# I Want My Rice Cooker **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 21, 2024, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-rice-cooker/1011965 "2024-12-21T08:46:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2024, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-rice-cooker/1011965/1 "2024-12-21T08:46:40Z")
When I got married in 1983, one of our treasured wedding gifts (given by my best man and his Hawaii-raised wife) was a Hitachi rice cooker. It received at least weekly use in our household for the entirety and of our 36-year marriage, and came with me when I moved in with my second wife in 2021. The inner rice pot would comfortably cook two cups of standard white rice, and it might have fit three. Unfortunately one evening in the fall of 2021, I prepared to use it yet again, when I noticed a puddle of water underneath it on the countertop. Inspection revealed a pinhole in the pot. I immediately drove to our local Target store to obtain a replacement. The closest I could find was an Aroma brand rice cooker, so I bought that. It has been a disappointment. It cooks the rice just fine, but it is missing the two features that made the Hitachi the perfect appliance. It has no bell to let me know when the cooking has stopped and it’s just keeping the rice warm. It just makes a barely audible “click.” The other thing it’s missing is AN ON/OFF SWITCH! You plug it in and it’s ON! I hate that! It was only $30, and if I could find my old model of Hitachi, I’d replace it in a heartbeat. But it seems that some time during the aforementioned thirty-six years, Hitachi stopped making rice cookers in that size. I’ve been able to find 12-15 cup sizes, but those are too spendy and too large for my countertop (so I haven’t considered them, and I don’t really know if they have the features I’m pining for). I’m using the Aroma less often than I otherwise would these days, and I probably wouldn’t be thinking about it now, except for the fact that I made a pot of ersatz Spanish rice today. I’m considering looking for a different brand WITH the features. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-rice-cooker/1011965)._