Do I want a rice cooker?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

That's great if you like it, but most people want plain rice with certain dishes.

[Anonymous]

Talking about rice cookers, Aldi has one right now. It is a small one, 2 cups, for 12 dollars. I have a 20-cup one.

[Anonymous]

New PP. I usually make flavored rice, so I'm not sure if a rice cooker can do that.

I sautee a little onion in oil or butter, add the rice, saute the rice for a bit, and cook in chicken broth.

Not sure if a rice cooker can do that. If it can I'd be interested because the rice doesn't always come out just rice on the stove.

[Anonymous]

*just right* lol.

[Anonymous]

If you have tweens/teens in the house, a rice cooker is great way for them to prepare their own meals. DS uses our rice cooker at least 3x a week to make bowls with furikake flakes and chicken or salmon, edamame and other veg.

[Anonymous]

I always make mine on the stove but I would theoretically love a rice cooker. I have too many appliances though and already have stove rice down pat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New PP. I usually make flavored rice, so I'm not sure if a rice cooker can do that.

I sautee a little onion in oil or butter, add the rice, saute the rice for a bit, and cook in chicken broth.

Not sure if a rice cooker can do that. If it can I'd be interested because the rice doesn't always come out just rice on the stove.

I don't think a rice cooker can make risotto. Not a proper one, at least.

[Anonymous]

My sister married into an Asian family and has a rice cooker. I was surprised that they will make a ton of rice and eat out of it for days - so there is 3 day old rice sitting in there that has been warm the whole time and people will eat out of it for breakfast. She says everyone does this.

[Anonymous]

I make rice in the microwave. 15-20 minutes at 40% in a covered glass bowl, time depends on amount. 40-45 minutes for brown rice.
It's not perfect, but good enough for our family and convenient.
The only exception is risotto, which I make in Instant pot.

[Anonymous]

I have a lot of specialty kitchen items and a big kitchen but I don't have a rice cooker. My basmati comes out just fine on the stovetop.

[Anonymous]

I cook rice on the stove and it's so easy that I never understood the need to have a rice cooker. Then I realized that my rice is probably not the correct texture or consistency that it's "supposed" to be, but I don't really care. I don't want another appliance.

[Anonymous]

Yes. Yes we do want a rice cooker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New PP. I usually make flavored rice, so I'm not sure if a rice cooker can do that.

I sautee a little onion in oil or butter, add the rice, saute the rice for a bit, and cook in chicken broth.

Not sure if a rice cooker can do that. If it can I'd be interested because the rice doesn't always come out just rice on the stove.

I don't think a rice cooker can make risotto. Not a proper one, at least.

I like risotto but I'm really making regular rice, only flavored. I like plain rice if I'm making Chinese food, but otherwise I make flavored rice where the liquid is cooked out of the rice.

[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.

A rice cooker can cook a ton of things- not just rice. All grains, pastas, everything.

[Anonymous]

I have almost no food appliances, but I got a zojirushi and like many previous commenters it was amazing. I was highly skeptical and am fully converted. We have middle school aged kids and make a ton of veggie and fish or chicken bowls. Leftover becomes fried rice. And I am another basic white lady. We use it twice a week.