Toshiba
Rice Cooker 6-Cup Uncooked TRCS01
$149.99
Best Rice Cookers · head-to-head
A sourced, side-by-side comparison. Rice Cooker 6-Cup Uncooked TRCS01 is cheaper at $149.99. Every spec and price links to its source.
Toshiba
$149.99
Panasonic
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✓ marks the stronger figure where "more" — or "less", for price and weight — is unambiguously better.
| Spec | | |
|---|---|---|
| US price | $149.99 | — |
| Brand | Toshiba | Panasonic |
| Released | — | — |
| Capacity cups uncooked | 6 | 5 |
| Type | micom | micom |
| Keep warm | Yes | Yes |
| Menu settings | 7 | 6 |
| Inner pot material | nonstick (PTFE coating) | nonstick |
| Delay timer | Yes | No |
| Fuzzy logic | Yes | Yes |
| Release | — | — |
Sources — Rice Cooker 6-Cup Uncooked TRCS01: toshiba-lifestyle.com (verified 2026-06-19). Fuzzy Logic Rice Cooker SR-DF101: amazon.com (verified 2026-06-19).
Where the two actually differ on the specs we track (4 of 7). Matching specs are omitted.
Sourced tester consensus for each — the "what people who used it think" layer, not just specs.
One whitelisted tester, Good Housekeeping's Institute Kitchen Appliances Lab, hands-on tested this Toshiba fuzzy-logic rice cooker (specs match the TRCS01). It praised perfectly cooked quinoa on the multigrain setting and al dente brown rice with no bottom-sticking, but flagged long cook times and slightly overcooked white rice. (1 sourced review, 1 lab-tested.)
Praised: Quinoa cooked perfectly on the multigrain setting; Brown rice came out al dente with no sticking to the bottom; Cook-time countdown on the control panel plus a built-in carry handle.
Flagged: Longer cook times than most rivals (white 50 min, brown 75 min, quinoa 70 min); White rice came out slightly overcooked.
Only one whitelisted tester (Reviewed/USA Today) covers this exact model, and never in a dedicated lab review. Its dorm-essentials roundup names the SR-DF101 the best-value pick that perfectly cooks rice and steams dumplings well; a separate hands-on feature used it to make pancakes. No lab-measured benchmarks exist, and both citations share the same publisher. (2 sourced reviews.)
Praised: Perfectly cooks rice; Steams frozen dumplings well; Named best-value rice cooker in Reviewed's roundup.
Flagged: Novelty pancake test: output was doughy and cake-like due to thickness (not a rice-cooking flaw).