/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18022407
zojirushi.

>>18022417
fpbp. by my calculations I've put almost 1000 kg of rice through mine and it's still doing great

>>18022417
This. Why mess around when there's a recognized gold standard. I've been using my Neuro Fuzzy multiple times a week for almost a decade and it still makes some of the best rice.

Black and decker is 20$ I have been using it for 3 years, work like a charm

>>18022417
they also make really really good thermos flasks

>>18022407
The answer is clear. Thank you anons.

>>18022417
Agree but does fuck all for basmati. Great for jasmine

>>18022407
just pick one with a decent safety rating and a stainless steel inner pot so you dont have to worry about scratches, use boiling water if you think its too slow compared to the aluminium ones
Water to rice ratio is about 2 cups of water for 1 cup of rice, plus minus depending on how absorbent your rice is. If its undercooked, just pour a bit more water in and press the button again. Dont think too hard about it OP

>>18022407
I don’t even cook rice with a lid. I just boil it until all of the water is gone.

Instant pot or similar pressure cooker. Zojirushis are overengineered and expensive crap that take a lifetime to cook even on the fast setting. I know because I bought one before

>>18023149
Don't buy a one button rice cooker like this, OP. You want a fuzzy logic model. There's no guesswork and it has a little computer inside that adjusts the heat throughout the cook cycle to ensure perfect rice every time. Also don't even bother with meme shit like instapot >>18023175
If you want a rice cooker but a fucking rice cooker; don't fall for some shitty "as seen on tv" garbage that claims to do everything and does nothing well.

I have one of these and it works really well

>>18023339
one-button cookers and instapots work fine, shill

>>18022407
Instant pot

>>18023364
>the inferior thing works fine!!!
That's not the point. They're not even in the same ballpark. And you can't be a shill for a piece of technology that's used by a bunch of different companies. If anyone is a shill it's the people suggesting instapot. Nobody who's been here for more than a week would recommend something like that.

try one of these anon

It's a fucking rice cooker, /ck/, just get something that has a pot, heats up and knows when to stop, with the mechanism that is so simple even a clothes iron uses it
You don't see people contemplating this hard when they get a goddamn toaster, do you?

>>18023359
Are they the ones that speak?

>>18022407
FUCK guys I ran into an issue. The zojirushi's are made with TEFLON (PTFE). I have birds in my home and teflon is notoriously toxic for birds. I can't seem to find a zojirushi model without teflon, which is a bummer bc I was dead set on it. I may have to settle with something of stainless steel or ceramic.

>>18023157
>>18023390
Do I need to repeat myself? I can't cook rice in a pot to save my mother's fucking life and I've been attempting for years.

>>18023175
Thanks anon, but time is not a factor, as described above.

>>18023422
Not this one specifically, don't know about other models the brand offers

>>18023359
Me too. Yes they speak

I'm thinking about something like pic related. Flick of the switch and done. No teflon and not over the top but good brand. Thoughts?

Get a donabe

>>18022417
Had mine for almost my entire adult life now, about 12 years. Still kicks out the best damn rice every single time. I still don't know if it's worth spending 10x the price over a basic rice cooker, but I'm sure glad I bought it.

>>18023399
whitey always has to weigh in with his shit opinions in these threads why? can't you make another fast food thread or bidenflation thread?

>>18023050
This is a good point. Any rice cookers better suited for basmati & long grain rices?

>>18023467
How can you be this incompetent
>Rice in, rinse if you like
>Cold water, a knuckles depth above the rice
>Bring to boil
>Boil until waterline meets the rice line
>Cover and turn to low until all water gone
>Turn off and sit for 5 minutes
Honestly you can probably skip a few of those steps

>>18025137
How can you be this stupid?
>Rice in, push button
DONE
Oh wow your rice that you slaved over is worse than rice I forgot about for an hour and was still fresh and perfect, just kill yourself you fucking retard.

