Rice cookers?

Psychgrrl

fjmartini wrote: »

I bought my wife an engagement ring that was relatively expensive for me and she cooks my rice.

You eat rice? You were Mr. Keto on another thread. #confused

fjmartini

Psychgrrl wrote: »

fjmartini wrote: »

I bought my wife an engagement ring that was relatively expensive for me and she cooks my rice.

You eat rice? You were Mr. Keto on another thread. #confused

I'm just breaking balls. I said my wife was my rice cooker; I assumed the joke would be obvious.

fjmartini

Psychgrrl wrote: »

fjmartini wrote: »

I bought my wife an engagement ring that was relatively expensive for me and she cooks my rice.

You eat rice? You were Mr. Keto on another thread. #confused

I do the cyclical keto diet. I do eat carbs once every 10-14 days.

kavahni

I have a cheapy with "cook," "warm," and "unplugged" settings. It has a poorly fitting steamer section that can sit on top. It works great. White, brown, pearl, jasmine, Calrose, it's all good. Can't imagine paying the big bucks.

Ultima_Morpha

Get an Instant Pot. It does a beautiful job on rice and you can use it for other things...like making yogurt!

marcrtaylor

Just because its fun to share, I use the Delia Smith method in a pan and it has never failed me. Warm a small (teaspoon is usually enough) amount of oil in a pan. Make sure you have boiled your kettle and have some hot water to hand. Add white rice to the oil and mix gently so it is coated (you don't need to wash the rice beforehand). Then add water using a 2/1 ratio. Put the lid on the pan and leave it on a low heat for 15 minutes. Turn the heat off, leave it to steam with the lid off for a few minutes and there you go!

Gaygirl2120

Thanks so much for all the suggestions! I went with the Aroma Rice Cooker & I love it! Works amazing & wasn't at all expensive.

Gaygirl2120

JeromeBarry1 wrote: »

JeromeBarry1 wrote: »

My rice cooker is a saucepan with a lid. It works fine.

Oh, alright. If you must know. The water goes in, the flame goes high, the rice goes in, the eyes watch. When the water begins to bubble, the lid goes on, the flame goes low and the timer goes to 22 minutes.

I'm going to revise and extend, but only in hopes of collecting another 'woo'. I made the rice the next morning and after 17 minutes it was obvious that my low flame had been too low to adequately cook the rice in 17 minutes. I returned the rice to the pot and returned the flame to low for an additional 5.

OMG thank you so much! You know I never thought to make rice in a pot before! What would I do without people like you & your amazing suggestions?! Wow! Mind blown!

13bbird13

I've had a Panasonic for about 10 years and it still works as well as the day I bought it. It was about $25, I think. It was love at first sight because my former roommate's cooker always burned the bottom of the rice, but mine has never burned so much as one single grain. (One more reason I'm glad I moved out!) Easy to wash, simple to operate, love it.

If it ever dies a natural death, I may look into an electric pressure cooker just for the convenience of having one appliance that does many different things. (I also have a 35-year-old slow-cooker that probably won't last forever!)

Kullerva

My cheap-as-dirt ($20?) rice cooker has lasted foreeeever. (Well, maybe not that long, but...three moves, and something like seven years). I only use it for rice. It's Aroma brand, small and cute, with two settings (Cook and Warm). The only times I've ever had even slightly burnt rice are when I leave it more than ten minutes after it switched over the the Warm setting (which it does automatically). Less is sometimes more.

hesn92

I think I spent $30 on one 4 years ago and it still works... I don't use it too terribly often though. Maybe once every couple weeks depending on our meals.

ritzvin

wenrob wrote: »

skouar11 wrote: »

Jax2120 wrote: »

Are rice cookers something that you have to spend a lot of money on or are they all pretty much created equal?

Don't buy a rice cooker instead invest in a pressure cooker I have cooked essential. You can make everything in one pot from rice to soups and stews and chilis I absolutely love it. Also you can make rice in 6min compare it to 20 min or more in the rice cooker.

Meh. I have an Instant Pot that I love but I held onto my rice cooker. The Instant Pot just doesn't do a good enough job on rice IMO. I belong to a couple of groups and rice seems to be a consistent fail on a daily basis. Plus you're talking almost double the price vs a decent rice pot and we have no idea if the OP is into pressure cooking or not.

same here...but because I'm often using both at the same time (rice in the rice cooker, dried beans in the pressure cooker). The rice cookers also have convenient markings inside for water level per 180mL 'cups' of dried rice.

ETA: theoretically I could do both together, but I usually don't want to play the "how much water do I need to add?" game.

ETA_2: mine was pretty cheap I think, and non-stick. It was years ago - I don't remember how much.

YosemiteSlamAK

I bought a 16 cup (yes I know that is very large) Aroma rice cooker 15 years ago and I still use it. It came with a steaming tray. Which makes it big enough to steam vegetables or meats while it cooks the rice. I typically will use it to make meals for a week at a time. Great investment if you like to steam food.

MostlyWater

If you are only making white rice, get something cheap from Target. When we graduated to brown rice, I got a reconditioned Panasonic from ebay with a super heavy duty inner pot. It's also got a timer. Worth its weight in gold !!!