How to make proper rice balls? It seems to hold together fine, but it kind of falls apart and becomes a mess once I actually start eating it. More salt? Less salt? Slow cooling? Fast cooling? Or what?

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Anonymous Fri Jan 19 10:17:20 2018 No.10010297 [Reply] [Original]

How to make proper rice balls? It seems to hold together fine, but it kind of falls apart and becomes a mess once I actually start eating it. More salt? Less salt? Slow cooling? Fast cooling? Or what?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 19 11:05:15 2018 No.10010429 >>10010297 Turn them into doughnuts.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 19 13:32:59 2018 No.10011011 File: 476 KB, 640x480, Donuts.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10010429

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 19 14:43:59 2018 No.10011304 Use sushi rice

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 19 15:17:23 2018 No.10011458 >>10010297 What kind of rice are you using and what is your water-to-rice ratio when you cook it?

Anonymous Fri Jan 19 15:32:50 2018 No.10011529

Dont wash the rice as much. The starch is what helps it stick together. Alternatively you can make one batch of regular rice, and then another batch of rice and then smush one of the batches down into somewhat of a mush, then combine then use that for the riceball.

Oooorrrr just go to the nearest asian market and buy specific "sticky rice".

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 19 15:37:26 2018 No.10011545 >>10010297 You know there's rice vinegar you're supposed to use right

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 19 17:03:40 2018 No.10011935 >>10010297 I've never tasted Onigiri but the pictures make my mouth watery every time, I think they'd be good with a strawberry/blueberry or orange marmelade filling

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 19 17:06:18 2018 No.10011944 use sticky rice, vinegar it, fan it, stick it together. It's very easy.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 19 20:21:46 2018 No.10012962 File: 115 KB, 480x360, 8bc77d2d5.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10010297 i dont know sold in you country.

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Anonymous Fri Jan 19 21:02:41 2018 No.10013150
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You can wash the starch off a couple of times if you like. They don't fall apart if you 1. Use sushi rice 2 have the right amount of rice to fish 3 let your rice cool before you make your rice balls.

Also if your hands are a little wet the rice won't stick to your hands that much.

Picture :riceballs I made today

Anonymous Fri Jan 19 21:23:57 2018 No.10013281

>>10011529
>>10011545
>>10011944
>>10013118
>>10013150

What the fuck are you all talking about? And OP why are you salting it. Just get short grain rice, add the correct amount of water for how many cups you used, then make it. It will stick together. Get a cheap rice cooker too.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 19 21:32:49 2018 No.10013332 >>10013281 >what the fuck are you talking about >doesn't know anything about rice vinegar

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 19 22:06:40 2018 No.10013506 File: 55 KB, 1000x1000, zojirushi.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10013281 >cheap rice cooker Get this instead.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 19 22:19:43 2018 No.10013562 File: 18 KB, 500x576, instantkidd.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Try an instant pot.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 19 22:20:57 2018 No.10013567 >>10013562 I've only had success making wild rice in the Instapot, white rice came out too mushy when I tried it

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 19 22:30:49 2018 No.10013614 >>10013506 but why? rice is literally the easiest thing to cook consistently

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 19 22:33:03 2018 No.10013630 >>10013506 >an hour to cook rice No thanks. I’m not a Japanese housewife with that much free time.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 19 22:35:11 2018 No.10013641 >>10013630 you literally push a button and it makes the rice perfect for you although haoles tend to like a different texture on their rice

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 19 22:40:55 2018 No.10013669 >>10013641 you can also turn a dial and make perfect rice if you're not flyover state soccer mom levels of bad at cooking without spending the money and space on a cooker like that

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 19 22:48:23 2018 No.10013708 >>10011529 Gross, short grain rice should be washed until the water runs clear

Anonymous Fri Jan 19 23:43:25 2018 No.10013965
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>>10013506
I am moving out and trying to pick up stuff.