>>18025137
>until all water gone
This is probably the most tricky part for him or anybody. How do you tell/know when the water's all gone? It's not like you see it once it's below the rice line.

>>18025157
20-25minutes generally, just set a timer and don't open the lid

>>18025157
Listen to the pot, if it's bubbling there's water, if it's sizzling the water is gone.

>>18025363
>>18025137
Yeah listen I’m not here to take a master class from you I just want a fucking robot to do the work for me.

>>18025137
>>Rice in, rinse if you like
Didn't read the rest of your post.

this thing cost me 20 bucks and it has never failed me

>>18022407
cram the rice up your ass and cook it with your body heat

>>18025137
Dude, 3:2 ratio of water to rice, throw in pot, add dash of salt and olive oil. Bring to boil, immediately turn to one notch above your lowest setting and cover. Leave for 30 minutes, turn off heat, leave for 5-10 minutes. Easy as shit

>>18026443

>>18022407
buy the cheapest one you can find with 1 switch. you can probably find one at a thrift store, or on craigslist, or facebook marketplace, or most stores have cheap $15 models.

1. put in rice with correct amount of water, flip switch
2.???
3. PROFIT!

if you want it fluffy, fluff it with a fork when its done.

>>18026470
>30 minutes
How much rice are you cooking, hoss?

>>18026480
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>>18026491
A lot. Batches 4 lyfe

double boiler cooker or expensive japanese cooker

Mine was made by aroma and it works. Paid $15-$20. You're overthinking things.

>>18022417
Zojirushis are nice but I think the lower end ones are no longer made in Japan.

I'll go ahead and recommend a brand I have not seen yet in this thread: Tatung. This is an old Taiwanese brand and I believe the rice cookers are still made in Taiwan. If they're made in China, disregard my recommendation.

The classic Tatung rice cookers have a white body with a black lid knob and are extremely durable. They only have one switch and don't have the fancy features of the Zojirushi but they are reasonably priced and durable.

>>18023364
I am looking at buying a rice cooker but I'd rather use a saucepan than an instantpot

>>18025157
put a sensor in the pot and get it to shut off automatically

Looks like they've got a new product on the market, but it's still as expensive as ever.

>>18028464
Pressurized cooking and steaming promotes gelatinization and produces sticky and plump rice
Advanced fuzzy logic technology with AI (Artificial Intelligence) "learns" and adjusts the cooking cycle to get perfect results
Superior induction heating (IH) technology generates high heat and makes fine heat adjustments resulting in fluffier rice
"My Rice (49 Ways)" menu setting – Just input how the rice turned out, the rice cooker will make small changes to the cooking flow until it gets to the way you like it
Menu settings include white (regular, soft, softer, firm, and firmer), umami, mixed, sushi, Jasmine, porridge, congee, brown, GABA brown, steel cut oatmeal, quick white and quick Jasmine
Convenient self cleaning function reduces odors
Zojirushi's Commitment to Safe Design: Equipped with multiple fail-safe measures to ensure safe pressure cooking; large steam vent prevents messy overflows; sensors to ensure unit is set up properly
Wild. Wonder what this AI deep learned rice tastes like

>>18022407
I've got the ricecooker from reishunger and i quite like it. Although it's more on the expensive site and i don't know if it's available in your country.

>>18023467
all you need to do is pour water 1 knuckle deep, bring the pot up to a boil, turn the stove off and put a lid on the bitch to steam for 20 minutes. there you go, fluffy, not burnt rice.

wash your rice 10 times if necessary, get rid of the starch until the water is clean.

>>18028474
Better results would be obtained by importing a voltage converter and this higher-end model from Japan by a private individual.

>toss rice into microwavable bowl
>submerge in ~2x height hot water
>nuke for 12 minutes
>let sit for a few mins further

rice cookers are a scam and I'm actually in awe of the kikes who have convinced squillions of people they need to get one

>>18023523
those are okay, perfectly servicable.
But the bottom will get crusty if you leave it on for too long. Its not as sensitive as the expensive stuff.

