Hirbo EB-FC57 Asian Style 13 in 1 Multifunctional 5-Liter Rice Cooker with Advanced 3D Dynamic Heating, Reheat and Preset Function

This cooker came promptly in a cube box with a lot of helpful information around it. It cooks all sorts of other things like rice, vegetable, soup, and more. It looks like to be my best friend.I cook and eat rice almost three times a day. To make rice, I put raw rice into the inner pot using the measuring cup first. Then I poured water, rinsed it enough to clean rice, and put fresh water up to the water level written inside the inner pot. Then I simply put the pot into the rice cooker, closed the lid, turned it on, and pressed a button. You can also press on the Preset to schedule your meal for up to many hours hours. This feature was handy when I set it in the morning, went to work, and came back to find this cooker finishing up cooking my rice.I found that the cooked rice is puffy and soft. There are many cheaper alternatives with a single switch that can cook or keep warm. This rice cooker can also keep warm, but it can also delay up to may hours hours, which is perfect to get it ready for coming home after work or for get it ready in the morning before going to bed. I’ve tried out a few rice cooker myself, and this works perfectly to prepare some steamy rice that’s just right. This praise is coming from an Asian housewife grew up eating rice everyday, and are cooking for three young kids every day!I has also tried several time to steam vegetables. This function works like a charm. Steamed food is very fresh, clean, healthy. I am looking forward to trying many other functions in the near future.Finally, the price for such a nice cooker is unbelievable is very good

There are several major defect:- the lid opens up when cooking- the bar above the display came off after 3 months of use, and the lid no longer closes : now the entire unit is useless- many settings don't work. The steam comes out all over the place- if you use the first setting, which is supposed for making rice, all rice comes out half cooked.

This is quite literally the worst rice cooker I have ever used. It overcooks the rice into some sort of mush - not even sticky rice, just mushy. The process of doing this takes a super long time too (1.5 cups cooks for like 50 minutes, but it's already overcooked by 30 minutes). The 13 modes aren't really helpful because you have no idea what most of them do (yogurt? crust? what does that even mean?). The manual is horribly translated - we're talking worse than Google translate here (which is already hilariously bad, right), they must have used Baidu translate or something. That wouldn't have been a problem honestly if they also provided the original Chinese, because then I could at least get a proper translation (but they only included the horribly translated English manual, so no dice there).If you watch it carefully and interrupt before it starts overcooking, it makes passable rice. However if I wanted to do this, I could buy a $5 iron pot and get the same quality... for $100 this is a complete ripoff.I'm not clear how this gets 4.5 stars average review here :\

Great rice! I was surprised that it actually can also cook a cake. Mix the boxed batter, throw in in...and boom, a cake! Like everyone says..."User Manual Sucks!" I downloaded a Zojirushi model # NS-TSC18 manual, and between the 2, I got a better idea of what to do. It would not take much to write a better manual. If China can knock-off products, it should not take much to write a decent manual. The manual says fry fish at 25 minutes? What it does NOT say is : Is that deep-fry? lid open or closed? or just surface fried?...sounds too dangerous to attempt without better instructions. For now, it is a great rice cooker at a great price...with experimentation...you are on your own. Someone should created a blog to share recipes and experiences of cooking with the other settings since times are adjustable for most settings....Good Luck. Would be 5 stars for a manual/cookbook

The rice cooker seems to do a great job of producing great rice. It comes out just right, whether you are cooking a small amount of rice or a big one. I bet a lot of the other modes and features would be equally great, if only the manual weren't utterly useless.I'm willing to bet at least the price of a new rice cooker that just feeding the original Chinese manual into your favorite auto-translation website would have done a better job than whoever translated the English manual that came with this thing. It might make a great party game to pass it around the room and try to figure out what the hell is going on, but if you need to use the manual to figure out how to make rice pudding (which the box claims it can do), you're in very serious trouble.The pot inside is very easy to clean, and the handle is a nice addition, but the cooker as a whole does seem substantially larger than other rice cookers I've used with the same capacity.