There's some guys on /b/ telling me that rice cookers are the greatest thing ever made.
Is it worth it to buy an $80 ceramic pot or am I losing my mind?
There's some guys on /b/ telling me that rice cookers are the greatest thing ever made
Bentley Johnson
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Logan Gonzalez
why would you ask b though
Just buy a skillet and fry the rice like a real asian
Adam Edwards
It's very easy if you make alot of japanese-style rice. it comes out perfect and slightly more sticky with much less effort
Andrew Allen
It's just rice man. You only need a regular pot and 10 minutes to pilaf that fucker up.
Ethan Gutierrez
you can get one for $20. it's a must have for any kitchen imo.
Dylan Roberts
>much less effort
How is ti any less effort. Either way you're putting rice intoa bowl/pot and adding water. If watching a clock is ""effort"" then I think I can manage without a unitasker taking up valuable bench space.
Christian Evans
If you're planning on eating rice every single day for the rest of your life then yes, they're worth it. Otherwise rice is too easy to cook on a regular pot to bother with an unitasker
Joseph Clark
well, if the timer goes off and you are on computer and forget then rice burns up. If you have a rice cooker then you forget about it and it shuts off.
Oliver Reyes
That's it? Well, fuck. I better go out and buy my a car that brakes by itself in case I'm texting.
Thanks!
Robert Edwards
A rice cooker is a one-tasker.
So like all other one-taskers, the real question is: Are you doing this a lot? Don't buy a one-tasker for something you only do rarely.
One way to turn a rice-cooker into a multi-purpose tool is to instead get an electric pressure cooker - slightly more expensive, far more uses.
Austin Diaz
They working on those actually
Grayson Gomez
(Me)
I don't mean to sound so argumentative but if someone's going to insist that a rice cooker is a must-have accessory simply because it can turn itself off then, sorry. It needs to do more than that. More than what I can do with a pot on the stove.
Plus, although I don't have one, I'm pretty sure that modern stoves can turn off the heat with a timer.
NO DEAL
Yeah, I know and the cyclist in me is happy but the driver in me can't stand the thought of being a passenger in the driver's seat.
Ethan Bailey
there are people in the world who benefit more from attention-saving kitchen appliances than you. no one is trying to justify rice cookers to all people.
Luke Lee
Don't have to watch it. Comes out perfect every time. Can steam veggies at the same time. It's not a must have but it is convenient
Gabriel Anderson
Why don't they just make a stove with separate timers on each heating element that shuts off at end of timer? Like microwave
Daniel Flores
Fair enough. Maybe when I'm much, much older I'll reconsider.
Understood.
They don't? I thought it would be a feature on modern stoves. Did I just invent something™?
James Cooper
they make devices for alzhiemers and dementia people, but not for millennials
Gabriel Brown
I microwave my rice
It just werks (TM)
Lucas Murphy
It's been the subject of several Japanese government studies, and it's well-quantified not only that they cook better rice but why they cook better rice.
As a sometimes thing feeding large groups, you can get away with using a pressure cooker. But as a young single or couple you won't be cooking enough rice for it to be efficient or to avoid scorching, and if anything you're better off making pressure cooker recipes in a rice cooker (which it's completely capable of doing). And if you feed large groups rice regularly, it'll almost definitely be alongside some sort of stew or soup, so you'll want a separate cooker anyway.
Jayden Thompson
It's just a convenient tool. If you don't have money to spend don't buy it. Stick with your saucepan or a frying pan.
Wyatt Cook
wtf is all this crap about pressure cookers? they have nothing to do with rice
>anything you're better off making pressure cooker recipes in a rice cooker (which it's completely capable of doing)
what
Easton Rogers
Just get an instantpot. Much more versatility.
Hudson Mitchell
Because the pressure cooker does what the rice cooker does for rice, does a lot of other things, and takes up about the same amount of space.
Cooper Reyes
If you make a lot of rice then buy one, they are only $20 what's the big deal?
I used to live in Japan (in the 90's before weebs were a thing) and most households over there use rice cookers.
Ian Smith
Every asian I know uses a rice cooker.
Matthew Fisher
Every Asian I know is a rice cooker.
Evan Williams
A rice cooker like OP's talking about, a Zojirushi or National or Tiger or Cuckoo or one of the Chinese knockoffs thereof, is essentially a small- to mid-capacity pressure cooker with a more uniform heating element. The uniform heat and the particular PSI they're dialed into they have is why they make better rice than you can get out of a pot or even a generic pressure cooker.
Midrange features focus on specific timed cooking modes so you can fill and set in the morning and have a variety of different cooked rices ready when you get home, but those don't take away from being able to manually set it.
It's only the portions of the high end that unitask, with things like incorporated activated charcoal filters that would scrub out seasonings if you tried to make something else. But other high end cookers do things like being the only consumer electronics with an ultrasonic cavitator, which makes them really nice for preparing other starches for frying.
The $20 ones are just cheap hotplates sized to only take a really shitty included pan, and will reliably produce worse rice than doing it on the stove. Gotta get up to at least $60ish.