>>18028501
>nuke for 12 minutes
>really nigga.jpg
a rice cooker is much more energy efficient and will last you years. Its not even 1 single penny for a bowl of cooked rice.

>>18028510
cause of course every consoomer is looking for the most 'energy efficient'/Earth-friendly device to cook their once-twice weekly little bit of rice in

>>18023359
Uh... ok.

>>18022407
Miami native here...
most of the latinos I know use microwave pressure cooker devices. They are under $20 and the rice is perfection.

How long does it take to cook rice in a rice cooker?
How does cleaning it compare to cleaning a regular pan?
Never seen a rice cooker before so I'm a bit curiose.

Aroma Simply Stainless has been my go-to for years. Cheap as shit and no teflon. Works perfectly with one mechanical switch. Sushi rice, basmati, jasmine all perfect. No frills at all, easy to clean.

>>18023523
i have one and its decent. You gotta use a specific plastic measuring cup that it comes with which is dumb but i understand asian autism. The smaller model doesnt have a keep warm setting, but it keeps rice warm for like 15-30 mins after it turns off.
overall if you're not eating rice like everyday this unit will work fine

>>18022417
Zojirushi NeuroFuzzy for the STEM people

>>18028598
Yes that's where the word comes from.

>>18028669
>no keep warm setting
That's a dealbreaker. Most rice needs to steam a bit on warm after the cooking cycle. Don't know if the measuring cup is different, but I have five or six from different brands of cookers over the years and they are all the same. One lives in each of my many rice buckets. Nbd.

>>18023441
Faggot let the birds free imagine if you could fly then some worthless cunt locked you up

>>18028518
>once-twice weekly little bit of rice
asians are eating rice every single day
thats why they love rice cookers.

>>18028803
I assumed we're referring to westerners
most rice-dependant asians don't even have electricity

>>18022407
It's called a stove and a pan. Works great.

>>18028642
Depends how much you're making, but I do enough for three people and it clicks off in 15 minutes, then I usually let it sit for 5 more minutes with some plates warming on top. It's like cleaning any pot, the inner container is loose usually so you just pop it out.

>>18022407
Zojirushi is what I have. And I see it's what fp says.

Which zoujirushi model is the best for someone living alone with not a lot of space?

Got to recommend a Tiger. I got it back in 2016 for like $70 and it is still going strong to this day. I might eventually replace it, but damn I have made a lot of rice in it.

>>18028770
Japanese style keep-warm settings on rice-cookers are illegal in the EU because the temperature is low enough to allow Bacillus Cereus to procreate.

>>18028496
I want one of those models that has the cast iron bowl and is supposed to be like rice from a kamado. I think they're over 100,000 JPY. I use a pressure induction one and it's great because I like brown rice (it's still japanese rice). My cheaper zojirushi had less pleasant brown rice.

>>18029306
Seriously? So I shouldn't use the extended keep warm on my Japanese model? The manual says it keeps for 24 hours.

the rice cooker isn't going to be the problem if you want fluffy rice, it's how much water you're using
that being said certain rice cookers handle certain types of rice better, and some are made only for a very specific amount
personally I've had picrel for like 6 years, me and my roommates (2 Chinese, one American, one Taiwanese) are all happy with it, and it's managed to survive daily use by a pajeet former roommate who struggled to not shit in the kitchen and refused to believe that leaving food out (esp sugar) attracts bugs (i.e. destructive retard who would couldn't even work at a call centre for how incompetent and dumb she is)

>>18025157
the bubbling, steam, sound, and appearance of the rice will all tell you

>>18023399

exactly, it's not rocket science. i have a conventional rice cooker i make rice with once or twice a week, i don't even know the brand name of it because it just makes rice, and the rice has come out fine and fluffy every time

it looks like this

https://www.zojirushi.com/app/product/nhs

>>18029306
OK, I just tested mine, the rice is still above 60C, that won't grow.

