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So, I broke down and bought a rice cooker.

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I went to Italy last summer, from Venice to Florence to Rome to the Amalfi Coast.

To be honest, the Italian food/pasta wasn't any better than you can get over here.

It was just fresher/made from fresh ingredients.

And for those that are basing there rice experience from White Minute Rice or Uncle Ben's, there is an entirely different rice experience awaiting you - from the sticky short grain Asian to the flavorful long grain basmati. Not to mention when you add saffron, vinegar, or curry.

+1 for Zojirushi though it is not the best one.
 
All this talk makes me want to get a rice cooker. What's a good one for somebody who eats rice 2 or 3 times a week? I'm not spending $250.
 
Zeze said:
Sourdough is amazing.

So is a nice hard baguette just with olive oil.
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Not a big fan of their sour dough. They get super hard by the middle of the day.

Baguettes are awesome but hard to come by around here. They have them early morning but it sells out pretty quickly. I miss France and the baguettes there.
 
LagunaX said:
I went to Italy last summer, from Venice to Florence to Rome to the Amalfi Coast.

To be honest, the Italian food/pasta wasn't any better than you can get over here.

It was just fresher/made from fresh ingredients.
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Depends. People who come expecting the type of Italian food that we see in America will be very disappointed. Their foods are very simple and "separate". Meat in pasta dishes are not common. They are a completely separate course. After living here, honestly the best stuff is the simplest. Cacio e pepe, which is literally just cheese and pepper and margherita pizzas are the best.

Side note, food in Florence is way better than Rome.
 
I do like brown rice. I make it with chicken stock after washing it. My mom would always make it without washing it and with water D:

I also like jasmine, which I'll have when I make thai curries (yay for curry paste and coconut milk!).

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So, will a >$100 rice cooker wash the rice? That's probably the worst pain in the ass for me. I could justify it as a health thing because it would mean more brown rice in my belly.
 
Krazy4Real said:
All this talk makes me want to get a rice cooker. What's a good one for somebody who eats rice 2 or 3 times a week? I'm not spending $250.
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All this talk is making me hungry for some rice.

I love Zojirushi. I have the hot water dispenser as well.
 
Daishiki said:
I love Zojirushi. I have the hot water dispenser as well.
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Now a hot water dispenser I don't get. That's totally a superfluous item.

You know what I do when I want a tea? I fill a cup with tap water and microwave it for 2 mins = boiling hot.
 
Zeze said:
Now a hot water dispenser I don't get. That's totally a superfluous item.

You know what I do when I want a tea? I fill a cup with tap water and microwave it for 2 mins = boiling hot.
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You don't have to wait the two minutes for whatever style tea you have the dispenser for. Or do any of the work. Plus, it's nice to be able to get almost exact temperatures for the different styles of tea.

I looked into them, but they are a pretty big power draw. I'm going to get an electric kettle that will stop at a certain temp, eventually.
 
Zeze said:
Now a hot water dispenser I don't get. That's totally a superfluous item.

You know what I do when I want a tea? I fill a cup with tap water and microwave it for 2 mins = boiling hot.
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Funny I just bought one. 2 minutes saved per cup.
 
Zeze said:
I should be clever enough come up with the next useless things hotly debated by ATOT.

So far we had:

Diesel jeans
tipping
fvcking rice cookers

Maybe a coffee thread + how Keurig is amazing? That'll get the elitist nerds foam at the mouth.
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I spent about 210 dollars on a breadmaker if you want to worry about that?
 
we have a cuckoo rice cooker and apparentlyl it's also a pressure cooker. It's pretty cool because it cooks steel cut oats really quick and perfectly. you can keep it warm in the thing for a few days. the thing is kind of a waste because there's a bunch of functions but it's in korean so I just put whatever + water and the start button.

slow cooker is pretty handy too. I've got like 4 lbs of chicken breast cooking at the moment. (I probably could pressure cook it in the rice cooker but, I wouldn't know what buttons to hit lol)
 
My rice cooker died over the weekend. I'll be replacing it very soon. I'm going to get a cheap small one though. Trying to cut back because of teh diabeetus...
 
Zeze said:
Now a hot water dispenser I don't get. That's totally a superfluous item.

You know what I do when I want a tea? I fill a cup with tap water and microwave it for 2 mins = boiling hot.
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And all the minerals in the water crystalises :biggrin:

This is really more suited to constant tea drinkers, not your afternoon tea kind of person.
 
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