The best rice cooker for 2025

Let's start with the obvious: Cuckoo’s 6-cup rice cooker is possibly the prettiest rice cooker I've ever seen. I love that vibrant red. If you want a rice cooker to sit on your countertop all the time, this one wins on style alone. But it also makes top-notch rice, delivering some of the best results for all three grain types thanks to its microcomputer that can adjust each cooking phase based on type of rice you're making. It did a particularly good job with long-grain basmati rice right out of the bowl. I liked the white rice most after it had sat on warm mode for half an hour, but it was still quite tasty as soon as the cook cycle completed. I would have appreciated a touch longer cook on the brown rice, but this model can be programmed with a customized cycle, including exact soaking and heating times. It works great with the fire-and-forget presets for cooks who don't want to bother with My Mode, but I appreciate that you have the option if you want to experiment. However, ther ... Read full article.