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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23187 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Color: White
• Brand: Panasonic
• Model: SR-MS103
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.25" h x 13.00" w x 10.00" l, 8.70 pounds

Features

• 5-cup uncooked/10-cup cooked rice capacity; Micro-computer "Fuzzy Logic" adjusts power for precise cooking and consistent results
• Binchotan-type charcoal pan improves color, taste and aroma of the rice, plus a dimple pan expands heat by 20-percent resulting in better cooking performance and taste
• 12-Hour keep warm, 24-hour clock, large orange LCD read-out
• Menu includes white/brown/sticky rice, porridges, steam, slow cook, 15-minute cook and cake
• Measures 13-1/8-inch (L) by 9-7/8-inch (W) by 8-1/4-inch (H), 7.3-pound, White with Chrome finish

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Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
Best in price range
By nako
+Has many modes (white/brown/quick/cake/slow cook/sticky/porridge/steam)
+Rice is cooked to perfection
+Slow cooked pulled pork turns out well on slow cooking mode
+Cheapest price range fuzzy logic cooker (except for some shady sixty dollar products)
+Keep warm works well for up to a day (8 hours is the max recommended, but it stays on after that too)
+Very easy to clean
+Is exactly the size it says in the title. 5-cups uncooked, 10-cups cooked. ("Cup" means rice-cooker cup, 180ml)

-Slow cook timer is apparently a *maximum* time. It will automatically stop when it feels like it, typically after about 2 hours, even if you set it for 8.
-Rubber rim stains easily (interior, cosmetic)
-No "extended" keep warm as with some higher end Zojirushi cookers (lower heat for 8 hours, followed by regular keep warm). I'm not sure how much of an effect this has.

Other notes: The previous model, Panasonic SR-MS102 Fuzzy-Logic 5 -Cup Rice Cooker, White, has a 4.5+ star average, and this just the next version. When calculating the rating of this product, I recommend disregarding the 1-star reviews who rate it solely on their own confusion about the actual capacity of the clearly titled product: "SR-MS103 5-Cup Uncooked/10-Cup Cooked Rice Cooker".

At time of writing, this makes this a 4.7 average star product.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent results, enthusiastically recommended
By Alan Kaye
It's really excellent so far, with results clearly better than our previous Zorijushi, which was old and used older simpler tech, dying after many years of good use.
I was set to buy another Zorijushi, with its stellar reputation -- but comparable technology would have cost much more.

Seeing how highly praised the previous model Panasonic SR-MS102 was, I braved trying its successor SR-103.

So far half my rice cooking has been with Jasmine rice, and half with Japanese rice.
It's all wonderful.

One reason I bought this cooker was because it had a dedicated brown rice setting, but I haven't gotten around to trying it yet, hope to update this review.
Update: made huge amount of sushi with rice cooked on "sticky rice" setting, came out beautifully. Very glad this cooker has this sticky rice setting!
Still haven't tried brown rice.

My complaints are very minor.

* The release button gets hot to the touc h

* The documentation was confusing on how much water to add for different types of rice.

Not a complaint, but advice: To keep this type of rice cooker running well, don't ever use a metal spoon to remove the rice

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
A good rice cooker
By Sammy Squirrel
I have one, purchased recently (not from Amazon, however) and it works very well. It's the first Fuzzy Logic cooker I've owned, and it's quite impressive. The steamer option is great, and one of the few I'd seen that have that feature. I've only tried a few things (white + brown rice, steamed dumplings, and steel cut oats) but they've all come out great. The instructions are poor, but clear enough that you can figure it out. It does not have a overwhelming number of modes/settings, but the basics are covered. It's easy to clean, and looks good on the counter.