I've been cooking regularly (3-5/wk) for 15 years and I hate making rice on the stovetop. Maybe I'm just secretly a terrible cook, but at best my success rate w

I've been cooking regularly (3-5/wk) for 15 years and I hate making rice on the stovetop. Maybe I'm just secretly a terrible cook, but at best my success rate with stovetop rice is 50%. The other half the time it's either under or overcooked, and once I've opened the lid to evaluate I've never been able to "fix" it. Maybe all my stovetops have somehow been more irregular than yours. Thus, I've used rice cookers for most of those 15 years. The $15 no-name brand works great! Never under or over-cooks the rice! I have the Zojirushi Fuzzy now, and I love it. I find its rice slightly better than the bargain-bin rice cooker made, and I'm spoiled to it now. Generally I'm also somewhat dismissive of one-use appliances. But for me, a rice cooker is a must-have if I'm making rice with any regularity. It takes up maybe a cubic foot of space, stores really easily when it's not being used, and is pretty easy to use and clean. I wish all my small appliances were so convenient (where do people store such tall blenders?!).