I am thinking of buying this model. Worth the 250 dollarios?

I work 12 hours so if I like set this up in the morning can I have it like done by the time I get home? Can rice sit in water that long?

Anonymous Fri Jan 19 23:50:53 2018 No.10014002

>>10010297
You don't salt the rice directly. You make a brine and moisten your hands, then compact it pretty hard; the brine makes it not stick to your hands while you do so.

>>10013965
That model is 100-150 USD equivalent depending on where you buy it. 250 is a rip, you can get all sorts of wacky integrated-charcoal-filter ultrasonic-cooking features for 250 unless you're buying locally in EU/AUS. (at which point it's still actually $150, just with $100 payments toward your free healthcare and free college rolled in).

Anonymous Fri Jan 19 23:51:01 2018 No.10014003

>>10013965
~$140 on amazon. Yeah, you can set it to start anytime during the day.

Not sure on letting it soak for 12hrs though, probably would be fine as long as it's not hot in your house while you're working.

Makes bomb ass rice without burning up 10% of the volume on the bottom, unlike cheap rice cookers.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 19 23:52:34 2018 No.10014012 >>10014003 >>10014002 Oh I must be looking at a fancier version. Not sure the difference other than a Jasmine rice version.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 19 23:52:44 2018 No.10014015 >>10013708 Everyone that makes sticky rice needs one of these https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004QZAAS2/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 19 23:53:47 2018 No.10014018 >>10014012 This'll do all you'll ever need: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0074CDG6C/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Anonymous Fri Jan 19 23:55:25 2018 No.10014025

>>10014018
So how is this one is different from the NP-HCC10XH one? What warrants 100 dollars more? Just because of one settings? The 250 one doesn't even have a steam basket.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00VAG84O2/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 19 23:55:34 2018 No.10014027 >>10011545 >>10011944 >>10013118 >>10013332 >using rice vinegar for anything but sushi やばん。Consider suicide.

Anonymous Sat Jan 20 00:05:55 2018 No.10014074

>>10014025
It uses a different style of heating element, Induction Heating, which is apparently faster...

Either way, $250 is a lot of scratch for a rice cooker and I don't think it's worth the price. $140 is a little steep too, but as someone who bought shitty rice cooker prior to buying the Zoji, I'm just recommending you spend a little more for a tool and not a toy the first time. You'll save more time and money in the long run.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 00:07:26 2018 No.10014083 >>10014074 Thanks anon. Yeah I'm gonna stick with the 140. Little faster is cool but maybe not that cool.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 00:08:15 2018 No.10014090 >>10014074 Re-reading that, I'm saying buy either the $140 version I linked, or the $250 model you linked. Whatever fits your budget. They're awesome. Just don't go buying a $50 rice cooker and expect it to give any good results.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 00:26:16 2018 No.10014182 >>10013614 lol sure when you cook Uncle Bens bullshit

Anonymous Sat Jan 20 00:30:51 2018 No.10014200

>>10014090
Pretty much, but rather than just price numbers it's better to think of it as "anything which doesn't have a pressure lid is just a hotplate with added inconvenient housing keeping you from putting other pans on".

Once you get up to there, the timer-lever Zoji/Tiger/Cuckoo/etc will do shortgrain and only shortgrain okay, the digital model we're mostly discussing is good at all rices and less likely to scorch shortgrain even if you wash poorly or mispour water/can also steam and do some cakes or quick breads, there's a midtier a bit above that that I'm not very fond of because they're just extra modes, and then there's the extremely highend stuff which is nice to have but a luxury.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 00:31:07 2018 No.10014201 >>10014182 You dumb fucks just sound so stupid to people who actually cook. https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-cook-perfect-basmati-rice-cooking-lessons-from-the-kitchn-211157

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 00:32:36 2018 No.10014209 >>10014201 You've never had rice cooker rice if you're actually defending stove top rice.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 00:35:14 2018 No.10014222 File: 27 KB, 300x300, thisguy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10014201 >Trust me bros >Perfect >Errrrrrr'ay time

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 00:35:28 2018 No.10014225 >>10014209 I did, it's in the garage. I can't be bothered with shit cluttering up my counter when I can make it just as fast and as good on my stove. You're just fucking lazy and indoctrinated.

