Zojirushi Umami Rice Cooker & Warmer NL-GAC10 Review: Limits of slow cooking Hobble Machine Expensive

For the first time he has heard of a new machine Zojirushi not only does it cook rice, it also has some kitchen functions, I was amazed. Then he showed up at my house, and they quickly threw a loop at me. Although the bowl was large enough to make a good amount of rice, the “slow cook max bet” line was in the middle of the side of the pot, which means you can only make the machine a meager liter of slow cooking. When I realized my mistake, I sent the machine to the two largest versions, I quickly learned that it could make rice for 10 people, but a slow cooker for three people.

Anyone else confused with that ratio?

Zojirushi is the love mark of our home. My wife, Elisabeth, and I have one of the company’s rice cookers, R2-D2 – next to it called NS-LAC05. It’s a real miracle, it can make three standard 180 milliliter glasses of rice at a time. Ours was a wedding gift from eight years ago, and we’ve been making delicious rice on the table above us and keeping it warm for days since we got it. While some prefer to cook rice in the kitchen, I love the quality and comfort of a dedicated kitchen, the ability to make rice for dinner, and then having the hot ball ready and waiting for lunch the next day. It is probably the most used appliance in our kitchen.

Not long ago, I tried it Zojirushi high pressure induction rice cooker, an expensive but impressive machine, owning it cost me a bit and I didn’t own it. But until our little LAC-05 launches the ship, we’ll be fine.

About two years ago, I looked at it too Zojirushi’s “multikooker” a slow six-quarter kitchen that can be controlled gradura and can also put meat. Slow cooking is done for this, but it can also produce rice and yogurt and steam the food. It’s not common in slow cookers and they perform better than most, especially when it comes to control freaks.

Zojirushi’s press material promised that the new Umami would marry the better features of these two machines: a rice cooker that can be cooked slowly. Although I was sure things would be fine with rice, this idea didn’t make sense as it could make a big pot of rice but only cook 1.8 liters (two liters) of slow food.

To borrow a few lines from Hugh Acheson’s excellent cookbook, Chef and slow cooker, “Some slow cookers are big, seven or eight liters, and some are small, like two liters. I recommend a reasonably large one, four liters or more.” We’re tiny little ones, really.

Personally, I would recommend at least six quarters, as the charm of slow cooking in volume. At the beginning of the day you can put your pork shoulder in a six-quarter pattern and grab some delicious tacos for dinner, make a little effort for friends, and stick the leftovers from the yogurt container in the freezer. they head home.

It will also include any recipe you put in a six-quarter pot.

When the larger Umami arrived in the test kitchen, I opened it Eat your books an index of online recipes, I found 17 wonderful slow cooker recipes in the cookbooks I own and took them off my shelves. For another reason that seemed great that afternoon, I started with an America’s Test Kitchen recipe for farm chicken and corn fever. After getting into the pot, the ingredients were passed over the “maximum slow cooking filling” line for a fair amount of time, but with the raw chicken pot there is no going back, so I started and crossed my fingers.

Then I took 14 cookbooks and put them on the shelves, realizing that I would never use such a small slow cooker, forcing me to make small sets of all my favorite recipes.