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My big, big Zojirushi rice cooker giveaway! (Two of 'em!)

Zojirushi rice cookers are the best rice cookers money can buy.

Full stop.

End of story.

At least in my opinion.

How do I know this?

Because my family has been using one for as long as I can remember. Also adding "rice cred" to my (un)professional opinion is that I am half-Korean and born in Hawaii and if there is anything that Asians from Hawaii know, it's rice.

In Hawaii, rice goes with everything from chicken curry to chicken cacciatore. This is largely do to the predominantly Asian population; the love of rice is part of the culture. Hawaiians eat rice for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Eggs, Portuguese sauage or linguica, and rice is so popular you can even get it at local McDonald's restaurants!). Rice is also eaten for snacks (Spam musubi), and in pretty much every Hawaiian home you can go straight to the kitchen and find rice in the rice cooker. At my house, you'd find the rice in a Zojirushi rice cooker. 

Why do I love my Zojirushi rice cooker so much? I can make a pot of rice and the cooker, with its "fuzzy logic" technology, keeps it warm and fresh for up to 24 hrs. That means if we have rice for dinner, we can have the leftovers for breakfast (a favorite breakfast in our house is ochazuke, we eat it at least once a week) or lunch. I don't know my little rice cooker knows to keep it at the perfect consistency without drying out the rice, but it does. It's magical like that.

ZOJIRUSHI RICE COOKER GIVEAWAY

So here's the deal. I want YOU to have a Zojirushi rice cooker of your own.  I have two (2) rice cookers to giveaway so that means TWO OF YOU CAN WIN!

• One rice cooker is the 5.5 cup model, perfect for families.
• One rice cooker is the 10 cup model, perfect for parties, larger families, or people who love leftover rice like me.

Note: you can cook more than rice in Zojirushi rice cookers. How about jambalaya, oatmeal, or even cake!

WAYS TO WIN ONE OF TWO AMAZING ZOJIRUSHI RICE COOKERS

1. Leave a comment below telling me your favorite kind or rice, food you love to eat with rice, OR your favorite rice dish.
2. Tweet that you entered my giveaway, just copy and paste this statement (without quotes) into your Twitter client: "I entered to win 1 of 2 @zojirushiusa rice cookers on @citymama's Stuff People Send Me! http://cot.ag/bxA7vN #contest"
3. You can comment/tweet once per day. (Please, no comment spam.)

And that's it!  I will pick two winners at random the morning of Friday April 30.

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU LEAVE A REAL, WORKING EMAIL WITH YOUR COMMENT SO THAT I CAN CONTACT YOU. IT'S A TOTAL BUMMER WHEN PEOPLE WIN AND I CAN'T GET AHOLD OF THEM.

• Void where prohibited.
• Contest open to US residents only. (Sorry, rest of the world!)
• Winners please allow 4-6 weeks for shipping.

Disclosure: I am delighted to work with Zojirushi—a brand I love—on this giveaway. While they did not provide me with a Zojirushi rice cooker (I already have two of my own) or pay me or tell me I had to say nice things about the company, they did send me some Free Stuff in the form of a hot water dispenser for review (I drink a lot of tea and it rocks!). Also, last year I wrote about their awesome bento boxes and hosted a giveaway.

[St]uff Links for 3/25/10

Here's some good stuff people have sent me recently:

Chef's Choice 679 Electric Gas Kettle—I'm a tea drinker and we've had a hot water dispenser for over 10 years, ever since a trip to Tokyo in the late 90's where I feel in love with the insta-hot water from the dispenser in our room. Lately I've wanted something that takes up a little less counter real estate and along came this pretty (and it is) kettle.

What I like about it: It's nice looking with a small foot print and it heats water to a rolling boil. The pitcher is cordless.

What I don't like about it: Hot water isn't instantly available like with our other dispenser. That took some getting used to, but still, it's ready in about 4-5 minutes.

Cost to you: about $70

Cost to me: FREE

Me and Goji Cereal—Create your own custom granola mix, name it, and put your own picture on the cool canister? What's not to love?

What I like about it: The girls and I had an awesome time making our custom blend. We had fun naming it and putting their photo on the canister (which is like a tall, skinny oatmeal can). They ask to go to the site every day to play on it and make up new blends, and that's pretty incredible for a non-game site.

What I don't like about it: I wish the base cereals had some lower calorie-per-serving options. And, the most crushing part: once the cereal arrived, my kids didn't like it. Something about the cocoa nibs, I think. (I like it, though.)

Cost to you: about $12 per canister (which weighs about 2 lbs according to my food scale)

Cost to me: FREE