/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.11557674]

I want to get a rice cooker and I'm leaning toward buying a zojirushi but I'm a little intimidated by all the different models. Is it worth getting the $350 model with pressure cooking and induction heating or is the $150 model good enough? I'll be using it several times / week.

[Anonymous No.11557687]

>>11557674
The pressure cook models do produce better tasting rice. Whether or not that's worth the big price premium is up to you.

Induction heating doesn't make a significant difference in quality. It is slightly more energy efficient but I doubt it saves enough money to pay for itself.

[Anonymous No.11557727]

>>11557687
If I got the pressure cooker model could I use it like any other pressure cooker or should I stick to just preparing rice with it?

[Anonymous No.11557735]

>>11557687
The main selling point for induction was originally the fine control required to make GABA rice. Eventually they realized nobody actually cares about GABA so it became a matter of "well it's more expensive so it must be better".

That still didn't work so the prices have been coming down, you can get some induction models for almost as cheap as the older models.

If you're a real azn you'll spend a little extra on one of the most important appliances in your kitchen. Wh*teoids should just use a pot.

[Anonymous No.11557748]

>>11557727
They do not function the same asa normal pressure cooker. You can cook other foods in it than rice, but it's not a replacement for a normal pressure cooker. It does not reach as high a pressure and it has totally different controls.

[Anonymous No.11557801]

>>11557674
you can cook cheesecake in the induction but not the pressure ones

[Anonymous No.11557876]

>>11557674
The rice will be super chewy even using shitty rice. My parents have them.

[Anonymous No.11557892]

>>11557674
Nigga cooking rice is easy

[Anonymous No.11557899]

>>11557892
Today anon learns what convenience is.

[Anonymous No.11557905]

>>11557892
It’s much more convenient. I put water and oatmeal in mine every night and set the timer so it is ready when I wake up. Then, I load it with water and rice for when I get home from work.

[Anonymous No.11557914]

>>11557899
LA-
>>11557905
-ZY

[Anonymous No.11557915]

>>11557892

[Anonymous No.11558046]

Excellent thread. As an expert on nippon (Japanese) culture and a follower of Shintoism, I have developed an excellent uruchimai (rice) cooking method. First, let me say this. Gohan means cooked rice. As a westerner, I am embarrassed when I hear a fellow gaijin (foreign person) refer to any rice as gohan.

To buy the best suihanki (rice cooker), look no further than the Zojurushi brand. All real nihonjin use them. It’s best to use since most put their gohan into a chawan (rice bowl) but if you are truly a real fan of Japanese culture, you will enjoy eating from a bento, too.

[Anonymous No.11558055]

>>11558046
Which slave state?

[Anonymous No.11558128]

How do rice cookers handle steel cut oats? I eat it every day and if they're well suited then I might pick one up.

[Anonymous No.11558154]

>>11558128
Fine, a little overkill though

[Anonymous No.11558206]

>>11558055
kek

[Anonymous No.11558269]

>>11558046
Sure thing Jason Schlansky

[Anonymous No.11558306]

>>11557687
How do the pressure cook models compare to just cooking rice in an instant pot?

[Anonymous No.11558328]

>>11558306
I have no idea, I've never tried it.

I'm sure the instant pot can reach the correct pressure/temperature. The question is how much the controls matter. The instant pot just gets to temp and holds it there. The rice cooker's logic is optimized to cook rice. It's heating process is not just "as fast as possible". How much of a difference that makes I don't know, I've never compared the two.

[Anonymous No.11558357]

rice cookers are only necessary if you plan on making fuckloads of rice on a regular basis. otherwise, just learn to make it on the stovetop.

[Anonymous No.11558375]

>>11558357
stoves are only necessary if you plan on cooking a fuck ton of food on a regular basis, otherwise just learn to order pizza

[Anonymous No.11558400]

>>11558375
>can cook rice on a stove
>can't order rice from pizza place

[Anonymous No.11558418]

Just get a cheap $10 one from a garage sale.

