Someone was asking about rice cookers. This post has ceased to exist. The question was about rice cookers? They're very fine machines, they work, they're convenient. I've gotten, mysteriously, a fair number of interested posts. So...
There's some small problem that... they don't exactly do much, for most people. You throw rice in a pot and boil it for a while. Throw a timer on it, you might forget to watch the time.
What a rice cooker does for you, and generally pretty well, is just keep track of the time, cook rice, and keep rice warm. A good one might set you back $50-$200 so, what you think of that depends on your needs and means.
A rice cooker can be used to cook many things. It's basically a steamer. But, eh, well... one day I used my very fine Japanese rice cooker for mac and cheese. It was a LOT of mac'n'cheese.
The pot bubbled the heck over and destroyed itself. The kitchen didn't burst into flames. The mac'n'cheese largely survived, and some of it was nicely crispy. The rice cooker did not survive that at all, though, the mess was... it took some time to clean up, and it was baked solid hard into all the workings of the rice cooker.
So, I no longer have this shiny red big Japanese machine that is so good at cooking rice. I do have a pot and a timer that I try not to forget to use, because the crackling noises when you let a pot boil dry are more than a little disturbing.
February 19, 2018 at 09:37PM
