I use a rice cooker for such 10years, discovered this way of cooking thanks my ex girl-friend.
My cooker is simplier than this one, but doing well its job

My family has almost always had a rice cooker. I am 30 years old and I vaguely remember my mother using a pot to cook rice in. I have had a rice cooker all of my adult life. It has never been one of the fancy ones from Asia but I am thinking of getting one of those. I live in Louisiana were rice is a staple of most peoples diet.

PS.. Do proper English you talk?

Philippines here, We use rice cooker too, even high tech ones from japan.
a lot of filipino people still cook rice the old way though. We filipinos eat rice at breakfast (fried rice), lunch (regular pot rice) and dinner (regular pot rice).

I have had a rice cooker since forever…when I lived in Taiwan or England or here in the states. Mine is also from Japan, sings twinkle twinkle little star when I start it up..

I bought one in Japan a few years back. In Osaka they have Tiger. A Brand that makes Rice cookers for export to 220~240 volt countries. It even has English buttons.
They make a normal one and an Induction model for overseas customers.

I used to have a Chinese made rice cooker which was inaccurate and always caused a bit of burned rice on the bottom. This Tiger one I can recommend to all people using 220~140 volts.
Maybe something for GS4U to deliver to European and Australian readers?
Their website is here: http://www.tiger.jp/

Oh, I do not work for them or anything -_-;;

Italy. We cook rice the old way (because it’s impossible to make ‘risotto’ with a rice cooker), but last time I went to Japan a rice cooker was the first thing I went to buy (not really the first…almost got it for free with Bic points…). Now it’s sooo easy to cook oriental-style rice dishes!

I came from Japan, but I’ve been in the U.S.A. for a long time. I used to cook rice on the stove or in the microwave oven because a Zojirushi rice cooker was too expensive and I didn’t want to compromise. I had a chance to get a National/Panasonic cooker for only US$10 after a coupon. It didn’t work well for me, scorching the bottom, but I later found a Zojirushi model for only US$59 (obviously no micom control) and it’s worked reliably. I even know some white people who use rice cookers simply because they don’t cook rice often and they want it just right.