Zojirushi NS-ZCC18 Neuro Fuzzy Rice Cooker & Warmer, 10 Cup, Premium White, Made in Japan

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Zojirushi NS-ZCC18 Neuro Fuzzy Rice Cooker & Warmer, 10 Cup, Premium White, Made in Japan

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Measures approximately 11 by 9 by 10-1/2-inch; 1-year limited warranty.
2 Measuring cups, nonstick rice spoon/scooper, rice spoon holder, and recipes included
Spherical, nonstick inner pan allows for spherical heating; LCD clock and timer; retractable cord. Capacity is measured in the approx. 6 oz. / 180mL rice measuring cup, using raw short grain white rice. Other grains may vary.
Multi-menu selections; automatic keep-warm, extended keep-warm, and reheat cycles.Electrical Rating 120 volts / 1,000 watts
10-Cup computerized rice cooker and warmer with advanced neuro fuzzy logic technology
NOTE: Please ensure to measure rice in the cup that comes along with the product ONLY

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Great for people who like many rice varieties I just bought this older model in 2019. It seems very successful because it's been manufactured for a long time, and still it is listed as a "current" model on Zojirushi's website. I don't regret the purchase because it is probably best for me in the 1 liter (5.5 cup) range (same for 1.8 L), but as I note below, it has some downsides that made me a little disappointed. I was interested in the spherical heating element, the handles on the inner bowl, the extended keep-warm function, the retractable power cord, and the many varieties of rice settings. I would recommend something cheaper and/or newer if you mostly want to use it for white rice. But if you like a variety of rices, including different degrees of "brown-ness" and hardness then this is really one of the best in this price range, I think. That's probably why the model has stuck around for so long. BUT, the newer models have a "steam" function which this does NOT. So, the current description on Amazon's page for the item is WRONG. A similar, newer "Made in Japan" model for roughly same price (with removable cord, and fewer rice varieties, and newer steam vent design) does have "Steam" function and the description for the two is incorrectly duplicated here. I am still glad I got this one.I have a 3 cup Zojirushi, the NS-LAC05 that I bought about 10 years ago, which is very similar to the current NS-LGC05 and NS-LHC05, and I wanted a bigger one. My 3-cup cooker is made in China like most Zojirushi models, and if you want this "Neuro-Fuzzy" because it is "Japanese," then in my experience that's a bad reason to choose a Zojirushi model. (Incidentally, my old cooker also had "Neuro-Fuzzy written on the manual cover, so that is not a tech unique to this model.) They are all Japanese (just like iPhone is not a "Chinese" phone, just expertly assembled there -- so to that extent, yes it is Chinese). You just pay extra for the "Made in Japan" prominently printed on front, for no good reason. Or rather, a very bad reason, because my older cooker seems like more high-quality construction. This one is in some ways less thoughtfully made, to make up for the more expensive cost of labor, is my guess. For example, when you open the door, you can see exposed screws, and exposed inside of the plastic part of the lid, which does not look nice. The Chinese-made models have an extra piece of plastic to cover up the screws and makes the inside look nice. I care about aesthetics and details like that. And I like to leave the lid open much of the time, with inner lid gently placed on the bowl, when the cooker is not in use because it seems better for the gaskets, plus it airs things out. But this model looks too unpleasant that way so I will probably keep it closed. (Not sure whether open or closed is best for the gasket, or if it matters.) Also, my 3-cup model has nice metal parts on the outside, and this one is all plastic, although nice smooth high-quality plastic. And the lid-opening button is nicer and possibly sturdier on the Chinese-made models. But the thing I like the most about my 3-cup one over this model is the steam vent. I think it is an advancement over this older model. It has an upper compartment to collect the extra moisture, so there is an additional cover-piece and gasket on top. And it is easier to wipe the steam vent clean in the inside of the lid for the newer design. Again, more fancy construction with more parts, which may be why the more simple design of the NS-ZCC models is still cost-effective to manufacture in Japan. And the better-constructed lids are almost certainly more resistant to warping from heat.One important thing to note about this model is that it was designed for the Japanese market, where "regular" rice is short or medium grain, not the long-grain I'm used to. I often buy nice quality organic Jasmine or Basmati. On my old cooker, there was a "white/mixed" setting and a separate "sushi" setting, whereas on this one there is "regular/sushi" and a separate "mixed." I think my long grain rice cooks better with the "mixed" setting rather than "regular" on this model. The first time I cooked it with regular setting, it was really disgusting mush, so I tried the "mixed" and then it was nice. But I also took care to rinse the rice super well (at least 4 times rather than 3 like last time) so that may have helped, too. And I used water up to the mark rather than a bit extra (the manual says to use extra water with long grain but says nothing about proper menu selection). The "mixed" setting does not get as hot, to keep it from boiling