I don't like them
maybe I'm an idiot but my mom always washed rice and boiled it in a pot and I do the same exact thing
same with egg cookers, they're convenient but I don't like them, I prefer to boil them in water
My homie you put water into the rice cooker and then it makes perfect rice because it knows when to turn itself off based on the steam and heat so that you literally get perfect rice every single time. Do you think the rice cooker works by not boiling the rice in water? How are you this stupid you and your mother are moronic.
>I'm so manly and so smart because I cook rice in a pot like a fricking peasant
lmao you're just a moronic b***h that's scared of a piece of electronics cooking that shit better than you
Do any of you anons use one? Would you recommend it?
Yes. Something beyond a $10 one will have a timer, you just set the time you want it finished and it'll start to finish on time. You don't need to pay attention to anything or stir it and it'll automatically go into warm mode if you're not there when it finishes.
It makes better rice than you'll ever make on a stove.
Steel cut oats options are great because then you can set it the night before and wake up to oats.
yeah that's a big part of the appeal for me, great way to prepare two parts of your meal at once. Plus rice cookers are pretty cheap. I got mine for like $20 and use it pretty often, so definitely worth it for me.
yeah that's a big part of the appeal for me, great way to prepare two parts of your meal at once. Plus rice cookers are pretty cheap. I got mine for like $20 and use it pretty often, so definitely worth it for me.
Plus rice is tasty.
This. Also, you can bake chicken breast or thighs while the rice cooks, then it is a healthy meal, that is cheap, and extremely easy to make
They take too long and usually overcook the rice. Your average pot of rice will never overflow if you keep the lid off which you should be doing anyway and wash the starch off your rice beforehand.
just get one of those big cast iron casseroles
sure it will take longer to cook some things in it
but the cooking will just be insanely better
especially if you like making one-pot recipes
like for example :
>dump pasta/rice/potatoes/veggies (frozen) >dump meat cubes/casserole beef/pulled chicken from store rotisserie chicken >add water/beef broth/chicken stock >add butter, lard, olive oil, ghee, beef fat/tallow >spices? check. herbs? check. >close the lid, put on medium heat (simmer, bubbling slightly, not raging) or place in oven if you prefer it to stove at roughly 190-210. >cook for like 1 hour, check ever 30 mins. >last 15 open lid and let dehumidify/dehydrate to add some crunch/crispiness if you want to (in oven), maybe add some cheese and make a gratin.
You can also do ''one-pot recipes'' with a rice cooker but it's basically only going to be stew and steamed food, it'll be harder for you to get a crisp or some gratin.
If you're lazy and just want easy meal prep recommendations, get yourself one of these ''instant pots'' or a cast iron if you want analog and just try out all the ''one pot recipes'' you can find. Insanely easy cooking.
I'm buying one when I'm moving in two months. I've read that different types of rice can be easier or more difficult to boil in a rice boiler, what are your experiences with brown rice?
just get an instant pot, it's more versatile
granted, the rice will be better in a rice cooker but the instant pot allows you to cook pretty much anything really fast
I replaced my rice cooker with an instant pot. It cooks way faster and I actually prefer the rice. You can adjust the water content to get it however you like it.
I replaced my rice cooker with an instant pot. It cooks way faster and I actually prefer the rice. You can adjust the water content to get it however you like it.
I use my instant pot to cook rice.
instant pot master race
it’s takes a few times to get the perfect ratio of water and time but once you’ve nailed it it will cook perfect rice every time and fast than a pot or rice cooker
It's unnecessary but a nice thing to have if you eat a bunch of rice. It basically just let's you cook rice whenever the frick you want with zero worries about checking on it. I'll sometimes toss rice in my rice cooker before leaving for work so it's ready when i get home at around 6.
The rice always turned out great in mine with some butter and chicken broth, I miss my instant pot for 1 pot meal prep since I travel and spend a lot of time in hotels.
Absolutely MOGGED by Zojirushi’s tea water warmer in terms of usefulness, but ultimately still really useful if you eat a lot of rice. A really nice to have convenience of the modern age. Then, again, if you’re not eating a lot of rice, what’s the point? And it’s not like it washes your rice for you or anything, you still have to do that.
