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Shop Now When you cook for a large family or host frequent parties, a compact three-cup rice maker just won’t cut it.

These appliances are a must-have for quick, effective, and healthy cooking: pressure cookers or electric rice cookers.

Rice cookers vary in size (from a mini single portion rice cooker, to a family-size or even a restaurant-size rice cooker). Some multi-use culinary devices, like the Instant Pot, have a rice ...

Panasonic SRG06 provides small-family-friendly rice cooking, with a non-stick coat inner pot which makes cleaning simple and stops rice from sticking. This small-sized rice cooker includes ...

which should be suitable for a large family or cooking for functions. It is said to be a combination of multiple vessels in one. The rice cooker comes with touch buttons to cook auto-set menus.

Sitting on the kitchen counter, tucked away in a corner, was a large 32-cup rice cooker that my teammate, John, left behind for us to store until he returned to campus—an indefinite amount of time.