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The best rice cooker for 2025

Get excellent rice every time for all of your katsus, curries, burritos and more.

Also, the water level markings are recessed into the cooking pot, so this model needed a closer eye in cleaning to make sure those notches didn't get any starchy film trapped in them. The appliances that delivered tasty results moved on to the brown rice round, then the top performers made long-grain white basmati as a final challenge. I limited my testing to models retailing for less than $300, which felt like the most I could recommend investing in a specialized appliance, and value for cost wound up being the distinguishing point for my top picks.

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