Based on time.

It takes 40 to 50 minutes to cook rice in a rice cooker. Some rice cookers have a quick cooking mode that can control the cooking time within 30 to 40 minutes.

Home-style rice cooker braised rice: braised pork ribs, braised pork ribs and sausages, braised pumpkin and chicken wings, braised vegetables and shrimps, braised sausages and chestnuts, braised chicken drumsticks.