Buffalo Ezy Stainless Steel Pot Small Rice Cooker (5 Cups) - $89.95 - Instore - BCA (Buffalo Cookware Australia?) Highpoint VIC

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  limucat on 06/10/2017 - 10:34

  I love my Bufalo thermal magic pot. I also have the bufalo wok but never used it as I prefer teflon woks

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    feizor on 06/10/2017 - 11:12

    +3

    Would recommend a well seasoned carbon steel wok over Teflon.

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    dcep on 06/10/2017 - 11:40

    or diamond wok from woll

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      CLoSeR on 06/10/2017 - 11:44

      You mean teflon?

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        dcep on 06/10/2017 - 11:50

        it's made of diamond coating

        that's what they claimed though

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTcAMHX_1rM

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        CLoSeR on 06/10/2017 - 11:56

        @phunkydude: It's teflon.. Cuckoo cookware also have so called diamond coatings. They contain PTFE which is the generic name for teflon.

        https://www.naturalnews.com/021059_noads_non-stick_cookware.…

        "Our patented nonstick surface uses a nano-composite of real diamond crystals and PTFE"

        https://www.centurylife.org/in-depth-product-review-woll-dia…

        "Woll and Scanpan (a Danish company that produces cookware similar to Woll’s) both try to hide the fact that their nonstick pans use PTFE (Teflon being the most famous PTFE). Both companies talk up how they use various hard materials like titanium, ceramic, diamond, etc. to distract consumers from this fact."

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        dcep on 06/10/2017 - 12:09

        @CLoSeR:

        Ouch! so the high heat claim are bollocks ?

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  Nivlac on 06/10/2017 - 10:34

  Thanks OP

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  CLoSeR on 06/10/2017 - 11:43

  +1

  I have this one, purchased few months back and very happy with it.

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    happy aardvark on 06/10/2017 - 11:53

    Any advice on white or brown rice cooking beyond what in in the instruction guide?

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      CLoSeR on 06/10/2017 - 12:01

      +1

      I'd say it's best suited to jasmine (chinese) rice but we have also cooked medium grain (korean/japanese) in it. We used to have a cuckoo pressure rice cooker which is very popular in korea and admittedly the buffalo won't give you same result with medium grain as it's just a rice boiler.

      We mostly cook jasmine though and I prefer to have a cooker with no coatings.

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  andyyp on 06/10/2017 - 12:23

  Wish they have it in sydney. Looking for this for a long time!

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  Polypterus on 06/10/2017 - 13:30

  I've also been looking at buffalo, singer and tatung too! Thanks to your post, I grabbed one from highpoint. A big thanks to you.

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    happy aardvark on 06/10/2017 - 13:55

    No worries, glad to hear it helped you out! I've got some brown rice currently cooking away to see if 1 cup rice to 1.5 cup water works (used to with our old kambrook express rice cooker). Just out of interest what price did you pick it up for?

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      Polypterus on 06/10/2017 - 14:45

      Eager to know how your brown rice goes. I paid $89.
      The 50% discount was for the stainless steel pots/pans.

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        happy aardvark on 06/10/2017 - 15:32

        Brown rice worked out well. With the ratio of 1/1.5 it was more on the firm side and not gluggy at all. A bit more water perhaps as it was a about to catch/burn (could have been due to being left on warm on a relatively dry ration) but not too much more.

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  Polypterus on 15/11/2017 - 14:12

  Just a word of caution for those researching on Buffalo - their refund policy is quite strict, and only defects are allowed for exchange/refunds. Extra care is required if you are thinking of buying it as a gift to someone else. I made a mistake purchasing extra after I got one for myself. I bought the extras as gifts for friends and family but I found out later that they already bought higher-end models from Buffalo. I'm left with these extra units with no way of returning them. The salesperson who had been bubbly and helpful at the time of sale, was not ready to entertain any returns/refunds in the name of "company's policy", which is printed on the payment receipt. To be fair, they accept exchanges for another product. I didn't need another product and will have to keep these till i find another way to get rid of them.

  I like the quality of the stainless steel bowl. The cooking method is through direct heating of the bottom of the bowl like most other basic ricecooker. I presume this direct heating method cooks the rice in a shorter period of time (10-15 minutes), but it leaves a layer of slight burnt rice that gets stuck to the bottom, even if the power is switched off immediately the moment it jumps from cooking to keeping warm, and keeping the lid on for 10-20 minutes. (From memory, Tatung uses the steaming/double boiling method, which may reduce the chance of having burnt rice). With rice, merely soaking the dried layer with water for a short while solves the problem. The layer comes off easily with a sponge. Cooking porridge/congee was also possible, but it leaves a much thicker layer of burnt starch/porridge to the base making it harder to remove. A good 5-10 minutes scrub with a sponge usually gets the job done.

  Overall, with this deal, it was one of the cheaper stainless steel rice cooker available. I would love to try the Tatung ones if it ever goes on sale. Do NOT ever buy Buffalo cookware as gifts as my experience tells me that you will not be able to return them for a refund, unless they are damaged, or unless you bought it full price from the Buffalo cookware website, which allows a 14-day change of mind refund, postage at your own cost).