Hey! Listen!
https://www.zojirushi.com/feature/4_systems.html
THIS is why some rice cookers are cheap, and others are expensive.
The Zojirushi NP-NVC10 & NP-NVC18 have more features and technology than anything else Zojirushi has to offer. Every extra feature costs more. Do you need all those features? No. You don't need a rice cooker, even. The additional features are available for anyone that wants them, at additional cost.
I've been using Aroma MICOM cookers from Costco for a while ($50 USD or less). I want to know if the Pressure and Induction Heating features of this (Zojirushi) rice cooker make a meaningful difference in output rice quality.
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The shipping date is a huge hangup for a measly $14 savings (NP-NVC18, compared to Amazon), though. I might end up waiting for a month to save an hour's worth of work income. A month. That would matter more if I were buying lots of things separately, but it is a point of frustration for the exceedingly rare big buys.
I'll save the rant I just typed. I am obviously not the target demographic for whatever Massdrop is now.
Thanks for the HD6XXs, unless that was just more crap too. I don't want any more of your dumb emails. This place is filling up with shit fast and I've wasted far too many hours even bothering to browse and compare.