Dad got me one. Love my rice cooker so much. I can set it to turn on and cook rice on a timer. That way I have fresh rice when I get home from work and the gym. Plus you can steam veggies at the same time. I also run it and have it cook my rice while I cook my chicken on the stove. Frickin LOVE my rice cooker thanks dad.
Yeah but just because if you really want to go down that path and buy a machine you should just get an instant pot since you can do so much more with it.
Friend of mine swears by his
I asked him "rice is impossible to frick up, what's even the point?" but he claims the rice comes out perfect and fluffy every time
Wouldn't bother with it myself honestly
I love mine, just throw a whole bag of rice in it,.press a button, perfect rice every time. You can then portion the rice out and freeze it. Reheating it only takes three minutes in a microwave with a few.tablespoons of water.
They're literally equal effort except a rice cooker can keep your shit warm for hours without overcooking it. Using a pot is overall quicker while a rice cooker is hands off until you're ready to eat it.
I had one but I didnt like it
but I'm turkish and we make rice a little bit differently
>boil some water, drop a bullion into it, let it simmer on the side >melt some butter, add rice, allow it to soak in said butter and fry it for 30-60 seconds, depending on how dry or moist you like your rice, "experts" cook it for 30-40 seconds >add simmered mixture, drop heat to low, close the lid, cook until no more water
the water should be 2-3 cms above rice the moment you pour it in
this is also the step where you can add meat, chickpeas (amazing addition), tomatoes etc >when you cant see water, kill the fire, place a towel between the pan and the lid and let it simmer for 10-30 minutes >eat, preferably with some meat next to it
Instapot seems much better for potatoes than rice. I have a rice cooker but it's honestly worse than just using a pot because the starch from the rice makes it foam like crazy in the rice cooker and it spills over unless I use less water than needed and then keep adding more water until the rice is cooked. Then on top of that the feature to keep the rice warm actually heats it way too much so it almost burns and gets hard and half of it sticks to the rice cooker. When I cook it in the pot I can just use any amount of water and just by the size of the rice corns and how they tumble in the cooking water I can tell when it's perfect even when I don't time it.
Not at all. They're great and you don't have to worry about messing up rice ever again.
So if you eat rice a lot or tired of messing up rice it's a good purchase
Instapot seems much better for potatoes than rice. I have a rice cooker but it's honestly worse than just using a pot because the starch from the rice makes it foam like crazy in the rice cooker and it spills over unless I use less water than needed and then keep adding more water until the rice is cooked. Then on top of that the feature to keep the rice warm actually heats it way too much so it almost burns and gets hard and half of it sticks to the rice cooker. When I cook it in the pot I can just use any amount of water and just by the size of the rice corns and how they tumble in the cooking water I can tell when it's perfect even when I don't time it.
, I bought the cheap Amazon one and it's fricking trash. Unusable.
I put rice and water together, press a button, and wait. I did the pot method for years and I have no regrets making the switch. It's simple, convenient, and keeps my rice warm for hours so I can make enough fresh for 2 meals. Also the taste is just better.
Those are awful, overpriced, and a b***h to clean out. The cheap glass lid rice cookers mog those, they are easy af to clean too and the rice quality is the same. Also They are 1/10th the price.
I'd get a rice cooker but I'd feel weird dating an asian girl.
Zojirushi have one model currently made in japan, the rest are made in china.
Nah if it's a decent rice cooker the whole interior should be metal with silicone seals. I mean if it's a shitty $10 rice cooker it's a metal bowl with a glass lid
The Zojis, the oft touted king of the rice cookers, all have teflon. Which ones don't?
Nah if it's a decent rice cooker the whole interior should be metal with silicone seals. I mean if it's a shitty $10 rice cooker it's a metal bowl with a glass lid
Great for convience but I have a stainless steel one which is not very convenient since it gets sticking. Guess I should maybe brush it with an oil before loading it up.
Rice cookers are not a meme.
Either get a cheap small one for ~20 bucks or get one that can cook more than just rice, like steam veggies and rice at the same time for a little bit more (pic related).
It's very cozy to just toss in some rice, veggies, meat and then pop the button down and come back 15 minutes later for a well steamed meal.
I love that this thread will be populated with people that dont see the utility in an appliance that is as ubiquitous in asia as microwaves are in the west.
I've cooked rice in a pot and then strained it with a collander and I've also used an instant pot to cook it. Tried different parts of water to rice and whatnot but the rice cooker always just made it better somehow.