>>18022519
this. fuck all the bells and whistles they have nowadays
completely unnecessary

>>18029306
Why would you lie about something like this?

>>18029579
>I want one of those models that has the cast iron bowl and is supposed to be like rice from a kamado.
Is that an older high-end Zojirushi model?
I also wanted one, but gave up on it because of its reputation for having a weak coating.
I think the reason is that by using cast iron, the heat of the pot itself is higher than usual, which increases the damage to the coating.

>I like brown rice
If you eat a lot of brown rice, you may want to choose Panasonic.
The fundamental technologies of pressure and IH are among the best in Japan, so even hard brown rice can be cooked well.
However, it is said that it is necessary to reduce the amount of water used to soften normal rice.

>>18025116
>>18023050
stop consuming pajeetrice and consume short grain like a civilized human bean

>>18028772
Nobody asked. Also, dipshit, I trained them to free fly.

I got a cheapo one for about $100 a decade ago, and it still works fine.
You don’t need “grorious nippon cooker, steamed over ten thousand times” to cook some bloody rice. Just get something cheap

>>18028768
But cuck comes from cuckold, not cuckoo

>>18022407
>>18022417
Overrated, if you're making high quality short grain rice, invest in this, but for cheap medium or long grain rice like I assume you're eating, get a tiger cooker for $70-80. If you want the rice to be fluffy, presoak the grains, and wash them before cooking.

>>18028669
most asians don't use the cup though, we just dump x rice and use y water based on the knuckle trick

>>18025146
Wahhhh!!!
I can't use simple appliances, because I forget I turned them on!!!
FFS, zoomers are retarded.

>>18022407
Buy what ever Zojirushi rice cooker is on your price range.
Literally that's it.

>>18028803
You aren't Asian, fatty.

>>18028464
I wonder what new technology is even in the new model.

>>18022407
The heat from the charcoal heats the steam which turns the turbines which makes the electricity which makes the steam with cooks the rice

>>18031604
Deep learning lmfao

The heat of the appliance cooks the rice cooks the egg

>>18031604
The only major changes are the added induction coil and the pot with increased thermal efficiency.
The same model newly released in Japan now uses the same pot as the high-end model
Zojirushi is taking advantage of the fact that other companies competing in Japan are not coming to the US to sell their old products to the American public.

>>18028917
>most rice-dependant asians don't even have electricity
this isnt the 1950s anymore
even a poor household in cambodia have rice cookers now

>>18031599
i am

>>18031463
And cuckold comes from cuckoos.

low end: Instant Pot, works fine for 2-3 cups of rice at a time
do not buy the little pop up switch rice cookers that are $15-20, I have never had good luck with these because the heat source doesn't radiate as evenly through the nonstick pot and there's no logic to prevent burning

low-mid end: some cheap $30-40 rice cooker, Hamilton Beach, etc

mid: some korean/tiger cooker for $50-80

Asian tier: Zojirushi made in Japan

pro tip for all my ricebros out there: my gf brought me back one of these things from japan (but you can find em on amazon) and it makes washing your rice 100 times easier, just hook it on the side of the rice maker bowl.

>>18032740
but... what does it do?

>>18032756
when you're washing your rice it catches the grains when you pour out the water so you can really quickly rinse and pour without having to worry about losing rice grains and without using a separate strainer or something

>>18032770
Huh, I just let the grains settle and pour the water off. I guess it would be a bit faster.

>>18032780
if you only make rice occasionally that method works fine but its a game changer if you're making it every night, turns a minute into about 20 seconds

>>18030758
Thanks for the tip, I've been looking at the panasonic ones for a while and thinking of importing one. Not sure I want to replace the expensive zojirushi I already have though.
I actually saw some in the store but are the models available in north america as good as the Japanese models? I already have a transformer too.

>>18022519
I simply boil water in a pot and add my rinsed rice. Is there some advantage to a rice cooker that a pot and the correct amount of water can't replicate?