You might not think a rice cooker belongs in the same class of essential cooking tools as, say, a chef’s knife or cutting ...

The 8-cup (cooked-rice) model was the smallest in our lineup ... grains it produced disappointingly poor quality for a $100 cooker. If we mismeasured the rice-to-water ratio even slightly ...

The ratio of water to rice will be 2 cups water to 1 cup rice. As we’ve mentioned, look for the cooker to signal it ... and then you can make it perfectly 100% of the time.

But in general, a three-cup rice cooker is good for one or two people, a five- or six-cup rice cooker is good for about four people, and anything bigger is best if you eat a lot of rice or host ...