"The fuzzy logic is my alpha rice cooker," says Julie Kaufman, co-author of "The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook" (The Harvard Common Press, 2002). "I love the programming feature.

These rice cookers cost more than the simple on/off versions ($200 versus $50 or less), but they deliver consistently fantastic rice. Also, a fuzzy logic rice cooker has many uses.

Fuzzy-logic rice cookers are a luxury (online they range in price from $50 to more than $700), but the awe mine inspires nearly matches the quality of the rice.

Two words separate the $20 rice cookers from the $200 ones: fuzzy logic. Fuzzy logic rice cookers have fancy automatic technology that cooks your rice with a little more nuance.

We endured more than 20 trials, using a 15-year-old on-off cooker, a new on-off cooker and a fuzzy logic rice cooker, which gave us results ranging from sticky, gluey, gloppy and gummy, to light ...

Fuzzy Logic rice cookers are a great tool to have in the kitchen. You can use them for rice, of course, but you can do so much more with a little thought and some sharp Google searches.