'Fluffy' white rice (e.g. Chinese food places)

[NikolaeVarius]

That is more of a function of how much water you put in? The more water, fhe mushier the ri ce, the stickier it is.

What if you want firmer rice that stil sticks to each other.

 

[Train]

It's actually easier, since the rice bowl is less heavy (given the same capacity) and doesn't have a handle to get in the way.

With the attached lid, you can't remove it one handed. With the handle of a sauce pan, you can. If there is sufficient distance between you and the sink, this is actually pretty major, since you'd have to put down whatever else you are carrying to remove the pot, then pick it back up on your way to the sink.

Then yo have to wait until the pot is clean and dry before putting it back, which, if you don't have dedicated counter space for the cooker, means it waits out until then. With a pan it just goes back into the pot/pan shelf with everything else after done drying.

having worked in several busy restaurants, small time savers like this are always on your mind.

 

[Train]

Interesting how many people who have never used a rice-cooker even once still feel the uncontrollable need to proclaim they know best! (lol)

ATOT is a wonderful place!

I could make an equally stupid assumption in the other direction.

"lol all these stupid ATOT'ers who don't know how to cook the simplest of all foods on planet earth, trying to justify the shitty wedding gift they got re-gifted from aunt Bertha."

 

[NikolaeVarius]

With the attached lid, you can't remove it one handed. With the handle of a sauce pan, you can. If there is sufficient distance between you and the sink, this is actually pretty major, since you'd have to put down whatever else you are carrying to remove the pot, then pick it back up on your way to the sink.

Then yo have to wait until the pot is clean and dry before putting it back, which, if you don't have dedicated counter space for the cooker, means it waits out until then. With a pan it just goes back into the pot/pan shelf with everything else after done drying.

having worked in several busy restaurants, small time savers like this are always on your mind.

This post could be a synopsis of those stupid TV commercials where people fail at the most basic things.

Having worked at several busy resteraunts, they all used very large heavy duty rice cookers.

As for drying, Really? You don't just..wipe things down if you want to put them back at that very moment?

 

[Train]

This post could be a synopsis of those stupid TV commercials where people fail at the most basic things.

Having worked at several busy resteraunts, they all used very large heavy duty rice cookers.

As for drying, Really? You don't just..wipe things down if you want to put them back at that very moment?

One handed vs two handed is very basic, but it's still a big deal. Added together with all the other negatives, rice cookers are just a waste for 99% of Americans. People getting all butthurt over this simple concept are like the Nvidia/ATI fanboys who go apeshit over their brand.

 

[Captante]

I could make an equally stupid assumption in the other direction.

"lol all these stupid ATOT'ers who don't know how to cook the simplest of all foods on planet earth, trying to justify the shitty wedding gift they got re-gifted from aunt Bertha."

I'm not assuming ... simply observing.

 

[yuchai]

One handed vs two handed is very basic, but it's still a big deal. Added together with all the other negatives, rice cookers are just a waste for 99% of Americans. People getting all butthurt over this simple concept are like the Nvidia/ATI fanboys who go apeshit over their brand.

Removing the pot from a rice cooker doesn't require two hands? You either press a button that makes the lid open by itself, or you just remove the lid like you would from your pot.

Then you just remove the pot from the cooker. Again, the pot is NOT ATTACHED in any way to the cooker.

If you really used a rice cooker in a commercial setting, it must be very very different form the ones that are used at homes. I've used rice cookers for over 20 years and nothing you are saying makes any sense to me. It's as if we're talking about two different applicances.

 

[Train]

Removing the pot from a rice cooker doesn't require two hands? You either press a button that makes the lid open by itself, or you just remove the lid like you would from your pot.

Then you just remove the pot from the cooker. Again, the pot is NOT ATTACHED in any way to the cooker.

If you really used a rice cooker in a commercial setting, it must be very very different form the ones that are used at homes. I've used rice cookers for over 20 years and nothing you are saying makes any sense to me. It's as if we're talking about two different applicances.

Tell me which model you own, exactly.

 

[yuchai]

Tell me which model you own, exactly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUF1Onz9RKQ

Start from about 23 seconds in. See how he effortlessly removed the pot using 1 hand?

 

[Train]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUF1Onz9RKQ

Start from about 23 seconds in. See how he effortlessly removed the pot using 1 hand?

Good for him. Most cookers I've seen, and I'm not talking about commercial ones, and the ones you see on Amazon, have much larger pots that would be very difficult to remove one handed. A lot of them have a latch system as well.

 

[Ns1]

Cooking anything is about accuracy and timing. If you can't master the simple task of cooking rice you suck at cooking.

Asians don't consider making rice cooking. They consider that a chore.

 

[yuchai]

Good for him. Most cookers I've seen, and I'm not talking about commercial ones, and the ones you see on Amazon, have much larger pots that would be very difficult to remove one handed. A lot of them have a latch system as well.

