> a Zojirushi cup isn't the same as an imperial cup Right, but a US cup isn't the same as a Japanese cup, or a UK cup, or even a US "legal cup" etc.. unfortuna

> a Zojirushi cup isn't the same as an imperial cup Right, but a US cup isn't the same as a Japanese cup, or a UK cup, or even a US "legal cup" etc.. unfortunately the "cup" isn't a useful unit of measurement any more than a non-XKCD-1179[1] date is a useful expression of a date (T_T) > why would I want slow rice if there's a quick rice? Slow rice is better. > isn't it just a ratio of rice to water? Yes (and therefore, indeed, WTF (!!!(?!))) > what if I want quick brown rice? It's not possible. There are levels to this game. > You have no idea how long it's going to take Indeed. Nobody does. > As much as I appreciate good rice Do you, though? > I'd much rather suffer a 10% degradatio... if... controls could be simplified...Does something like that exist? Yes (but not in/from Japan) > Do the Japanese prefer having more options to tweak? Yes > Is this a broader cultural preference, or just something special about this one brand? The former; every Japanese rice cooker (and website) is like this, only more so[2] [1]: https://xkcd.com/1179/ https://xkcd.com/1179/ [2]: seems like an infinitely recursive statement, since "every Japanese rice cooker" includes the Zojirushi rice cookers under discussion; however, infinite recursion is actually an explicitly-supported feature of TRON (OS, but that's the O in TRON), which powers almost all Japanese rice cookers[3] [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project