/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.16761183]

*perfects rice in your path*

Nothing personal, kid.

[Anonymous No.16761190]

My Korean friend was trying to flex on me because he NEVER uses a rice cooker and NEVER measures out his rice or water. Ok dude I'll just use my miracle technology to get perfect results every time and you can do tai chi and become one with the rice or whatever it is you do

[Anonymous No.16761191]

>>16761183
>$160
Huh, I don't know about this one...

[Anonymous No.16761217]

never understood the need for rice cookers.

1. wash your rice
2. 1.25 water : 1 rice ratio
3. bring to boil
4. bring to lowest flame, leave covered for 18 mins
5. take off stove, let rest 10+ more mins

perfect every time

[Anonymous No.16761238]

>>16761217
Rice cookers are just convinient, and saves a stovetop for cooking something else while preoaring a meal.
I prefer cuckoo brand cookers to zo though, and there's nothing wrong with the cheaper rice cookers in the grand scheme of things.

[Anonymous No.16761258]

>>16761217
no need to wash your rice :)

[Anonymous No.16761267]

>>16761217
>wash rice
>put in rice maker
>walk away
>perfectly cooked warm rice for the next 24 hours

[Anonymous No.16761268]

>>16761258
Depends on the cunt.
Some countries have less processing steps, and need to be washed while other countries have added steps like nutruent fortification, and those should not be washed.

[Anonymous No.16761270]

>>16761258
yes you do, if you want it to be good

[Anonymous No.16761284]

>>16761267
i mean yeah, but really the only time this is saving you is the initial 2-3 mins when it comes to a boil.

next 18 mins are completely unattended, then its like 20 seconds to get up and remove from heat.

is it worth the extra clutter and taking up space in your kitchen? i guess if you have a big kitchen yeah

[Anonymous No.16761297]

>>16761284
>is it worth the extra clutter and taking up space in your kitchen?
It kind of takes space, but also can save space depending on how you look at it. You save an extra burner/heating element, and you can keep the cooked rice inside it on the counter.
That, and you really don't have to worry about paying attention to the rice while cooking other things.

[Anonymous No.16761298]

impossible challenge never been done before! - go one thread without saying the n word x)

[Anonymous No.16761306]

>>16761284
I don't keep mine in my kitchen all the time, it lives on a shelf and comes onto the counter when I use it. it has a handle and a retractable cord so I just retract the cord and carry it to its shelf when I want the counter space. I am going to buy a rolling cart to put to the side and just roll that into my kitchen when I need it so I won't need to use up any counter space even when I want to use it. it will be nice for my instant pot too since I don't like having them steaming under my counters

[Anonymous No.16761326]

I have literally never EVER washed my rice.

[Anonymous No.16761401]

I'll never understand why don't more people own a rice cooker but everyone buying air fryers left and right.

[Anonymous No.16761439]

I would use my rice cooker way more often If I didn't live in a crammed appartment with a tiny kitchen area. Can't even enjoy the simple things in life anymore when your living area is a joke.

[Anonymous No.16761635]

>>16761183
Owning one also screams to the world "I'm a fucking retard who can't boil water"

[Anonymous No.16761926]

>>16761635
Ah yes, all of Japan, China, and Korea are simply incapable of boiling water

Moron

[Anonymous No.16761932]

>>16761183
>no easy crispy rice on the bottom
No thanks

[Anonymous No.16761934]

>>16761191
Whenever I want something dumb like this I pick up a gig on Craigslist to pay for it so it doesn't even come out of my normal budget/savings. Recently painted some guys living room and got a small boat
I recommend this budget

[Anonymous No.16761935]

>>16761932
You can buy models that have a scorch setting to crisp up the bottom

[Anonymous No.16761937]

>>16761932
My Yumasia model has that setting lol.
Pretty nice when adding herbs and butter to it.

[Anonymous No.16761941]

>>16761183
rice cookers are for soyboys who suffer from brain rot and cant stay away from their electronic devices for more than a minute while they keep an eye on their food

[Anonymous No.16762086]

>achieves the same results at 1/10th the price
I don't get the appeal of these expensive rice cookers, you're basically paying $150 extra for a digital clock.

[Anonymous No.16762144]

>>16762086
Lmao, they do okay but they're far less consistent throughout the batch compared to a nice one like in the OP.

fuzzy logic makes a decent difference, especially with japonica rice.

