Can rinse and drain a fair amount of rice at a time. Only tried with Jasmine Rice so far but it also pours easy.

While it's obviously not an necessity to use a bowl like this to wash your rice, it does make the process much easier. You're much less likely to spill your rice out of the bowl when agitating it. If you're feeling lazy you can even just let the water run while you're doing something else, it'll just take longer than if you're hands-on.

Fo my whole life, I used a pur to rinse my rice before I cooked it. This device works well and I now use it every time I pull out my rice cooker. It gives you an easy way to comes and clean rice before cooking it.

Easy to use and works great for rinsing my rice

El bol con colador INOMATA combina funcionalidad y diseño compacto para simplificar tus tareas en la cocina. Fabricado en plástico de alta calidad, este utensilio japonés de 2 litros es perfecto para lavar, escurrir y preparar alimentos con facilidad. Ideal para frutas, verduras, arroz o pasta, su diseño ergonómico y duradero lo convierte en un aliado esencial para el día a día.

I recently bought a professional rice cooker, and the Inomata Japanese Rice Washing Bowls have been a fantastic addition to my kitchen. If you’re someone who likes to wash rice repeatedly to get it just right, these bowls make the process so much easier.The design is simple but effective, with a built-in strainer that allows you to drain the rice effortlessly after each wash. The size is perfect for handling even larger batches, and the quality of the material feels durable and well-made.These bowls have become an essential part of my rice-cooking routine, and I highly recommend them to anyone who’s serious about making perfect rice. They save time and make the process a lot more convenient.

After deep-diving into reviews of rice cookers recently, I learned that you should always rinse rice before cooking. So I bought this bowl designed for exactly that purpose.If you have a fine mesh colander, you could rinse rice in that, but it is very hard to get all the rice grains out when you're done. This bowl is constructed perfectly so you can rinse the rice, drain water (but no grains) out of the little slits on one side, and use the pour spout to pour out the rice. A few grains do stick, but it's much easier to rinse and clean than a mesh colander.This is easy to keep with your rice colander and can be used for other things too - after rinsing my rice for a dinner, I used it to hold the chopped veggies for stir-fry. Well worth the small price.

Super pratique pour laver le riz.

This is a big bowl and useful for not only rinsing rice, but all fruit, vegetables and dried beans and pulses. You can also use it as a colander. The 2.5 quart is the size I ordered as it has the drainage holes in the bottom. It is big for me for a one to two portion of rice, but I am keeping it because I will use it. Being bigger, you just have to consider storage, especially, if, like me, you have a small kitchen.

Funzionali. Sono di un ottimo materiale. È una plastica non rigida. Difficilmente frangibile. Acquisto estremamente soddisfacente.

Colador práctico, útil y a buen precio !!

Very helpful item in kitchen if you use a lot of rice!Pros:1. A colander to wash rice is a very genuine idea! The regular colanders that we have in our kitchen have big holes that make it unfit to use for washing rice. But these rice colanders are great! They have just the right size of holes to let the water drain and retain the rice. No more tedious process of using a strainer for the process. Provides real utility to avoid wasting rice during the washing process.2. Comes intelligently with a spout that can be used to pour out water3. Size of the bowl is convenient to hold rice from 1 cup to 5 cups. Can be used to wash 6 cups of rice maximum. The bowl is even larger to hold upto 10 cups of rice but the spout that is provided to pour and drain water has elongated slits in which rice can get stuck or come out. Hence, ideal for washing upto 5 cups of rice and not more than that.4. Nice sturdy base and good quality that seems like the product will last long5. Can be used for washing fruits and other veggies as wellCons:1. There is absolutely no problem in washing the rice and draining the water but the problem arises when transferring the washed rice from the colander to another bowl! The grains of rice tend to stay back at the bottom of the base and you will need to pick the rice grains manually. This will feel like a bit time consuming when you are in a hurry and requires patience!If the disadvantage mentioned above had been solved then this rice colander would have received a 5 star easily!Overall, a nice utility item to own especially if you use rice frequently!

