Best Rice Cookers and Steamers for Aluminum

still - it is a much better option than non-stick or aluminum.

i bought the rice cooker a year ago when i was looking for one that did not have non-stick coating or aluminum or plastic bowl.

in answer to another reviewer's question, the stainless steel pot is solid steel except for the bottom part which is coated to cover an aluminum heating core/element.

we have used plastic-bowl microwave vessels, aluminum & teflon pots, steam pressure cookers and several others over the past five plus decades.

our "no-stick" aluminum rice cooker finally gave up the ghost, and we ordered the vitaclay.

we chose this to avoid non-stick and/or aluminum cooking pots.

but we've heard that aluminum is linked to alzheimer's disease.

we purchased this product to avoid the teflon and aluminum rice cookers.

when i recieved it, i was dismayed to see that the detachable inner lid was made of aluminum!

the aluminum pot also will discolor a bit from certain spices (specifically, turmeric in my case) but it comes out eventually and is not a problem for me.

the inner pot is just raw aluminum...lousy to cook on and clean up, but probably safer than teflon in the long run.

i bought this with the idea that i would avoid the hazards of nonstick pots (what i have used previously)by using a rice cooker with a good, old-fashioned aluminum pot.

panasonic one also has a stainless steel inner lid, this one is aluminum.i lived in japan, and the 3 fuzzy logic rice cookers i lived with there did not have the chemical smell from the plastic.