不要扔掉炊具的杯子。炊具随附的塑料量杯不是标准的1杯措施。标准的美国杯持有约180毫升的240毫升。为了确保米饭煮得正确，请用炊具的塑料杯子测量米饭，然后倒入水，直到到达烹饪碗内的合适的蚀刻线。

我一直遵循标准的炉灶程序，用大米慢慢煮，从不窥视，永远不要搅拌。结果很好。但是，当我在市场上一些顶级模糊含量的米饭中制作米饭时，我意识到我的炉灶方法是没有匹配的。

And what is a fuzzy-logic rice cooker? Basically, it’s an intelligent version of a no-frills rice cooker. Instead of just an on/off button, a fuzzy-logic rice cooker has a micro-computer that lets the machine regulate time and temperature according to the type of rice being cooked (brown rice, for example, cooks at a lower temperature than white rice). It can cook more kinds of rice than you’ve ever heard of—including sweet and germinated brown—and some models can even cook oatmeal or polenta, steam vegetables, and make stew. But what really sold us on the cookers was how well they handle the white and brown rice we use every day.

Such sophistication comes at a price, though. Even our Best Buy costs more than $100. And these cookers will also cost you time: Expect to wait 45 to 50 minutes for white rice to cook, more for brown.

试验结果

All but one of the cookers we tried made excellent white rice. But in tasks beyond cooking white rice, the models showed their true colors. Our favorites (shown here) had special settings and guidelines for cooking finicky brown rice and did a better job than cookers without those special settings.

Best all-around

Zojirushi Neuro Fuzzy
米饭和轮船
NS-ZCC10-WZ型号
$179.99 ateverythingkitchens.com

This 5-1/2-cup cooker is as versatile as it is precise. A chime or tune (your choice) tells you when the cooking cycle is complete, which is especially handy with brown rice because it degrades in flavor and texture if held in the keep-warm setting. It also has a memory setting, which lets the cooker remember how you like a certain type of rice.

设置和功能：quick cook, mixed, porridge, keep warm, extended keep warm, reheat, timer-controlled cooking; removable inner lid for easy cleaning.

百思买

Sanyo Micro-Computerized
米饭和轮船
ECJ-F50型
$ 114.95 ATCooking.com

这个5杯炊具具有几乎任何人都需要的所有功能。它唯一的怪癖是：必须洗净糙米，然后在烹饪前浸泡一个小时，否则它会被煮熟。但是，如果您能记住这一步骤，那么您将获得完美的糙米。

设置和功能：quick cook, mixed, porridge, keep warm; settings to cook stew and dol sot bi bim bab (a classic Korean rice dish in which the bottom layer of rice gets toasted and crisp); steamer insert and removable inner lid for easy cleaning.

用白米饭

老虎电稻炊具
JAG-B10U模型
$ 119.99 ATCostco.com
(5% more for nonmembers)

This 5-1/2-cup cooker lets you customize white rice’s consistency, gives you the option to “scorch” it, meaning it can toast the bottom layer in the pot for a subtle nutty flavor and lightly crisped texture, and beeps when the cooking cycle is complete. Brown rice cooked unevenly in our tests: fluffy toward the top of the pot, pasty towards the bottom. Also, it’s inconvenient that the inner lid isn’t removable for in-sink cleaning.

设置和功能：快速烹饪，混合，粥，保持温暖，重新加热，焦味，计时器控制的烹饪。

菜单设置，定义

Fuzzy-logic rice cookers have lots of menu settings and features. Here are definitions of some that you’ll see.

Quick cook:cooks white rice 10 to 15 minutes quicker than the normal cycle but with some sacrifice in quality.

混合：for instances when you’re cooking rice with ingredients other than just water, such as spices or broth.

稀饭：developed for rice porridge, an Asian staple, but also works for oatmeal, polenta, rice pudding, and the like.

Keep warm:烹饪周期后最多12小时，用于保持米饭的温暖；大多数制造商建议仅将其与白米饭一起使用。

重新加热：对于一直坐在保存周期中的米饭，此功能使得在5至10分钟内进食它很热；不能用来再加热冷米。

Timer controlled:lets you program the cooker in advance to cook rice at a set time.

我们如何测试

我们测试了五个制造商的顶级模糊熟水稻炊具，其容量在5至6杯内未煮过的米饭。使用每个炊具，我们以炊具的最大容量煮了长粒白米饭，也只有1杯未煮过的米饭。我们用3杯未煮过的米饭制作了糙米。我们使用2杯未煮过的长粒白米饭测试了那些提供它的炊具的快速烹饪周期。而且，如果炊具为寿司或甜米饭提供了更难或更柔软的烹饪模式或烹饪周期，我们对其进行了测试。

In each test, we evaluated the entire pot of rice for evenness in consistency and texture.

The other rice cookers in our tests were the Aroma Sensor-Logic rice cooker, model ARC-896, and the Elite Pro Fuzzy Logic rice cooker, model B601T.