Let's put it this way. If you get that guy's rice cooker, which by the way is your el cheapo $30 model and are all over Amazon, there will not be any of the issues that you cited associated with rice cookers:

cleaning a simple non-stick sauce pan is easier than cleaning a rice cooker.

Nope

That's not the point. I would either have to:
A) Remove the pot from the cooker to clean in.
B) Wash it while still attached to the electrical components.

Yes, A. But it's not more difficult than cleaning any other pot

With the attached lid, you can't remove it one handed.

Nope

So counter space and frequency of eating rice are valid reasons why you won't buy a rice cooker. But to somehow say that the process of cooking rice isn't much easier in every way with a rice cooker is bogus.

 

[Leyawiin]

Wait wait, the ASIANS are the ones that are arrogant?

Did you even read his post that I quoted? Didn't it seem just the tiniest bit condescending with the "white people" comment? Never mind that practically every ethnicity and race on every continent makes dishes with rice and very little of it comes out of an Asian style rice cooker.

 

[Jeeebus]

So... 137 posts later and I decided to buy the $30 Aroma rice cooker from Amazon. Didn't quite realize this would lead to people arguing whether a rice cooker is inconvenient because you can't masturbate while holding the pot in your other hand, but I guess this is ATOT afterall.

 

[WelshBloke]

Never mind that practically every ethnicity and race on every continent makes dishes with rice and very little of it comes out of an Asian style rice cooker.

Yeah, when theres a rice cooker that can make a perfect paella and risotto I'll get one.

 

[yuchai]

So... 137 posts later and I decided to buy the $30 Aroma rice cooker from Amazon. Didn't quite realize this would lead to people arguing whether a rice cooker is inconvenient because you can't masturbate while holding the pot in your other hand, but I guess this is ATOT afterall.

Do report back on whether it ends up being a giant waste of time, money, counter space, and your cooking skills here!

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Did you even read his post that I quoted? Didn't it seem just the tiniest bit condescending with the "white people" comment? Never mind that practically every ethnicity and race on every continent makes dishes with rice and very little of it comes out of an Asian style rice cooker.

And yet considering that rice cookers are extremely prevalent in China, India, Latin America, Korea, and Japan, I would say a majority of the population in the world gets their rice out of some sort of rice cooker.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Asians don't consider making rice cooking. They consider that a chore.

Cooking is the art of preparing food for consumption with the use of heat.

Making rice definitely falls into the category of cooking. Whether you or anyone else consider it cooking or not is moot.

 

[Train]

Yes, A. But it's not more difficult than cleaning any other pot

I disagree.

Plus, you are assuming you didn't spill or splatter anything on the rest of the cooker... now you have a non-submersible thing to clean as well.

 

[jaedaliu]

I worked at a raw bar in college, rolled about a million sushi rolls. Used a rice cooker at least twice a day. It was great, set it and forget it, kept it warm, yada yada.

But for home? Not unless I have a kitchen about 3 times as big, and eat rice at least twice as often as I do now. Most single use appliances are incredibly wasteful in the home.

It's also an electric steamer. I've made plenty of meals in college out of just the rice cooker.

 

[yuchai]

I disagree.

Plus, you are assuming you didn't spill or splatter anything on the rest of the cooker... now you have a non-submersible thing to clean as well.

Disagree why? Your whole point was that the pot is difficult to get out of the cooker. I showed you a video on why that is incorrect.

I'm not assuming any more than you are regarding spilling or splattering anything on your stove. I hope you don't submerse your stove when you clean it.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

It's also an electric steamer. I've made plenty of meals in college out of just the rice cooker.

Made bread once in a rice cooker. It was actually really really good.

 

[Train]

Disagree why?

Because it's a matter of opinion? Having used both, I'd take a single piece sauce pan over the two piece cooker that needs to be plugged in.

Your whole point was that the pot is difficult to get out of the cooker.

no, it was not the whole point, it was one of many points, you just chose to cherry pick it.

I showed you a video on why that is incorrect.

you showed a video of a specific shitty model that tbh, looked pretty flimsy. And it was in response to me asking you what SPECIFIC model you owned, which you haven't answered.

I'm not assuming any more than you are regarding spilling or splattering anything on your stove. I hope you don't submerse your stove when you clean it.

I didn't suggest submersing it, but don't kid yourself, the surface of a stove is easier to clean than the surface of a rice cooker. And assuming I'm not eating just rice for dinner, I'm ALREADY cleaning the surface of the stove.

 

[Ns1]

I didn't suggest submersing it, but don't kid yourself, the surface of a stove is easier to clean than the surface of a rice cooker. And assuming I'm not eating just rice for dinner, I'm ALREADY cleaning the surface of the stove.

After 5 years, the number of times I've had to clean the surface of the rice cooker due to spills: 0

 

[PlanetJosh]

Good to hear my box of Minute Rice can work for this. I'm not there yet because although it's thick it's more gooey than fluffy. That's boiling it in water in a pyrex dish in the microwave then drain. So I'll look into the cookers next.