/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19102573
Probably reasonable quality. Rice tends to lose flavor the older it is, unless it is stored properly. Slightly different water ratio as well.

I love saucy rice as well with lots of nice things mixed in.

The short grain rice I cook is so good I could happily enjoy a bowl of it plain. Not exaggerating about that either. Soon enough I'm going to have a way to make delicious pickles overnight and things are going to get crazy good.

For an easy dinner I'm happy with excellent quality rice, and some chicken thighs cooked with a miso marinade. Exactly what I'm having for dinner lol.

>>19090714
Wow a reasonable onlooker. How rare.

Ill start by saying that you could argue that cooking brown rice vs. White rice is different because the cook times are different enough. Also my rice cooker has a function that holds at specific temp for 1 hour before actually cooking the brown rice. This steeping makes the grains much softer and fluffier almost completely changing the texture of the brown rice. Up for debate, but that isn't my main point.

The Mixed setting could also be considered a different function of a rice cooker. You can add meat, veggies etc on top of a grain and if proportioned properly will come out really great. Is plain rice vs. A chinese style claypot with sausage, chicken, mushrooms and rice different enough? Maybe.

This is an obscure one, but you can make amazake in a rice cooker. It requires 48 hours at an elevated temperature and many people use a rice cooker to make the drink.

Amazake is a sweet drink made from rice and koji, where the enzymes in the koji break down the starches into simple sugars making a sweet thing drink that is healthy, delicious, and refreshing.

Some rice cookers will also have a yogurt making function. Mine does not, but from my brief researching on it you can simply use the "keep warm" function to do this.

>>19036479
Mushrooms are so amazingly yummy. :D I really enjoy dried shiitake. :)

>>19029768
>>19030063

I spent 350 on a 3 go donabe, dummy. My rice cooker was 1k. I cook better rice than you whichever method I choose. Pan on stove, donabe over a fire, or rice cooker. You cannot compete.

Post your rice. I dare you. This is a shiitake mushroom claypot I made with my donabe. A far far superior tool for making rice than a saucepan or a pot.

>>19030059
Weight is better, and different amounts of rice will cook at different speeds. For my donabe I like cooking it for roughly 2 minutes after I see "strong steam" coming out the hole in the lid. If I want crispy bottom I let it go for 4ish minutes.

>>19021768
This shiitake claypot is one of the best rice dishes I've ever made. I got chills from my first bite. Get a donabe, get good rice, get Japanese shiitake mushrooms.

I am in rice heaven. And I agree. Sorry I missed him.