Oster's tiered food steamer is equipped with instant steam so you can start cooking immediately. It has a combined 6-qt. capacity (3.8-qt. and 2.3-qt. bowls) and comes with fully collapsible steaming trays for easy cleaning. The large bowl includes eight egg holders for making soft or hard cooked eggs. It also has an external water fill system with a see-through reservoir: monitor the water level and you'll never run out of steam. The LCD display has a 95-minute timer. Cooking can be delayed for up to 12 hours and with the Keep Warm setting your food will stay warm while you prepare the rest of the meal. About Oster... in 1946 the first Osterizer?? Blender was introduced to kitchens across America. With its popularity came new products: the portable mixer deep fryer meat grinder and citrus juicer each offering ease and convenience to people's busier than ever lifestyles.

• 2-Tiered 6-quart capacity steamer creates instant steam for preparing all kinds of food


• Delay cooking up to 12-hours; LCD display with 95-minute timer; auto keep-warm setting


• External water-fill system with see-through reservoir; fully collapsible steaming trays


• Includes 3.8-quart and 2.3-quart steaming bowl plus 8 egg holders for soft-or hard-cooked eggs


• Measures approximately 14 by 9-1/2 by 10-inch

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Take the multi-tasking out of your meal with the 6-Cup Rice Cooker from Aroma. This practical little appliance beautifully prepares any type of rice and even steams meat and vegetables at the same time! All you have to do is turn it on; when cooking is finished it switches automatically to keep-warm mode. The tempered glass lid allows you to monitor your foods as they cook without releasing the steam. And the inner cooking pot removes for easy cleanup. Includes measuring cup serving spatula and steam tray.

• Perfectly prepares 2 to 6 cups of cooked rice (1 to 3 cups uncooked)


• Steams vegetables and meat? even while simultaneously cooking rice


• Makes delicious soups and stews


• Inner cooking pot removes for easy cleanup


• Easy-view tempered glass lid

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Fully automatic rice cooker/steamer makes up to 6.6 cups of cooked rice Tempered glass lid allows for monitoring food while it's cooking; auto shut-off Non-stick coated pan helps prevent cooked rice from sticking; stay-cool handles included.

• Automatic Rice Cooker


• Includes Glass Lid


• Keep Warm Function


• Non-Stick Interior

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Prepare entire meals large or small in one easy step. This digital rice cooker flawlessly prepares up to 16 cooked cups of any type of rice and will simultaneously steam meat and vegetables. It has a cool-touch exterior and an easy-to-use programmable control panel that includes functions such as automatic warming and delay timer. The removable inner cooking pot is nonstick for easy serving and cleanup. Includes measuring cup steam tray and serving spatula.

• Perfectly prepares 4 to 16 cups of cooked rice (2 to 8 cups uncooked)


• Programmable easy-to-use digital control panel


• Steams vegetables and meat even while simultaneously cooking rice


• 15-hour delay timer for flexible meal planning


• Makes delicious soups and stews

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Great rice cooker

This thing works great and it steams veggies at the same time!!!! Just read the instructions thoroughly. If you are cooking brown or wild rice the water measurements are different. Rice comes out fluffy and moist every time. And it stays moist on the warm setting too. I had it in there staying warm for over an hour and you wouldn't have known it seriously. Buy this!More detail ...

Great basic rice cooker

This is a really great basic rice cooker. It doesn't have the bells and whistles of the more expensive rice cookers (no warming feature no different settings etc.) but it works well for cooking rice it's compact and reasonably priced. Prior to buying this one we had another basic model made by another company that broke. We replaced with an identical one and it broke as well. After going through two rice cookers we decided to pay $5 more to get a different brand- this Panasonic. We have had no problems with it and we also like the non-stick pot. With our old rice cooker the rice would stick to the bottom of the pot so we couldn't eat all of it. The Panasonic doesn't have this problem so we can make smaller quantities of rice without wasting most of it. I have made white rice brown rice and quinoa in the rice cooker and all have turned out well.More detail ...

Restaurant Quality Rice at Home

My wife and I became busy recently and decided it was time to finally get a rice cooker to save some time in the kitchen. We bought a cheap old-school rice cooker and the rice would scorch water would boil out of lid and the rice was worse than cooking the rice on the stove top.



Then we decided to invest in a good rice cooker.



The Zojirushi NS-LAC05 is everything we hoped for and more. We wanted a rice cooker that would make great rice that could handle smaller amounts of rice that had a timer and could handle a variety of different rices.



This rice cooker is a dream.

-It's attractive. We've already received compliments from guests.

-Its footprint is very reasonable for a small kitchen.

-With a thick stick proof bowl the rice doesn't burn to any spot and clean up is simple.

-It easily makes rice for 2 adults (1.5 of the "cups" for us) but could handle 4 adults (3 "cups") with normal eating habits. Note: the cups aren't full size cups of rice.

-It does a great job on a variety of rices; there are different settings for different rices and the measurement markings appear correct for different rices. So far we've tried long grain brown medium grain brown sushi jasmine white basmati brown basmati and brown/white mixes. We haven't had a bad batch of rice.

-The computer's fuzzy logic algorithm (i.e. "Micom Neuro Fuzzy") constantly adjusts the temperature so the rice comes out perfect every time. I also think the cooker starts out at a low temperature and gradually steps up the heat but I'm not 100% sure.

-The heavy bowl seems to distribute heat perfectly and there's no scorched rice or crust attached to the bowl.

-The timer is convenient for setting the rice to be completed at a specific time at which point it keeps your rice warm. We've found it completes cooking within a minute or two of the timer setting. There are two timer settings that you can adjust...presumably so you could have your rice prepared for breakfast & dinner in Japan.

-The retractable cord is a nice feature.

-There's even a little holder for the included rice paddle that attaches to the side of the cooker.



We've even used it to make Polenta. Just use 1 Zojirushi-cup of corn grits chicken broth up to 2-cup brown rice mark and cook using the white rice setting. When it's done put the mixture in a bowl and let it cool to room temperature.



I'd highly recommend this rice cooker. It's probably not big enough for a big family but for a single person a couple or a small family it will probably fit the bill perfectly. I can't over-emphasize the quality of rice the cooker produces...it's like a dream having rice as good or better than a restaurant at home. We probably eat grain cooked in this machine 6-7 nights a week. Once you switch to this Zojirushi you'll never want to go back to your old ways.More detail ...