I bought this because we needed to replace my terrible single temp rice cooker. It was one of those cheap college student appliances, and I really just wanted a rice cooker that sang to me.
This doesn't have a slow cooker function like the big boys do, but I have a small galley kitchen, so I can't buy the gigantic one.
I've literally never had any problems with any kind of rice. This works for literally any kind of rice. It keeps the rice warm, almost hot for several hours. So I sometimes make rice at breakfast and eat the rest at lunch if I'm feeling lazy.
It also has steelcut oatmeal, quinoa and CAKE functions. I've not cooked any of those, but I'm definitely interested in a cake out of this bad boy. It comes with a pretty detailed instruction manual including some recipes.
Cleaning is easy, the little bowl is non-stick, so just wait for it to cool, wash it like you would any other non-stick pan and put it back in for storage. The top of the lid is also removable and should be cleaned after every use.
It comes with its own rice scoop and rice cup. Do not use any other cup, and don't use an actual measuring cup, because this thing is NOT a full cup. It's roughly 3/4 cup, so if you are the sort to misplace stuff in your kitchen, either buy another one (they're about $8) or just use 3/4 cup as your measurement until you find the right one. Also use the measurement in the bowl, it's there for a reason. You don't have to make this complicated, ignore the directions on the bag, use the bowl.
Once it cools, make sure to wipe out any rice that escaped from the bowl, because it will burn. It takes about half an hour after you turn it off to be fully cool to the touch.
And yes, it does sing to you when you turn it on, and when it's done, there's a different song. You cannot change it. Listen to the song of the rice cooker. Love the song of the rice cooker. Do a little dance when it sings, and eat rice.
Add to your order
-
Coverage for accidental damage including drops, spills, and broken parts, as well as breakdowns (plans vary) -
24/7 support when you need it. -
Quick, easy, and frustration-free claims.
Cover this product:
3 Year Kitchen Protection Plan $23.99
4-Year Protection $32.99
Cover all of your eligible devices:
Asurion Complete Protect: One plan covers all eligible past and future purchases (Renews Monthly Until Cancelled) $16.99/month
Select a plan
Add to your order
- Coverage for accidental damage including drops, spills, and broken parts, as well as breakdowns (plans vary)
- 24/7 support when you need it.
- Quick, easy, and frustration-free claims.
Cover this product:
Select a plan
Enjoy fast, free delivery, exclusive deals, and award-winning movies & TV shows with Prime
Try Prime
and start saving today with fast, free delivery
Add a debit or credit card to save time when you check out
Convenient and secure with 2 clicks. Add your card
Frequently bought together
$145.00
Get it as soon as Friday, May 17
In Stock
Total price:
To see our price, add these items to your cart.
Choose items to buy together.
Discover similar items
& Up
Price: $100 - $200
Capacity: Up to 3.9 cups
Brand: Zojirushi
Item Height Base to Top: 7.0 to 7.9 in
Item Depth Front To Back: 9.0 to 10.9 in
Top Brands in Home & Kitchen: Top Brands
Width Side to Side: 12.0 in & above
No results available. Please adjust the filters and try again.
15% off
$33List:$39.99
$54
$159List:$232.50
$134List:$199.00
$159List:$187.50
$85List:$89.99
$139List:$149.99
$90List:$109.99
$25
$75List:$99.00
$84
$39Typical:$49.99
Similar items in new arrivals
Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1
From the manufacturer
Save Space While You Expand Your Menu
Healthier options for every meal of the day.
Unique Healthy Menu Options Include Quinoa, Brown Rice and Steel Cut Oatmeal
|
|
|
|
|---|---|---|
Quinoa Menu SettingMake fluffy and delicious white, red, black or rainbow quinoa easily with this special setting. |
Brown Rice Menu SettingFlavorful, healthy brown rice can be perfectly prepared every time thanks to the unique flow of the brown rice menu setting. |
Steel Cut Oatmeal Menu SettingUse this menu setting with the delay timer for hot and fresh steel cut oatmeal for breakfast in the morning. Makes as little as half a cup of raw steel cut oats. |
|
|
|
|
|
|---|---|---|---|
Triple Heater with Extra Large Heating ElementHeats and warms rice from the bottom, side and top. |
Black 2.5mm Thick Inner Cooking PanDistributes heat evenly. High-contrast water level lines improve visibility. |
Removable Inner LidDetaches for easy cleaning. |
Removable Steam Vent CapAllows for high temperature cooking without messy overflows. |
Cake menu setting allows you to bake a cake right in the rice cooker.
