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

[sdifox]

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

Buy the right rice :awe:

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

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."

+infinity

 

[yuchai]

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.

Well if it's just your opinion and you don't care to point out any relevant facts then what's the point of the discussion? What does the 2 pieceness or the having to get plugged in have to do with anything? You're just adding irrelevant words to the description of the rice cooker to make it look complicated when it's really one of the simplest appliances there is.

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

What were your other points? I would love to see them because I didn't see any. All along you were trying to say that it's cumbersome to clean the rice cooker because you thought it's difficult to remove the pot from it.

I posted a video of a model that is pretty much how all rice cookers work. This has nothing to do with any specific model. But if you have took at a specific model let's use what I think the OP bought, which happens to be the most popular rice cooker sold on Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Aroma-ARC-914S...ds=rice+cooker

See the 2nd pic and how the pot removes from the cooker, just like the "flimsy" one from my video? Now read the text under "Easy Cleanup". I'll paste it here: Cleaning up is never fun. When the cooking is done, the inner cooking pot and all accessories remove for easy cleanup.

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.

All that is required to clean the surface of a rice cooker, in case of a spill which is extremely rare, is to use a wet cloth and wipe it for like 10 seconds. I don't think it's actually possible to spill INSIDE the rice cooker, unless someone is extremely drunk, or has the hand eye coordination of a 2 year old. If you think cleaning a stove is easier than that, then I don't think you're doing a very good job cleaning your stove.

 

[Untapped Grit]

can definitely steam (or boil) in a stove top pot, but as mentioned, a proper rice cooker is the best! also, seconds to the jasmine rice (and it's better for you too!).

 

[Train]

blah blah

Go to the reviews for the product you linked. Right there at the top, under "The most helpful critical review"

Pros-
It's small, takes less counter space.
It does the job it was made for.

Cons-
It's a little slower than my old Rival rice cooker. It also makes a mess, spurting starchy water everywhere.
I don't like the attached lid as it makes clean-up take longer.

uh huh.

 

[Train]

more reviews of the same product you linked

2. Very tough to clean. There are lotta small pockets where the steamed rice water gets into...and its impossible to clean it completely
3. There is always a spill...rice water is on top of cooker and on bottom while cooking, even when I add just exactly the amount of water thats needed for the rice to cook correctly

And the cons:
* Impossibru to completely clean. You cannot remove the rubber gasket so the starchy rice water collects and dries between the lid and the gasket. The lip along the cooker top also has areas where rice water can collect. You literally have to go at these areas for at least 5 minutes with a damp kitchen towel after each use. That is besides cleaning the inner rice bowl.

That's just from the first page. Considering there are 254 1,2,or 3 star reviews, I could probably find 100 of these "hard to clean" comments.

 

[Ns1]

stop fucking around with $30 rice cookers.

http://www.amazon.com/Zojirushi-NP-H.../dp/B000MAKVLQ

sushi, brown, white, dry, wet, keep warm, easy cleaning, this mother fucker does it all. it will even tickle your balls if you rest your nuts on top.

 

[MongGrel]

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.

:biggrin:

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

stop fucking around with $30 rice cookers.

http://www.amazon.com/Zojirushi-NP-H.../dp/B000MAKVLQ

sushi, brown, white, dry, wet, keep warm, easy cleaning, this mother fucker does it all. it will even tickle your balls if you rest your nuts on top.

I can't justify close to $300 bucks for one I guess.

Be here Monday, be making Bento plates more often soon, oughta stock up on SPAM.

Maybe with some pineapple, J/K



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE

 

[Imp]

For $30 rice cooker:

Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 9.3 x 8.7 inches ; 4.2 pounds

Jesus Christ that thing is small. The one we've been using for years was around $100, a foot in diameter, probably 10" high. It's never spilled rice even when we fill it close to the top.

 

[MongGrel]

I so not want a huge one to begin with, is just the wife and I.

 

[BoomerD]

I so not want a huge one to begin with, is just the wife and I.

