Panasonic SR TMB10 5 1/2 Cup Rice Cooker/Warmer, Silver

Customer Reviews

excellent rice cooker

2008-05-11
This product is excellent. good for small family.
but it took awhile(half hour) to cook white rice but then rice taste good.

Workhorse appliance

2008-05-04
I do not own this product, but own its predecessor, the National SR-CF05N. I have had this rice cooker for over ten years. I have used it on average about three times a week. It is mind boggling to think that this appliance works just as well as the day I bought it. I have never used any of the fancy features, but it makes great rice, and I have never had any appliance, especially one that is both electronic and mechanical, last as long as this one. Even the non-stick coating in the bowl is still in great shape, except where the dimple in the bottom has an edge that gets abraded from so many washings. This is NOTHING like those cheap $30-40 rice cookers. This is a miracle of engineering.

Panasonic Rice Cooker

2008-04-28
I am happy with this rice cooker. Compare to the price I paid for this item, this is very good.

Rice Cooker

2008-04-26
It does a very good job of cooking rice of all kinds. It comes with its own oddly sized measuring cup and recipes but I have found that using the proportions suggested on rice containers produce excellent results as well.
It can be used as a slow cooker and even to bake cakes but I have not tried doing either of those things with it

Excellent Rice Cooker!

2008-04-22
I highly recommend this rice cooker. All types of rice come out delicious. Unit is easy to clean/store. Retractable cord is nice feature. So is handle on top. Great size for small families/individual. Easy to clean.

Rice Cooker for the family of 2-4

2008-06-15
We are family of 2. This Panasonic rice cooker serves our purpose. We cook rice thrice a week. It took us about a month to research on internet and stores to decide on Rice cooker. We started to looking on Rival (unreliable) to Aroma (ok) to Zjoirushi (Expensive like hell) to Sanyo (somebody at amazon reviewed it has soaking cycle and take an hour to cook rice) and then decided this Panasonic cooker. Following are the positive things about this rice cooker :

1) Easy to cook and clean. No mess on the kitchen top
3) Did not burn rice even though I had low water
4) 13 hrs timer setting. Once we decided to use timer setting. We cooked oatmeal with timmer setting to get it ready in the morning.
5) It has soup-white rice-brown rice-steamer-Bake and slow cooking setting. I have been using white rice-steamer setting a lot (Not to steam vegetable but to cook porridge)
6) Elegant look.

Negative things about rice cooker:
1) Worse product manual I ever got in my entire life for any electrical/electronic products. The product manual is like "Rice Cooker for Dummies". No technical specifications for any of its features (soup, white rice, etc.). I mean it can cook X number of dishes but we had to do trial-error method to decide, which dish can be prepared on what setting. Just to help you guys with features, we prepared following:
Oatmeal - 10 mins. steamer
Kichidi (Indian lentil-rice dish)- 20 min steamer
Kheer (Rice pudding) - 45 min. slow cook
Lentils dal - Soup

We are still exploring Panasonic rice cooker features. Atlast, we love the rice cooker. I hope Panasonic improves its product manual.

Pleased with slow cooking, too

2008-05-29
As everyone else has already said, this rice cooker does well with rice. I like the slow cooker function too. It's simple to use: just set the timer and hit start. I use it to cook boneless, skinless chicken breasts in about a cup or so of broth for 8 hours. Cooking the chicken this way results in a tender, flavorful meat that I use in making a chicken salad spread. I think it's far better tasting than boiled chicken.

Great rice cooker

2008-05-24
I have been using this rice cooker for nearly two years now. It makes tasty white rice and brown rice. The steaming feature is good as well. I tried to make rice porridge once using the slow cook function but it was not successful. I have not yet tried the cake feature just because recipe is not provided with the instructions menu. I wish that they proivde some simple recipes. Overall, I'm satisfied with the rice cooker.

Best rice cooker

2008-05-22
the best rice cooker i've ever had. i love the slow cooker. thinking getting a bigger version for my mom

Rice Cooker

2008-05-19
This is a good rice cooker, easy to use. But we feel that it is too small for us. You can not make rice when you steam something