The best rice cookers are Japanese. Always wanted one and finally got the chance to buy one. I
bought one from www.zojirushi.com
A great Japanese quality manufacturer.
Most of the information
online is from the NP-HBC10, which is not good, because it is for the
120V grid. I live in Europe, we have 230-240V grid. Fail. So I looked
around and found the NP-HLH10XA / NP-HLH18XA When it arrived, I
thought I do a little unboxing.
i bought mine from
http://www.heavyrotation.jp/ Valid seller. It took about a week to
get to Europe. At the time it was the cheapest shop.
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| Factory box with some bubble wrap |
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Anyone know what these mean?
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| Zojirushi box |
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Clever box packaging. No glue or duct tape. As expected from japan.
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Everything is in place.
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First look. Everything looks good.
The LCD is pretty good quality. Perfectly visible in every direction, even on the extreme edge.
Except above the lcd. You can see this position on the flash image. At normal use, you don't want to be there, where you can not see the LCD,
because it is over the steam went.
The manual say that the clock is factory set. Cool. So it's after midnight at japan. It is very easy to change the time.
(Remembers the time and program after power off.)
I hope it's backed by a supercapacitor not a battery, but i don't want to do a teardown.
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Sorry the pictures are a little misleading. The pictures with flash are a lot brighter. The actual colours are more like the ones without flash.
The first open. Well it was rather smelly. Luckily, after a little blow the smell completely disappeared. It was just a little stale japanese air. The cooker is completely clean.
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The cooking pan
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Nice even no stick coating.
Edit:
After a little use. I can tell, that there is something, that do stick to it. (well not the rice, something from it)
If you put some water in it and leave to soak, then even the dried ones easily removable withot anything.
At first look the label seems cheapis.
Edit:
I am impressed. After many use, i don't see any wear.
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At the inside there is this sensor (switch?) and rubber thingy. So no direct connect between the pan and the inside. Less likely to damage. Nice.
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"SE-plug" or "CEE 7/7 plug"
I am unlucky here. The voltage is pretty high here, but it should work.
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The famous cup. (180 mL)
1 portion of rice for 1 line of water at the side of the pan. So do not lose it!
(measure rice first then water)
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A mystery part. Later from the manual i found out that it is the spatula holder.
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The so called spatula. I think, this is the hardest part to clean.
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I laughed a very big, when i found this sticker between the pages of the manual. So i can make the cooker labels completely japanese.
Now i see. One part of the targeted customers are the japanese who come to europe.
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The underside and the power cord.
The inner lid half removed.
Edit:
I think, this is the second hardest part to clean. With regular white rice. If i pre wash, it is not a problem. It remains mostly clean. But usually i make gaba brown rice. Even if i pre wash, these brown particles very like to stick to it.
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Again, the pictures at the left without the flash are closer to the real colour.
My first rice with the cooker. The steam vent is drying at the background.
Postscript:
Well, it was expensive for me, but I am completely satisfied with it. From now on i am always eating perfect rice.
Hello, I'm considering buying this same rice cooker here in Europe (Germany), I enjoyed your post about it, thanks. If you still wonder what the two red stickers mean, first one is "this side up", second one is "fragile".
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