Anonymous Sat Jan 20 00:36:09 2018 No.10014229

>>10013965
rice absorbs all the water, there's no water for it to sit in if you use a rice cooker.
I have a different model, after it cooks the rice it goes into 'keep warm' mode which the rice will be fine for all day. Chinese for restaurants use a big one and leave that shit on warm all day long, its fine.

Anonymous Sat Jan 20 00:36:16 2018 No.10014231

>>10014201
>tumblrites so tumblrite they took the last vowel out of their name too
>arguing with several studies commissioned by the Japanese government
there is a right way to cook rice over an open flame, and it's well-documented in double-blind testing
that way is a complex and expensive ceramic pressure pot that is more expensive than an average zojirushi even though it was standard in japanese and chinese kitchens until the '50s. people buy them if they like the crust, that's one thing electric rice cookers are bad at.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 00:36:38 2018 No.10014233 >>10014209 "press-a-button-goodness". You're a fucking microwave chef.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 00:37:54 2018 No.10014238 >>10014229 Oh well that would probably be a better option I guess. Just have it keep warm for like 8 hours. Still stays good after that long?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 00:38:39 2018 No.10014242 >>10014209 You know that teflon basket in your rice cooker? We call that a pot in the real world, and it goes back on the pegs or in the cupboard when you're done, and there's no fucking homunculus on your counter afterwards.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 00:39:13 2018 No.10014244 >>10014201 >Basmati >Long grain rice LONG-GRAIN >A slim type of rice that cooks up fluffy and doesn't clump the way, say, short-grain rice does >This is the most forgiving rice >The variety that will most often turn out the way you want it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 00:40:11 2018 No.10014248 >>10014242 >I post about my objectively wrong feels on 4chan and expect people to take me seriously. :) go back to your hugbox on daily stormer forums. asia has this right and can document it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 00:40:49 2018 No.10014252 >>10014244 and medium and short grain requires you to know how to cook them too. Fancy fucking that. I'm making shitbox california rolls this weekend.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 00:40:50 2018 No.10014251 >>10010297 you using medium grain rice?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 00:41:42 2018 No.10014258 >>10014209 this if you eat a lot of rice you must be retarded to not use one

Anonymous Sat Jan 20 00:42:11 2018 No.10014264

>>10014238
The Zoji has the keep warm function too. You just need a rice cooker that allows you to set what time it starts cooking (usually 1hr before you'll be ready to eat it), and in the $100+ price range, you should be able to pick any of them and be good.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 00:42:16 2018 No.10014265 >>10014244 Do you have a rice fan? I actually own a stupid fucking rice fan.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 00:44:50 2018 No.10014276 >>10014252 >Long >Medium >Short I hate to tell you, it's not the same ricebro. If you can stovetop short grain, consistent, every time. You are better than me, I'll just pay the premium for convenience of hitting the cook button.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 00:46:46 2018 No.10014282 >>10014265 Nah, I use a cheap plastic plate that we have in our cupboard or the square oven mitt I use to take the bowl out of the rice cooker. I spent my rice fan money on the rice cooker haha

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 00:46:52 2018 No.10014283 >>10014258 Every Asian has one. Only whites cook their rice on the stove top. T. Chink