I bought the expensive ass $120 japanese one, zujirushi or whatever
it's great, i put it on a timer every night when i finish dinner and have rice for all my meals the next day
honestly, if you make all your food at home, i don't see why you wouldn't invest in good cooking appliances. i use my rice cooker and blender every day, i want them to be nice.
I don't like them
maybe I'm an idiot but my mom always washed rice and boiled it in a pot and I do the same exact thing
same with egg cookers, they're convenient but I don't like them, I prefer to boil them in water
>washing rice
You rinse it to remove excess starch so you don't get the crusty shit
My homie you put water into the rice cooker and then it makes perfect rice because it knows when to turn itself off based on the steam and heat so that you literally get perfect rice every single time. Do you think the rice cooker works by not boiling the rice in water? How are you this stupid you and your mother are moronic.
>Man who needs specialty device for rice of all fricking things calling someone else moronic
>specialty device
you can buy a cheap one for like $15
>I'm so manly and so smart because I cook rice in a pot like a fricking peasant
lmao you're just a moronic b***h that's scared of a piece of electronics cooking that shit better than you
Rice is so easy to cook in a pot, it's not necessary to get a rice cooker
Low IQ
Yes. Something beyond a $10 one will have a timer, you just set the time you want it finished and it'll start to finish on time. You don't need to pay attention to anything or stir it and it'll automatically go into warm mode if you're not there when it finishes.
It makes better rice than you'll ever make on a stove.
Steel cut oats options are great because then you can set it the night before and wake up to oats.
I use one and I like it. It's more convenient than the stove top to me. Steams vegetables at the same time, too, which is great.
yeah that's a big part of the appeal for me, great way to prepare two parts of your meal at once. Plus rice cookers are pretty cheap. I got mine for like $20 and use it pretty often, so definitely worth it for me.
Plus rice is tasty.
it's literally just starch with artificial vitamins in it
This. Also, you can bake chicken breast or thighs while the rice cooks, then it is a healthy meal, that is cheap, and extremely easy to make
my mom got me one for birthday i thought it was pretty legit no need to cook on stove anymore
They're ok, a stove is better
My parents use one but I prefer the regular pot. I'm not trusting some homosexual robot to make my rice, its probably full of nanojews
homie just put rice in a pot and cover it with water
The decrease in gas usage and not needing to shut it off everytime it's overflowing is enough reason to buy them. They're also cheap.
They take too long and usually overcook the rice. Your average pot of rice will never overflow if you keep the lid off which you should be doing anyway and wash the starch off your rice beforehand.
>The decrease in gas usage
Here in the first world gas is cheaper than electricity
Can you cook sticky japanese rice in these cookers?
Yes, just be sure to buy calrose/medium grain rice, and cook with 1.5 cups of water per 1 cup of dry rice, works perfectly even in a cheap one.
just get one of those big cast iron casseroles
sure it will take longer to cook some things in it
but the cooking will just be insanely better
especially if you like making one-pot recipes
like for example :
>dump pasta/rice/potatoes/veggies (frozen)
>dump meat cubes/casserole beef/pulled chicken from store rotisserie chicken
>add water/beef broth/chicken stock
>add butter, lard, olive oil, ghee, beef fat/tallow
>spices? check. herbs? check.
>close the lid, put on medium heat (simmer, bubbling slightly, not raging) or place in oven if you prefer it to stove at roughly 190-210.
>cook for like 1 hour, check ever 30 mins.
>last 15 open lid and let dehumidify/dehydrate to add some crunch/crispiness if you want to (in oven), maybe add some cheese and make a gratin.
You can also do ''one-pot recipes'' with a rice cooker but it's basically only going to be stew and steamed food, it'll be harder for you to get a crisp or some gratin.
If you're lazy and just want easy meal prep recommendations, get yourself one of these ''instant pots'' or a cast iron if you want analog and just try out all the ''one pot recipes'' you can find. Insanely easy cooking.
