Customer Media
Highlights
| Advanced Fuzzy Logic with AI | Utilizes Artificial Intelligence to 'learn' from past cooking experiences, automatically adjusting the cooking flow to ensure consistent, ideal results every time. |
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| Pressure Induction Heating (IH) | Combines pressurized cooking with superior induction heating to turn beta starch into alpha starch, resulting in rice that is softer, fluffier, and easier to digest. |
| Platinum Infused Inner Pan | Features a 1.7mm platinum-infused nonstick inner cooking pan that alkalizes the water, breaking down the protein on the surface of the rice grain for a sweeter taste. |
| Versatile Multi-Menu Settings | Offers specialized programs for a wide variety of grains, including Jasmine rice, Congee, Steel Cut Oatmeal, GABA brown rice, and a unique Umami setting for enhanced flavor. |
| Superior Safety & Design | Engineered with multiple fail-safe measures for safe pressure cooking, including a large steam vent cap to prevent overflows and sensors to ensure the unit is set up correctly. |
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Superior Rice Quality: The pressure induction heating technology produces perfectly fluffy, sweet, and consistent rice that users claim surpasses restaurant quality and standard fuzzy logic models.
- Exceptional Keep Warm Function: The machine is highly praised for its ability to keep rice fresh, moist, and delicious for several days without it drying out, yellowing, or developing odors.
- Versatile Grain Settings: Beyond standard white rice, it delivers excellent results for GABA brown rice, steel-cut oatmeal, and congee, with dedicated settings that handle difficult grains with ease.
Cons
- Prohibitive Price: The extremely high cost is the most common complaint, with many users finding it difficult to justify the expense despite the high-quality results.
- Reliability and Part Failures: Several reviewers reported hardware malfunctions shortly after the one-year warranty expired, specifically citing cracked inner lids, steam leaks, and persistent E17 error codes.
- High Maintenance Cleaning: The unit requires significant effort to maintain, as multiple parts must be disassembled, hand-washed, and dried after every use to prevent starch buildup and odors.
Customer Reviews
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The most incredible Rice Cooker!
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product.Tyler P. April 8, 2021Review source: AmazonI was hesitant to get this due to its higher price point. However, after having it now for a short while I am so glad that I did! It has cooked rice perfectly and evenly every time. I even tried Thai sticky rice which typically needs to be steamed and it came out beautifully done for Thai sweet coconut sticky rice and mango dessert! I have used it for steel-cut oats on the timer to be done before work many mornings, I have used the timer to set jasmine rice ready for dinner before leaving for work and came back with beautifully cooked rice perfectly on time to throw together a quick chicken stir fry and serve. I Love this so much and use it at least twice a week now… I will buy another if there is ever a need to replace it without any hesitation although with Zojirushi’s reputation I doubt I will ever need to. It is a very nice high-dollar quality item that will likely last a lifetime if taken care of.
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Rice life
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product.Yeet March 29, 2021Review source: BestbuyThis rice cooker was very pricey but it is just what I needed for my ricing life. Rice comes out exactly as needed every time and warm feature is one of the best with no rice caking. Have used for steel oats with great success. I don’t see myself buying another rice cooker in many years so it is why I bought this for family.
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It’s on X-games mode
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product.Maze March 25, 2021Review source: BestbuyBest investment ever! Easy clean up and I’ve been eating rice since I bought it. If you eat rice a lot then you will love this bad boy 🙂
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Best of the Best Rice Cooker
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product.Ricetub March 9, 2021Review source: AmazonThis is our 2nd rice cooker of the same model, we have the 2nd generation for about 7 years now and decided it’s time to add on another to cook some healthy brown rice for our older parents. It’s an expensive machine, but you pay for what you get, overall cost of ownership will even out as it will last you a life time.
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Best rice cooker
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product.Awesome March 9, 2021Review source: BestbuyI love this! Makes perfect rice everytime and keeps it as good as fresh for hours. Worth every penny!
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Uber Slow is the word.
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product.scott schwartz March 2, 2021Review source: AmazonI would have never guessed going from our basic $50 ride cooker to this $550 pressure cooker model would TRIPLE the times it takes to make rice. Crazy, as this definitely puts it in the “unused weekday appliance” category for after-work use. I’m bummed I have already used it and thrown out the box, or I’d return this overpriced appliance. The rice does taste good, but not a good value for the added wait and cost.
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Extraordinary- worth every penny.
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product.Michael Stack February 24, 2021Review source: AmazonTowards the end of last year, getting a rice cooker had become a priority for me– I’m a serious home chef who makes rice several times a week and my existing solution for easy rice preparation (using my InstantPot) died on me. Realizing I use the InstantPot primarily to cook rice, I focused on acquiring a rice cooker. I tossed around whether or not I really wanted to spend all the money on the top of the line Zojirushi when it didn’t review terribly better than the next models down, I’m glad I did. Two months in, this thing is amazing.
It’s really, really easy to get good results. Rinse as many cups (Zojirushi provided cups, not a standard measuring cup) of rice as you need, place in the rice cooker, fill with water to the level indicated on the nonstick liner, and pretty much press start. It’s not fast (a little less than an hour for white rice), but the results are flawless every time. I do cook a lot of long grain white rice, I find I get better results adding a bit more water than the line– I just eyeball this and I get great results consistently. My guess is this is the fuzzy logic circuit built into the device, so if you opt for a cheaper model, I’d make sure it has this feature. We also use this for steel cut oatmeal with great results.
I also wanted to call attention to the timer in the unit– every other timer, you set the “when you want to start” time, here you set the “when you want it done” time. It’s super helpful, particularly making things like brown rice (90 minutes+ cook time) to have easy predictability.
Cleaning is fairly easy– avoid using any hard bristled brush on the nonstick liner and you’ll be good to go– I use the bottle brush we keep around. The top pops off for easy washing too, just make sure it has somewhere to drip dry. Also, when you take it off, peek at the surface underneath– if anything boiled over, it might be caked under there and need to be wiped away.
Anyway, all in all super happy with this, highly recommended.
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But damn!
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product.Dustin Rowray February 23, 2021Review source: AmazonDude, this thing makes really good rice! Have only used it for white rice but damn!!!!
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Pricy, but worth it
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product.Boyang Zhang February 21, 2021Review source: AmazonI have been wanting to have a zojirushi rice cooker for years. I didn’t buy it until recently because it’s too pricy. And I was a little suspicious as to how much difference a rice cooker can make. But It made a huge difference. I’m so glad I didn’t delay buying it any longer. The texture of rice is completely different. The rice cooker somehow allows every grain to absorb just about the right amount of water. It’s worth it!
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New unit ordered, used unit delivered.
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product.f February 14, 2021Review source: AmazonIf they had cleaned it and simply not included the factory packaging instead of partially (and lazily) re-applying factory applied tape I probably wouldn’t have noticed that the unit was clearly used.