CUCKOOCRP-HS0657F Induction Heating Pressure Rice Cooker, 11 Menu Options, Stainless Steel Inner Pot, Made in Korea, 6 Cup, White, 6 C

This Cuckoo rice cooker is well designed and priced competitively to compare well with Big Japan rice cookers. Our household eats rice almost every day, and we have experienced many cookers from multiple companies. We decided to look at high tier rice cookers with pressure cooking & induction heating because we eat rice every single day and wanted to know if we were missing something special.Browsing Amazon, the only pressure induction rice cookers I found were by Cuckoo and Zojirushi, with Zojirushi costing about $200 more than the Cuckoo cookers. I decided to give the Korean brand a try.Initial impressions: I don't speak Korean, how do I make this cooker be quiet? Ok, I found a way to mute the voice.The rice cooker needs to be cleaned by using the steam function before its first use to get rid of some of the new plastic smell. Very heavy and solidly built.The cooking process is louder than any normal rice cooker because of the pressure. The cooking pot feels hefty and definitely gives off a durable vibe.This rice cooker is very versatile. If you take a deep dive into the instruction manual, there are 16 modes of cooking plain white rice. 16!! The default mode leaves the rice dense and sticky, which is kind of enjoyable already, but you can change both the soaking time or heating temperature during the cooking process (with 4 variable options) for a more chewy and light texture. Since you can cook so many textures of rice, it's a lot easier to stomach eating rice daily.It's been a month and we've cooked white rice with this cooker at least 20 times now. Cuckoo's rice is completely customizable, so you can have sticky rice one day, and fluffy rice the next. It's really nice to have that flexibility, and we haven't even tried the other modes yet. The pressure gives the white rice a special kind of texture (fluffier and stickier) that I didn't find in cheaper models and we love it. The improvement is distinguishable, but it's not a world of difference. Maybe 5-10% better.Speaking strictly about cooking white rice in this review, this Cuckoo cooker won't disappoint, and hopefully it continues to make us rice for years to come.

Update 3: still impress with rice cooker. I added a page from the manual of what’s included with the package.Update 2: Been cooking with the GABA function, it is awesome for nutritiously cooking brown rice. Excellent rice texture while helping digestion. Put back the star I took away to 5 stars. Many parts can be disassembled for cleaning. Do that and you'll have good clean tasting rice every time.Update: Took one star away from the 5 star review. I have not been able to set the cooker to English. It is not in the paper manual. I looked through the web and it seemed the black version could be programmed to English instruction while no information on the white one. I have to study Korean to cook rice.First impression of the Cuckoo IH HS0657F rice cooker is very good. Every component is well built and feel very solid. The inner pot is made of thick steel with a very nice nonstick coating. Nothing like the aluminum inners found in many low priced cooker. The inner pot outer wall is beautifully finished in gold tone. The white plastic finish on the outside is uniform. The unit is made in Korea. I will update as I use it.First impression is 5 stars.Pros Fit and finish is first class. Beautiful and quality inner pot. The X Wall Diamond pot is worth the price. Stainless steel construction of the detachable cover and Control Plate are thick and beautifully finished. Not cheap but great value for the money.Cons Lots of functions means lots of reading before first use. Simple time changing means digging in the manual. The cooker is default in Korean. And quite loud. I was going to set it up and surprise my wife. But never mind.

Regular jasmine rice tastes even better and with a great consistency. One button to cook so super easy to use. Well worth the higher price tag since it’s an induction cooker.

We purchased this appliance without any prior experience with this brand. I am thankful we did. It looks nice, is easy to clean, and cooks brown rice so well that you can’t even tell you’re eating healthy rice. We cook our brown rice using the GABA function and it comes out perfectly. I understand that you can use the rice cooker for other functions but we haven’t used that yet. My only issue is that I was unable to switch the language to English. It’s not a big deal since everything on the machine is in English. I just cannot understand the voice prompts.

I owned a Cuckoo pressure cooker since 2006 which died. This one made the rice mushy and talks too much.Also the energy save mode and turning on/off the keep warm function was complicated. Too many buttons.Husband does not understand korean and it only came in korean language. Will get the Zojirushi instead.Our Zojirushi also broke and the induction heat non pressurized version from the early 2000's made great rice, just slower than the Cuckoo. Waiting is worth it for the taste and the Induction heating keeps the rice better after 2-3 days of sitting in the cooker warming.