I'm buying one when I'm moving in two months. I've read that different types of rice can be easier or more difficult to boil in a rice boiler, what are your experiences with brown rice?
just get an instant pot, it's more versatile
granted, the rice will be better in a rice cooker but the instant pot allows you to cook pretty much anything really fast
I replaced my rice cooker with an instant pot. It cooks way faster and I actually prefer the rice. You can adjust the water content to get it however you like it.
instant pot master race
it’s takes a few times to get the perfect ratio of water and time but once you’ve nailed it it will cook perfect rice every time and fast than a pot or rice cooker
I used to use my instapot for rice but it's such a pain in the ass to clean I'd rather just cook it on the stove
https://www.pressurecookrecipes.com/
Perfect rice to water ratios for every type of rice you can think of (calrose, jasmine, brown, basmati, etc)
I use it 3 or 4 times a week. Bonus veggie steamer tray.
It's unnecessary but a nice thing to have if you eat a bunch of rice. It basically just let's you cook rice whenever the frick you want with zero worries about checking on it. I'll sometimes toss rice in my rice cooker before leaving for work so it's ready when i get home at around 6.
The rice always turned out great in mine with some butter and chicken broth, I miss my instant pot for 1 pot meal prep since I travel and spend a lot of time in hotels.
Absolutely MOGGED by Zojirushi’s tea water warmer in terms of usefulness, but ultimately still really useful if you eat a lot of rice. A really nice to have convenience of the modern age. Then, again, if you’re not eating a lot of rice, what’s the point? And it’s not like it washes your rice for you or anything, you still have to do that.
Dad got me one. Love my rice cooker so much. I can set it to turn on and cook rice on a timer. That way I have fresh rice when I get home from work and the gym. Plus you can steam veggies at the same time. I also run it and have it cook my rice while I cook my chicken on the stove. Frickin LOVE my rice cooker thanks dad.
Nic
Yeah but just because if you really want to go down that path and buy a machine you should just get an instant pot since you can do so much more with it.
As uncle roger says, ww2 is over use technology, proper asian use rice cooker
Don’t worry ww3 is right around the corner and we will be back to killing you asiatics soon.
I use my instant pot to cook rice.
Friend of mine swears by his
I asked him "rice is impossible to frick up, what's even the point?" but he claims the rice comes out perfect and fluffy every time
Wouldn't bother with it myself honestly
who the frick doesn't have a rice cooker? i splurged and got a Zojirushi shit's great and rice doesn't stick to the pan like in the cheapo ones
I love mine, just throw a whole bag of rice in it,.press a button, perfect rice every time. You can then portion the rice out and freeze it. Reheating it only takes three minutes in a microwave with a few.tablespoons of water.
Highly recommend if you make rice a lot and you're not a crying, bed wetting poorgay
Luv em. Cooking rice on a stove sucks.
if you regularly consume rice they are a must. i've never seen an Asian family that didn't use one.
I think it's easier to cook rice in a small pot everyday
They're literally equal effort except a rice cooker can keep your shit warm for hours without overcooking it. Using a pot is overall quicker while a rice cooker is hands off until you're ready to eat it.
I had one but I didnt like it
but I'm turkish and we make rice a little bit differently
>boil some water, drop a bullion into it, let it simmer on the side
>melt some butter, add rice, allow it to soak in said butter and fry it for 30-60 seconds, depending on how dry or moist you like your rice, "experts" cook it for 30-40 seconds
>add simmered mixture, drop heat to low, close the lid, cook until no more water
the water should be 2-3 cms above rice the moment you pour it in
this is also the step where you can add meat, chickpeas (amazing addition), tomatoes etc
>when you cant see water, kill the fire, place a towel between the pan and the lid and let it simmer for 10-30 minutes
>eat, preferably with some meat next to it
with quality döner, it would look like this
Amk gece gece agzimin suyu yastiga akti
:))
>does frickton of work just to end up with butter flavored rice
lmao
I like to put my huge dick in the rice cooker. Makes it creamy and soft.
Instapot seems much better for potatoes than rice. I have a rice cooker but it's honestly worse than just using a pot because the starch from the rice makes it foam like crazy in the rice cooker and it spills over unless I use less water than needed and then keep adding more water until the rice is cooked. Then on top of that the feature to keep the rice warm actually heats it way too much so it almost burns and gets hard and half of it sticks to the rice cooker. When I cook it in the pot I can just use any amount of water and just by the size of the rice corns and how they tumble in the cooking water I can tell when it's perfect even when I don't time it.
Not at all. They're great and you don't have to worry about messing up rice ever again.
