Kitchen appliances chat

Partners Japanese (I say this only to highlight rice consuming palmares) parent is convinced that one of these is close enough to what they get out of a rice cooker and they eat rice most days.

Cuchen or Cuckoo are also superb Korean varieties.
Some are ludicrously expensive with unnecessary features like induction heating and voice control.

The microwave ones can produce good results, but you need to figure out the right amount of rice, type of rice, water, rinsing, time cooking.
If you make the same quantity every time, you can get good consistent results.

However, rice cookers have a keep warm setting post cooking which means you can cook the rice ahead of time, independent of whatever else you’re cooking.
And additional servings of rice (always necessary) are perfectly steaming hot.

And can keep warm between meals at a pinch.

Honestly anything that doesn't have a glass lid will do. Only difference between types of rice for cooking is the amount of water.