What do you use your rice cooker? Just got one - excited to make more than rice

Also bought one recently. Theres a rice cooker cookbook that has a lot if good reviews in amazon, might want to look at that.
What sort if rice are best, I read most chinese Restaurants use thai jasmine for plain white and cali koshihikari is great for sushi/onigiri. Any recommendations?

I make rice and steam veggies.

If you want, you can use it to make bread.

It makes rice, OP. It's a rice cooker.

i use mine for popcorn. I imagine oatmeal works too

its not that great desu
but its fun to try once

Basically this.

People always like to argue that a rice cooker isn't a unitasker, and that there's all sorts of other stuff you can use it for, but honestly it's really just for cooking rice, and that other stuff is usually easier using another method.

You can literally never fuck up rice if you use this..

thekitchn.com/how-to-cook-perfect-basmati-rice-cooking-lessons-from-the-kitchn-211157

rice cookers take up space, are a hassle to clean and generally are superfluous, even for people who eat rice every day.

There's about a billion people that disagree with you.

If you want a superfluous appliance go take a look at electric water kettles.

who cooks rice everyday

Um, many Asian people?

maybe for a full household

4 cups can last me about a week

Who said anything about specific amounts?

complete waste of money

>boil water in pot
>add a bit of salt, butter if desired
>wash rice if desired
>add rice and reduce to simmer, as low as it will go without flame going out, and cover pot
>let simmer for 20-30 minutes, do not turn up heat
>stir occasionally to prevent burning and overdrying, add small bits of water if needed until desired doneness

perfect rice

>perfect rice

That's a recipe for the opposite of perfect rice.

no no, don't stir it at all. don't fuck with it. cook it, turn off the element and let it steam itself to perfection. If you fuck with it, you break the rice. You'll end up with starch stew. Fluff it after its done absorbing water. be gentle.

except I just made perfect basmati rice for lunch, please share with us your critiques.

I didn't break a single grain and had nothing resembling a starch stew, it was perfect and fluffy. you're probably overreacting or using shitty rice.

It's not that you need a rice cooker to make decent rice, it's that it's way easier and more convenient. Pour in water, pour in rice, press a button. You can do it before you do other stuff without having to monitor it, once the rice is done it'll keep it warm and it's just ready to go whenever.

If you make rice all the time and have ample counter space, worth it. If you make rice occasionally or have a cramped kitchen, sure, make it in a pot.

I bet you grew up eating shitty rice thinking it was normal and learned your mom's technique and think your terrible rice is perfect just because it's what you grew up eating.

my mom doesn't actually know how to cook, but I can't improve until you tell me what I've supposedly done wrong

No, you're doing it wrong but ending up with a product you deem edible. But hey, if it works for you, go nuts. 2 parts rice to 3 parts water, rinse in cold water, boil your water and reduce to simmer after adding rice, 15 minutes then turn off the element and let sit for 10. Uncover and fluff. Perfect basmati.

Sushi rice is a little different however.

I've owned a rice cooker, it's not easier. It's less theatening to people who don't know how to cook. People love "instructions" because they can follow them and not fuck up their food. When you know how to use a kitchen, all of the toys are worthless and get in the way.

Rice cookers are Ikea furniture.

>it's not easier
>t's less theatening to people who don't know how to cook

That's such bullshit and you know it.

Can you picture how many rice cookers are in a Chinese restaurant? They must have an array of a hundred or so just to get through the dinner rush.

Then explain who puts out 200 bills on a device that takes up counter space for a 4 step cooking process that is easily accomplished in a tin fucking pot? Do you have an explanation?

Well I did, and I worked 5 years as a line cook and sure as fuck know how to cook rice on a stove.

It's convenient and it makes perfect rice every time. What's so hard to understand? Some people like rice more than others and are willing to spend $200 for something that will improve their quality of life in some small way for years to come.

Large families/restaurants that eat a lot of rice? I have a $70 rice cooker that steams veggies and cooks rice perfectly while I shitpost. Definitely easier for me.

How is it convenient, you need to wash the basket, if anything falls inside the machine you need to pick it out, you can't immerse it. I just don't get you people. At all. I don't know if yours is PTFE coated, but that's easily scratched. I want 1 pot, stainless steel that I clean once.

I guess its convenient to you.

You think restaurant weight rice is cooked in rice cookers? Jesus Christ.

You've obviously never owned a good quality rice cooker.

obviously. You're a koolaid drinker, just accept it. I'm going elsewhere.

He's too poor for a decent one.

>cleaning
I throw the basket in the dishwasher with everything else.

>scratching
Use a plastic spoon.

>stuff falling in
Can't say that happens to me, I mean it could I guess, but not sure how.

>can't immerse it
Why would you want to any more than you'd want to immerse a stand mixer.

Seriously though, I'm sure some people buy rice makers because they can't actually make rice any other way, but plenty of people are perfectly cable of making it in a pot, but like the convenience of a machine that effortlessly does it for them.

Naw m8, I don't have access to a stove in my dorm but I do have a kettle

t. junior community college

bakelite and sharp polycarbonates will peel teflon, use bamboo. You're still working too hard for no reason. I spent the last 2 decades buying toys I threw out too. So, get back to me.

I go to a fine university, the kitchen my freshman year was in the basement and I was on the third floor, and my sophomore year it was way down the hall. I just use it to make tea/noodles at 3am, what's the problem

i appreciate wanting to keep women in the kitchen but technology has done more to emancipate them than can be undone

Is there a way I can do this everyday but have it be more convenient? Like I want to make rice in the morning before I head to work and then have it ready when I get back home. Is there an easier way?

Buy a rice cooker with a timer function.

I'm pretty sure the user you responded to was being sarcastic.

I add shredded sweet potato with basmati rice, and mixed veggies.