TOSHIBARice Cooker Small 3-Cup Uncooked– LCD Display with 8 Cooking Functions: Rice, Oatmeal, Mixed Grains and More, NonStick Inner Pot, Grey

Easy to clean, easy to use, and damn well worth the money. I got this as a beginners step of having my own rice cooker while I'm independent, and I love it. I wanted this as a 'i dont need a super fancy one yet' sort of purchase instead of getting the one that sings to you and cooks rice at a certain time and etc. I haven't tried to make much else in this cooker. besides WHITE MEDIUM GRAIN SUISHI GRADE RICE. I wash and rinse my rice, 5 times before (3 is unlucky, and 4 isnt enough sorta rule). Drain, and add to the pot. Let it cook for about the suggested 50 minutes and bam it's perfect everytime. No burning, no crunchy undercooked rice, it's absolutely perfect and fluffy. The keep warm feature does it's job and it's definitely a keeper. I will say though, the 50 minute rice time the machine says is a little bit surprising at first, especially if you decide to presoak your rice after washing. But honestly I think that 50 min is [for the 15 min] soaking bit built in since it take a bit to warm up, but even then I NEVER have had a bad batch of rice sense getting this rice cooker.(Also I will say if your bag of rice says cup to water ration on the bag, but the booklet says different always default to the bag of rice -- the people who bag it probably know it a bit better than the spit balling of some algorithm)The added rice paddle and ladle are super handy too. I make Japanese style curry a lot and I use the ladle for my curry and the rice paddle to make everything else involving the rice (fluffy, distributing, packing into rice molds, storing). The inside bowl is removeable and easy to clean with a simple pass with a sponge, a rinse, and a dry. I will say that it definitely didn't smell bad out of the box, and I only gave the pan a soaping and everything else a cursory wipe down. After using it to make rice, you literally just washing it out the same way, soaping and a wipe or two with a sponge and then drying. If you dry it on the rack, it will literally be ready to go back in after about 20 minutes, if not less (no joke.)The booklet comes with recommendations, recipes, and more. It might not sing you a little tune, but it's definitely a good rice cooker for a poor beginner! I was on the fence about having it and using it, but now I love it and even if I don't use it everyday I can't imagine my life without it. Anyway I LOVE IT. If anything happens to it down the line, I will definitely update this review.

We have zero experience with rice cookers-- finding our stovetop method in a LeCreuset to be just fine. However, as our family transitions to eating more "brown" grains-- br. rice, farro, etc-- we thought we'd give this Toshiba rice cooker a try. It's handsome; small; very easy to use. Cooks brown rice very well-- easily enough for 4 adults, but not more. Haven't tried it w/farro or couscous yet. A few tips:(1) you *will* need to figure out the best ratio of rice to water using a bit of trial and error. For us, white to water is 1:1; brown is 1:2 or a bit less H20. In short, ignore the markings in the pot and the instructions in the manual.(2) It takes *quite* a while to cook: an hour and 20 mins for brown rice (yes, really!) and 50 mins for white (in contrast to 25 mins using our old method). Once we factored this in, we've been happy.(3) Really like the "keep warm" feature.

I am only sorry that I waited as long as I did to get this Toshiba Mini Rice Cooker.I love kitchen gadgets and have a kitchen slap full of them. For that reason, I'm starting to run out of space. So, I have been telling myself for ages that I don't really need a rice cooker. A friend recently got one and raved about her ability to set up oatmeal (warm, not the cold overnight oats that I don't like) so that it would cook up perfectly for the morning. I know it's a rice cooker, not an oatmeal cooker, but on the "porridge" setting I've made the best morning oatmeals ever - and I can do it all with the traditional steel cut oats, too!Water/milk, oats, a little honey, some apple or other fruit, nuts, whatever... and set the timer for delay (I omit milk and just use water when setting it out overnight) and I have delicious oatmeal in the morning.Of course, it also makes perfect rice!The mini version doesn't take up much space in my cabinets and it doesn't have a large footprint when out on my counter, either. And it easily handled a full cup of oats or rice, which is typically all that I need.This is going to get a good bit of use in my home and I've just started to learn how to use it! I am excited to learn the other things that it will do for us.It's also very easy to use, and clean up was a breeze! The nonstick pot wiped up very easily.