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Didn't that rice cooker star in "Wall-E?"

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My rice cooker is always sexy. It makes me rice.

I have a big kitchen, but a rice cooker seems like a waste of good space to me. Unless you make a lot of Asian food, a rice cooker seems about as useful a taker of valuable kitchen space as a home cotton candy maker. Or one of those Sharper Image hot dog cooker things that warms the buns too.

Using the words "sexy" and "rice-cooker" in the same sentence seems odd.

We use our rice cooker every day. They can also double as slow cookers.

I put the rice in a Pyrex bowl and holy whee in 15 min. rice comes out of the microwave. Takes up less space and the bowl is a multi-use item that cost five dollars.

I'm with others who say a rice cooker isn't necessary. It's so easy to make via other methods (like a normal pot on the stove method) which don't take up the space of a dedicated appliance. I could only see having a rice cooker if I were regularly eating rice for breakfast.