[Anonymous No.16762153]

thanks, but I will keep cooking rice in a pot.

[Anonymous No.16762158]

>Graincells arguing how to best prepare their peasant food
Amusing.

[Anonymous No.16762171]

>>16761284
Mine has multiple functions and I use it to make soups and stews without worrying about it boiling over and burning the house down.

[Anonymous No.16762172]

>>16761326
Pointless for supermarket rice, you're just washing away nutrients that have been injected back into the rice after they grinded and washed it themselves.

[Anonymous No.16762185]

>>16762086

>Buying a shitty cheap rice cooker

Just microwave your rice in a bag why don't you.

Here's a quality minimalist rice cooker that makes perfect rice every time.

[Anonymous No.16762195]

Degenerate sexpat here. Family here always has rice cooker on all day every day. Nice being able to dish perfect rice 24/7.

>>16761190
Kek

[Anonymous No.16763236]

>>16762185
It's no different or better than a cheap $10 rice cooker. It's such a simple and perfect design that it can neither be improved upon nor cheapened. A magnet holds the pot to the element until the water is absorbed or evaporated, at which point the metal pot heats up past the curie point, demagnetizes, and releases from the element. There's no timers or sensors or anything to upgrade. You're just paying for branding for the slightly more expensive ones, and a digital clock for the ridiculously expensive ones., or perhaps over priced accessories like a steaming tray.

[Anonymous No.16763329]

>>16761217
>imblying all rice has the same water ratio

[Anonymous No.16763354]

>>16763329
He's clearly buying cheap shit rice to begin with, so he wouldn't notice anyway.

[Anonymous No.16763381]

>>16762086
Had one of the cheaper ones like that; used it a lot but it did have a tendency to burn the rice on the bottom. The pot's non-stick coating also seemed to pretty rapidly degrade. I decided to pick up a Zoji earlier this year -- the taste and texture of the rice seems substantially different.
Half a year into owning the Zoji I have yet to see any burnt rice out of it, and the pot's a much heavier and sturdy piece than the cheap one. Haven't seen any issues with the coating yet, although I feel like I'd really prefer a stainless steel pot that I could just toss in the dishwasher.

[Anonymous No.16763618]

>>16761926
Chinks were cooking rice for thousands of years without rice cookers, you fucking mongoloid.

[Anonymous No.16763655]

>>16763618
Yes and now there's something way more convenient for a meal they cook pretty much daily. Mouthbreather.

[Anonymous No.16763746]

>>16763381
My cheap ass rice cooker makes perfect rice every time, and the non stick coating is still in tact after 5+ years of use, though I'm careful to only ever use wooden or plastic spoons.

[Anonymous No.16763982]

>>16762172
Based. Should I keep the unwashed setting on my rice cooker always on?

[Anonymous No.16765268]

>>16761941
>>16761635
Either that, or it says “I found out rice can actually be really good instead of a flavorless poverty staple”

[Anonymous No.16765298]

>>16763982
>unwashed setting
Is it a Japanese/Korean rice cooker?
If so, are you referring to the “rinse-free” setting?
Because Asian rinse-free rice is totally different than western “enriched” long grain that says “do not rinse” on the bag.
The former is a the result of developing a new milling technology, the goal being to help consumers conserve water at home.
The latter is literally “we sprayed our rice with liquid vitamins and minerals, so plz don’t wash off the nutrition”.

[Anonymous No.16765368]

>>16765298
I can't understand why someone would buy that shit, good rice isn't even all that expensive.

[Anonymous No.16765515]

>>16761190
If it's clean and thin rice kernal like jasmine, you can do the same with putting water on full blast boil and boiling off excess water.

[Anonymous No.16765523]

>>16761191
worth it if you're eating rice 3 times a day like the nips do

[Anonymous No.16765528]

If you do get a cheap rice cooker, make sure you get a power socket switch. It's pretty retarded how they still make them without an on/off switch.

[Anonymous No.16765566]

>>16765528
>inb4 people from those countries with switched outlets

[Anonymous No.16765592]

>>16765566
I won't lie, I really wish US outlets came standard with power switches and local fuses. Ever since I found out other countries have those I've been jealous.

[Anonymous No.16765623]

>>16765528
>buy another unitasker gadget for your kitchen fellow goyim!
I'll just stick with the built in solution, shlomo.

