
Another option for a rice cooker with a stainless steel inner pot in Canada is this model from Oyama. It comes with a 1-year warranty.
This would be a great stainless rice cooker if you plan to steam vegetables at the same time as you cook rice as it comes with a stainless steel steaming tray. Another feature listed is that this has a 24-hour stay-warm feature. It uses a 3-dimensional heating system (base, sides, and lid) to keep rice warm which is why it is rated for 24 hours, although I don’t know who would want to cook rice and leave it sit in the machine for 24 hours?
The stainless steel inner pot has a triple layered bottom – with aluminum in the center so that it doesn’t come into contact with your food, but still allows the rice cooker to have the benefit or more uniform heat dispersion that aluminum has over stainless steel.
If you want something that is easy to clean, this rice cooker might not be the one for you as the steam lid has a textured shape that is more difficult to clean than the glass lid of some of the other rice cookers. On the flip side, however, this type of rice cooker lid keeps the handle cool where as a glass lid can be too hot to remove without a pot holder.
Only a couple customers have had bad experiences with the Oyama stainless inner pot rice cooker – some complained of issues with the rice cooker switch not clicking over to ‘warm’ properly, and another had the plug break, but those issues were within the 1 year warranty period. Just remember, you will have to pay for shipping the stainless steel rice cooker for warranty repairs!