Do I want a rice cooker?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't want any kitchen appliance that's only for one food. I don't want a lemon squeezer thingie or an egg slicer either.

I have a small, city kitchen and feel this way about 99% of kitchen appliances, but I love my small rice cooker. I think I'm uniquely bad at cooking rice and it just makes it so easy to get right every time.

[Anonymous]

Love 💗 our rice cooker. Use 3-4 times a week. Often make “bowls” for school/work lunches, with rice as the base. Simultaneously steam veggies for the bowls. Easy clean up.

[Anonymous]

Add me for team Zojirushi.

My kids just commented over dinner tonight that it’s been one of our most used purchases.

Love that it’s perfect every time, love the timer, love that it frees up space and time on the stove for me to focus on other parts of the meal. And I love waking up to steel cut oats.

[Anonymous]

Got DH one for Xmas (zojirushi) and we love love love it. Our 6yo can even get it all set up and going.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't want any kitchen appliance that's only for one food. I don't want a lemon squeezer thingie or an egg slicer either.

How I know you’ve never set foot in an Asian family’s kitchen.

I assume you have a toaster.

[Anonymous]

I am not a rice person but several years ago we got a small Zojirushi rice cooker and I was hooked. We now have this one: https://shop.zojirushi.com/products/nswac

It's fast, so easy, so simple and non-stick to clean, and we keep ours in a kitchen drawer out of sight unless in use (we have cabinets with pull out drawers for appliances).

I now eat a ton of rice: with raw veggies and asian sauces, with roasted veggies, with Mexican food, all kinds. I even made a Spanish rice in it the other night.

We use this rice, almost always on the sushi setting (which means nothing but is a little sticky like you like) and almost always with a little rice vinegar on the quick cook setting. https://www.amazon.com/Nishiki-Medium-Grain-Rice-Pound/dp/B00852ZN2U/ref=sr_1_1_pp?crid=1S85M7RS5HH4D&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.CI0r74loLLUUxyjh7zSITxSn3pswGU_abE-GoJjW3ZN4iF9ZDl07-KygSBGHvkk1uBig8ze996oFSX8Wqx4vu15WUl3BNdn9zbmfJZfjeeS9xgrrl6x1-sPyNiD0lntUmKL0dyjLRKtRUXJ3G5rHWAbWmKsJKyBfj3csrElEZtOG0KiIo7mtyeUtEZ9sovw8NgCfn7OGizdddAfgi1kAD58Srag8eYQ4hZtB2z9cYOpuOWQRRd62rSss6cY_8wL2ePs7F_LZQILYwihzYO3rA0h6Bh524wdFnACXR5rLDYc._1lo2djBOI63lTB6Jf2Iq7ak3UMH6XDBH1ZAZeTz5fs&dib_tag=se&keywords=rice&qid=1720052777&sprefix=rice%2Caps%2C181&sr=8-1

I am a total convert and was a total skeptic. If it wasn't obvious I am a basic white lady, so not someone who grew up eating anything other than mealy minute rice.

[Anonymous]

I have one and don't use it because after watching a Youtuber I have started sauteeing a small amount of onion and celery in a pan before adding my rice and sauteeing the rice before adding the water and a boulion cube and cooking it. And I'm a terrible cook with almost no skills but for some reason I've never had any problem with rice, comes out perfectly every time. Not sure why. I follow instructions from the Mark Bittman book. So I don't need the rice cooker. I should give mine away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't want any kitchen appliance that's only for one food. I don't want a lemon squeezer thingie or an egg slicer either.

How I know you’ve never set foot in an Asian family’s kitchen.

I assume you have a toaster.

What's wrong with you? Rude AF. DP.

[Anonymous]

Another vote for zojirushi.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't want any kitchen appliance that's only for one food. I don't want a lemon squeezer thingie or an egg slicer either.

I have a small, city kitchen and feel this way about 99% of kitchen appliances, but I love my small rice cooker. I think I'm uniquely bad at cooking rice and it just makes it so easy to get right every time.

NP. I might feel this way if I had a small kitchen, but I don’t, and I have found many single-use gadgets to be excellent time savers that perform much better than most people can accomplish in a minimalist kitchen. Agree that a Zojirushi is a nice addition to any kitchen, and that Instant Pots also have a decent rice cooking function.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't want any kitchen appliance that's only for one food. I don't want a lemon squeezer thingie or an egg slicer either.

It's not for one food. I have a "300 recipes for your rice cooker" book and it makes great lentil dal and other things.

[Anonymous]

Yet another vote for zojirushi fuzzy logic. Always perfect rice. Just bought one for my college sophomore to take to school.

[Anonymous]

I use our instant pot for making rice, 1-2x/week, and it does a good job. But if I really made rice daily I'd get a zojirushi.

[Anonymous]

Just another thing to take up space. I gave ours away to Salvation Army. I

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't want any kitchen appliance that's only for one food. I don't want a lemon squeezer thingie or an egg slicer either.

How I know you’ve never set foot in an Asian family’s kitchen.

I assume you have a toaster.

Gosh, just like I've been told so many times, "you people need to stop being so sensitive and learn to take a joke."

You know, because its true Asian people have rice cookers. And its true white person have toasters. And they both take up a lot of room on the counter and make one thing! Get it?