Generally, it's just my wife and I as well...I just make 2 scoops of rice. (the minimum the cooker says)
Does it take a bit of storage space in the cupboard? Sure...but so does the 25 lb. bag of rice I buy.

FWIW, other than my time in the USMC, especially while I was in RVN, I don't think I've come close to consuming 25 lbs of rice total...since buying the rice cooker and using jasmine rice, I went through 25 lbs in less than 1 year. (and my waist line shows it!)

 

[JulesMaximus]

Generally, it's just my wife and I as well...I just make 2 scoops of rice. (the minimum the cooker says)
Does it take a bit of storage space in the cupboard? Sure...but so does the 25 lb. bag of rice I buy.

FWIW, other than my time in the USMC, especially while I was in RVN, I don't think I've come close to consuming 25 lbs of rice total...since buying the rice cooker and using jasmine rice, I went through 25 lbs in less than 1 year. (and my waist line shows it!)

This just in, rice cookers make you fat.

 

[sdifox]

Generally, it's just my wife and I as well...I just make 2 scoops of rice. (the minimum the cooker says)
Does it take a bit of storage space in the cupboard? Sure...but so does the 25 lb. bag of rice I buy.

FWIW, other than my time in the USMC, especially while I was in RVN, I don't think I've come close to consuming 25 lbs of rice total...since buying the rice cooker and using jasmine rice, I went through 25 lbs in less than 1 year. (and my waist line shows it!)

Probably because you didn't want your fellow Americans to think you were Việt cộng :whiste:

 

[Imp]

Probably because you didn't want your fellow Americans to think you were Việt cộng :whiste:

Be real, man. Genuine Viet Cong use rice pots over an open fire.

 

[who?]

Has anyone tried the plastic microwave oven rice cooker?

 

[sdifox]

Be real, man. Genuine Viet Cong use rice pots over an open fire.

No, about eating rice, not cooking.

 

[Jeeebus]

Had some friends over tonight and made some jasmine rice in the new Aroma ($30 cooker). Perfection. Rice finished up about 30 minutes before dinner and was nice and hot when we were ready to sit down. Everyone loved it. Excellent buy.

 

[DCal430]

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.

Please no one denies that white people eat rice, but no one eats rice as much as Asian people. White people eat rice a few times a year, Asian people eat it almost every day.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Had some friends over tonight and made some jasmine rice in the new Aroma ($30 cooker). Perfection. Rice finished up about 30 minutes before dinner and was nice and hot when we were ready to sit down. Everyone loved it. Excellent buy.

Were you overburdened with the amount of cleaning necessary to use it?

 

[Jeeebus]

Were you overburdened with the amount of cleaning necessary to use it?

Yes. It was awful. I had to remove the pot from the cooker, AND gently wipe it with a sponge. Total bullshit.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Had some friends over tonight and made some jasmine rice in the new Aroma ($30 cooker). Perfection. Rice finished up about 30 minutes before dinner and was nice and hot when we were ready to sit down. Everyone loved it. Excellent buy.

Just imagine how good it would be with a $300 rice cooker!

Or imagine how good it would be if you could actually cook rice yourself. :biggrin:

 

[MongGrel]

Had some friends over tonight and made some jasmine rice in the new Aroma ($30 cooker). Perfection. Rice finished up about 30 minutes before dinner and was nice and hot when we were ready to sit down. Everyone loved it. Excellent buy.

Glad to hear it mine will be here tomorrow.

 

[MongGrel]

Just imagine how good it would be with a $300 rice cooker!

Or imagine how good it would be if you could actually cook rice yourself. :biggrin:

Your pretty much a constant asshole just because you want to be, right?

Only thing I can figure out.

Have any other reasoning otherwise ?

 

[JulesMaximus]

Your pretty much a constant asshole just because you want to be, right?

Only thing I can figure out.

Have any other reasoning otherwise ?

Lulz?

And the fact that I'm white and can actually cook rice without a rice cooker?

 

[Howard]

Yes. It was awful. I had to remove the pot from the cooker, AND gently wipe it with a sponge. Total bullshit.

How many hands did you have to use?