TOSHIBA Rice 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.

I love this rice cooker. I used to have a small 4 cup cooks rice cooker that only had one switch and that was to cook and keep the rice warm. When I started looking around for a new one, I was looking for a step above of what I had but nothing expensive. I came across this rice cooker and decided to give Toshiba a chance. It's nice and compact, it came with 2 different spoons for different purposes. The quality of the rice cooker itself is great, it's sleek and comes with a handle to carry it around. The cord is a bit short but not a deal breaker. It comes with instructions on how to use it's various modes to cook from rice to steam vegetables. Rice cooks perfectly all the time and it has a removable seal to release steam as it's cooking. If you're looking for a good multi function rice cooker to begin with I recommend this one.

This little Toshiba rice cooker makes perfect rice every single time – fluffy, not sticky, and just right. I’ve also used it for oatmeal, and it comes out great too. It has a bunch of cooking functions for different grains and recipes, even cake!, but honestly, I’m not sure I’ll use most of them. What I really like is that it adjusts the cooking time on its own. The display might say 30 minutes, but it never actually takes that long – it just knows when the rice is done and switches to keep warm. If you’re looking for a small, reliable rice cooker that nails rice every time, this is it. Note: if you like that crispy rice your old rice maker made on the bottom while keeping the rice warm........this doesn't do that. The temp and nonstick surface keep that from happening. Slight downside for me.

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.

tested this 3-cup Toshiba against an older Zojirushi Neuro Fuzzy using 145g of Janine Rice rinsed with two changes of water. I used 250g water which matched the recommended physical volume to the lines indicated on both machines. Both machines were started simultaneously and took nearly the same amount of time to complete (54 minutes). The Toshiba rice was satisfactory but still inferior to the Zojirushi. The Toshiba produced a softer, stickier end product. The Zojirushi showed better grain separation with a slightly al dente mouth feel. This is not surprising given that the Zojirushi is triple the price and has long been considered the best home rice cooker on the market. It is worth noting that this comparison is for one cup of rice in a 3-cup Toshiba vs. 5-cup Zojirushi. Also, it's possible that the Toshiba would do better with less water — the manual permits adjusting the water +/- 33% — but I have not done so. Beyond price, there are other reasons to consider the Toshiba. The liner is significantly heavier with a very high quality non-stick coating. I'm replacing the Zojirushi because the liner is heavily scratched and a replacement is out of stock on their website and going for over $120 on the secondary market. Additionally, the Toshiba has settings for cake, hard boiled eggs and slow cooking. It is also available in the smaller size I want (Zojirushi seems to only offer 3-cup in their only Micon line which other testers have found slightly inferior to Neuro Fuzzy). The Toshiba is less bulbous which makes it easier to store and provides an estimated cook time upon starting while the Zojirushi only displays a countdown later in the cooking process. Both keep programmed time when unplugged although the Toshiba does not display the time unless you plug it in. I would prefer the Zojirushi's automatic cord retraction to the removable plug on the Toshiba but the retraction on the Zojirushi has partially failed so that advantage is moot. Overall, the Toshiba should please all but the most discerning rice afficianados and with some adjustments to the water amount it may do even better. It's also worth noting that in third party testing no rice cooker earns perfect marks across all types of rice, but I have not performed those tests myself. I for one am keeping the Toshiba as it provides an excellent value and preferable form factor while producing rice that only barely falls short of the best.

This is a great small rice cooker. We used for the first time right after it arrived this week and it did the job superbly. Very impressive performance for such a small device as the rice was cooked completely and consistently. Easy to sue and clean and it does not take up a lot of room.

Do you love the aroma and taste of fresh made rice but are single old and just can't eat that much anymore? Then this is the rice cooker for you! Add a half scoop (1/3 cup) of rice into the cooker, fill with the appropriate amount of water and press the button. In no time (OK, 40 minutes or so, but I'm old, so what is 40 minutes? I might even forget I started cooking rice) your kitchen will be filled with the aroma of fresh cooking rice giving you about 5 or ten minutes to get the rest of your meal ready. I've tried the cooker with 1 scoop and I do believe that the 1/2 scoop is slightly better. Two scoops is definitely not better than one scoop and don't even do three scoops. So I experimented with the other settings and the egg setting blew me away! All of the below recipes use the egg setting. "Omelette" -- I start with a base of chopped up fresh ginger, fresh garlic, fresh green onion, crumbled up dried shiitake mushrooms and then added some grated cheese and three eggs. Mixed them all together before pouring into the cooker. Pressed the egg setting and soon my kitchen was filled with the aroma of a fresh omelette! I wait about five minutes after it finishes cooking before I open it up just to make sure it is fully done. So I tried cabbage stew. Oh my! This lazy old man is very happy. Started with the same base except added 1/3 cup water. Then I add some type of meat or maybe diced potatoes. On top of this I add diced fresh carrots and layer on top of that my cabbage. Sprinkle with salt. Thirty minutes later I had the best cabbage stew ever! A nice polish sausage is a good meat to choose. When I use shrimp I use 1/4 cup of water and as much butter. What I learned is that if you fill it past the "2" mark the egg setting might not fully cook the stew. Also learned not to add more than a 1/2 cup of water with the stew -- just want it to steam nicely. But your single, old, maybe lonely and don't need that much! So I tried Ramen -- OK, my laziness kicked in. Of note, you want to set a timer to make sure you get it out before it becomes too mushy. I tried noodle soup made from egg noodles. This worked much better than Ramen. Same base as the other stews. The only issue now is that I have no fresh rice to eat with my stew -- I need another one of these so that I can have fresh rice with my stew!

This was a great purchase. It's worth the money for sure. It's versatile, able to cook rice well and not only white rice. I've made one pot meals, cooking rice and salmon at the same time and it works out quite well. I have yet to try to make a miso broth or miso soup in it. But I'm looking forward to trying out new recipes. Also, it has a handle, so after cooking the rice, I was able to transport the entire machine to a friend's house while the rice stayed hot all of 4 hours. Perfect insulation. Key thing to remember, clean it immediately after use and never use metal to remove the rice from the bowl. Get a rice spoon or else the bowl will damaged.