Now, I keep a dedicated rice cooker in my kitchen and I can see why they’re a must-have for so many. They excel at making plump, perfectly cooked grains. They can either be incredibly simple ...

In the end, we gave this cooker a passing grade, but it’s nothing to write home about. Standard settings produced rice that was a bit undercooked according to most of our testers, though those ...

Rice Cooker Ratings Make the perfect batch of rice with a rice cooker. Many models also function as a steamer or pressure cooker, and vary on performance when cooking different grains of rice.

Sitting on the kitchen counter, tucked away in a corner, was a large 32-cup rice cooker that my teammate, John, left behind for us to store until he returned to campus—an indefinite amount of time.