over. So anyway, this may explain the mixed reviews for this product, with many people loving it and some people having very bad experience. "Regular" in Japan is not really "regular" in most places, because most places tend to use long-grained rice. One downside of using the "mixed" instead of "white/sushi" setting is that extended keep warm is not settable for "mixed" since they want you to keep only white rice for extended time in it. But I don't keep rice for more than ~10 hours and the regular "keep warm" was fine for me for several hours. [UPDATE: The mush on my first try was my fault; the rice I used just needs to be rinsed really well because it has lots of starch. When I rinse really well, it turns out excellent on the "Regular" setting also. And American Long Grain did not have this issue. So it is not a cooker problem at all, and long-grain rice can be cooked on regular setting and used with extended keep-warm.]Two bad things about the Zojirushi models, probably all of them: 1) the irreplaceable battery, which means after a few years you will need to keep it plugged in if you don't want to reset the clock. Yes, you can ship it in for servicing but that's very expensive just for the battery and I did not (and will not) do it for my 3-cup model. One reviewer wrote (I forget for which model) that this is consumer-hostile and I absolutely agree. What kind of clock (or watch) do you have to send in to the manufacturer to replace the battery? It is outrageous and inconsiderate. I might figure out how to solder in a replacement battery myself, before I would spend so much money (and be without my cooker) for replacing. 2) The second bad thing is the super expensive replacement bowls and other parts. All non-stick surfaces will eventually wear out, and Zojirushi replacement is ~$50-70 for the bowls. You can buy a normal (non-fuzzy) rice cooker for under $20! And many nice fancier than bare-bones cookers for under the price of a replacement bowl (the bowls are very nice, though, and high quality). An inner lid replacement (which you may need if the gasket is damaged) is ~$22-28. The tiny spatula holder, which seems like it is worth under a dollar, is nearly $5, though to be fair, all prices on their site include shipping. Plus at least you have the option to order replacements. The spatula holder is not easily removable without damage (because it has plastic hooks that allow it to slide in one direction) and I broke mine when I yanked it out for cleaning. But not worth the cost of replacement. How do the parts prices compare to those for, say, Instant Pot? And expensive cooking equipment really should have replacement parts available for parts that wear out. I would not buy from a company that did not offer that. But the prices are totally unreasonable for the Zoji parts. So as with the battery, this is very consumer-hostile and for this reason I seriously considered shopping for another brand. But the cooker is excellent otherwise, so I stuck with this brand.One last note about the non-stick surface: the important thing for protecting it is not so much the material that comes in contact with it but the smoothness of it. A non-smooth metal utensil is more likely to cause damage than a non-smooth plastic one, but plastic utensils can cause damage, too. The plastic spatula that came with my 3-cup model was not very smooth and that's why my 3-cup bowl got damaged, since I never used other utensils inside the bowl. The new spatula that came with this ZCC model looks almost identical but is slightly softer plastic and also very smooth. So, feel the edge of the utensil that you use inside the bowl, and don't use it if it does not feel smooth, even if it is plastic. And in any case be super gentle even with any plastic or wooden utensil. As far as toxicity, the Teflon coatings manufactured since 2013 should all be safe (and probably most manufacturers phased out the questionable type coating long before then). If you do research from reputable sources on this topic, I think you'll find that there is no evidence that the very inert material in these coatings is harmful. Almost everything is toxic in large-enough quantities, and you are not consuming gobs of coating. So that's something to keep in mind when considering whether or not to replace an old Zoji bowl. 4Changed My Rice-Life! Wow, I never knew what I was missing! I've been a rice eater my entire life; rice was on the table for every dinner, every night. I've used many many rice cookers, cooked rice on the stove, etc. and this rice maker tops them all! Each individual rice grain out of this machine is soft and perfect. I was a huge skeptic, but when my last rice maker up and died for no reason, I decided to give it a go. "Who pays that much money for a rice maker?!" I would ask myself. Well, now I do! And I'd do it again tomorrow.Seriously, if you're a rice connoisseur, this rice maker is worth every penny. I can never go back now! :) 5~9 years later, I replaced the battery... We've been using this Zojirushi rice cooker almost everyday since 2004 (~9 years!). After about 5 years, the battery died. It still worked great as a rice cooker, but the clock/timer no longer worked correctly. Since we didn't use the timer that much anyway, we just left it like that.A few days ago I decided to take a peek and see how hard would it be to replace the battery on my own. I flipped the rice cooker upside down, removed the 4 screws and pulled the bottom part off...The battery, a CR2354, was soldered directly on the main circuit board and is beneath the LCD panel. I found a few sources for it via Google, but since I already had the more common CR2032 battery & holder, and it was the same voltage and roughly the same size as the CR2354, I decided to give it a try. I de-soldered the old one, soldered the new battery holder, popped in the new battery, and it worked. :)Pictures uploaded.The original CR2354 is around 500mah, while the replacement CR2032 is around half that amount. So sadly, I will have to replace the battery sooner than if I had used a CR2354. Since its now on a battery holder though, at least I don't have to re-solder it again. 5Zojirushi is the best rice cooker. It has a real cool retro spacey look, kinda like an appliance from the Jetsons. OMG, this rice cooker is awesome. I just got it and cooked up 6 cups (which was huge amount of cooked rice), but it can do a max. of 10 cups. I eat a lot o brown rice and it cooks it to perfection (soft, but not mushy). Out of all the rice cookers here, this model is the best. Like another comment stated, its the only Zojirushi model to be made in Japan so the quality is excellent. I would opp for the 10 cup vs. 5, as you can keep the leftover rice the cooker a dau or more with the lid shut. Cooked rice will keep at room temp, up to 48 hours but check to see or smell if anything is off before consuming. I would not recommend keeping it on extended warm, as you have a warm up feature. You can also take the pan and keep in the fridge, but the rice will get hard and you'll have to fry it (which is good too). I've had lots of rice cookers before, but this one is the very best. I you are looking for a rice cooker, especially one that cooks up to 10 cups, this is the one for you. You won't find any better high end 10 cup model anywhere. Be warned, the 10 cup isn't small, but will still fit nicely on the counter (its the size of a oblong flat basketball). 5Best Rice Ever. Okay, I lived in Japan for 10+ years, and have been visiting there for over 30 years, so I have eaten a lot of rice in my time. In all honesty, I'm not even that crazy about rice. Being a former baker, I much prefer bread, and over all this time have always thought that rice is rice, you know what I mean?Since I moved back to the U.S. about five years ago, I used a cheap rice cooker/steamer/yogurt maker from Costco. It did the job, and cooked rice fairly adequately. It died on me last year, though, and my wife BEGGED me to buy a quality rice cooker to replace it. Though a cheapskate at heart, I'm also a big softie, so after spending hours online researching rice cookers in English and Japanese, we settled on the 5.5 cup model of this one. It lacks all the bells and whistles of higher end suihanki, but it has high reviews, the most modern technology and design features to cook rice well, and Zojirushi is one of the most trusted brands in Japan.As much as I have wanted to believe that my wife was over finicky about rice (typical male?), I am not too proud to admit when I am wrong. I was so wrong - the rice that this appliance cooks is truly phenomenal! Whereas the rice in the previous cooker had soft and hard spots - some rice overcooked and some undercooked - the rice from this one is uniformly consistent. Each grain comes out glossy and chewy, with just the right amount of stickiness.If you want to make any popular Japanese dishes, from the lowly onigiri (rice balls), to sushi - everything turns out more delicious with rice from this cooker. I truly don't understand how there can be such an immediate, explicit difference in the quality of the cooked rice. We use the same exact brand of rice every time, and my wife doesn't even use any of the "fancy" features on the device - she just hits "quick rice."Nearly two hundred dollars may seem like an exorbitant amount to spend on a one-trick pony appliance like this (especially considering our bread machine was only around 50 bucks). Rest assured, though, this is money well spent. I cannot recommend this rice cooker enough. 5Received used/returned unit with paper towel and residual Rice Cooking function is good as expected. However, I'm upset because I paid for new unit and received a used/retuned unit with paper towel insert and cooking residual.I decided to keep it but post a review here to remind the seller on their business ethics. 1Stick to it like... Whenever I buy a new kitchen item, I tend to do a ridiculous (unhealthy?) amount of research. I research to the point that I go in circles for months trying to determine what is the absolute best item in the category of whatever I'm currently interested in. As a result, I can end up convincing myself I absolutely need the greatest tin foil ever invented and then I have to take a step back, get a grip, and start over with more realistic expectations.In the case of the Zojirushi, I immediately felt buyer's remorse after I submitted the purchase (but wait, I don't regret a thing). I had only recently begun playing around with Asian cuisine and decided I needed a rice cooker. My only prior rice experience was burning rice to the bottom of a cheap pot or throwing one of those bags of Uncle Ben's into boiling water. I KNOW a relatively cheap rice cooker would have probably done the trick but my aforementioned ridiculously tedious research kept bringing me back to the Zojirushi and, more specifically, to this model (with the "Neuro Fuzzy" technology. I got the 10 cup version only because I imagined myself cooking for large groups of people (hasn't actually happened yet).Ok, so, here is what I've found: This thing is awesome... not like cure a disease awesome, but pretty darn great. I followed the basic directions and made brown rice for my first use. It came out perfect. I didn't rinse the rice, I didn't do anything special... I just dumped the rice and water in, pressed the button, and perfect brown rice resulted. Since then, I do a lot more sushi rice and jasmine rice which also come out perfect. I like it sticky so I tend to add more than the recommended amount of water. I've steamed vegetables in it as well (with a stainless steamer placed inside - I know, I'm probably destroying the coating on the bowl) and that works flawlessly as well.So often, I order things online and they might be good, they might be okay, they might be terrible... but rarely do I get exactly what I hoped for. The Zojirushi NS-ZCC18 joins my Wusthof Classic Ikon Knives and KitchenAid Mixer as the only items that truly lived up to the hype.