About Zojirushi
In 2018, Zojirushi Corporation celebrated its 100th anniversary, and a century of products designed to improve customers' quality of life-bringing comfort, ease, vitality and affluence to people around the world. Striving to remain faithful to the principles that embodied the company's first 100 years, and the reputation of quality and durability it earned them, Zojirushi looks forward to a future of continued innovation and inspired design.
Micom Rice Cooker & Warmer
Other settings and features
- Multi-menu cooking functions: Special settings for white/sushi rice, brown rice, long grain white rice, steel cut oatmeal, quinoa, cake and quick cooking
- Advanced fuzzy logic technology prepares perfect rice every time
- Automatic Keep Warm keeps rice at the perfect serving temperature; Extended Keep Warm keeps rice warm longer by maintaining a low temperature to prevent drying
- Easy-to-store detachable cord
- Easy-to-use LCD control panel
- Reheat function reheats rice in Keep Warm to the best serving temperature
- Interchangeable melody and beep signal
- Delay timer (2 settings)
|
|
|
|
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zojirushi Micom Rice Cooker & Warmer (NL-BAC05) | Zojirushi Micom Rice Cooker & Warmer (NS-LGC05) | Zojirushi Micom Rice Cooker & Warmer (NS-LHC05) | Zojirushi Induction Heating System Rice Cooker & Warmer (NP-GBC05) | |
| Customer Reviews |
1,758
|
1,758
|
1,756
|
1,274
|
| Price | $145.00 | $145.00 | $160.00 | $264.00 |
| Capacity | Up to 3 cups | Up to 3 cups | Up to 3 cups | Up to 3 cups |
| Product Type | Micom | Micom | Micom | Induction Heating + Micom |
| Long Grain White Rice Menu Setting | ✓ | ✓ | - | - |
| Jasmine Rice Menu Setting | - | - | ✓ | - |
| GABA Brown Rice Menu Setting | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Quinoa Menu Setting | ✓ | - | - | - |
| Steel Cut Oatmeal Menu Setting | ✓ | ✓ | - | - |
| Porridge Menu Setting | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cake Menu Setting | ✓ | - | - | - |
| Power Cord | Detachable | Retractable | Retractable | Detachable |
Videos
Page 1 of 1Start OverPage 1 of 1
Videos for this product
1:03
Click to play video
One of the best rice cookers out there...
The Real Review
Videos for this product
0:50
Click to play video
Lazy girl recipe, 10 mins only for a perfect meal!
Robyn
Compare with similar items
This Item  Zojirushi NL-BAC05SB Micom Rice Cooker & Warmer, Silver Black |  |  |  |  |  | |
| Price | -20% $145.00 List: $181.00 | -23% $146.00 List: $189.95 | -15% $159.99 List: $187.50 | -24% $247.96 List: $326.00 | -20% $241.00 List: $303.00 | $344.95 |
| Delivery | Get it as soon as Friday, May 17 | Get it as soon as Friday, May 17 | Get it as soon as Friday, May 17 | Get it as soon as Friday, May 17 | Get it as soon as Friday, May 17 | Get it as soon as Friday, May 17 |
| Customer Ratings | ||||||
| Easy to use | ||||||
| Easy to clean | ||||||
| Flavor | ||||||
| Timer function | ||||||
| Value for money | ||||||
| Sold By | Japan_Dealz | Amazon.com | Amazon.com | Amazon.com | Japan_Dealz | Amazon.com |
| capacity | 0.57 quarts | 1.9 quarts | 1.05 quarts | 1.9 quarts | 1.05 quarts | 5.5 cups |
| material | Silver | Plastic | Plastic | Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) | — | Stainless Steel, Polycarbonate (PC), Ceramic |
| lid material | — | Plastic | Plastic | Aluminum | — | Stainless Steel |
| voltage | 120 volts | — | — | 120 volts | 120 volts | — |
| wattage | 120 watts | 660 watts | 700 watts | 880 watts | 770 watts | — |
| model name | Micom Rice Cooker & Warmer | steaming basket | steaming basket | Umami Micom Rice Cooker & Warmer | Umami Micom Rice Cooker & Warmer | — |
Reviews with images
Easy, perfect sushi rice & quinoa rolls
