Cuisinart FRC-800 Rice Plus Multi-Cooker with Fuzzy Logic Technology

I've had this rice/oatmeal/slow cooker now for 6 months. This machine cooks all kinds of rice extremely well and that's what it primarily was designed to do. You can cook sushi, brown, risotto, etc. rices and they turn out perfect. They also stay warm and perfectly moist if you need to set the keep warm function. The parts remove easily for cleaning.

The easy to read display doesn't tell you how many minutes it will take to cook your rice choice. You have to read through the instruction booklet to find out how long each cycle is. A countdown function of remaining time would have been really nice. The first time I made brown rice my family waited almost 2 hours to eat dinner.

This machine doesn't do the extra stuff very well. I made 1 cup of steel cut (Irish) oatmeal with 2 cups of water in a machine designed to hold 8 cups of water. The frothy water boiled over, out of the steam hole, and into the electronics board. It fried the circuit board. Fortunately...Read more

I like this item for one very important reason, it cooks with little guesswork on my part. As a professional chef it's an easy setup and go cooking method and I really didn't need to use the directions. I have noticed that a few review said that their rice cooking times seemed very long. On average cooking uncooked long grain or short grain brown rice does take some time. We are accustomed to having pre-done rice or minute rice, and cooking quality, healthy rice is simply not the same.

This is direct from the manufacturer: Cuisinart introduces a smarter way to cook rice...and a lot of other dishes, as well. Introducing the Rice Plus(tm) Multi-Cooker, the first product from Cuisinart with advanced fuzzy logic technology. This built-in "brain" senses fluctuations in cooking and automatically adjusts operation to ensure perfect results. With pre-programmed settings for six types of rice, plus oatmeal, soup, steam, slow cooking, and more - and easy dishwasher cleanup -...Read more

We bought this as a Christmas present for ourselves in 2009, so we've had it for a bit over a year. We had done quite a bit of research on Amazon before buying this (anyway, it's a Cuisinart!) and were REALLY looking forward to trying it. How is it? It's fine for slow cooking. But you don't need a Cuisinart for slow cooking. And rice?

What a disappointment. This rice cooker is a little fuzzy on how best to cook rice. White rice is a pasty clump. Wild rice is, well, I'm eating some right now, and the best way to describe it is a battlefield of exploded, shriveled meal worms. It's impossible not to overcook. We are people who tend to blame ourselves first, so we assumed we were just "doing it wrong". (Never mind the fact that one reason we got a rice cooker was so that it would be impossible to "do wrong".) So we tried everything: different settings, experimenting with the water level, using filtered water, not using the self-warmer after cooking, trying different...Read more