the bottom due to poor heat distribution.
for really yummy rice try thai glutinous rice. use a microwave bowl to cook it, cover with glad wrap, cook for 7 mins on high..take it out and flag it up then put it back for 5 mins…best rice ever!
the steam method is also good but too much work.
any left over rice can be used to make dessert. make up some sugar syrup (palm sugar/sugar and hotel water to dissolve) pour into the rice, pour coconut milk, microbe for 2 mins, find a pan and press the rice into the pan, slice and serve with mango..add extra coconut milk and sprinkle with peanuts.
we always eat glutinous rice when we eat thai..especially good with a thai salad and grilled meat.
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