Customer Reviews

Sanyo ECJ-N100W 10-Cup Electric Rice Cooker with Porridge/Soup Cooker and Steamer

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

A good rice cooker. The warm function is as another reviewer said before, warmer than my old National ricer cooker. If you leave it in warm mode overnight, it will create a thin layer of yellowish overcooked rice. My old National does not do this.

Aside from this, it is a good cooker. I would think it can last 5 years with daily usage and good maintemaince.

This rice cooker basically cooks almost perfect rice.
This cooker is good for the price paid. If you want electronic
readout, prepare to pay more. After the rice is finished cooking, it will keep it warm, up to two hours without drying out.

This is a great looking cooker. It is big enough for a rice fest. Works beautifully. Rice comes up perfectly cooked every time. Got it when there was a 50% off offer. Great value for money.

We had this product for about 1.5 years where we had no real problems with the unit. It cooked adequately without much problems and very uniformly. However, one day we plugged it in and had no power to the unit.

There are no instructions for trying to fix the unit by yourself or solve this problem. The manual focuses on problems with food preparation using the unit, but has no instructions for overall power failure, so the only recourse you have is to throw it away and purchase another rice cooker.

Compared to my old rice cooker I've had since graduate school (10+ years now), not very reliable.

The cover is not closed very tight. It spills out water when you cook the rice. I exchanged one, it still spills. I don't recommend this brand.

I have put off buying a rice cooker for years and I am so sorry I did. This is wonderful---it's so easy, just add the rice and water close the lid and wait. It makes the best rice. It's very easy to clean. I would buy it again in a second and not wait so long.

Pros:
1) Cooks good rice.
2) Easy to clean and water does not leak.
3) Unit looks neat. Closed lid allows us to keep rice covered all times.

Cons:
1) You need to use atleast 3 cups of raw rice minimum. Ofcourse, it has 20 cup capacity and so this is not a major flaw.
2) After the rice is cooks, it automatically switches to keep warm function. There is no tick sound or any alarm to indicate this. The first time I used this, I was expecting a tick sound (like most rice cookers). After a while, I could smell something burning and realized that it automatically switches to warm function without any indication. This is a bad design. As a previous reviewer said, most cookers switch to keep warm function. No doubt, but there will be a tick sound to alert the user. This is missing in this cooker.
3) Rice gets burnt if you dont unplug the unit on time. Keep warm funciton is not a great option in any rice cooker though.

It works fine within one year since I purchased it in 2008. But died suddently after one year and one month use - powe can be on. We only can throw it away. Very disappoinited.

The Sanyo Rice Cooker is a far better product than I had anticipated. I was simply looking for a basic rice cooker which had a non-stick surface. Additionally I wanted to avoid cookers which had plastic in direct contact with the food being prepared.
This cooker provides far more options than I need, but I will certainly make use of them.

The "keep warm" function is way, way too hot and you cannot turn off the unit. You must unplug it. Bad idea, for the foregetfull, and I don't remember reading about this "must unplug to turn off" aspect, in the description text. Works well enough, and cleans up very easily.