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6-Cup Cuckoo Twin Pressure Rice Cooker & Warmer w/ Nonstick Inner Pot (White, CRP-ST0609FW) on sale for $159.99 - $15 off when you 'clip' the coupon on the product page =
$144.99.
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About this product:
- 6-cup (12 cups cooked) capacity
- 16 modes w/ options including GABA/brown rice, glutinous/white rice, stored rice, high-pressure, or non-pressure steam
- Dual cooking pressure selections: high-pressure or non-pressure
- Detachable inner lid for easy cleaning
- Xwall premium coating inner pot
- Safe & automatic steam release
- High-visibility display
Top Comments
The Good:
This rice cooker excels at its primary job: making delicious, perfectly cooked rice. If you can tolerate its quirky interface, you'll be rewarded with top-notch results.
The Bad:
The user interface logic is baffling and unintuitive:
Menu Navigation Confusion
You'd think selecting a cooking mode is as simple as pressing the "Menu" button and hitting start. Not so fast! The "Menu" button doesn't actually toggle through the cooking options. Instead, you must use the adjacent left and right arrow buttons to navigate the menu. Why the "Menu" button doesn't function as expected, given the rest of the design scheme, is beyond me.
Start Button Overcomplication
Ready to cook? Don't press just any "Start" button—there are two! One for "Pressured Mode" and another for "Non-Pressured Mode." While the top dial determines the mode, you can only start cooking by pressing the corresponding start button. It feels like an unnecessary "safety feature," akin to confirming twice before firing a weapon.
No Clock for Preset Mode
The absence of a clock means preset cooking relies on a timer. For example, if you leave at 7:15 AM and want dinner ready at 6:30 PM, you'll need to calculate:
18 hours 30 minutes - 7 hours 15 minutes = 11 hours 15 minutes.
While simple math, it's a needless inconvenience that forces you to double-check. To make matters worse, the timer maxes out at 12 hours and 50 minutes. This limitation means no fresh rice for anyone working long hours.
The Verdict:
If you can get past these interface hurdles, the cooker's performance more than makes up for it. The rice is consistently fantastic, but it's a shame that such excellent cooking capability is paired with such a clunky and confusing interface.
For your pre-purchase test prep, here's the manual:
https://www.cuckoousast
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While I can't speak to the Cuckoo specifically, I can say I bought the induction and non induction versions of the Japanese made Zojirushi rice cookers to compare. I there was not a material amount of energy savings between the induction and non induction. For 4c brown rice, both consumed about 0.35KWh.
Maybe you want induction for the different heating plate? But if you think it's more economical, I'd double check first.
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Cuckoo is a Korean brand
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The Good:
This rice cooker excels at its primary job: making delicious, perfectly cooked rice. If you can tolerate its quirky interface, you'll be rewarded with top-notch results.
The Bad:
The user interface logic is baffling and unintuitive:
Menu Navigation Confusion
You'd think selecting a cooking mode is as simple as pressing the "Menu" button and hitting start. Not so fast! The "Menu" button doesn't actually toggle through the cooking options. Instead, you must use the adjacent left and right arrow buttons to navigate the menu. Why the "Menu" button doesn't function as expected, given the rest of the design scheme, is beyond me.
Start Button Overcomplication
Ready to cook? Don't press just any "Start" button—there are two! One for "Pressured Mode" and another for "Non-Pressured Mode." While the top dial determines the mode, you can only start cooking by pressing the corresponding start button. It feels like an unnecessary "safety feature," akin to confirming twice before firing a weapon.
No Clock for Preset Mode
The absence of a clock means preset cooking relies on a timer. For example, if you leave at 7:15 AM and want dinner ready at 6:30 PM, you'll need to calculate:
18 hours 30 minutes - 7 hours 15 minutes = 11 hours 15 minutes.
While simple math, it's a needless inconvenience that forces you to double-check. To make matters worse, the timer maxes out at 12 hours and 50 minutes. This limitation means no fresh rice for anyone working long hours.
The Verdict:
If you can get past these interface hurdles, the cooker's performance more than makes up for it. The rice is consistently fantastic, but it's a shame that such excellent cooking capability is paired with such a clunky and confusing interface.
For your pre-purchase test prep, here's the manual:
https://www.cuckoousast
Maybe you want induction for the different heating plate? But if you think it's more economical, I'd double check first.
It's not about energy efficiency, but the properties and consistency of the cooked rice.
In theory an induction model will heat the metal pot more evenly. But I've not come across any actual proof via 3rd party tests.
I have seen a reviewer prefer the cooked rice's texture from the Zojirushi NP-HCC10 induction model vs the well liked Neuro Fuzzy / NS-ZCC10 model. But this may be a subjective personal preference. And is induction worth a ~50% up front premium for the price of the cooker?
For what it's worth, my wife likes her ~$15 single setting rice cooker. I'd like to buy her a nicer rice cooker, but I suspect it would be a waste of money and storage space.
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