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[snarp]

Assuming I'm in the US, does anyone know what I want to get if I want a non-fuzzy-logic rice cooker with a warmer that will keep a very small amount of rice - as in, less than two cups dry - warm for six hours without either drying it out or getting it soggy?

(When I was in Japan, I had a Neove NM-R06 that would do this moderately well. I bought the best-reviewed similar-looking-thing on Amazon - an Aroma ARC-838TC - but the rice is both burned and soggy after about two hours on warm.)

Alternately, I'd be really interested if anyone had any recommendations or righteous indignation regarding sub-$100 fuzzy logic cookers. I was looking at this one and this one.

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[snarp]

Yeah, I'm getting resigned to going ahead and getting a fuzzy logic one. I've been watching Craigslist.

Is your Sanyo one of the models that can do bread and cake, and have you ever tried that? I ask because a lot of the Sanyo ones seem to do that.

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Nope -- it's a fairly basic FL model, the only settings for white/mixed rice, brown rice, or porridge (works a treat for oatmeal and other hot cereals as well as congee, natch.) It does have a timer, though, which I heartily recommend -- it's so nice being able to just set it up in advance with the rice soaking and have it piping hot and freshly cooked when you come home. I'm not so intrigued by the bread and cake cycle ones, since I do have that nice old Zojirushi breadmaker, but if anything catastrophic happened to this one I'd seriously look into one of the models that has a bibimbap setting -- I like koge and this model is so good about not scorching the rice that it's almost impossible to produce it.