Rice Cooker Brands and Links

Using a rice cooker

If you're interested in cooking more than just rice in your rice cooker, there are lots of resources online. We found a fun article and recipes at GapersBlock.com in an article by Cinnamon Cooper, "The Rice Cooker Is Your Friend."

Real Simple magazine also suggests some alternative ways to use your rice cooker.

We found some good recipes for rice cooker jambalaya at Cooks.com.

FineCooking.com offers information about different rice varieties, tips for cooking perfect rice and several recipes.

Food.com lists more than 80 recipes that can be made in a rice cooker.

There's a detailed rice cooker buyer's guide from Australia's Gadget Guy.

About.com's guide to cooking equipment explains rice cooker technology, provides recipes and reviews a couple of models in this rice cooker guide. In other articles, she explains how to measure rice for a rice cooker and discusses rice cooker capacity. (Note: ConsumerSearch is owned by About.com, but the two don't share an editorial affiliation.)  

In this YouTube video, Paris Sourivang from ExpertVillage.com (now eHow.com) demonstrates how to cook rice in a rice cooker.

Fine Cooking magazine lists steps for cooking perfect rice.

RiceCookerInfo.com offers a rice cooker guide that discusses everything from how much water to add to how to remove offensive smells from your rice cooker.

Rice cooker brands

Cuisinart

Oster

Panasonic

Sanyo 

Zojirushi