Hi all!
I'm a broke student and most of my meals consist of rice and beans, or rice and chicken if it was on sale when I went shopping. Either way, I eat a lot of rice. So I'm here to talk to you about something near and dear to my heart; my $17 rice cooker.
This baby is an amazing, powerful, little machine that takes up next to no space but provides endless options for food. You have a small, circular object that can fit into awkward nooks and crannies. When you pull it out, you can cook all types of rice in it, efficiently and evenly. The best part is, you can't burn anything! (I mean, unless you leave it on for like 10 days it may explode or just plain die I wouldn't recommend leaving it on for more than like 2 hours)
You plug it in, it automatically warms itself and whatever else in it. But pro tip - don't plug it in unless there is something in it. The coil won't distribute heat evenly and that's not a good thing (also another way to ruin it!). But stay away from those two things and you're good!
But seriously. If you are competent in the kitchen, you can use a rice cooker. You use the measuring cup it comes with, even out 2:1, or whatever ratios are on the back, of the rice/quinoa/other dry things you want to cook. Add the doubled water and then put it in the pot together. Plug it in and bam, you start warming it. Flick 1 switch down, and you're cooking! Man, that was difficult. So now what? You let it cook. It knows when it's done, and will flick itself back into the warming stage. Isn't that cool? If you're like me and have 1 hour classes to go to, I start it just before I leave for class and then I have warm rice waiting for me when I get home!
Do you have to just cook rice in it? Nope! You can use it to steam veggies and stuff too, or add chicken into the mix, (At least so mine claims. But I haven't yet verified that it actually cooks chicken well)
Anyways, I have been eating way more rice, way cheaper than normal, and have absolutely saved not spending money on dinner in the last 2 weeks since I got it. Easy to clean too, non-stick so the rice slides right out. :)
TLDR; This is my glowing recommendation for a frugal buy: RICE COOKER.
February 11, 2018 at 07:12PM
