The Best Cuckoo Rice Cooker – Best Korean Rice Cooker for 2021

The Cuckoo Electronics Company Limited has been in existence in South Korea since 1978 and has majored basically in kitchen appliances. Their variation of products ranges from water purifier, air purifier, pressure cookers, rice cookers and lots more!

In this article I’d be discussing in-depth about their rice cookers; the topmost models, guide to buying yours, how to use them and so on.

The cuckoo rice cooker is also known generally as the best Korean rice cooker. From day to day, the brand has invented new and contemporary models, designs and technologies to suit the modern-day requirements and fashion.

Reviews of the Best Cuckoo Rice Cookers for 2021

Here are top rated Cuckoo Rice Cookers on the market today by consumer reports

Cuckoo CR-0631F Multifunctional Micom Rice Cooker and Warmer

This Multifunctional Micom rice cooker is designed with special features and modes that allows you to make customized functions such as the degree of glutinosity, softness and how tasty you want your food to be.

To achieve best results, its inner bowl is made with topnotch materials that aid even distribution of heat and temperature. This cooker can cook several dishes and serve as a slow cooker all the same time.

Key Features

• GABA activation feature
• User friendly LCD display
• Adjustable keep warm and reheating temperatures
• 6-cup capacity
• Aluminum material
• Fuzzy Logic Technology

Pros

• Time and energy conservative
• Multi menu functions
• Automatic warming feature

Cons

• Outer part requires cleaning often due to color

Cuckoo CRP-P0609S Electric Heating Pressure Rice Cooker and Warmer

This rice cooker is super freaky! It does almost everything for you. Unlike the traditional cooking pot, this cooker leaves your food with its original scent and flavor after cooking with its ability to gather excess vapor after cooking is completed.

Asides this, it cleans itself automatically with just the press of a button. Wow! If you are looking for a cooker that cooks really fast, and would save you a lot of stress, you’ve found the best cuckoo rice cooker for you.

Key Features

• Steam cleaning
• 3 language voice guides
• Capacity of 6 cups
• GABA activation
• Special drainage system
• Antileak cover packing

Pros

• Nonstick inner coating
• Multiple cooking menus
• Time saving
• Flavor preserving
• Energy conservative

Cons

• Quite expensive
• Prone to denting

Cuckoo CRP-JHSR0609F Programmable Induction Heating Pressure  Rice Cooker

This brown Cuckoo rice cooker is one of the best Cuckoo rice cookers available in the market today. With its inbuilt set of programs, it is able to detect the type of grain you are cooking and adjust to the optimum temperature required for the meal and the time required to cook it perfectly!

To also ensure that the rice cooks properly, it is designed with abnormal pressure detectors. Basically, it does all the work for you with just the press of a button. It comes with above 10 cooking functions and a voice guide in three different languages.

Key Features

• Alarm indicator for overheating
• Intelligent cooking algorithm

Pros

• Multiple cooking functions
• Nonstick inner pot
• Capacity of 6 cups
• Time conservative

Cons

• Very expensive

Cuckoo CRP-G1015F Multifunctional Pressure Rice Cooker

From its name, you can see that this rice cooker can also serve as pressure cooker. Its advanced technology and “my mode” feature allows you cook according to your taste, you can determine how tasty, sticky or soft your rice should be.

 It also allows you to delay your cooking time to start at any time you set it to. I consider this as the best cuckoo rice cooker for anyone as it has a capacity of above 8 cups of uncooked rice.

Key Features

• 15 cooking menus
• Delay timer
• Individualized cooking mode
• Installed safety features
• Double layered steam cap
• Adjustable keep warm feature

Pros

• Automatic warming
• Noiseless steam release
• Large capacity
• Nonstick, easy to clean material

Cons

• Quite expensive

Cuckoo CR-0351F Electric Heating Rice Cooker

This mini electric rice cooker is made of aluminum material and is capable of containing 3 cups of uncooked rice. It is designed with reheating functions and is perfect for cooking GABA rice (a type of rice that contains Gamma Amino Butyric Acid) which gets activated under some certain conditions of temperature and pressure

When activated, it gives various health benefits to the body. If you are single or have a family of two or three, this pot would be a nice option for you.

Key Features

• GABA rice activation
• Aluminum material
• Capacity of 1.5 liters

Pros

• Beautiful color and design
• Nonstick inner coatings
• Smart cooking programming and fuzzy technology

Cons

• Too expensive for little function and size
• Not suitable for large quantities

Cuckoo CRP-P1009SW Pressure Cooker and Warmer

This plastic white electric heating pressure cooker serves as warmer, a pressure cooker and a rice cooker. With its inbuilt 12 programs and smart cooking programs, it is able to be ranked as one of the best cuckoo rice cookers.

Like me, if you don’t enjoy cooking very often or have a large family, this is the best cuckoo rice cooker I would recommend for you. It has a capacity of about 10 cups of uncooked rice. With its several cooking functions such as porridge, stews and so on, it gets the work done in a short period of time.

Key Features

• Programmable pressure cooker
• Diamond coated inner pot
• Plastic material
• User friendly LCD display
• Capacity of 10 cups
• 3 voice navigation languages

Pros

• Accompanying accessory
• Detachable stainless-steel lid
• Easy to clean

Cons

• Color is more prone to stain
• Risk for breakages

Cuckoo CRP-FHVR1008L Pressure Rice Cooker

If you are in need of guaranteed capability and elegant style, go no further! This Cuckoo CRP cooker is the answer to your request. This admirable rice cooker has programmable pressure-cooking features and optimizes the fuzzy logic and intelligent cooking algorithms programmed in it.

