Last year, our rice cooker from 1989(!) stopped working. I was a Hitachi rice cooker left behind by some Japanese expats. The Rice Cooker would not work in Japanese due to the 220v electricity standard used in Europe. My parents gave the rice boiler to me after some years, and I have used it until now. The Hitachi boiler cooked perfect rice for over 30 years – which is unbelievable good quality.

After the Hitachi rice cooker finally got broken, we desperately searched for a new cooker online. The fastest delivery available was a cooker from NetOnNet by the label Andersson. It was deliered by the door two days after, which was quite impressive.

Unfortunately, the Andersson rice cooker was a terrible experience. It was impossible to measure the exact water level and the taste of rice varied each time we tried it. We finally gave up and ordered a brand new made in Japan rice cooker from Rakuten in Japan. It was quite expensive, but it was worth it for our family eating rice every day.

The TIGER rice cooker was nevertheless amazing, and we later found it available from Amazon for

They also sell much cheaper Hitachi rice cookers in Europe for those not willing to pay as much as we did.

Here is a short video from Cook Japan explaining how to get the perfect Rice using a Tiger rice cooker: