Zojirushi NP-HBC10 5-1/2-Cup Rice Cooker & Warmer Review

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Perfect rice is hard to cook because it requires the right amount of heat for it too cook just right, that is why most people resort to using a rice cooker because it is time-saving, efficient kitchen appliance that lets you cook rice perfectly. The Zojirushi NP-HBC10 rice cooker enables your rice to be fluffy and delicious and you don't have to stand by your stove to keep an eye on your rice while cooking. All you have to do is set it and leave it.

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The Zojirushi NP HBC10 is a five and a half cup rice cooker combined with a warmer in one and it is Zojirushi's newest heat system induction style. It combines the technology of microcomputers with induction heating system.. Its dimensions are 9 by 14 by 7 inches and it weighs 11 pounds. Its features include a 5 ½ cup/ 1 liter rice cooker and combination warmer. It has an electrical rating of 120 volts or 1230 watts. It has induction heating superior(IH) technology that evenly distributes heat for best results for healthier cooking.

Healthier options for cooking include GABA brown rice, germinated brown rice and plain brown rice. It also offers a variety of menu functions to enable you to cook white rice that is regular, harder or softer, sweet rice, mixed rice, porridge and sushi rice for quick and easy cooking in minutes. It has a black and spherical thick inner style cooking pan and a new and easier to clean cleat coated style durable stainless steel exterior.
Its inner lid is also washable and detachable.  In addition, it has a control LCD panel which is easy to read for keep warm, timer and clock functions and a beep signal that has an interchangeable melody. It also comes with a spatula, a spatula holder and measuring cup for measuring your rice.

The Zojirushi NP-HBC10's advantages are- it is user friendly because it has a large and easily readable LCD control panel, a detached innermost lid for convenience and easy cleaning, it also has a spherical style inner pan for cooking and heating system that provides evenly distributed heating for a perfectly cooked and delicious rice every time you cook one, and it also has a battery back-up in case you unplug it.

It offers a GABA brown selection menu or GABA type rice cooking activation mode available in order to activate the brown type of rice for added nutritional values. GABA rice is actually a new discovered way of cooking brown rice to activate it and increase the gamma aminobutyric acid, which is a naturally occuring amino acid that is available in brown types ofrice is said to contribute to your health because it has been proven to lower blood pressure, improve kidney and liver function and relieves any kind of stress.

The brown rice is activated into a GABBA brown rice by soaking the brown rice at 104 degreess Fahrenheit for two hours before cooking it. For those who wish to purchase the product, it is available for shipping in the U.S. only. The Zojirushi NP-HBC10 is durable and worth the price though it expensive because it costs around $250 and its digital timer can only be set using military time.