/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19187827
>>19187861
A glass stovetop is going to heat just those white rings on the bottom. Ceramic is an insulator, so it's very slow to transfer heat to the green parts, but the glass burner can overload just those rings with massive amounts of heat, causing uneven heating. It would probably have been fine on a gas burner, although I'd still want something with a much thicker bottom, like pic related.

>>19185821
You can make rice in any donabe, as long as you remember to adjust the heat to low once the rice starts to boil. Any rice cooker donabe also is going to make the process easier because of the double lid. I think only an iga clay donabe further simplifies the process so that you don't have to adjust the heat on your stove. It's kind of amazing how quickly the rice cooks as a result of you being able to keep the heat on med-high, only about 15 minutes of heating and then you turn it off and let it sit.

I'm not sure exactly what it is about the donabe for cooking rice, probably the ability to heat at such a high heat output with no scorching of the food, but as long as you add the correct ratio (200 mL water to 180 mL rice for short grain), the donabe does its thing and greatly simplifies the process.

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Japanese clay pot o_O
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