All its interior coatings are made of nonstick material with a detachable stainless steel clad. Its beauty and color give your kitchen a very exquisite and elegant look and almost always entices you to cook all the time! It is their latest model of the year

Key Features

• Capacity of 10 cups of uncooked rice
• Numerous menu functions
• Intelligent cooking algorithms
• Fuzzy logic technology
• Voice navigation

Pros

• Many accompanying accessories
• Easy to clean
• Beautiful design
• Noiseless steam release

Cons

• Very expensive
• Only Korean language for voice navigation

Cuckoo CRP-HS0657F Induction Heating Rice Cooker

The Cuckoo CRP series, in my observation, are the best Cuckoo rice cookers. Apart from the fact that they have high level intelligence, can perform almost every task that you need and need little or no human supervision, they also add this blend of elegant designs to their models.

This feature gives your kitchen an elegant and sophisticated flair! This model has 11 different cooking functions which include Mixed, GABA, Sushi and several others.

Key Features

• Self-cleaning effect
• Double flow soft steam cap
• Diamond coated interior design
• Capacity of 6 cups uncooked rice

Pros

• Nonstick inner pot
• Multiple cooking menus
• Energy and time conservative
• Easy to clean
• Auto warming feature

Cons

• Quite expensive

How to determine the best Cuckoo Rice Cooker for you

With the several inviting options among the best Cuckoo rice cookers, it might be somewhat difficult to make a choice of which of them would be most suitable for you. Meanwhile you should have it in mind that because a particular model is perfect for your friend doesn’t mean it’s going to be perfect for you!

In this section I would be putting you through some things you need to look out for in the best cuckoo rice cookers before determining which would be just perfect for you.

Capacity

This should actually be the number thing you should look out for! Determine how much you’d be needing to cook at a time then decide if the 3, 6 or 10 cups capacity would meet the requirement.

Ease of use

Some features of rice cookers make it complex to use. While choosing one, you should look for some that have big handles which make them easier to carry, nonstick inner pot which makes cleaning easier, well labelled and comprehensible function keys, detachable cord for easy storage and many more just to aid your convenience!

Auto-off and warming feature

A rice cooker that will switch off on its own when cooking is completed and move to the warming feature would not be a bad idea. In fact, I think it is very necessary.

Lid type

There are either sealed lids or detachable lids. The sealed lid makes cleaning difficult but would prevent spattering whereas the unsealed lid types are easier to clean but spattering might occur especially when you’re cooking a size close to the full capacity.

FAQs

How long does it take to cook rice in Cuckoo Rice Cooker?

It takes approximately 45- 50 minutes to properly cook rice in the Cuckoo Rice Cooker. And it will automatically switch off itself.

Is the Cuckoo Rice Cooker better than the Tiger Rice Cooker?

Well, they both have their unique features and some of them might be similar to each other. In any case, it depends on the features you’re are looking for to determine which is best for you.

What is the capacity of the Cuckoo Rice Cooker?

The Cuckoo Rice Cooker comes in different sizes ranging from three to ten (3-10) cups of uncooked rice. 

Can I cook other things in my Cuckoo Rice Cooker?

Yes dear! You can! Many of the Cuckoo Rice Cookers come with multiple cooking functions to prepare meals like porridge, steaming vegetables and, many more.

Cuckoo Rice Cooker Parts

Should there be any damages to your rice cooker parts, you do not have to panic or discard the entire cooker. There are readily available replacement parts that you could get from stores or from the company unit directly.

Some of these replaceable cooker parts include: cleaning pads, measuring cup, spatula, cover packings, motion rubber and many more.

To order for the replacement parts that will perfectly match the old one, you need to identify the model number of your cooker and use it to purchase whatever part you’re replacing.

The Cuckoo Rice Cooker Instructions

The cooker is simple to use and you really don’t need to spend much time studying the manual. You just need to do the basic things you would do with any rice cooker. Below are the basic steps to using the Cuckoo rice cooker.

• With a measuring cup, measure the amount of rice you want to cook and pour into a bowl.

• Wash the rice till the water becomes clear and pour into the inner pot of the cooker

• Fill the inner pot with water to the corresponding number of cups you’re cooking. Note that there are different scales for different type of rice. So, if you’re cooking mixed rice, you should use the graduated scale for cooking mixed rice.

• Press the select button on the menu until it brings out the option of the type of rice you’re cooking.

• Shut the lid of the cooker and lock the handle

• Select the pressure cook button and relax while the cooker automatically determines how long it’ll take to cook.

• After cooking is completed, open the lid of the cooker, be careful to avoid burning your face with steam

• Stir the food and serve as desired.

Cuckoo and Zojirushi Rice Cookers: which is better

These two brands are highly competitive in the consumer world today. They both make awesome and highly competent rice cookers. Sometimes it is hard to make a choice between their brands and you may just decide to go with either ones that come your way.

In this section, I would be comparing two of their most recent models of the year. ss

Model	Zojirusji	Cuckoo
Size	1 liter	1.8 liters
Interior material	Nonstick cooking pan	Xwall stainless Eco with bubble coating
Display	User friendly colored LCD display	Full screen LCD touch
GABA activation	Present	Present
Menu settings	About 11 settings	16 settings with inbuilt recipes on display
Detachable inner lid	Present	Present
Auto delay	Available	N/A

Conclusion

The Cuckoo brand has and will always meet the requirements of new advanced technologies in their rice cookers which makes them top the market demands. In this article, I have been able to review with you the best Cuckoo cookers, the guide to getting a perfect one for you and how to maintain them. I hope you found them helpful.