Hitachi 8 cup rice cooker Review

This is the easiest rice cooker I have ever used.  I cooked rice in it - always to perfection.  I cooked millet dishes, and barley dishes - any grain that I wanted.  The thing I loved about this one is that it was not programmed for certain types of foods.  It would just cook until the water was gone and automatically ring a timer and turn to warmer.

I could leave rice cooking for dinner and run my errands - it would be cooked and warming when I got home.  I could throw the liquid of my choice in to boil and then add whatever grain I chose when it was boiling!  I hav not found that versatility with my new rice cooker - I miss the Hitachi!

The Hitachi also had a glass lid - it was heavy, but you could see what was happening under that lid.  The Hitachi also cooks fairly quickly for a  rice cooker.  My current one takes more than 2 hours for brown rice!  It took about 45 minutes in the Hitachi.  One bummer 0 the lid handle was plastic and broke long before the rice cooker was worn out.

I liked that the removable basket could be placed on the table without the cooker part.  I liked that the electrical cord could be unplugged at the rice cooker as well as the electrical outlet.