So if you eat rice a lot or tired of messing up rice it's a good purchase
yeah they are cool, you leave it and it turns off automatically
buy a simple one, all of them do the same
I'm
, I bought the cheap Amazon one and it's fricking trash. Unusable.
Microwave rice cooker by Joseph and Joseph. 20 bucks on Amazon. Gainz saver
I have a Zojirushi and use it everyday. They keep the rice warm for a whole day
It’s a one-purpose tool which makes it kinda shit. Takes a bunch of room and rice is fricking easy to cook anywY
why would I? Rice isn't human food
I just bought a >pic related
I put rice and water together, press a button, and wait. I did the pot method for years and I have no regrets making the switch. It's simple, convenient, and keeps my rice warm for hours so I can make enough fresh for 2 meals. Also the taste is just better.
>forgot pic
and it plays fun little tunes when you start it!
Zojirushi rice cookers are god tier. Best purchase I made during covid.
Those are awful, overpriced, and a b***h to clean out. The cheap glass lid rice cookers mog those, they are easy af to clean too and the rice quality is the same. Also They are 1/10th the price.
>b***h to clean out
grab pot
grab lid
scrub
wtf is so hard about that? and unlike glass lids? you don't have to worry about rice foam scum
Best carb sources are roots, honey and fruits. Anything else is subhuman.
Here's your >you from your cry for attention.
Rice cookers are good but it’s best to have an instead pot instead of you don’t already have one
*Instant pot
I just use a plastic box I put in the microwave for 12 minutes.
Works every time, I don't see why I'd need a rice cooker, sounds like a scam to me.
only get a japanese one
zojirushi are good
i use it daily
I'd get a rice cooker but I'd feel weird dating an asian girl.
Zojirushi have one model currently made in japan, the rest are made in china.
The Zojis, the oft touted king of the rice cookers, all have teflon. Which ones don't?
Honesty teflon is just fine to 100C
I'm asian and always grew up with rice cookers at every Asian household as a kid. So I got one too.
every one i've seen has a teflon coating
And made of plastic.
Nah if it's a decent rice cooker the whole interior should be metal with silicone seals. I mean if it's a shitty $10 rice cooker it's a metal bowl with a glass lid
>No cast iron rice cooker
They are pretty nice, but you need a good one. Go to an asian store to get one, don't get a white people one.
Great for convience but I have a stainless steel one which is not very convenient since it gets sticking. Guess I should maybe brush it with an oil before loading it up.
Rice cookers are not a meme.
Either get a cheap small one for ~20 bucks or get one that can cook more than just rice, like steam veggies and rice at the same time for a little bit more (pic related).
It's very cozy to just toss in some rice, veggies, meat and then pop the button down and come back 15 minutes later for a well steamed meal.
>people literally put their food in a plastic basket to cook it
Jesus Cringing Christ.
You have the test levels of an old man and are likely to develop some type of cancer within the next 20 years.
Rice cookers are cheap and time efficient and any self respecting meal prepper would use one.
>doesn't know the difference between food grade HDPE and LDPE
Holy moly you're fricking dumb as shit
HDPE still leeches, just less so than LDPE.
The only "safe" option is zero plastic; the rest is "what degree of contamination do you want?"
you can get non-plastic rice cookers if you want
this guy is right despite the cruel insult.
I love that this thread will be populated with people that dont see the utility in an appliance that is as ubiquitous in asia as microwaves are in the west.
not a meme at all
I gave my parents one of these, an instant pot, an electric skillet and an air fryer.
it made ther life so much easier.
>cooks rice
>dur is it a meme?
Fricking moron
White people cook perfect rice in a pot, ricecooker is for asians, because ironically, they don't know how to measure 2 parts water to 1 part of rice.
I've cooked rice in a pot and then strained it with a collander and I've also used an instant pot to cook it. Tried different parts of water to rice and whatnot but the rice cooker always just made it better somehow.
>I've cooked rice in a pot and then strained it with a collander
lol what the frick
I bought the expensive ass $120 japanese one, zujirushi or whatever
it's great, i put it on a timer every night when i finish dinner and have rice for all my meals the next day
honestly, if you make all your food at home, i don't see why you wouldn't invest in good cooking appliances. i use my rice cooker and blender every day, i want them to be nice.