This weekend, I tested an old, bimetallic-switch-based rice cooker against a microchip-wielding Zojirushi, which sells for more than $200. The fancy machine’s rice was a bit fluffier, the simple ...

If you’ve ever cooked rice in a pot on a stove before, you know heat and water aren’t hard to come by. It’s the final stage of not burning the rice that’s tricky. That’s where the rice cooker wins.

This rice cooker is unbelievably easy to use. It features an easy-to-operate touch screen with 21 built-in presets (my Zojirushi, sadly could never), meaning it can make rice, beans, oats ...

The Neuro Fuzzy takes a little longer to cook rice than the other picks in our rice cooker guide. It takes about 45 minutes to make white rice, while our upgrade pick, the Cuckoo CRP-P1009S, takes ...

The chicken requires minimal ingredients, including a marinade packet with ginger, salt and a variety of other seasonings, available at most Asian grocery stores.

Add half of the shallots, ginger and green onion to a rice cooker. Stuff the other half of the aromatics inside the chicken. Let the chicken marinate in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes.