/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.18637701]

I think it's time for me to get a rice cooker. I simply don't want to wait for rice anymore and I'm working out so I need my food fast. What is a good one to get that won't break the bank?

[Anonymous No.18637710]

>>18637701
Do you want good rice? 600 usd is minimum for actually good rice. 150 will get you pretty good rice.

[Anonymous No.18637719]

i have the zojirushi model in the center of the picture. i'm very happy with it. buying good rice to begin with is, of course, important. we have a little japanese market where you can get good rice at a variety of prices. better than what i've had in the regular grocery store, even at similar prices

[Anonymous No.18637726]

>>18637701
if you're in europe and got cucked by zoji not selling here, go for yum asai mini. I got mine for like 50 bucks and it works just fine
if youre in america enjoy your privilege and buy a really good one used off ebay for less than 100 bucks

[Anonymous No.18637730]

>>18637710
How fucking good can the rice be for $600+? Jesus

[Anonymous No.18637735]

>>18637730
Extremely good, especially when you use very high quality sushi rice.

[Anonymous No.18637736]

>>18637730
It’s the same as the 20 dollar rice but hell never admit it because otherwise he has to admit he wasted 580 being a stupid fucking retard.

[Anonymous No.18637746]

>>18637736
Deep down you just a jelly boy. I spent more than 600 on my rice cooker and havent regretted it for a second. It is kind of annoying it's in all japanese, but I memorized all the important moon runes.

[Anonymous No.18637748]

>>18637701
RAW FISH ON RICE
RAW FISH ON RICE

[Anonymous No.18637759]

Idk about a good/bad cooker, but make sure the pot is separate from the heating apparatus. I'll make extra rice for leftovers and put the pot in the fridge as it's own tupperware container.

[Anonymous No.18637762]

The Instant Pot cooks rice better. I’m not going back to rice cookers.

[Anonymous No.18637765]

>>18637762
You're a shill, deviant, and a deceiver.

[Anonymous No.18637773]

>>18637762
Is this true? I heard you can cook veggies and some meat in rice cookers along with the rice
>>18637765
????

[Anonymous No.18637785]

>>18637701
You know most of those rice cookers actually take longer to cook than it would in a pot on the stove, right? The convenience comes in the fact that it takes 30 seconds to get it set up and then you don't have to do anything and it will keep your rice warm, so you can set it before your workout or whatever. Some of them even have a timer function where you can say when you want your rice done and it will be finishing right when you get home.
>>18637762
Don't listen to this guy. The instapot makes extremely mediocre rice. It's almost inedible compared to a zoj.

[Anonymous No.18637802]

>>18637773
Saying an instant pot cooks rice better than a dedicated rice cooker made by autistic Japanese people is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. It's in the realm of something so stupid it's purposeful, which means shilling.

[Anonymous No.18637810]

>>18637802
Assholes who own rice cookers and don't make rice every single fucking day as autistic. They're generally shit. Boil water, 20 minutes on, 20 minutes off and fluff. IN A GODDAMN POT. Perfect fucking rice every time. I _hate_ people who yammer on about rice cookers.

[Anonymous No.18637819]

>>18637810
Yet another filthy, degenerate, pot cooker. Lmao you think your recipe makes perfect rice? Your claim tells me all I need to know. You are limitless in your unknowing. You have NEVER experienced good rice if you call your 20 minutes on 20 minutes off perfect rice. How DARE you even speak about such matters. Have you not the self awareness to understand you are but a peon in the world of rice preperation? Begone you scum on the bottom of an autistic Japanese rice cooker engineer's boot. Begone.

[Anonymous No.18637823]

>>18637810
>perfect fucking rice every time
I hate people who say shit like this. Was your rice perfectly adequate? Sure. Was it perfectly edible? I don't doubt it. But you're completely delusional if you think you're making "perfect" rice. It's fine if you're okay with "perfectly adequate" rice, but it's completely ignorance to pretend that your rice is anywhere near as good as rice coming out of a decent rice cooker.

[Anonymous No.18637830]

Mid-range rice cookers (made in China) aren't going to make rice faster than you. The point is to make it well, and completely hands-off (once you rinse and add water).
High-end pressure cookers are faster, especially in quick cooking mode, but assuming you want a Zojirushi, unless you want to spend $500 or more on an oversized cooker (assuming it is just for one or two people) you will need to import one from Japan, because prices at least in the US are insane for them and they do not even sell them in the smaller size.

