Japanese beef stew with seasoned spinach over rice. Niku Jaga 1 potato, cut in small pieces 1 cup of thinly sliced beef 1 small onion, diced 1 carrot, sliced 1/4 cup sugar 2 tablespoons mirin 2 tablespoons sake 4 cups of dashi/water 4 tablespoons soy sauce Slice and dice all of the ingredients. Put into the slow cooker. We recommend in this order: potato, beef, carrot, onion. Top with the liquid ingredients. Cook on High for 4ish hours or Low for 10ish hours. (We multiplied the ingredients to fill a large family sized slow cooker.) For the spinach, we simply cooked some frozen leaf spinach with a little soup-base soy (it's lighter than regular soy) until done, then topped with sesame seeds. We served this over rice. I cooked the rice like usual in the rice cooker, but I seasoned it with a few dashes of dashi (the dried form), some dried seaweed broken into bits and a couple shakes of rice vinegar. Very good :)

There's no Zojirushi within easy reach/google of me with a reasonable price and reasonable peace of mind (I would have liked some form of warranty that I can wrangle and kill the salesman over). The cheapest and most reliable came to about $350 on ebay.sg. This 5.5cup Tiger was $250 (I kind of regretted it later on when I found a 10 Tiger 10 cupper for $260 at another shop but I never knew that another shop existed anyways) and thus I went for it. it comes with the multi function and what looks like fuzzy logic/micom to me and that's good enough. also works as a steamer and a slow cooker ^_^v I like it :D