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WTF is up with rice cookers?? price that is ?

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Vette73

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OK. My girl wants a new rice cooker. So at the asian market in Cary, great place, they have them but they cost like $100 and up for a decent 10 cup one.

My question... WHY??? Its a small little heater that heats up a metal pot.. thats it.
Costco has a 10 cup one for $25 but i don't have a membership or I get one. Of course if someone in raleigh/cary/durham area let me use their membership I would get that one. 😉

so why the high cost? Maybe a white guy like me just does not get it.
 
$20 rice cooker = pot + sensor + bottom heater. Cheap, easy, will burn $0.05 worth of rice on the bottom each time you use it.

$100 rice cooker = pot + sensor + bottom heater + side heater. Expensive, easy, less likely to burn rice. Save $0.05 a use. Unless you use it everyday you'll never earn back the money.
 
Originally posted by: dullard
$20 rice cooker = pot + sensor + bottom heater. Cheap, easy, will burn $0.05 worth of rice on the bottom each time you use it.

$100 rice cooker = pot + sensor + bottom heater + side heater. Expensive, easy, less likely to burn rice. Save $0.05 a use. Unless you use it everyday you'll never earn back the money.
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ROFL!
 
All you need to cook rice is a pot with a lid, 2 parts water, 1 part rice and a burner capable of generating enough hear to boil water. A timer makes it pretty much fool proof.
 
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
All you need to cook rice is a pot with a lid, 2 parts water, 1 part rice and a burner capable of generating enough hear to boil water. A timer makes it pretty much fool proof.
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Yeah, only white people use rice cookers 🙂
 
Originally posted by: dullard
$20 rice cooker = pot + sensor + bottom heater. Cheap, easy, will burn $0.05 worth of rice on the bottom each time you use it.

$100 rice cooker = pot + sensor + bottom heater + side heater. Expensive, easy, less likely to burn rice. Save $0.05 a use. Unless you use it everyday you'll never earn back the money.
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Heck, you don't even burn if you use just a very little bit of the flavorless spray.
 
Paid $11 for mine and it cooks rice perfectly fine. Takes only 11 minutes in the microwave and it always comes out tasting great. Plus I can add vegetables or what not (sometimes some saffron) and it's good stuff.

It's similar to this one Link
 
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
All you need to cook rice is a pot with a lid, 2 parts water, 1 part rice and a burner capable of generating enough hear to boil water. A timer makes it pretty much fool proof.
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Yeah that's what I do too...sometimes it doesn't taste exactly the same...but I guess I don't eat rice enough to get a very expensive rice cooker. I guess you get what you pay for.
 
Originally posted by: dabuddha
Paid $11 for mine and it cooks rice perfectly fine. Takes only 11 minutes in the microwave and it always comes out tasting great. Plus I can add vegetables or what not (sometimes some saffron) and it's good stuff.

It's similar to this one Link
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lol @ microwaved rice.
 
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
All you need to cook rice is a pot with a lid, 2 parts water, 1 part rice and a burner capable of generating enough hear to boil water. A timer makes it pretty much fool proof.
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I recommend some form of a non-stick spread as well, so that you don't get the burned stuff all sticking to the bottom of the pot. Butter would be a prime candidate.
 
Originally posted by: dabuddha
Paid $11 for mine and it cooks rice perfectly fine. Takes only 11 minutes in the microwave and it always comes out tasting great. Plus I can add vegetables or what not (sometimes some saffron) and it's good stuff.

It's similar to this one Link
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microwave!

You've never eaten good rice in your life.
 
Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
All you need to cook rice is a pot with a lid, 2 parts water, 1 part rice and a burner capable of generating enough hear to boil water. A timer makes it pretty much fool proof.
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I recommend some form of a non-stick spread as well, so that you don't get the burned stuff all sticking to the bottom of the pot. Butter would be a prime candidate.
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My cookware is all non-stick. I don't have that problem and I don't add anything to my rice.
 
Originally posted by: Marlin1975
Like this...

$200 rice cooker

It cooks rice. I don;t need 10 buttons or a "melody signal" to know when my rice is done.
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My roommate had that. I liked it alot. The rice came out perfect everytime.

Personally I wouldnt pay that much for it though. But I think $100 for a rice cooker is not bad at all. Make sure you get the non-stick kind at least. And do you really need one that cooks 10 cups? How many ppl are you feeding?
 
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
All you need to cook rice is a pot with a lid, 2 parts water, 1 part rice and a burner capable of generating enough hear to boil water. A timer makes it pretty much fool proof.
Click to expand...


I recommend some form of a non-stick spread as well, so that you don't get the burned stuff all sticking to the bottom of the pot. Butter would be a prime candidate.
Click to expand...

My cookware is all non-stick. I don't have that problem and I don't add anything to my rice.
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OK ... people that have non-stick should do it your way
people that don't, or who's non-stick is not so non-sticky ... should add the spread 🙂
 
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