-MikeP.S. The only teensiest gripe is that I could do without the odd Hello Kitty-like alarm that goes off when the rice is done... but it's not too loud, so I'll live. ;)P.P.S. A master Asian chef I know (just a great home cook, really) berated me for hours about the need to wash/rinse the rice first. I have since started doing it before placing in the Zoji... does it make a difference? I'm not sure... but it's better than getting yelled at in Chinese. 5Buy the Zo 30 years ago I was in the market for my first rice cooker, so I asked a friend who happened to be half Japanese which one I should buy. He said, "Craig, just buy the Zo". I discovered that he was referring to a Zojirushi. I bought one. It served me faithfully. Years went by and technology progressed and my old "Zo" died. I bought another brand. It lasted a year and never made me happy. This time I decided to "buy the Zo" again and chose the ZZC10. It reeks of quality and advanced technology. It's made in Japan, the pot is superb, its easy to use, and it makes excellent rice. Its a Zo. Buy the Zo. 5... say initially I thought having a rice cooker wasn't useful. However I've gotta say initially I thought having a rice cooker wasn't useful. However, after reading reviews, and trying my hand at cooking perfect rice repeatedly, I began to be interested in getting a rice cooker.I looked at a variety of different versions, from the cheaper ones at Costco and Sams, to the zojirushi, and the more I reviewed and looked into it, I decide that investing in a good machine that I would own for many years was the way to go. While the cheaper versions might be able to cook things reasonable well, if I was going to have a device for years and years, I wanted it to be the best it could be, which lead me to the zojirushi.I weighed the benefits of the 5 cup vs the 10 cup, and for the price and the size footprint on the counter, the difference wasn't enough to push me in favor of the 5 cup because over time, with a family of 4 and growing, our need for larger portions of rice would likely grow. And that's not even considering all the various other things you can do with the rice cooker, such as cooking rice, veggies, and adding meat all at the same time. I've made sushi rice, basmati rice, rice pudding, cous-cous, and a lot of different rices with mixed veggies, butter, and meat right in the cooker itself.It can really be thought of as part rice-cooker, part crock-pot. The zojirushi website has a lot of creative recipe ideas as well, and in other reviews you see a reference to a good rice cooker recipe book that's also useful.Regardless though, if you're going to have this rice cooker for almost a decade, the price difference per month of ownership of this vs the cheaper ones, versus the type and variety of rice you can cook in this, justifies the additional expense.Oh, and let me just say that cooking brown rice in this is incredibly easy and helpful. It's great to be able to set things up, in a matter of 5 minutes in the morning (rinsing the rice, programming the time, adding the butter :) ), and know that when I get home, at a pre-arranged time, it will be done to perfection, just waiting for me...it's great.So in summary, the extra cost of the Zojirushi is justified by the quality of the meals it produces, the variety of things you can do with it, and the per-month cost over the lifetime of owning it isn't much different than the cheaper ones. Splurge a bit in quality cookware, and get this device, and do yourself a favor and get the 10 cup version. The minimum cup sizes aren't different, in any significant way, between the 10 and the 5, so there are really minimal reasons to go with the 5 over the 10 unless you're single and will be forever, or will only ever be cooking for 2, and never entertaining folks where more rice might be useful. 5My fav rice cooker Updated review -So I think I figured out what was wrong. I noticed that the lid has some sort of moisture sensor and I figured that perhaps the steam from my new instant pot placed right next to the rice cooker was confusing the sensor. I did a couple of tests where I did not release any steam near the rice cooker, and sure enough, the keep warm function worked flawlessly. The rice was good for even 48 hours.-- old review --The keep warm mode no longer works after 1.5 years. Out of the blue, it started to dry out my rice within a few hours, and the rice turns into rocks -- like totally inedible. Same thing is happening to a lot of other people -- read the reviews and heed their warning. Prior to this unit, I've owned another for like 8 years which worked "flawlessly" except that I never used the keep warm function on that unit so I wouldn't have known if it broke. So if you care about the keep warm working after a year, do not buy a Zojirushi. 5

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