Are these things really worth bothering with? I boil a big batch of jasmine rice a couple times a week for meal prepping and it seems fine. What am I missing out on?
Yes. Buy the most expensive model. It's worth it. Jasmine rice is fancy and you deserve the best OP.
>>22024425What's the point of this post exactly?
>>22024397the heat of the coils cook the rice
>>22024397I don't think they are worth it but you cook a lot of rice so maybe? I just use a pot and use the Chef John version that I've been using for a decade and makes perfect rice. I know some Koreans near me that have one and use it every day and they love it. It's one of those things that isn't exactly needed but as a tool that makes your life easier, it's could be worth it.
>>22024397>what am I missing out onPerfectly cooked rice every time. Not fussing with stove top rice cooking. Set it and forget it. If you cook a lot of rice and/or other grains a rice cooker is definitely worth it. You can have your rice cooking and know it's going to be perfect while you prep and cook your other foods.
>>22024397if you only cook rice once or twice a month, probably not worth it. if you cook rice frequently, like multiple times a week, then it's worth it. it's not that cooking rice normally is particularly hard or time consuming, but the rice cooker just makes it completely brainless. add your rice, add your water, set and forget, come back to perfectly cooked rice. you don't have to watch the pot, or stir it, or time it. it will stay on warm after it's cooked so you can let it sit for awhile, even overnight with some models. it just lets you be free to focus on other things, and if you cook rice a lot that little bit of time you save adds up. there's a reason Asians who eat rice every day all use them. they can do things other than cook rice too, I use mine as a steamer a lot.
I love my rice cooker.>>22024468This dude sums it up nicely.But let me expand with a couple more points.Not only does a decent rice cooker make rice totally "fire and forget" easy, it even lets you completely disconnect the rice from your cooking schedule. These things will keep cooked rice PERFECTLY for 12 hours easy. This is the real reason asians love them so much. You can fill the thing with rice and water in the morning, turn it on, and scoop out perfectly cooked rice whenever you need it, all day long.
>>22024787Sometimes I'll just use a couple spare minutes in the middle of the day to get the rice cooker going, hours before I'm planning to make dinner, just so I don't even have to think about the rice at dinner time, it's just done and waiting for me.
>>22024397Nothing. /Thread
>>22024397I use mine for all kinds of steaming stuff. If I have frozen dumplings I usually steam those in the rice cooker. Half way through I throw in some veges too. Easy mode
>>22024397Just think about this. One billion chinks use rice cookers several times every day. Chinks. Masters of the rice; a river basin race engineed for thousands of years to cultivate this crop in perfect harmony. There is simply no other way of cooking rice. With a saucepan and eyeballing the ingredients? Suicide. It's impossible. Especially if you're white. One single white man with an Ikea saucepan, versus one billion chinks living in literal Bladerunner futuristic megacities, each armed with a £500 rice cooker? Who do you think wins? Who do you fucking think wins?
If you have rice at least once a week they are 100% worth it. Comes out near perfect 100% time and you just leave it to do its thing (maybe come back once halfway through to fluff it up, especially if you've added spice mixes or stuff that can stick).Get one with a steamer basket and you can do a load more with it. I keep meaning to see how it does dumpings and bao buns.
I'd day they're worth it. Just fill it up, hit start and then you either work on the other things you'll have with the rice or do something else
>>22024397you don’t need it but it’s really nice to have
>>22024397dont see the point at all. i pressure cook rice once or twice a week and its always the same result because i always add the same amount of water and turn it off right when it pressurizes. no need for a special gadget.
>>22024397Think of the bread toaster. Why would anyone buy a toaster when you can "easily" toast bread in an oven?
>>22025164I would consider your pressure cooker a special gadget.
>>22024450>Perfectly cooked rice every time. Not fussing with stove top rice cooking. Set it and forget it. If you cook a lot of rice and/or other grains a rice cooker is definitely worth it. You can have your rice cooking and know it's going to be perfect while you prep and cook your other foods.anon, i buy my rice in little bags that i just throw into boiling water. i have been buying the same brand from the same company (ALDI) for 15 years now. i always let the rice cook for 15 minutes in boiling water, then i take it out and serve it. it always tastes the same. you don't need a rice cooker, they are ripping you off
>>22025794its not though if you stopped for one second and thought about it, since it can be used for cooking all kinds of things like any regular pan, only quicker. its about as non-specialized a gadget as you can have in the kitchen.
>>22025798>they are ripping you offsounds like you are getting ripped off buying your rice in fancy little individual cooking portions
