Can you cook rice in a pressure cooker? Can you cook meat in a rice cooker? These two devices can have overlap, and it's good to know the differences first.

Discover the best rice cookers of 2025, from compact models perfect for small spaces to advanced AI-powered cookers.

This dish, from Chase Kojima, combines Japanese rice ("our key element to my every day meals", he says) with vegetables and salmon, for a fresh, filling meal cooked entirely in the rice cooker.

A rice cooker uses both heat and moisture to produce perfectly cooked white rice in about 20 to 30 minutes. Pasta takes between 10 to 40 minutes, but you'll need to check it often to make sure it ...

It's a bummer to find a brittle, plasticky, cloudy film on top of a batch of rice cooker rice, but this result is actually very easy to avoid.

This rice cooker is unbelievably easy to use. It features an easy-to-operate touch screen with 21 built-in presets (my Zojirushi, sadly could never), meaning it can make rice, beans, oats ...