/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.14905307]

What's the point of a rice cooker? Why not just use a microwave?

[Anonymous No.14905318]

>>14905307
kys

[Anonymous No.14905329]

Someone's upset they bought a useless singe purpose kitchen appliance.

[Anonymous No.14905330]

yikes

[Anonymous No.14905339]

I gave away my microwave to the warehouse dudes at work because I never use one. It's easy to reheat food on the stove and I don't buy microwavable meals anyways. Also, I had the extra money for a Zojirushi, I have the counter space for it. I spent about $120 over 10 years ago, so for the usage I've gotten it has more than paid for itself. I press one button and fuck off, it cooks rice perfectly and keeps it warm for hours. Finally, before COVID my GF and I would have our friends over for a big dinner every so often and having one extra free burner actually really made a difference.

[Anonymous No.14905731]

>>14905307
There is no point. A microwave is such a brilliant kitchen appliance with such a diverse range of uses, I feel sorry whenever I hear about somebody who has done mental gymnastics to convince themselves that microwaves are in some way cheap or tacky.
Microwaves for life my nigger shit on the monotasker meme bollocks.

[Anonymous No.14905747]

>>14905731
dude, i'm as white trash as it gets, but this enthusiasm is just weird
i've got a zojirushi for shit like red beans and rice, which i eat often
it's got a timer and warmer, so you can set it to go off an hour before you come home (the timer actually *ends* on the time you set, i like to go an hour before so it has a moment to dry out a bit)
warm up some red beans on the stove, fry a piece of andouille, blam, red beans and rice, no microwave needed

[Anonymous No.14905748]

>>14905307
I need the microwave free to cook the main dish

[Anonymous No.14905755]

microwave causes cancer

[Anonymous No.14905756]

>>14905731
I was reading about making roux the other day and came across this
https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/eat-drink/article_ecd999e0-5af8-5152-8fc4-820a80ce0c5e.html
>Collette Weaver writes, "My mother, Jeanne Landry, taught people how to cook in the microwave starting in the 1960s. She was the first to develop the 'microwave roux' and privately published "Saute: A Collection of Creole Recipes for the Microwave Oven". To this day, most of my cooking is done in the microwave, from Creole chicken stew to stuffed eggplant with shrimp to all gumbos.

>"Although as a small girl I was taught how to make a roux on the stove top, now I always cook my roux in a class measuring cup in the microwave. It takes about 10 minutes to make. You cannot tell the difference in texture or taste although you do have to stir it constantly and watch it the last few minutes as it is easy to burn it."
I feel really sad for that girl

[Anonymous No.14905764]

>>14905307
>put rice in
>press button
>rice is cooked perfectly and stays that way for 4+ days

vs

>put pouch in microwave
>rice is edible
>leftovers go into the fridge
>reheat leftovers the next day
>barely edible, not even worth eating
>throw rice away

[Anonymous No.14905773]

>>14905756
what a moron
make your roux in an oven on a sheetpan

[Anonymous No.14905777]

>>14905307

[Anonymous No.14905799]

>>14905747
>white trash
>zojirushi
Fuck of peasant-LARPing middle class retard

[Anonymous No.14905808]

>>14905307
>What's the point of a rice cooker?
Idiot-proof rice cooking that turns out perfect every time.
>Why not just use a microwave?
That's fine too, but often you want to use the microwaves oven for something else.

>>14905329
>>14905731
The issue with monotaskers isn't they do a single thing, but rather they'll take too much space for the relative little amount of benefit. They might be still useful if it's for stuff you're doing everyday - e.g. spätzlemakers for some Germans or... rice cookers for East Asians and some LatAms.

[Anonymous No.14905811]

>>14905731
>shit on the monotasker meme bollocks.
Whilst extoling the virtues of a kitchen appliance that does but one thing: generating 2.4ghz RF energy to heat water molecules

[Anonymous No.14905816]

>>14905799
the projection is strong with this one

[Anonymous No.14905825]

>>14905811
Yes, because heating water is the only thing microwave owners ever do. Mongoloid.

[Jannies... Why? No.14905829]

>Board is /ck/ - Food & Cooking
>"Guys,whats the point of a rice cooker"

[Anonymous No.14905840]

>>14905829
Well you don't really need it to cook rice but yeah I get where you are going

[Anonymous No.14906274]

>>14905825
yes it literally is
give me an example of when this isnt the case

[Anonymous No.14906294]

>>14905307
You cook rice in a microwave?

[Anonymous No.14906306]

i had a model similar to OP's picture
and honeslty i mostly used it so it didnt take up a burner and i didnt have to watch it as carefully
just wash the rice, put into the cooker with water and some aromatics and let it sit for 20 minutes
was quite convenient
i dont have it anymore but the difference is basically nothing, just have to watch it a little closer to avoid burning

[Anonymous No.14906322]

>>14906274
I hope you get colon cancer and subsequently raped

[Anonymous No.14906323]

>>14906274
potatoes
vegetables
defrosting(i dont cause its never even but some do)
reheating anything ever

oh wait you mean it as in heating water molecules is how microwaves work, i bet you thought you were being clever

[Anonymous No.14906332]

just learn to cook rice for fucks sake....

[Anonymous No.14906335]

>>14906323
fuck yes thats what he meant
how else do you understand, literally, greentext to quote,
>generating 2.4ghz RF energy to heat water molecules

[Anonymous No.14906344]

>being so retarded that you can't make rice in a pot like a normal person

[Anonymous No.14906352]

>>14906335
cause i didnt read the entire chain, just answering his
>what else to people use it for
in a way that people actually talk, not catering to his autistic nonsense
by his own logic, gas ovens and stoves are uni-taskers as well
go "ackshually" somewhere else

[Anonymous No.14906366]

>>14906352
are you alright
do you want to talk about it

[Anonymous No.14906369]

>>14905811
>ACKTUALLY, MICROWAVES DON'T HEAT FOOD DIRECTLY, THEY HEAT THE *WATER* INSIDE THE FOOD
>ISN'T THAT KOOKY GUYS?
>ISN'T IT?

[Anonymous No.14906371]

>>14906366
no

[Anonymous No.14906379]

>>14905339
Covid is fake
You stopped having healthy social interactions because of a Masonic Judaic humiliation ritual

[Anonymous No.14906391]

>>14906369
so youre agreeing with the opinion that rice cookers are unitasker memes?

[Anonymous No.14906397]

>>14905764
You need to put water in to cook rice you retard

[Anonymous No.14906755]

Guys, what's the point of a spoon?
We can just use a stick to stir our food?

[Anonymous No.14906794]

>>14906755
???

[Anonymous No.14906801]

>>14905307
Pot of water, cup of rice, boil.

Why do you need a machine for this.

[Anonymous No.14908350]

>>14905307
豚アメリカの愚かなカウボーイ