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Originally Posted by rusnak

You don't count the number of washings, you look at the clarity of the water. When the water doesn't look like milk, but more like coconut water, you're good to go.

You don't have to soak the rice with a Zojirushi.

Here's some background: The best way to cook rice is with a gas range, and a glass pot with a tight fitting glass lid. People have just forgotten how to first boil the rice, and then turn the heat low, and then up, down, up, down, etc. so that the rice is steamed perfectly. Rice cookers were invented to keep rice warm, but were bad at steaming the rice. When Zojirushi came up with their "fuzzy logic" rice steamer, it changed the game so to speak. These make rice pretty much idiot proof, and save time because you don't have to soak the rice, as you still did have to with the early generation Rival, Tiger, Panasonic, Sanyo, etc rice cookers. All of these rice cookers are trying to duplicate the technique that Grandma learned on her gas range that lit with wooden matches. BTW Breville makes a very interesting rice cooker. If mine wasn't perfect, I'd buy it. It would make probably a perfect gift for a Foodie.

Thx - saw this after posting the above reply to your earlier post

BTW, I used to make/steam long grain Louisiana rice the old timey way on the stove - don't think I'd ever made sushi back then.