Do you use one? If so, is it some retarded expensive jap brand like Yum Asia or Zojirushi?I plan to buy some unexpensive one. Last one I've had looked like pressure cooker and I thought cool, very sterile, you can pull out the pot, very hygienic, awesome.Turns out you couldn't clean all the cranks, especially under the lid and i had to throw it out cuz it stank. It was Russell Hobbs i think.I'm not willing to pay over 100 euro for a japshit tho, so I'm considering something like Tefal RK1011. Thoughts?
>>22057896Yeah I have a rice cooker, it does it perfectly each time with no effort involved. Very cheap, durable and versatile, too. It's a stainless steel saucepan I also use for everything else.
>>22057896i'm gonna shill the same thing i do every time this thread comes upif you're in NA/a western nation and there's one in your area, check your local auction house and/or bargain or "return merchandise" store for good quality japanese rice cookersthese things get returned all the fucking time with 0 use, sold off to these secondary merchants in bulk, then sold at a STEEP discount because of the lack of popularity for rice cookers in western countriesin my area, picrel $200-300 zojirushi model comes up for sale several times a month for $30-50 without fail. it's comical. strongly encourage everyone to entertain the idea before paying MSRP for a worse productand just to reassure, these are almost exclusively fully unused. usually returned marked with "cosmetic damage" - every single one i've ever bought has been in perfect condition or with some cosmetic scratching on the exterior. idk who the dumbass rich snobs returning shit because of that are but i'm not complaining
>>22057896I just bought a similar model from walmart, even has a removable vegetable steamer top half like in your pic.Has worked great so far, I misjudged how much quinoa expands and made myself like 8 cips of the stuff.
>>22057896>Do you use one?no I use a pot because I'm not a bumbling retard who can't operate a stove.
>>22057900If your rice cooker has more than ONE (1) button, you fucked up. A good rice cooker doesn't even need ICs or logic circuits. Just need a metal spring.https://kottke.org/24/01/the-clever-engineering-trick-that-allows-simple-rice-cookers-to-perfectly-cook-rice
>>22057911i don't disagree i've never used anything but default settings on my zojirushi
>>22057899>>22057909I mean I can do it on the stove, it's just easier to do in rice cooker>>22057900I don't buy food related producs this way.>>22057908That's helpful. I think I'll buy this exact one then.
>>22057896yes.it's some $20 generic from amazonit works fine.I've even cooked actual meals in it, although they were just rice + random vegetables + coconut cream and pieces of meat, it's still worked fine
>>22057896I have been using pic related for years and I enjoy it very much. I also had limited experience with these japanese style pressure-cooker-like ones. I am not knowledgeable about them, it might be water-rice proportion/preparation thing, but from my limited experience:>one button simple ones like pic related-very cheap-easy to clean-rice comes out loose, good for stir fry-some tends to stick to the bottom>close lid ones-expensive-harder to clean-rice comes out more sticky, good for sushi-takes significantly more time to cook rice
>>22057896I've never used an expensive one so I don't know what I'm missing but a $20 stainless pot cooker sprayed with cooking spray works well for me. I ate at a Chinese restaurant once and their white rice was really good even on its own.
>>22057896I just use this simple $20 one-switch Aroma rice cooker and it does the job very well. It cooks the fucking rice and if you get the water exactly right on the line the texture is just as good or better than manually-cooked rice. When I cooked 3-cups in it it kinda browned the bottom a little but that literally doesn't matter and I'll probably only be making 2-cups max most of the time anyway (1 cup for whatever I'm making then, 1 cup for fried rice the next day)
>>22057977>>22057955I wonder what manufacturer these all come from.I've got the same one, just with a different brand name compared to these two, but they all obviously have the exact same design.
>>22057981It's probably some white label Chinese producer.
>>22057896>Do you use one?no.i know how to cook rice.>>22057931>it's just easier to do in rice cookertits or gtfo.
>>22057915Ive used mine extensively and regularly make brown rice, oat groats, buckwheat, congee (doesn't really work), and I use the softer/firmer settings for different grain sizes or applications. So having a machine that only cooks white rice at 1 level of firmness would be kind of retarded to me.
>>22057900I heard the japanese domestic ones are made to a different quality standard than the export models with English on them. I own a regular white zoji and am looking to upgrade to an induction just because the cook time on the standard one is long as fuck especially for whole grains.
>>22057896I bought one of the cheap little ones but spent 4$ more for a stainless steel instead of the gross nonstick ones.
>>22057896just get an actual pressure cooker. then you can cook rice and anything else you want to cook, all in much shorter times than open pans.
>>22058078kill yourself
>>22058149it is 100% worth importing for that reason if you're willing to invest yeah
>>22058285I have a large pressure cooker but it's far too large to cook a cup of rice
>>22058432who the hell just cooks a single cup of rice? do at least 2, fridge the leftovers, and you've got perfect stirfry rice for the next days. faffing around cooking little amounts is a bit gay
>>22058442I can't eat fried food so I have no real use for leftover rice except congee
>>22058450how about a nice rice salad? mix chunks of cheese, pickles, cucumber, chickpeas, ham dchicken etc etc with the rice, maybe add a dressing. you can also just fridge it and serve with tomorrows stew/curry/whatever.
