Product Description

This rice cooker is perfect for people with chemical sensitivities or concerns that heavy metals and chemicals used with non-stick coatings are unhealthy.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25973 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Oyama
• Model: CFS-F10W
• Dimensions: 9.00" h x 8.20" w x 8.20" l, 7.00 pounds

Features

• All polished stainless steel cooking bowl, streamer try and inner lid
• Triple layered cooking bowl bottom ensures no sticking or buring of rice during cooking and warming
• No Teflon or other non-stick coating are used with this cooker
• Steams vegetables, meats, and other foods using the stainless steel steamer tray
• Advanced 3-dimensional heating: lid, side and bottom heat for perfectly cooked rice everytime

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Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
A nice suprise! + First year update!
By Jube I. Lation
January 20, 2012 (See below for January 8, 2013's One Year Update)

We are finding that this is definitely a 5-Star purchase. We love the triple-layered stainless steel cooking pot (which both eliminates the health issues related to non-stick coatings and, at the same time, reduces sticking) and the stainless steel vegetable/meat steaming insert. We were a bit hesitant about ordering a 5-Cup rice maker for just one or two people, but as it turns out the measuring cup that comes with the product is smaller than standard and even when cooking for one person, two of these 6-ounce scant cups is hardly more than one person can use in a couple of days.

Now for a few things that may not be shortcomings for many, but which might be helpful to know about in advance:
1.) When you remove the cooking pot from the unit, the lid remains attached to the top of the cooker. Any standard 2-quart lid will cover the rice pot perfectly so for us this is a non-pro blem.
2.) The cooking temperature and length of cooking time do result in rather over cooked (at least for us) vegetables. But can you believe it? It takes only about ten minutes (at most) to load the rice, vegetables, and meat and 30 minutes or so for the entire meal to cook (while we're off doing something else). Often we steam our vegetables separately on the stove top so the problem is easy to work around when you want your steamed vegetables with a bit of crispness to them. This, also, leaves more space in the rather smallish vegetable steamer insert.
3.) We do not yet know how long lasting the silcone gaskets which seal the steamer lid and rice pot will be. These gaskets make it possible to keep the rice, vegetables,and meat warm and moist after cooking so for some they are an important part of the unit. It may be possible to cook and steam without needing to replace these gaskets. Time'll tell.

One recipe we use and enjoy a lot is to mix a ta blespoon or two of ready-to-use wakame seaweed in the rice (first soak the seaweed for about 5 minutes) and water before cooking and then place thin slices of raw chicken breast on top of that mixture. This leaves a lot more space in the steamer/meat insert.

Our original choice was a close call between the Oyama 5-cup and the Miracle Exclusives Model ME81 8-cup which seems to be, at least, an equally good option though having a larger 8-cup capacity. It, also has a larger steamer insert which could be very useful and seems not to have any of the gaskets mentioned above. All in all, we chose the Oyama model over the ME81 only because of its smaller capacity and the triple-layered bottom of its cooking pot. If the ME81 had offered a 5-cup capacity, it might just as well have been our preferred choice. We are satisfied with our selection though and are especially glad about two things:
1.) We by-passed a 3-cup model which we had originally thought would be the only way for us to go;
2.) we chose a model with a vegetable-meat steamer insert. This makes all the difference if you're interested in making complete meals in one simple container;
3.) and now that we are using this model, we are very pleased with the possibility of having nice warm, moist complete meals on our own timing rather than having to rush and turn the cooker/steamer off or eat right away before the food turns cold or dries out. We had not even considered this last advantage when making our decision for this model. A nice suprise.

January 8, 2013: First year update!

And now here we are almost a full year after our original review of the Oyama All Stainless Steel 5 Cup Rice Cooker/Warmer, and I don't think a week has passed without our using this unit several times. Over the year, we have grown gradually more experimental until now, in the bottom container, we make all sorts of stews and soups mixing brown, white,or wild rice (no t to mention other grains) with chunks of chicken, beef,tempeh, seaweed, chopped greens, etc.and most recently we've begun to stir in a dry packet of seasoning (Mexican, Indian, Thai, Italian, Cajun, etc.). Three of our favorites are: Lawry's Enchilada Sauce (spices and seasoning); Tasty Bite's Cooking Sauce (esp. Satay Partay) and Simply Organic's Grilling Seasons (Lemon pepper Marinade Mix). As usual, we place our favorite vegetables in the top steamer insert, and with a salad and drink we can have an extremely nice meal very easily and simply. It took a bit of experimenting, but we can now select from a wide variety of meals that we all enjoy tremendously and take very little time to prepare.

I mention all this because it is very easy to have such an item as this cooker without realizing how much variety is possible in its use. It took us a few months to build up the variety we most enjoy (and we're ever on the alert for new possibilities), but it has made a w orld of difference in how much we use this little cooker...which we now know is a lot more than just a rice cooker/steamer/warmer.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
great for cooking all grains
By Rowan Sherwood
My Oyama rice cooker is so wonderful. Of course it makes wonderful rice, but it also did a great job with wheatberries & ryeberries which are very tough (but very healthy). It is quite easy to clean, I just put an inch of water in the bottom and gently scrape with my bamboo spoon and everything comes right off. It did smell of machine oil when it arrived but I washed the bowl and the stainless steel inner lid (which removes quite easily - just pull and it comes off and just as easily pops back on). And I just made polenta which came out great. Not having to stand over a pot to make polenta is brilliant. And oatmeal, did I mention oatmeal? Again, perfect. And the little plastic piece (on the side) which catches condensation also easily snaps on and off. The directions were a bit confusing, I wasn't sure how I could take off the steel inner lid liner, but I was brave and just pulled and it came right off, no harm done. It does produce a stream of steam so you probably don't want to use it directly under cabinetry. But it does cook all the grains, including the difficult ones and it is stainless inside.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
love this rice cooker!
By CKG
I ordered this rice cooker because I did not want to use my existing one with a non-stick surface any longer (toxic issues), and was glad to see Amazon offers several stainless options. This rice cooker is well made, makes perfect rice, even seems to compensate somewhat when I add a bit too much or too little water. It cleans up quite well, even though there are a few places to wipe down, it is still fairly easy. I ordered the 5-cup which is a good size for my husband and me, and it is a cute design. I totally love it!