There are two versions of the Inomata Japanese Rice washing Bowl with Strainer, and I purchased them both. Below I’ll describe them and outline the differences:PURPOSE: These bowls were designed for rinsing rice before cooking, and they do so quite well. Rinsing rice is one of those challenging activities where you can’t use a traditional colander because the holes may be too big and the rice will pass through, and a standard bowl is tricky to get all the water out without pouring some rice out along with it. You could use these bowls for rinsing other things as well, like beans, faro, fruits or vegetables. You may or may not have good results with smaller grains like quinoa for example, as quinoa is quite small.Both bowls are made in Japan of Polypropylene and are stamped “PP” on the underside. They indicate a minimum temperature of -20 °C (-4 °F) degrees and a max temperature of 120 °C or 248 °F. Polypropylene, according to Wikipedia, will melt at 171 °C, or 340 °F. Since water boils at 100 °C or 212 °F, you should theoretically be able to use this as a strainer for pasta (as many shoppers have asked) but it drains so slowly that you wouldn’t want to. I have also heard that Polypropylene can be damaged (cosmetically) by prolonged contact with boiling water, so I did not want to test this out.The small bowl nests inside the large bowl, although not completely perfect. Both bowls have a reinforced hole in the handle (if you can call it that, it’s really just a small tab) which you can use for hanging if you have a small hook.Note the measurements for each bowl described in the listing, where the small bowl is listed as 2 qt or 8 cups, and the large bowl is listed as 2.5 quarts or 10 cups. Note that a customary “cup” for measurement in the United States is 8 fluid ounces, or about 236.6 milliliters. Most rice cookers come with their own measuring cups which are designed to measure out a portion of rice, which is usually less than a standard customary “cup” in US measurement. My Zojirushi, for example, came with two cups, one for white rice (which actually holds 180ml, or just over 6 fluid ounces, or a generous ¾ cup) and one for brown rice (which actually holds 171 ml, or about 5.7 fluid ounces, or slightly less than ¾ of a cup).I measured the capacity of each bowl in customary fluid ounces by lining each bowl with plastic wrap and then filling with water. More on that test below.SMALL BOWL (2 qt): This bowl is 8 inches in diameter, 6 inches tall, and the diameter of the base is 6 inches. The small bowl does not have holes in the bottom, only drainage holes on the spout. If this bowl were solid, and filled completely to the top, it would hold 8.5 cups of water. To use it for it’s intended purpose, you wouldn’t want to fill it that high since you’d spill rice out trying to rinse it. You can rinse a maximum of about 8 (customary US cups) cups of rice in this bowl, 5-7 would be more comfortable (7-9 “rice cooker” measuring cups!). Because this bowl doesn’t have holes on the bottom, you could leave about some water standing if you had any reason to soak something in the bowl. For this, you can fill the bowl with 4 cups before it starts spilling out the spout.LARGE BOWL (2.5 qt): This bowl is 8.5 inches in diameter, 6 inches tall, and the diameter of the base is 6 inches. This bowl has small holes in the bottom in addition to the drainage holes on the spout. These holes are about the diameter of a large paperclip, unfolded. The base is raised slightly higher than the small bowl to allow for drainage. If this bowl were solid, and filled completely to the top, it would hold 10.5 cups of water. To use it for it’s intended purpose, you wouldn’t want to fill it that high since you’d spill rice out trying to rinse it. You can rinse a maximum of about 9-10 (customary US) cups of rice in this bowl, 6-8 cups comfortably (10-12 “rice cooker” measuring cups!). Because this bowl has holes on the bottom, all the water would eventually drain out so you can’t soak anything in it. I would like to point out though, that the holes on the bottom are very small, and will drain slowly, so you don’t need a constant, heavy stream of water for rinsing. They are so small in fact, that the bowl will retain a shallow pool of water because the weight of about ½ inch of water wouldn’t create enough pressure to completely drain through the holes. The holes are about the diameter of a large paperclip, unfolded.I hope this review helps anyone interested in purchasing these bowls. I couldn’t make up my mind, and since they were a good price, I bought both, but if I had to do it again and buy only one, I’d choose the larger one with holes in the bottom since it’s more functional (and holds a little bit more, without taking up much more room).