Jan. 05, 2020, MY 5-Month UPDATE: I broke it by trying to scrub off the crud in the heating unit: don’t try to wash out crusted on stuff from the base because liquid gets trapped inside and the coating will come off of the heating unit. So sad! :( Yet, the broken machine inspired me to master basic quinoa and rice cooking—with some help from Youtube, of course. Expensive loss aside, it was still worth it for me as a newbee on a journey to cook healthier at home.Rice was reliable, but the quinoa was sometimes mushy, overcooked, because 40-60 minutes is way too long for fluffy quinoa—which really needs to be rinsed and toasted before it’s cooked.Forget about the oats: it was a sticky mess.Tips for new buyers: Cook small batches that won’t overflow. Don’t put any seasonings or stuff that can bubble over the little rice pot and get scorched below it.Instead of buying a second one, I decided it would be a better investment to learn how to cook short-grain rice and quinoa on the stove top in an All-clad stainless steel pot—which does not have unhealthy non-stick coatings. It was great while it lasted, but I don’t regret mastering simple sushi rolls. It also inspired me to just learn the timing and ratios for cooking small pots of sushi rice on the stove top.JULY 2019: 1st MONTH UPDATE, Pros: After triple rinsing rice in a pyrex glass with strainer, add to rice pot. Easy measuring water lines marked for sushi. Preset includes soak time: 60 minutes. Perfect consistency from top to bottom. Easy lunch for busy beginners, like me. I have no rice-making skills and got tired of hit and miss pots of rice on the stovetop and with other steamers and pressure pots.Cons: Plastic-chemical smell during 1st few uses; pricey, yet worth it for making lunch rolls that cost $6 - $15 depending on seafood ingredientsEnd of week update: quinoa sushi rolls with scrambled egg and sweet pepper were easy to cut and not mushy! Seasoned sushi rice is easier to roll than quinoa for me; tried marinated artichoke hearts, sauteed bell peppers, yellow carrot, and cucumber on the 5th day. Prep is getting getting faster.
Top reviews from the United States
There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.
Top reviews from other countries
Matthew J MacKay
Baby Goji has Zojirushi DNA
Reviewed in Canada on December 9, 2023Style: Rice CookerVerified Purchase
Matthew J MacKay
Reviewed in Canada on December 9, 2023
Being empty nesters, we opted to buy a smaller rice cooker to allow cooking smaller portions and to take up less counter space. The ZOJI NL_BAC05SB suits our needs precisely.
This Zoji has a three-cup capacity, and while smaller than others in the line, nothing is omitted in the design. The cooker has a tried-and-true triple heating unit and a thick non-stick cooking pot to ensure uniform cooking.
Cleaning is easy, with all parts easily accessed. Keeping your rice cooker spotless is essential for uniform cooking. I found the steam vent on my older model challenging to clean, but this newer unit has a removable steam vent that can be cleaned easily.
This versatile cooker makes various kinds of rice, quinoa and the best steel-cut oatmeal you will ever wake up. Mix a batch before you go to bed, set the timer, and your Goji will whistle you a tune telling you your favourite breakfast food is hot and piping and ready to eat.
One thing to remember with the smaller-sized unit is that most cookbooks offering one-pot meals base their recipes on the 6-cup models. The three-cup model is too small to hold the different ingredients. The ability to cook a family meal in one pot was convenient when juggling work and family, but it is not a big deal now that I am retired and have time to enjoy cooking.
Some are concerned that the Zoji has an internal battery that has to be replaced by the factory in Japan. While that is technically true, the battery in my first machine lasted almost ten years, and anyone with basic soldering skills can replace the battery in ten minutes.
I’ve been asked why buy a dedicated rice cooker when you can purchase a cheaper, more versatile pressure-based cooker that cooks faster. I’ve tried those, and they do a great job at certain meals. But none of them come close to delivering the quality of the rice, oatmeal and quinoa I get from my Zoji. It is reliable, simple to operate and consistently provides high-quality hot rice, oatmeal, or quinoa every time.
And yes, the Zoji will make you a cute little mini cake for dessert.
Images in this review
Eric Efrain Solano
Excelente producto súper fácil uso
Reviewed in Mexico on April 28, 2019Style: Rice CookerVerified Purchase
Eric Efrain Solano
Reviewed in Mexico on April 28, 2019
Este es el de capacidad más pequeña que son 3 tazas que para mí es suficiente como guarnición para 4 personas. Si piensas hacer banquete o arroz en grandes cantidades, recomiendo una com mayor capacidad.
Images in this review
