SQ Professional Lustro Rice Cooker Electric with Automatic
SQ Professional Lustro Rice Cooker Electric with Automatic Cooking, Warmer Function Cook Healthy Rice with Removable Non-Stick Bowl, Measuring Cup & Spatula 0.8L – 350W
| Weight: | 1.68 kg |
| Dimensions: | 21 x 21 x 21 cm; 1.68 Kilograms |
| Brand: | SQ Professional |
| Model: | sq professional |
| Colour: | Stainless Steel |
| Dimensions: | 21 x 21 x 21 cm; 1.68 Kilograms |
Very nice basic rice cooker, handy size for a few people or small kitchen, no fancy controls,it cooks rice perfectly, has a cook button it then goes on to keep warm but you have to switch it of at the socket, the only down side is the feet of the pot are hard plastic and slide around the kitchen counter like an ice rink, I use a small silicon square to stand it on and this works well.
I love this product because it’s super affordable. It is very easy to use. it is very easy to clean. The rice taste amazing. Good quality and great product all around. I would highly recommend this product.
This machine cooks rice to perfection, even the lower priced supermarket rice!
It takes about 15 minutes to cook and it can be kept warm for about 10-15 minutes before the rice starts to dry out.
It takes up less space than an ordinary rice cooker.
Bought to replace a dead one. Does what it should and doesn’t stick. However, there is no power on/off switch and so you have to unplug to turn off. It also spatters everywhere if more than 1 cup of rice. Takes approx 24 mins to cook.
My wife decided she wanted a rice cooker, so left it to me to find one! I looked at all the items and reviews on Amazon and decided this would do us. There is only the two us so, so the size and price of this one appealed. After a bit of experimentation, we have settled on using 160g of rice, washed in a colander then placed in the cooker with 320 mls of water. When the unit goes to warm, after cooking – around 15-20 minutes, we turn it off at the mains and stir the rice with the plastic spoon and leave it for 10 minutes or so. Works for us.
I’ve always heard that Asian households will have a rice cooker in their home and now I understand why.
While this one may be a bit basic than others, it will cook rice perfectly.
The cooking process is a simple one.
– Clean your rice.
– Fill to desired water level (has markings to help)
– Flip switch to cook.
That’s it. It will then switch to warm and stays warm for hours.
The only con I can think of is
If you keep it on warm it can dry the bottom layer of rice, it doesn’t burn it just becomes a dry layer. That’s only if it is left on warm for a while. Most cases you are going to serve the rice just as it’s cooked. The remainder will be left to cool.
Just plug it out once it’s cooked and you will avoid that issue.
Note that this is a small unit, so for an individual or a couple it’s perfect size for the amount of rice it can cook.
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I bought this for my son to use at uni and he says it works great, he can cook rice without this but as we know you need t watch rice and add more water and etc however with this you pour in the rice the water set a time and get on with other stuff and don’t have to worry about it burning or worrying about using too much water.
They write in such flowery terms about this product that you might think you are reading an M&S advert… The product is good, but it’s no better than any other rice cooker because they are all essentially the same thing with very little to discern them. I bought this one because my last one had a 2 cup minimum, even 1 cup is often slightly to much for 2 people and the maximum is enough for a small dinner party. I would recommend rice cookers generally and I recommend this one because it is sensibly priced and had the smallest minimum capacity I could find (1/2 a cup minimum would have been perfect). But don’t buy it because you are convinced by the ornate product description, this is just a rice cooker and it functions in exactly the same way as every other rice cooker. Your rice will not be better or worse for using a different rice cooker, but rice cooked in a rice cooker is easier and often better (fewer mistakes made) than pot boiled rice. It is easy to clean, and it is easy to use, same as every other rice cooker.
This won’t last a lifetime, but it does what it claims and is simple to operate and clean.
I’m a decent cook, but for some reason, perfect rice has always alluded me. I’ve tried the ‘absorption method’, the ‘overwater and drain’ method, but I always end up with either overcooked mushy rice or more often, ‘wet’ rice.
I’ve gotten into Japanese cooking recently, and after seeing most tutorials use a rice cooker and seeing how ubiquitous they are in the Japanese kitchen, I decided to try out the method with a cheap cooker. This cooker is a doddle to use (literally one lever/switch to activate and then when cooked, it automatically switches over to ‘keep warm’ mode).
Easy enough to clean (non-stick removable bowl).
It is pretty small, but I wanted one which took up less room amongst all the other kitchen gadgets. Big enough to cook 2 decent sized portions, maybe 4 medium portions at a stretch.
Results are good. Have been able to make sticky Japanese rice, dryer, long grain/basmati rice, and even a homemade ‘golden vegetable’ rice, by adding stock and small diced veg before cooking. I’m convinced by rice cookers!
Will probably replace this eventually with something of a higher quality, but as an experiment or for those on a budget/short of space, this is ideal.