[Anonymous No.11558439]

>>11558400
you can also just fling yourself on the floor so hard you hit your head and then screech and flail, your face beet red, until mommy comes running with the tendies plate

[Anonymous No.11558451]

>>11558439
>tendies
>posts wings

You must have some experience with hitting your head.

[Anonymous No.11558471]

>>11558451
There's no practical difference between wings and tendies. Tendies are for energy drink addicted zoomers, and wings are for IPA-addicted neckbeards.

[Anonymous No.11558482]

>>11558418
But I had a cheap one when I was in school and it was a piece of shit.

[Anonymous No.11558484]

>>11558471
Still does not discount the fact that you incorrectly labeled the dish in question.

[Anonymous No.11558486]

>>11558482
Still cooked your rice didn't it?

[Anonymous No.11558489]

>>11558486
Usually, but then I'd throw out the 1/3rd that was burned and stuck to the bowl.

[Anonymous No.11558495]

>>11558489
And is not dealing with a bit of burned rice worth $350?

[Anonymous No.11558509]

>>11558484
The label was and remains correct. You just can't admit that you literally the same as a screeching autistic demanding tendies from mommy.

[Anonymous No.11558518]

>>11558509
I have demanded neither wings nor tendies from mommy. Frankly I have no idea what you are talking about other than the fact you cannot differentiate wings and tendies.

[Anonymous No.11558549]

>>11558518
I cannot differentiate a "bachlor" from an "unmarried man" nor a "ephebophile" from a "pedophile with a thesaurus"

Same deal

[Anonymous No.11558677]

>>11558518
>moooommm, someone called my tendies post out!

[Anonymous No.11558678]

>>11558549
What does that have to do with wings and tendies?
>there is no practical diffrence
That doesn't mean they are the same or even remotely similar. Tendies are made from the chicken tenders (or ground up breast meat if they are shit(or ground up male chicks if they are really shit)) and are always boneless, breaded and often served with a dipping sauce accompaniment

Wings are made using the wings which are a dark meat and also include the skin of the chicken. Most often they still have the bones but deboned versions do exist. They may be breaded or unbreaded, sauced or unsauced and may or may not be served with an accompanying dip.

Tendies just as similar to fried chicken as they are to wings.

[Anonymous No.11558689]

>>11558677
Actually the other guy was the one making the tendies post but nice try.

[Anonymous No.11558732]

>>11558678
Telltale signs of autism:
-Screeching
-Love of tendies
-Inability to understand analogies

[Anonymous No.11558776]

>>11558732
I wasn't the one who brought up tendies in the first place so I guess I am exempt.

[Anonymous No.11558900]

>>11557674
You know you can just cook rice in a pot.

[Anonymous No.11559584]

>>11558495
That's what I'm trying to figure out. I think so.

>>11558900
wow thanks I didn't know that

[Anonymous No.11559614]

I got an Instant Pot on Black Friday and I won't shut up about it. Call it a meme or whatever but it's the best brown rice I ever had. It's actually creamy. I can only imagine what it'll do to white rice.

[Anonymous No.11559622]

>>11559614
Can you cook good rice dishes in it like biriyani or pilaf? I assume it is versatile enough for those.

[Anonymous No.11559640]

>>11559622
I make takikomi gohan in mine so maybe

[Anonymous No.11559658]

>>11559622
Yes, there are many recipes for both in the app. I found some for risotto too.

[Anonymous No.11559671]

>>11559658
>I found some for risotto too.

I have my doubts about that because proper risotto requires a lot of attention and completely negates the purpose of an instant pot. Unless it is "risotto" which is kind of like it but not really but we will just call it risotto anyways.

[Anonymous No.11559696]

You can get a Chinese rice cooker with pressure cooking function for like 40 dollars

[Anonymous No.11559703]

>>11557674
I'm using a $150 model that I got way back in 2006. It has never let me down, ever. It is among my best purchases. I'm a fan of induction heating but I can't imagine it mattering much at all for making rice.

[Anonymous No.11559723]

>>11559703
correction, I got it for $115 at the time.
>>11559696
Fuck China.

