Panasonic SR-MS182 Fuzzy-Logic 10-Cup Rice Cooker, White
by Panasonic
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Panasonic SR-MS182 Fuzzy-Logic 10-Cup Rice Cooker, White
Customer Review: Good way to cook your rice
Summary: 4 Stars
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Having lived in Japan for nine years, and with a Japanese wife, we eat a lot of rice cooked Japanese style. This rice cooker, although made for the American market, has a lot of what the better Japanese rice cookers have. The inner bowl is big and well-made. It can cook 10 cups, but we never do that much. The rice turns out well, and the cooker is easy to clean.
This rice cooker seems to have "fuzzy logic" to cook things better, and it says it can be used for a variety of things other than rice. We have not used it to cook anything else, and I doubt we will. But it works well for us -- better than most rice cookers on the American market.
Customer Review: Useful tool or fun-to-have toy, with caveats
Summary: 3 Stars
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This PANASONIC FUZZY-LOGIC RICE COOKER is a nifty kitchen toy. Put the rice and liquid in, select the appropriate cook mode, press "Start," and it does its thing. The cook modes are White Rice, Brown Rice, Sticky Rice, Quick Cook, Slow Cook, and Steam. Oddly enough, there's even a Cake mode. (And there's a rice-less cake recipe included in the Operating Manual!) A plastic rice measuring cup, a plastic rice paddle, and a steam basket are included.
For my purposes, this is definitely more than I need. It would be very handy in a house that eats rice daily or several times a week, but I only eat brown rice and once or twice a month at that. (By the way, I mentioned a "Brown Rice" mode, but I'm not sure it works well. There was a paper insert packaged with the appliance and the manual that stated a better way to cook brown rice is using the "Slow Cook" mode and manually entering the time. I tried the amended instructions and my rice came out fine, albeit a little drier than I'm used to.) Also, it holds a lot of rice, so it would be useful for those that cook large quantities.
The Operating Manual is a bit of a disaster. It's written in three languages: English, French, and Japanese. Most manuals I see these days come in multiple languages, but they split the manual in separate parts, one part for each language. This manual has all three languages on each page, so pages with a lot of instruction on them are very hard to read. Other than the aforementioned cake recipe, the manual includes a few recipes, and a handy chart with steaming times for various vegetables.
You may have to cook two or three throw-away batches of rice because my first two batches had an off, chemical-y or plastic odor as did the insert that holds the rice when I first unpacked it.
The unit takes up quite a bit of space on the counter, akin to the large slow-cooker I own. However, it's lighter than it looks, and it has an attached handle and a detachable electrical cord, so it's easy to move around and store under the counter (where it takes up just as much space). If you leave it on your counter, it has a face clock, however, it only displays time in 24:00 mode. There is no way to change to AM/PM mode.
All in all, this is possibly a very useful tool for a family that frequently eats a lot of rice. For those, like me, who eat it less frequently, it's a fun-to-have kitchen toy if you have the space and the inclination to use and store a not-so-small appliance that replaces the manual method.