Thursday, January 5, 2012

Product Zojirushi NP-HTC10 Reviews

Consumer reviews for Zojirushi NP-HTC10



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Category: Kitchen
Brand: Zojirushi
Model: NP-HTC10
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Zojirushi NP-HTC10 Review by BeeEmZee "Bernie" (Seattle, WA)

A great device added to our kitchen arsenal! The rice cooker does a wonderful job of cooking rice the way it is suppose to be done, Easy to program, easy to cook and easy to clean. Great product so far! Beats the pot!!


Zojirushi NP-HTC10 Review by Edward Y. Wong "da Bull" (San Francisco, CA)

This is an excellent rice cooker if it was not the their top-of-the-line model at $400. Its well made in Japan, and not in China like the cheaper models. However, the high-end features are pure marketing crap, which is consistent with the final outcome of the GABA Brown setting. After patiently waiting for almost 4 hours for the unit to make the rice, it came out completely overcooked and mushy. I knew ahead of time from previous reviews that this would happen, but I needed a starting point and so I chose to stick with instruction manual. I had to call out for Chinese instead. Fortunately their rice was much better.

When I called their customer service, they didn't offer an apology, but instead, stated that I should use less water as "to my liking". Also, I can find no evidence that alpha starch is better than beta starch or even if that was the case, that high pressure cooking will indeed convert the starches in that manner. As I told the Zojirusi rep, what has been stated by their marketing material on this model is probably the most overblown statement since they said that the Titanic was unsinkable. For this price, I would have expected some kind of "Happy Ending" feature. Save your money and stick to the lower end models like the the NS-LAC05.Zojirushi NP-HTC Induction Heating Pressure Rice Cooker & Warmer - Color: Stainless Brown, 10 cups / 1.8 liters


Zojirushi NP-HTC10 Review by Buyer

I have been cooking rice with Japanese rice cookers for decades. When my last one failed after more than 20-years of service, I decided to buy the best replacement I could find, regardless of cost. (It's easy for me to justify paying a premium for a product I plan to use on a daily basis for decades.) After much research, I chose this one because it seemed to me that the Zojirushi induction pressure rice cookers were regarded as among the best rice cookers sold in US.

I am very happy with the build quality, look and convenience features of the product. However, after buying the rice cooker, I realized that pressure cookers produce rice that is too soft for my taste. I now know that many people prefer pressure rice cookers specifically because they produce super soft rice that doesn't adhere together too much. I prefer rice with a little more body. After corresponding directly with Zojirushi, I learned that the "soft", "medium", and "hard" settings can only be used when cooking white rice on the default setting, but not in any of the other settings (e.g., quick rice) or with any other grains (e.g., brown rice) and that white rice cooked on the "hard" setting in this cooker is roughly as hard as white rice cooked in a non-pressure cooker on the default setting.

I had eight people from three families individually compare high quality white and brown rice freshly cooked in this cooker and a budget one-button rice cooker in side-by-side blind taste tests. Everyone had surprisingly strong preferences, but their preferences were roughly equally split between rice cooked in the pressure cooker and budget cooker based on texture. Those who liked super soft rice thought the rice cooked in the Zojirushi was great. Those who didn't prefered the rice cooked in the budget cooker.

I rate this cooker with 1-star, while my wife would give it 5-stars, based solely on whether we happen to like super soft rice. I like everything about the cooker, except for the texture of the rice it produces. If I had my druthers, I would swap this pressure induction cooker for a non-pressure version from the same maker. Unfortunately for me, her vote is more equal than mine, especially in the kitchen....

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Zojirushi NP-HTC10::Description


Zojirushi's advanced rice cooker system uses precise heat control and pressurized cooking to create perfect rice. Induction Heating (IH) directs the heat right into the inner cooking pan, which is vacuum insulated to maintain temperature. Three pressure settings are available to steam the rice to varying degrees of firmness; lower pressure and temperature for firmer rice, and higher pressure and heat for softer rice. Precise rice made easy.



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