For reference, I got a brand new NP-RM05-TA model, along with a 1600W transformer, and the total cost including shipping was around $400. In the US, the closest equivalent model is the NP-NWC10, which is too large for me and costs $525, excluding tax and shipping. List price in Japan is closer to $200-230.

[Anonymous No.18637834]

>>18637819
I know you're a shithead, but I'll respond. That's for basmati, 1 to 1.3 water(normally used for short grain sushi) but it works perfectly 15/15 is good too. I KNOW it's perfect because I do it every time and it's light and cooked as fuck. So.. pretend all you want. I know rice.

[Anonymous No.18637839]

>>18637823
I don't give a shit what you say, it's not wet, it's not dry, it fluffs like mad. Do it or don't. I could give a shit.

[Anonymous No.18637849]

>>18637834
>>18637839
High tier ricelet and you continue proving it. Now you're flapping your gums about cooking sushi rice perfectly. You've been called out, spit on by your peers, and thrown out in the trash like a crumpled piece of misprinted paper. Take what very little you have left and leave this saloon.

[Anonymous No.18637850]

>>18637839
>it's not wet, it's not dry, it fluffs
Like I said, perfectly adequate. You've never had really good rice so your definition of "perfect" just means "I didn't fuck it up". Again, if your entire outlook is "rice is rice" then by all means keep making your perfect rice, but that's like saying all pasta is the same so it doesn't matter if you make it fresh or buy Barilla; or all tomatoes are the same, so hothouse grocery store stuff is exactly the same as freshly picked heirlooms. Nobody cares if you want to stay in your cave, but you look really silly when you start screeching about how everyone else is stupid because they've tried things you haven't and recognize some things are better than others.

[Anonymous No.18637864]

This thread got autistic real quick

[Anonymous No.18637868]

>>18637850
God, you're needy. You're probably an 'organic' food person as well. Jumping fuck dude.

[Anonymous No.18637872]

>>18637864
What do you expect when a filthy pot cooker needs a good smack down?

[Anonymous No.18637873]

>>18637850
Oh, and I grow my own tomatoes you utter fuck up. Tomatoes, chives, thyme, rosemary, peppers, etc. So in general, go fuck yourself.

[Anonymous No.18637876]

>>18637701
What's the point of this? As long as you aren't an autist you can make great rice in a pot.

[Anonymous No.18637878]

>wash rice and add to pot before bed
>schedule cooking for when i wake up (to eat with a raw egg of course)
>enter "2 hour soak in warm water to enhance sweetness of the rice" mode
>potfags BTFO by the perfect texture and sweetness of my breakfast rice

[Anonymous No.18637884]

>>18637864
People who come into every rice cooker thread and say "lol just learn how to cook rice in a pot" have a mental illness much worse than autism. They're the same people who think they can cook better than any restaurant and tell people to buy all their knives at Walmart and just learn how to sharpen them. I don't know exactly what the mental illness is, but it certainly stems from poverty and ignorance and involves a massive inferiority complex.

[Anonymous No.18637886]

>>18637873
You've outed yourself as someone who lacks critical thought.

Let me ask you this to allow your inferior cranium to understand. If I said to you hot house tomatoes are just as good as homegrown you would tell me I probably haven't had a homegrown tomato before.

Get it? Your ignorance is showing loud and clear with rice. It's okay bud we all gotta walk the same path to rice greatness.

[Anonymous No.18637889]

>>18637873
It's an analogy, retard.

[Anonymous No.18637894]

>>18637884
Pretentious poverty cope syndrome.

[Anonymous No.18637897]

>>18637894
or poop syndrome for short

[Anonymous No.18637899]

>>18637897
Yes.

[Anonymous No.18637904]

>>18637894
Asshole, I owned a rice cooker and chucked it. Wasn't worth the counter space. Unitaskers are fucking worthless. But if you're asian or live on rice to survive, I get it. I don't.

[Anonymous No.18637913]

>>18637904
Calling a rice cooker a unitasker is about as smooth brain as you could get, or you're suffering from a severe case of poop syndrome and bought a 10 dollar rice cooker and hated it.

[Anonymous No.18637915]

>>18637904
poorfag can't even spare the cabinet/counter space for a rice cooker lmfao...
probably had some cheap chinese shit too
way to prove us (elephant chads) right

[Anonymous No.18637918]

>>18637913
You fucking people are so dedicated. I love watching this syndrome.

[Anonymous No.18637923]

>>18637915
Here we go with the poverty crew dogpile. I love this, you all come out because you yourself are fucking poor as dirt and want to project. Keep coming poorfags.

[Anonymous No.18637927]

>>18637923
my $300 rice cooker bertha and i are laughing at you

[Anonymous No.18637929]

>>18637918
I'm dedicated to the eternal war, yes. It's funny taking steaming shits in people's rice they cooked on the stove. Literally and figuratively.

[Anonymous No.18637932]

>>18637927
Good for you. People buy NFTs for more.

[Anonymous No.18637937]

>>18637929
Make sure you rinse it 3 times in cold water before you cook it.

[Anonymous No.18637940]

>>18637735
>sushi rice
Ask me how I know you have no idea what you're talking about.

[Anonymous No.18637945]

>>18637940
Lmfao. Does new season koshihikari count as sushi rice, or should I have just said Japanese grown short grain rice? PLEB.

[Anonymous No.18637947]

This is 4chan in a fucking nutshell. Glad to see this board hasn't changed as much as I thought. In all seriousness, should I get a fucking rice cooker or not? I've heard they can be used for more than just rice, and I plan to meal prep with stuff that involves rice for my workouts.

[Anonymous No.18637949]

>>18637940
Asiago make you happy?

[Anonymous No.18637950]

>>18637701
if you're not a complete autist who cares about muh neurofuzzlogic bullshit which only matters for short grain rice anyways, get a tiger rice cooker from Amazon. Can get a 5 or 10 cup for > $100.

[Anonymous No.18637956]

>>18637947
You can steam veg in those abominations, or just get a cunting instant pot and cook everything in it. Then put it away afterwards like a goddamn adult.

[Anonymous No.18637958]

>>18637947
buckwheat from it is amazing
just add some salt and butter afterwards

[Anonymous No.18637959]

>>18637950
You can get a really nice fuzzy logic for > $100, and it makes a huge difference for every kind of rice, not just short grain (not even sure where you could have gotten that idea from).

[Anonymous No.18637962]

>>18637830
Based self importer and knower of things. I had to do something similar to get the perfect spinning rod for my emergency kit.

[Anonymous No.18637969]

>>18637746
I’m not jealous. My rice maker was 20 dollars from tj maxx. It makes rice. Perfectly satisfied.

[Anonymous No.18637977]

>>18637945
No, you would have spoken of specific cultivars if you were worth a shit. "Sushi rice". Christ almighty.

[Anonymous No.18637984]

>>18637850
Tell me how much a week you spend on groceries and I’ll tell you how fucking stupid you are for overspending on brand name meme shit.

[Anonymous No.18638026]

>>18637984
ohh do me do me
$150 for food
$200 for booze
$100 for my canned fish and seafood collection

[Anonymous No.18638038]

>>18637977
Here's the thing "lad" when speaking with people sometimes you need to match their word set. He said sushi rice, so I used that term. If I started of using big scary words like japonica and koshihikari I would have lost him immediately. If you weren't a brain dead monkey boy you would easily understand this.

[Anonymous No.18638044]

>>18638026
>nearly 1/4 on deenz
NICE!

[Anonymous No.18638045]

>>18638038

[Anonymous No.18638048]

>>18638045
I have absolutely no idea who those lads are.

[Anonymous No.18638055]

>>18638048

[Anonymous No.18638062]

>>18638055
Me and my rice cooker. Nbd.

[Anonymous No.18638063]

>>18638062
where do I get a shota rice cooker

[Anonymous No.18638064]

>>18638063
Japan. Duh.

[Anonymous No.18638072]

>>18638062
>>18638063
>>18638064
Still love this stupid shithole, kek.

[Anonymous No.18638078]

>>18638072
I still dont know whether to get a goddamn rice cooker or not and there have been 66 replies

[Anonymous No.18638085]

>>18638078
Get a fucking American rice cooker, it's worth the $30. Color up as needed if you're really serious about rice as your staple starch. Here endeth the lesson.

[Anonymous No.18638086]

>wah wah i can't make a decision
how about you buy estrogen instead

[Anonymous No.18638087]

>>18638078
If you want consistently good rice wothout having to pay attention to any aspect of cooking it except adding the right amount of water

You think having hot rice ready to serve that lasts for 48 hours in the cooker sounds nice.

You make sushi and need an easy way to make acceptable rice.

You want to make large-ish amounts of rice easily and consistently.

If you say yes to 3/4 look into getting the fuzzy logic zojirushi or similar.

You can also make really tasty one pot meals in a rice cooker by adding veggies, marinated chicken, chorizo, etc on top of the rice. It comes out perfect if you don't add too much stuff on top.

[Anonymous No.18638089]

all this autism bickering and I havent even seen a single cooked rice grain from any of you
amazing. good job.

[Anonymous No.18638094]

>>18638078
If you're a meal prepper and a /fit/ fag you probably fall into the cheap tastelet camp, so a rice cooker probably isn't for you. The best thing about a rice cooker is how easy it makes eating really good, fresh rice. If you're just going to make a big batch once a week and eat leftovers it doesn't really matter.

[Anonymous No.18638101]

>>18638089
i'm making burgers today faggot

[Anonymous No.18638110]

>>18638089
Since you have asked so kindly here is some basmati from my japanese import cooker.

[Anonymous No.18638113]

>>18638089
Chinese style claypot rice using the "burnt bottom" setting. Absolutely delicious. I like both short and long grain for these dishes depending on my mood. I know long grain is more traditional.

[Anonymous No.18638115]

>>18638113
Ok this looks amazing. Which rice cooker do you have?

[Anonymous No.18638118]

>>18638089
Chorizo meatballs with burnt bottom long grain.

Mix egg, heavy cream, chorizo. Form into balls and add ontop of uncooked rice. Cook. Comes out delicious and the meatballs are nice and fluffy. Homegrown scotch bonnet peppers on top.

[Anonymous No.18638124]

>>18638089

[Anonymous No.18638127]

>>18638115
I have the flame dance zoji, but the base fuzzy logic will make that for you without the burnt bottom. I believe that the western pressure+induction models will have that feature, but you would need to double check.

Look at how beautiful this is.

[Anonymous No.18638128]

>>18638118
>>18638124
Now this threads getting good. Name your goddamn rice cookers though

[Anonymous No.18638132]

Every time someone feels the need to go
>MAKE IT IN A POT DUMBASSES I DO IT PERFECT EVERY TIME
you just know they make rice that looks like this.

[Anonymous No.18638135]

>>18638115
Here's before cooking, freshly done, stirred up. Fairly easy to prepare and it is superb.

[Anonymous No.18638143]

>>18638110
>>18638113
>>18638118
>>18638124
all nice
can i see the side cut of the grains? i like inspecting for grain translucency, like the spam musubi.. really nice..

[Anonymous No.18638145]

I think this is some koshihikari made using the sushimeshi setting on my flame dance zoji. If you get the water just right it comes out incredibly good. Got that three dimensional texture and a really lovely taste and aroma.

[Anonymous No.18638159]

Behold the flame dance and all its different settings.

>>18638143
I would, but those are all old pictures.

[Anonymous No.18638163]

>>18638143
The musubi is an old image so no close up pics of the inside of the grains or whatever, but it was made in a Neuro Fuzzy (the one in the center of OP's image) using pic related.

[Anonymous No.18638169]

>>18638163
>gluten free rice
gets me everytime kek

[Anonymous No.18638186]

What do you guys think about this one? Might get it, looks legit
https://www.amazon.com/Zojirushi-NS-ZCC10-Uncooked-Premium-1-0-Liter/dp/B00007J5U7/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

[Anonymous No.18638195]

>>18638186
Those are the simplest of the good rice cookers. They work great and people get decades of use out of them before they break. One guy had his so long the internal clock battery died before the machine crapped and he replaced it. Still going strong to this day.

[Anonymous No.18638207]

>>18638186
lol

[Anonymous No.18638218]

>>18637701
Tiger made in Japan, cheap and made in Japan, found it on sale 2yrs or so ago for $100.

[Anonymous No.18638219]

>>18638207
based

[Anonymous No.18638241]

>>18638127
Only the enbutaki model has that option. But I'm pretty sure it can be achieved by re"cooking" after it's done anyway. Or just use a real clay pot, the char is much better with one anyway.

>>18638135
Why is it so slimy? I make Chinese clay pot rice all the time but it is nice and dry unless I mix a raw egg at the end. Which might be nice, I just crack one on top before cooking and let it hard boil. Also doesn't look like there is a lot of vegetables in there.

I need to get some pork to make Chinese sausage now that it is cold outside.

[Anonymous No.18638255]

>>18638113
Fuck. Recipe?

[Anonymous No.18638256]

>>18638159
Nice. I may upgrade to that one day. Right now my Cuckoo is perfect for me.

[Anonymous No.18638260]

>>18638241
Not sure why it's "slimy". It only looks slimy it was more like a thin coating of oily sauce. It may just be all the fat and marinade coating the rice. I use chicken thigh for it, and yeah I only added shiitake mushrooms to it. I was following a recipe.

I think my choice of short grain rice also makes it a bit wetter looking. I haven't tried the chinese style claypot recipe with basmati yet, but the basmati always comes out fluffy and dry, even when I add fatty ingredients.

[Anonymous No.18638265]

>>18638255
https://www.madewithlau.com/recipes/clay-pot-rice

Do all the marinade and shiitake prep, but then add your rice and the water to your cooker. Carefully place everything on top in an even layer. Cook rice on mixed setting. Stir it up and you're golden.

[Anonymous No.18638270]

>>18638265
Thanks brother.

[Anonymous No.18638282]

>>18638159
what even is the difference between しゃっきり or ややしゃっきり and エコ炊飯 when エコ炊飯 achieves firmer rice? i feel like half of these settings are kinda useless. not sure who wants よりやわらか either, might as well eat おかゆ. maybe geriatrics.
is 無洗米 even available in the US? i'm curious about it but cannot find it even at the premium rice online store that i generally buy from.
>>18638265
kikkoman shilling aside the base recipe looks alright but more complicated than it is worth to prepare. i just wash and soak rice, chop chinese sausage that i make with sichuan spices (and/or cured pork belly), ginger garlic any vegetables i want to get rid of like cabbage, spinach, baby bok choi, maybe frozen peas and carrots (i think they stay firmer than fresh ones), sometimes abura-age. add oyster sauce, soy sauce, sometimes mirin, sometimes toasted sesame oil, directly into the pot, throw all vegetables on top, arrange meat slices on top of everything so the fat melts over the vegetables and adds flavor. then crack an egg on top. if i add chicken i don't velvet or marinate. the nice thing is you can just add any vegetables and meat you want and as long as there is some meat or something providing a good amount of umami it will be tasty and takes 30 minutes max to prepare.
>>18638260
I remember taking photos of my own clay pot rice and it looked a bit slimy as well so that makes sense.

[Anonymous No.18638316]

>>18638282
I haven't had the thing long enough to fully explore all the features yet. Here's the picture from the manual with a description of all the features.

I was actually thinking the marinade step is unnecessary and was planning on seeing how it turned out without it.

The recipe is a good starting point to understand the ratios and basic idea. Once that's out of the way you probably never really need a recipe.

I've never sought out pre-washed rice, but even the more basic zoji models come with a different measuring cup and setting for it. Amazon and some of the Japanese markets probably sell it.

[Anonymous No.18638317]

Pulling the trigger on this bad boy. Thank you for the advice and keks. I hope it's good. https://www.amazon.com/Zojirushi-NS-ZCC10-Uncooked-Premium-1-0-Liter/dp/B00007J5U7/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

[Anonymous No.18638330]

>>18638026
I pray you die from your sad alcoholism. Then you’ll finally stop being a faggot crying for attention on the internet and .

[Anonymous No.18638338]

>>18637701
here is the rice cooker with the best reviews. it is what every asian parent still uses.

[Anonymous No.18638345]

>>18638132
Oh my fucking god is that rice!? No fucking way! They made rice in a pot! UNACCEPTABLE REEEEEEE

[Anonymous No.18638350]

>>18638338
maybe chingchongs. this would never be tolerated in a japanese household.

[Anonymous No.18638351]

>>18638316
You put in rice and water and hit start. How fucking boring and lonely are you that you’re going to explore settings on a fucking rice cooker.

[Anonymous No.18638355]

>>18638351
are you retarded? you put rice and water and hit shakkiri. if you eat futsuu please please please kys yourself

[Anonymous No.18638356]

>>18638350
i guess you have never been to a house with a person over 40.

[Anonymous No.18638359]

>>18638351
:( I just like rice. If I never explored the features I wouldnt have found the burnt bottom setting or the setting that's used specifically for cooking sushi rice(sumeshi/sushimeshi). Both make incredibly delicious rice.

[Anonymous No.18638398]

>>18638338
>literally two settings
Nah foh

[Anonymous No.18638403]

>>18638356
bruhhh im not a boomer bet these losers still cook rice in their socks like they dont know what electricity is hyuk hyuk hyuk

[Anonymous No.18638415]

>>18638398
if you need more you don't need a rice cooker you need a pot and a steamer.

[Anonymous No.18638418]

>>18638355
Speak English you fucking weeb. Nobody cares you looked up words on google you elitist bitch.

[Anonymous No.18638421]

>>18638418
please never post on 4chan again until you have learned japanese, rule 16 :((

[Anonymous No.18638433]

>>18637701
Whatever you do don't fall for retards with major case of buyer's remorse in here trying to rope you in. At the end of the day it's just fucking rice and 100$ mediocre cooker (or hell, even your pot) can cook rice within 90% margin of le masterwork Japanese imported rice cooker folded 1000 times from a meteorite ore (actually it's just an electric pot)

[Anonymous No.18638456]

>>18638433
So you dont think a Zojirushi is worth it?

[Anonymous No.18638480]

>>18638456
Thr worth of it is totally subjective. They are objectively great quality machines that do their job well and are known to last for decades.

[Anonymous No.18638669]

>>18637701
OP I was in the same boat as you and I found that a Zojirushi NS-ZCC10 was perfect for me. I bought the 5.5 cup model and it makes more rice than I can eat but if you want more there is a 10 cup model that is sometimes cheaper than the 5.5 cup for some reason. The selling point for me was, like you said, convenience. I wanted to cook rice once and have it stay warm AND edible for multiple days. Cheaper rice cookers will keep your rice warm but will start to brown and crisp the bottom after a few hours. The Zojirushi does not have that problem and will keep your rice warm for days, ready to eat at any time.

[Anonymous No.18638677]

>>18638218
I forgot to mention, its about $150 on scamazon and it has a steamer basket that goes up on top, cook rice and steam shit at same time. Actually use steam basket for bullshit like hotdogs or steaming a few veggies, not a gimmicky add on.

[Anonymous No.18638683]

>>18638669
Never heard anyone mention keeping rice warm for a few days, I do know Japs make rice for dinner and then keep it warm overnight and use it for breakfast.

[Anonymous No.18638690]

>>18638669
>keep your rice warm for days
Please do not do this.

[Anonymous No.18638696]

>>18638683
>>18638690
The temperature never goes below 150 so it's fine. You can do the same thing with stews as long as you ensure the temperature never drops.

[Anonymous No.18638705]

>>18638683
maybe like a day and a half at most but only americans would be so lazy as to make rice once a week and leave in the rice cooker forever. these fat retards need to be nuked asap.

[Anonymous No.18638732]

>>18638705
Whoa whoa! Take it easy!

[Anonymous No.18638734]

>>18638696
I am not a barbarian who leaves his stew and rice in their pots on the counter, taking up space.

[Anonymous No.18638773]

>>18638705
Asians are the only ones who do this. Americans are so scared of "germs" they'll throw an entire pizza away if it gets left out overnight.

[Anonymous No.18638778]

>>18638773
i know a chingchong girl who left rice overnight without even using the keep warm function. stupid bitch

[Anonymous No.18638800]

>>18638778
Yep, also dated an asian girl who did the same thing. Just ate rice left out on a counter for a couple days like it was nothing.

[Anonymous No.18638810]

>>18637701
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B083GBLDF3/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?tag=slicinc-20&ascsubtag=0220ab02703011ed9adfd6780b5c71120INT&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1

this Cuckoo brand one is on heavy sale and it's good enough if you can only afford 50 bucks
if you can wait and/or have more money get a zojirushi fuzzy logic rice cooker though, perfect every single time

[Anonymous No.18638817]

>>18638810
>this Cuckoo brand one is on heavy sale
nevermind, it looks like the sale expired
not worth the price now

get pic related

[Anonymous No.18638862]

>>18638817
>he doesn't get the hidden tiger model
ngmi

[Anonymous No.18638901]

>>18638817
Its expensive af though is it really worth it

[Anonymous No.18638933]

>>18638901
See
>>18638480

[Anonymous No.18638948]

Make sure you don't use metal in the pot because scraping that shit off can be unhealthy.

[Anonymous No.18638996]

make sure you don't pee and poop on the floor that's bad

[Anonymous No.18639025]

>>18638345
And wala.

[Anonymous No.18639091]

Fellas

[Anonymous No.18639106]

>>18638132
And I can tell that's not cooked properly. Jokers use 2 to 1 water to rice like rookies. It's too much water period. 1.5 to 1.3 is perfect if you let it sit.