[Anonymous No.16765633]

>>16765592
I'm willing to deal with not having those colossal fat fused plugs. Those things are a pain in the ass.

[Anonymous No.16765666]

>>16765368
Where does an American buy "good rice?"

[Anonymous No.16765701]

>>16765666
I buy it from my local Asian grocer.
The punchline is that it’s grown in California; there’s a few Japanese companies who literally run farms in Cali and produce such amazing koshikikari that they can sell it in Japan as ultra-mega-premium rice

[Anonymous No.16765713]

>>16765666
>>16765701
Kokuho Rose is pretty nice. Yeah, it's kind of funny but Japanese rice is California's specialty.

[Anonymous No.16765732]

>>16761183
Oh, Opie...
If only you had a saucepan and some skill.
-sigh-

[Anonymous No.16765751]

>>16761298
no ones even said it yet, way to jinx it you fucking nigger

[Anonymous No.16765754]

>>16765732
>you have to cook your rice to perfection like a man in the 1200s because I say so

Uhhh I'm thinkin' cringe.

[Anonymous No.16765761]

>>16765515
short grain. nothing makes short grain better than a good rice cooker

[Anonymous No.16765823]

>>16763655
>Rice cooker owner calling somebody else a mouthbreather.
Holy fucking irony.

[Anonymous No.16765837]

>>16765823
>enjoying superior rice = mouthbreathing
I’m pretty sure enjoying the taste of something better involves airflow through the nasal cavity.

[Anonymous No.16765844]

>>16765837
Not being able to make perfect rice without a rice cooker makes you a mouthbreather by default, you retard.

[Anonymous No.16765892]

>>16765844
this ain't caveman days, bro. You don't have to cook it yourself. The Japanese have made robots that do it to perfection.

[Anonymous No.16765896]

>>16765892
I will enjoy laughing over your emaciated corpse after the collapse.

[Anonymous No.16765902]

>>16765844
Anon, a mid-to-high end rice cooker makes better rice on its corner-cutting “quick” setting than you do in your stovetop pot.
It’s nothing against you, it simply is what it is.

[Anonymous No.16765913]

>>16765844
It's not about not being able to make rice in a pot. I can make good rice in a pot no problem. I've done it enough times that I don't even need to measure anymore. A rice cooker just makes rice that's even better.

It's like the difference between making low and slow BBQ in a Trager smoker versus a Weber charcoal grill. The Trager isn't just easier, it's also flat out better.

[Anonymous No.16766404]

>>16761217
1. unwash rice
2. 2.2 water : 1 rice ratio
3. microwave water to boil
4. toast rice in oil meantime
5. add boiling water to rice
6. cover (lid has tiny hole btw)
7. lowest flame
8. 30 minutes

u r retardd. brown rice just make 3:1 lmao

[Anonymous No.16766418]

>unwashed rice
Holy fuck, why do we allow these fucking barbarians to live? Do they even have tastebuds? Have they ever had rice that wasn’t disgusting? Or are they all just long grain mongrels?

[Anonymous No.16766434]

>>16766418
Lomg grain rice are usually aromatic, and busting with flavor. Short grain rice as how the japanese traditiinally consume them are over processed, and overwashed to a point that removes most of the flavor.

[Anonymous No.16766464]

>>16761183
Did zojirushi fix their rice cookers to not explode yet, or are they still forcing consumers to play an expensive game of russian roulette with them.

[Anonymous No.16766575]

>>16766434
So yes, you're retarded and only eat shit rice

[Anonymous No.16766633]

>>16766575
You argue like a child that was raised by lesbians.

[Anonymous No.16766671]

>>16766633
And you eat shit-tier rice convinced its somehow the best rice out there.

I'd rather be raised by lesbians than to be raised into an actual retard.

[Anonymous No.16766673]

>>16766404
2:30am wake up
2:35am pray to rice god
3:30am wash rice 17 times
4:15am shower
5:00am rice cake stack
5:15am cyro rice recovery
6:00am call rice company
8:00am reverse osmosis water chamber
10:00am atomically measure π/e rice to water ratio
12:15pm pick up kids from school
2:30pm check current and amperage output for circuit for rice cooker
3:45pm start cooking rice
4:30pm shower
6:00pm eat rice
7:30pm bedtime

[Anonymous No.16766675]

>>16766671
>And you eat shit-tier rice convinced its somehow the best rice out there.
You came to this conclusion based off of what evidence?
>I'd rather be raised by lesbians than to be raised into an actual retard.
Implying that being raised by lesbians didn't make you into the mouth breathing retard that you are today?