[Anonymous No.11559732]

>>11557899

mine wasn't very convenient. i was given one as a gift and no less than two asian ex-girlfriends told me, "oooh, that's a good rice cooker." even with that said, the thing took for goddamn ever to cook rice. close to an hour compared to less than half an hour of combined time of washing the rice and ~17 minutes of simmering the rice covered. cleaning the rice cooker bowl was a pain in the ass too since they're typically huge compared to a 3-6 cup sauce pot.

[Anonymous No.11559791]

>>11559696
I will never buy Chinese products

>>11559723
I read that some zoji models are manufactured in China. I was originally thinking of buying this model but I suspect it's made in China because the 'made in japan' is suspiciously absent in the photo.

[Anonymous No.11559836]

>>11558046
Is this greentextready?

[Anonymous No.11559850]

>>11557727
You can use it to cook food quickly but you can't use it to preserve food. That's assuming you know your ass from a hole in the ground.

[Anonymous No.11559882]

>>11559696
The chinese have a saying, it goes something like 'you get what you pay for.' If you pay six cents for a chinese knockoff of a name brand expect six cents worth of performance.

[Anonymous No.11560412]

>>11559732
>I can fuck up rice in only 17 minutes!

[Anonymous No.11560445]

I got the induction one like the one in your pic: 3 cups for $250 . It's a good rice cooker and I would definitely recommend it. It's brown rice function is meh, and breaks the grains and just leaves it tasteless. I stopped eating brown rice. It does play the twinkle twinkle little star song which gets annoying as shit quickly. My aunt got the cuckoo Korean pressure rice cooker but was $400 around the time I got mine. It made amazing brown rice which always left the grains intact that I got to eat all summer when I was with her. As a downside, it does say random shit in korean.

[Anonymous No.11560456]

>>11558046
what in the fuck is this gay ass shit?

[Anonymous No.11560493]

>>11560456
Wh*teoids think rice was invented by Naruto

[Anonymous No.11560503]

>>11560493
Huh?

[Anonymous No.11560519]

>>11557674
>>11557674
As long as the rice cooker has neuro fuzzy, or fuzzy logic, you're set. The fuzzy logic makes it so your rice comes out perfect every time, and gives you a lot more leeway in messing up your rice:water ratio.

I would personally recommend the Zojirushi NS-ZCC10, has a nice extended warm function for keeping rice up to 48 hours.

Induction is nice for GABA Brown Rice, but no one actually eats that, so it doesn't really matter.

[Anonymous No.11560836]

>>11560412
it's not rocket science, you fucking weeb. it's more than possible to make perfectly fluffy rice in about half the time a rice cooker takes.

[Anonymous No.11560840]

>>11560412
>browses /ck/
>can't cook rice without a dedicated appliance

[Anonymous No.11560847]

>>11560493
hi tenda
shouldnt you be on /r/braincels?

[Anonymous No.11561121]

>>11560840
>Needs $150-350 appliance to make poor people food.

[Anonymous No.11562165]

>>11557674
I have the cheaper model and have used it every day for about 3 years, no complaints. The rice turns out perfect every time, and it can still make steamed cakes/breads even though it has no bread setting.

[Anonymous No.11564251]

>>11557892
>>11557899
>>11557905
>>11557915
Imagine spending $350 because you can’t put some rice on the stove for ten minutes while you’re getting ready for the day

[Anonymous No.11564259]

>>11564251
Imagine not valuing your time enough to make the small things easier

[Anonymous No.11564362]

>>11564259
>while you’re getting ready for the day
How much effort does it take to flip the stove to high and at some point after it’s boiling turn it off? Rice cookers are the single most unnecessary appliance I can think of, their existence is entirely pointless and invalidated by a FUCKING POT

[Anonymous No.11564437]

If you eat rice often honestly just get one. Zojirushi Neuro Fuzzy model. You will get perfect rice every time and the cooker itself will last ages.

[Anonymous No.11564445]

>>11557674
Mine makes really nice, fluffy brown rice