The 10 in NS-ZCC10 implies it can cook enough rice for up to ten people at once. Its maximum capacity 5 1/2 cups of un-cooked rice so feeding ten people would mean that the portion size would not be all that big. However it should be able to feed nine people without a problem.

This Zojirushi rice cooker is not cheap. At the same time it is not one of the most expensive models either. So it is a good compromise between low cost and high quality. Some of the features of this machine that make it attractive are:

• stay cool handles
• color LCD display
• easy wipe hard white plastic outer body
• able to cook a huge range of rices

The NS-ZCC10 rice cooker is one of the few Zojirushi appliances to feature stay cool handles. These make it easy to take out the inner cooking bowl soon after the rice has finished cooking. This can then be taken to the kitchen table for the rice to be served up.

Surprisingly, this machine can actually cook more different kinds of rice than some of the more expensive models. It can make plain white rice (either hard, medium or soft), brown rice, sushi rice, rice porridge, quick cooking rice, mixed rice, sweet rice, semi-brown rice and rinse free rice too. This is surely one of the reasons why this Zojirushi device is so popular across kitchen in the U.S. and Canada.