Poll: Are you good at cooking rice on the stove top?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rice cooker has always been a mystery to me, and the most useless waste of space in the kitchen. I mean, it is a pot, you add water and rice and cook it, right? How is that any better than doing the same thing in...wait for it...a pot!?! Easy and perfect every time.

I plug it in. I walk away. It turns itself off. It keeps the rice warm. Does your stove do that?

Yep. Love it.

A stovetop maven here—I just don’t find this to be a convenience. I am always cooking something else for dinner in the 20 minutes it takes to make rice, so there is no “walking away” from the kitchen. Also, I used to have a rice cooker and if you did in fact make it early and walk away, the bottom rice would get crusty. Maybe other rice cookers are superior? I gave mine to goodwill.

[Anonymous]

No. Rice cooker only.

[Anonymous]

Instapot!

[Anonymous]

Rice cookers don't cost that much if you want to keep it simple. It can however go up in price, like $100. But, a simple $20 one from Target will do the job if you don't eat rice everyday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rice cooker has always been a mystery to me, and the most useless waste of space in the kitchen. I mean, it is a pot, you add water and rice and cook it, right? How is that any better than doing the same thing in...wait for it...a pot!?! Easy and perfect every time.

I plug it in. I walk away. It turns itself off. It keeps the rice warm. Does your stove do that?

Yep. Love it.

A stovetop maven here—I just don’t find this to be a convenience. I am always cooking something else for dinner in the 20 minutes it takes to make rice, so there is no “walking away” from the kitchen. Also, I used to have a rice cooker and if you did in fact make it early and walk away, the bottom rice would get crusty. Maybe other rice cookers are superior? I gave mine to goodwill.

I think that was your rice cooker. I’ve made rice up to 3 hours ahead of time to keep on warm and the bottom has not become crusty.

[Anonymous]

1:2 ratio or 1:1.75 water to rice. I never use the rice cooker as too big for the dishwasher. I start the rice first on the stove before I start my mise en place. Otherwise known as curing up the veggies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rice cooker has always been a mystery to me, and the most useless waste of space in the kitchen. I mean, it is a pot, you add water and rice and cook it, right? How is that any better than doing the same thing in...wait for it...a pot!?! Easy and perfect every time.

I plug it in. I walk away. It turns itself off. It keeps the rice warm. Does your stove do that?

Yep. Love it.

A stovetop maven here—I just don’t find this to be a convenience. I am always cooking something else for dinner in the 20 minutes it takes to make rice, so there is no “walking away” from the kitchen. Also, I used to have a rice cooker and if you did in fact make it early and walk away, the bottom rice would get crusty. Maybe other rice cookers are superior? I gave mine to goodwill.

+1 and some people love the crusty rice. They want that part when I burn it a bit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. I used to be good at it but then I got a rice maker and now I can’t do stovetop.

+1

Same. The rice maker takes all of the thinking out of it too since it has settings for different types of rice.