Sanyo ECJ-HC55S 5-1/2-Cup Micro-Computerized Rice Cooker and Slow Cooker, White | 
 enlarge | Brand: Sanyo
Category: Kitchen
List Price: $159.99
Buy New: $109.90
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Rating:  13 reviews
Color: White
Shipping Weight (lbs): 12.6
Dimensions (in): 13 x 10 x 8
Warranty: 1
MPN: ECJ-HC55S
Model: ECJ-HC55S
UPC: 086483066887
EAN: 0086483066887
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Condition: Brand New, Ship from Florida, ORIGINAL BOX,INTACT
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| Features:
| • | Micro-computerized 5-1/2-cup rice cooker and slow cooker | | • | Steaming function with programmable timer; slow cook up to 12 hours | | • | LCD clock; keep-warm function; carrying handle for easy transport | | • | Includes tofu container, steaming tray, measuring cup, spatula, and recipes | | • | Measures approximately 13 by 10 by 8 inches |
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Product Description
All in one, a Healthy Rice Cooker and Slow Cooker. This cooker comes with separate inner pots and inner lids for rice and slow cooking to prevent flavor contamination and conveniently prepare a whole meal with one machine. The titanium-coated, extra-thick (3mm), non-stick rice cooking inner pot has rounded edges at the bottom for maximum heat distribution and optimum cooking. The multi-menu selections are ideal for white rice, mixed rice, rinse-free rice, sushi rice, brown rice, haiga rice, quick cooking, tofu cooking, slow cooking and steaming. There are High & Low slow cook temperature settings for up to 12 hours and the LCD clock and 24-hour preset timer allows for cooking completion at desired time. The convenient keep-warm function keeps rice warm and delicious after cooking without over-cooking. There is a special Tofu (soy curd) function for preparing nutritious and perfect homemade Tofu every time. The Steaming function includes a unique tray for preparing healthy steamed foods. Includes two Inner Pots and two Inner Lids, Tofu Container, Steaming Tray, Measuring Cup, Spatula & Multi-Language InstructionRetractable CordManual with Recipes IncludedCapacity - 5.5 cups uncooked (11 cups Cooked)Power Consumption - 645 Watts
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 GREAT RICE COOKER!! November 8, 2008
J. Jin (HAYWARD, CA United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I GOT THIS RICE COOKER AND IMMEDIATELY MADE SOME RICE AND IT CAME OUT ABSOLUTELY PERFECT. I MADE SOME CHINESE JOOK (PORRIDGE) AND IT CAME OUT PERFECT. I USED THE SLOW COOKER TO COOK SOME SPARE RIBS WITH BLACK BEAN SAUCE AND IT CAME OUT TENDER AND PERFECT. THIS COOKER COOKS BETTER THAN ME AND THINKS BETTER THAN ME...WHO COULD ASK FOR MORE. VERY HIGH TECH!!
 Oatmeal disaster--hard to clean November 1, 2008
Chris L. Burton (Lafayette, COLORADO United States)
10 out of 35 found this review helpful
It works well for rice, but don't try to cook oatmeal with this thing, despite the fact that it has a "Porridge" setting. Oatmeal goo will start bubbling out of the top and then you will spend a long time trying to clean up because oatmeal paste will have oozed into every nook and cranny of the cooker lid. You will not be able to take off the hinged top to clean it.
In retrospect, we would have been better off with a lower-tech alternative.
Love it! October 24, 2008
Tobyjoe (Salem, Or United States)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I've had a large Zojirushi rice cooker for years. I wanted something with a smaller footprint, but without losing the fuzzy-logic feature of the Zojirushi. This is it! It is just as good as my Zojirushi, and much smaller (yet, it cooks up nearly as much rice!). I was also interested in this for its slow cooker abilities, because my slow cooker is large and sometimes I'd like to use a smaller one. I haven't yet tried this as a slow cooker, but everything works so well, I feel sure that I'll like it. In addition to making great rice in it, I cook up steel cut oats for morning oatmeal (using the porridge setting). But here is one very unexpected pleasure - it cooks eggs, hard and soft boiled. There is a steamer insert with eight or so indents to hold the eggs. Hard-boiled eggs cook perfectly on the steamer setting in just about 24 minutes. The most perfect and easiest hard boiled eggs I've ever made! Haven't tried soft-boiled eggs, but other than to get the timing down, I know they will be much easier than any other method. A great unit. I highly recommend it. I've already bought a second one for another family member. She's equally enthusiastic about it. Both units, so far, work flawlessly. I'm hoping they are as reliable as my Zojirushi, which is over 8 years old.
Unbelievable! Had No Idea How Much I'd Use & Love This! October 22, 2008
A. Marks (Los Angeles, CA)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I read an NYTimes article about rice cookers around the same time I was starting a diet which recommended whole grains and steal cut oatmeal... so I read obsessively about all the different kinds of rice cookers, the reviews etc., and settled on this one based on combination of features and price.
Yes, $132 isn't cheap, but OMG! What a FANTASTIC appliance! Well-deigned, very well-built (nothing cheap feeling) and it does EXACTLY what it says really, really well. So far I've made oatmeal every day, brown rice, and I've steamed veggies and they've all come out fantastic! There's a bit of a learning curve on the veggies - what's the right amount of time for the veg. you select for the doneness you prefer, but that's expected. I'm looking forward to really using the slow cooker this winter.
And the oatmeal! Check it out - you can put in your steel-cut oatmeal and water the night before, set the time, and it'll be cooked and waiting when you wake up! Soaking the oatmeal just helps it cook faster in the morning, it doesn't ruin it, like setting your coffee timer, only better!
I'm single, and I like to cook, but I'm also really busy so I love the "Set it and forget it" way you can cook with this. As for size, I probably could have done with a smaller one (being a single girl), but I'd rather have too much than too little and I did have space for it. Maybe if I had a family, I'd want a bigger model - hard to say.
But barring the size, I'd go with a Sanyo with this exact feature set and I just can't imagine you wanting anymore.
My only criticism is the instruction manual is pretty lousy. nevertheless, I love my ECJ-HC55S and it makes me wonder why all appliances can't meet such a high level of quality.
Love this rice cooker September 3, 2008
delving mind (Vermont)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
This cooker replaced the National fuzzy logic that I had used at least 3-4 times a week for 5 years. With all the new rice cookers on the market it was hard to find one that had the features that I wanted, without a bunch that I didn't need. I really don't need to bake a cake in my rice cooker!! What I use the most are the slow cooker options and the rice options. I mostly make short grain brown rice and this model cooks it much faster than my old National. I also loved that this cooker came with an extra pan and lid for the slow cooker...which makes it a great value.
If it is important for you to know the length of the cook cycles, I suggest that you time them the first time you use them because the instruction booklet does not give the times for the cycles. My old National would show the length of the cycle when you started each cycle, i.e. when using the regular cycle it would show 43 minutes on the clock. This cooker only shows the time left when it gets down around 15 minutes. The brown rice cycle cooks in 75 minutes. I cooked quinoa on the quick cycle the other day and it was done in approximately 30 minutes.
Another option I like on this model compared to the National is that, so far, the lid is easier to clean. The national used to bubble up through the steam vent and make a mess that was not easy to clean from the rubber gasket, but the Sanyo doesn't do that and the lid barely needs to be washed after cooking a batch of rice. I wish these types of cookers would make removable upper lids so that they could be kept cleaner.
I also love that this model has the slow cooker and that there is both high and low slow cook cycles.
This cooker is just right for a small family or couple, but if you generally cook for more than 3 people, I would recommend the larger model. I can make enough soup for 4 people if bread and salad were served, but it may only serve several people if they had large appetites. It definitely does not have enough room in the slow cooker to do large roasts.
Great value, great cooker, I highly recommend it.
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