Buffalo Titanium Grey IH SMART COOKER, Rice Cooker and Warmer, 1.8L, 10 cups of rice, Non-Coating inner pot, Efficient, Multiple function, Induction Heating (10 cups)

My rice/grain cooker priorities:1) Stainless steel for every interior surface, no chemical coating. (With a ring of food-grade silicon for the interior seal on the lid.)2) Ease of use: I need to be able to hit a couple of buttons, walk away, and know the device will take care of the rest.3) Easy cleanup. Bowl must be removable for cleaning. Bonus points for removable inner lid, also for cleaning. Strongly prefer no spitting of liquid/gunk out onto surrounding areas, as several types of cookers seem to do.4) My use is for oatmeal porridge. So I tried (successfully) to choose a cooker which would get the timing and texture right.I am loving this cooker -- every day I find myself grateful to have it. It totally frees my time up, both cooking and cleanup.Tips on cleanup: I find that if I let it sit on "warm" for just a short time, anything that was starting to stick to the bowl just unsticks itself. Cleanup has been a dream.I do lightly grease the bowl with butter. But I was doing that for stovetop oats already, and even with all the stirring and a fancy non-stick pot, stovetop cleanup was a whole lot more work. Cleaning the beautiful stainless steel bowl for this cooker, in contrast, has been super quick and easy.The inner lid also clicks out super easily, for cleaning/drying. Note that a bit of water can get underneath the silicon seal, so just be sure that's totally dry before closing it all up.I have one complaint, which is really about Amazon's changes in policy regarding questions, which ended up with me buying another of this cooker straight from the manufacturer and returning this one:I couldn't get an answer as to what the inner ring on the lid is made of, through Amazon.So I called the manufacturer, (Buffalo Cookware), got the answer immediately over the phone, and ended up getting an even better price through them.Amazon, note: If you continue to make it harder for customers to get answers to questions which matter to us, you drive us to get those answers elsewhere. That creates a sense of gratitude and loyalty to other vendors who *do* make it consistently easy to get our questions answered. Coupled with frustration toward Amazon, you're driving both short-term purchases and longer-term purchasing habits away from your site.This, in case it's not obvious, has to do with both your short-sighted decision to hide the Q&A's and have your truly sh***y, barely developed, essentially useless and customer time-wasting AI, idiotically try to filter what we get to see. Then, when I called your phone reps after getting through all the obstacles Amazon has added there, (you've made the process of getting a live person for anything not on your short preset menus akin to completing a cyber obstacle course), it was suggested to me, (by an otherwise very nice man), that I contact other sites to get the answers I need. Well, I did -- and the product was also much less expensive. So why should I stick with Amazon?Btw, the nice gentleman also seriously said that asking for ingredients on products offered on Amazon, (when not listed in the product description), was too unusual and too difficult a request to make of the AI system.Essentially, we're being denied access to useful information that Amazon has, (which was generated by us customers in the first place), but wants to control and filter for us. While at the same time we're being used to train a lousy AI system, with the end goal of taking more jobs away from more people who need jobs.I'm honestly starting to change my Amazon-centric purchasing habits developed over many years, as a result of this.But, the cooker is GREAT!! :)

I lived in Taiwan for 25 years, so rice has definitely been a big staple of my diet for a long time. That said, I’ve never really been crazy about rice, I always thought rice is just rice, a side dish to the main meal. I’ve always had the same attitude towards rice cookers too, as long as it could make the rice, I didn’t really care. Eventually, I needed a new rice cooker and a friend of mine referred me to the Buffalo smart cooker. I could tell a big difference in quality between the Buffalo rice cooker and my old one from 99 Ranch Market. The one thing I liked about my old cooker is that it had a nonstick inner. The Buffalo cooker also has a nonstick inner, but what really impressed me is that unlike the old one, the cladding materials are Japanese made and have NO chemical coating. So, while the old cooker is probably a little easier to clean than this one, this is still easy to clean, something that’s very rare for a rice cooker with no chemical coating. As long as you wait 10 minutes after the rice has cooked before scooping it out, I can clean the rice cooker easily without any problems. I’ve become more health-conscious especially since the pandemic, and my friend sent me some google links about traditional nonstick cookware- they have Teflon nonstick coatings and release toxic chemicals in the air once they start breaking down. I’m glad I don’t have to worry about that with the Buffalo cooker, and I wish I’d switched to the Buffalo cooker a long time ago. I don’t really care if it’s made in China, it’s made of high-quality materials that are much safer for my family’s health!

Great rice cooker with a heavy gauge solid stainless steel interior. I bought this to replace a rice cooker that has toxic non-stick coating. It cooks rice and reheats very quickly. It is very easy to clean and doesn't emit gooey liquid from the steam vent like other rice cooker I've had in the past. I find that I have to use about 1/3 extra cup of water each time than the markings on the inside of the pot say to use, maybe because I mix brown and white rice together. The only reason I give 4 instead of 5 stars is the power cord doesn't retract. But, I found inexpensive Kitchen Appliance Cord Winder Cable Organizers that are made of silicon and stick on easily to solve that problem.

I got the 5 cup cooker. Nice modern look. Grains of rice are perfectly fluffy. My son said it tastes very close to grandma’s zojirushi rice cooker. I bought because of the stainless steel inner pot. Easy to clean. not sticky unless you let the cooked rice in “warm” mode for a long time. I usually open the lid 10 min after cooking is completed, and will not keep “warm” for more than 30 minutes. It stays warm for a long time without “warm” mode. It takes about 45min to cook 1-2 cups of white rice. I do add more water than suggested - use “grain” level of water for white rice.I also cooked lamb pilaf. It’s just perfect. Good for cooking oatmeal too using preset timer.There is water coming around the pot which is easy to clean, simply using a dry towel.

stainless steel heavy inner poteasy cleangreat heat retention on keep warm settingsoup, rice and porridge functions work greatlove that I can brown onions and aromatics right in the pot as well as making a rouxthere is a little more steam escape than what I'm used to but not enough to take away a star!Loved it so much I went back and purchased the wok