Anonymous Sat Jan 20 00:48:01 2018 No.10014288

When you make your own sushi, you need very cold water, a shallow tapered knife and a bamboo mat wrapped in seranwrap. Cut the nori in half, wet your fingers, take the dried sushi rice in your hand and cover half your nori in a single layer of rice, place a quarter cut piece of cucumber, a sliver of crab and a sliver of carrot in the center. Wrap with in quarter rolls, when it's complete wet the edge of the nori and seal it. Cut it fast and gentle with a cold wet, sharp blade to make maki rolls.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 00:49:42 2018 No.10014297 File: 11 KB, 500x334, ricebros.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Which of my dudes has one of these tho?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 00:50:52 2018 No.10014302 >>10014283 yeah i asked some asian friends if they know how to cook rice on the stove and they said no because they'd never done it why complicate things and make it worse right

Anonymous Sat Jan 20 00:51:16 2018 No.10014304

>>10014283

That's because you assholes have every electronic gadget on the planet. Your parents would be embarrassed. That teflon insert takes as long as a pot to clean. And you still end up with an asshole pushbutton device on your counter top. You're more korean than any korean was even if you're japanese. Materialistic idiots. General Douglas MaCarthur turned your culture into a shitbox mixup of America and Japan.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 00:53:17 2018 No.10014308 >>10014304 >I have a rice cooker to cook my rice You have a pot, a lid for said pot, and a fucking stove... Where you store your stove out of sight?!? Checkmate, my dude

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 00:54:16 2018 No.10014313 >>10014308 So you live in a dorm. Fine, enjoy your rice cooker.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 00:57:08 2018 No.10014323 File: 1.27 MB, 360x254, (((you))).gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10014313 >I don't play about my rice Nah, I live in a house that I own. Hence, why I also have a $140 rice cooker my dude.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 01:00:03 2018 No.10014335 File: 38 KB, 324x388, datrice.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10014323 Back on track. Why is this so much better than the bamboo style option?

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 01:05:06 2018 No.10014348 File: 71 KB, 665x665, prefect.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10014340

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 01:06:48 2018 No.10014355 >>10014348 and now you have to wash that twist off shitbox like a fucking POT. jesus. Don't get any grains inside the machine. I've OWNED ONE dipshit, I know what kind of a hassle they are.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 01:07:50 2018 No.10014359 >>10014348 You just like the pretty fitbit digital garbage, don't you?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 01:11:00 2018 No.10014369 >>10014355 You strike me as a person that hates Instant Pots too

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 01:11:26 2018 No.10014371 >>10014222 Them shits are nice anon

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 01:11:37 2018 No.10014376 >>10014348 That rice looks wet, btw.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 01:12:56 2018 No.10014381 File: 223 KB, 1400x1219, ramen.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10014369 This is my instant shitbox ramen. Rare steak, ramen mushrooms.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 01:16:54 2018 No.10014392 >>10014381 That was the best shitty ramen I've ever had. It was rich in that jap shit they call umami. Raw steak fat.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 05:04:55 2018 No.10015018 >>10011011 This confused the hell out of me as a kid.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 05:47:17 2018 No.10015104 >>10015018 Same, I used to think Japan must have these wierd triangular shaped jelly doughnuts. I figured they had shaved coconut and sugar on the outside or something

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 11:07:53 2018 No.10016021 >>10014222 jasmine rice is the worst rice

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 11:09:34 2018 No.10016024 >>10016021 Meh, it ain't that bad, it's more convenience of being able to make a serving of rice in 1 minute

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 11:12:24 2018 No.10016043 >>10016024 would have more of flavour if it were BASMSATI

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 11:14:39 2018 No.10016052 Use short grain rice

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 11:21:19 2018 No.10016076 File: 385 KB, 1550x1134, bb.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10016043 Basmati is for the peeps that like to make life intentionally harder by not purchasing a Zojirushi

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 11:27:12 2018 No.10016097 >>10016076 basmati has very good flavour

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 13:11:27 2018 No.10016537 File: 1.21 MB, 480x287, asdfld.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10016097

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 20 13:12:05 2018 No.10016539 >>10014355 >hassle Yeah, they sell a fuck ton every year because they're less convenient.

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