[Anonymous No.16766679]

>>16766675
The fact you're telling me long grain is better than Japanese short grain

I can already tell from that alone you're a certified retard of the highest caliber.

[Anonymous No.16766684]

>>16766679
>The fact you're telling me long grain is better than Japanese short grain
I never said that, and I believe that short grain rice, and long grain rice are different enough to compare with each other. It is true that the japanese (who self admit) that they traditionally over process, and over wash the natural flavors from their rice. They don't need a retarded faggot like you to defend them anon.

[Anonymous No.16766688]

>>16766673

[Anonymous No.16766814]

>>16766684
>they traditionally over process
Lolwut?
You mean basic milling where the rice is removed from the hull?
>over wash the natural flavors
You mean a quick rinse to remove the ‘dust’ which forms when rice rubs against each other in a big bag?

[Anonymous No.16766825]

>>16766814
>Lolwut?
You mean basic milling where the rice is removed from the hull?
Plus longer "polishing" to make the kernels smoother, and near transparent (not to be confused with "transexual", because it's just rice, and you're not rice)
Then washing the rice way past the point of clarity.

[Anonymous No.16766826]

>>16766464
thanks now im never buying a rice cooker

[Anonymous No.16767611]

>>16766826
If u didn't own one by now, or grew up with one then you're not the type of person that would benefit off of one.

[Anonymous No.16767620]

>>16762195
No it isn't. It's fucking stupid eating so much rice that it makes sense to do that.

[Anonymous No.16767624]

>>16761934
Based sigma male grindset

[Anonymous No.16767698]

>>16761183
>HURR DURR RICE COOKERS MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO FUCK UP RICE!
Only retards believe this. You still need to know exactly how much water to add, which varies drastically with each type of rice. If you only buy the same rice all the time to figure this out you don't need a specialized cooker to achieve regular results either.

Rice cookers are a meme for retards and orientals.

[Anonymous No.16768048]

>>16767698
>You still need to know exactly how much water to add
It's on the bag, dummy.

[Anonymous No.16768184]

>>16768048
The bag is usually wrong.

[Anonymous No.16768271]

>>16767698
>You still need to know exactly how much water to add, which varies drastically with each type of rice
The worst part is how the inner bowl of my rice cooker has all these bullshit markings with lines and numbers and words like “white” and “brown” and “jasmine”.
What’s the fucking point of a machine if it expects me to read and do math and shit?

[Anonymous No.16768596]

>>16761183
rice cooker, master race

[Anonymous No.16768717]

>>16761183
You are my least favourite poster

[Anonymous No.16768781]

>>16761190
you don't need to measure if you know how to eyeball but most asians use rice cookers lol

[Anonymous No.16768798]

>>16761217
>you save a pot
>can do bulk amounts
>can stay warm without using the stove
>less electricty than gas usage
I mean you could say the same thing for slow cookers and people use those

[Anonymous No.16768813]

>>16766673
>6:00 am call rice company
I don't know why that made me laugh

[Anonymous No.16768820]

>>16768717
For me, it’s the msg guy

[Anonymous No.16768830]

>>16765592
we don't have that stupid shit because we actually wire our houses properly unlike the brits

[Anonymous No.16768836]

>>16768820

i make my unwashed rice in a big pot like a normal person and throw in salt and msg

[Anonymous No.16770130]

>>16767698
>You still need to know exactly how much water to add

Imagine being this...idk like confident in your ability to know how much water to add to fucking rice. Fucking retard.

[Anonymous No.16770213]

>>16763381
My parents' Zoji is at least 15 years old at this point and it's only just barely getting to the point where the coating is starting to wear out. They make good shit. To be fair it hasn't been used daily though, maybe two or three times a week at most.

[Anonymous No.16771929]

>>16770213
That's still more than most people

[Anonymous No.16771973]

>>16770213
Zoji’s quality on their electrics is insane; at least on everything except their bottom cheap stuff they have manufactured in China.
It’s built for years of actual daily use.