[Anonymous No.18639165]

Just buy the cheapest one from your local chinese grocery store or get an electric pressure cooker. Either one will make rice as easy as hitting a button after adding rice and water and doing the chinese finger test.

[Anonymous No.18639178]

>>18639106
It's remarkable how many people say 2:1 makes perfect rice.

[Anonymous No.18639180]

>>18639165
I do that with my anus every night. I always come up poopy.

[Anonymous No.18639188]

>>18639106
you must be Italian. rice al dente is nice in a risotto.

[Anonymous No.18639218]

>>18639188
I just hate fucking sloppy basmati rice. You have to suck to make it any other way. Steam it if you want, but 1.3 works well even from long grain rice.

[Anonymous No.18639247]

>>18639218
you know basmati rice is boiled and drained.

[Anonymous No.18639258]

>>18637701
Asian here.

Literally use a cheap ass $10 one on the daily and one from overseas my family gave me when there are more people.

Im convinced it all has to do with water proportion and the fact you guys don't wash/rinse your rice that makes it turn out bad

[Anonymous No.18639269]

>>18637701

I have that red one in the right. It is alright. Makes better rice than the hamilton beach on the left but is somewhat less versatile and much smaller.

Basically just get a zojirushi and call it day.

[Anonymous No.18639285]

>>18639269
americans are so fat they need to eat like 10 cups of rice a day to survive lol

[Anonymous No.18639303]

>>18639285

not at all, I live an active lifestyle and prefer to make large enough batches of food that I have meals for days and enough to share. my younger brother is a tiny little asian sized manlet who has been on an olympic training schedule; he's desperately underweight and supposed to be on a doctor-prescribed 5000kcal/day diet.

as far as the obesity epidemic goes, China isn't doing any better.

[Anonymous No.18639313]

>>18639303
dumb hamburger can't spend 30 seconds washing rice lol
>nooooo i need my rice to stay in the cooker for the whole week i'm too stupid to get water out of the sink help me mommy!!!!!

[Anonymous No.18639318]

>>18639285
Funny you mention. I just got this 100 cup rice cooker to feed your mother each day. We're working towards the big 500.

[Anonymous No.18639325]

>>18639285
you do know that east Asians have longer small intestines to absorb more nutrients from rice right?

[Anonymous No.18639326]

>>18639313

uh, no... I don't do that either. why are you mad, anyway? did a zoji molest you?

[Anonymous No.18639463]

>>18639313
Kek youre retarded

[Anonymous No.18639466]

>>18639463
>*sharts in walmart* Kek youre retarded

[Anonymous No.18639484]

>>18639247
You haven't read shit in this stupid fucking thread. Yes. Boil it then fucking drain it. God I hate everyone here. Can't you cocksuckers cook a simple fucking dish?? JFC its like pulling teeth.

[Anonymous No.18639526]

>>18637701
I don't know if it is any good but I am planning on buying that little red cuckoo one soon cos it is small and has a low minimium required amount of rice. Anyone used that one?

[Anonymous No.18639556]

>>18637701
Unless you are going to make a large amount of rice every day, you are better off with this:
large microwave bowl
2.5 cups of water per cup of rice
9 minutes on high
stir
2 minutes
done. it won't be as good as rice cooker but you aren't buying an expensive unitasker.

[Anonymous No.18639572]

>>18639556
Sounds tremendously disgusting. Post a picture of the finished rice please.

[Anonymous No.18639576]

This is the best rice cooker out there. It's great for large quantities or single servings. I just put my bowl I'll eat out of straight in the cooker, hit the switch and come back later to perfect rice. I don't understand rice cookers with so many random buttons and settings. On and off is good enough.

[Anonymous No.18639599]

>>18639572
it looks like normal rice.

[Anonymous No.18639616]

>>18639599
Post a picture of it.

[Anonymous No.18639625]

>>18639616
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v11gaH60jQ

[Anonymous No.18639643]

>>18639576
>2 settings
not too many synapses in your head are there
>>18639556
i bet you eat instant mashed potatoes too stupid american trash

[Anonymous No.18639695]

>>18639643
not a yank.
only use instant mash to thicken soups

[Anonymous No.18639700]

>>18639695
whatever. you have the mind of an american. you may as well get your citizenship. can you claim refugee status?

[Anonymous No.18639717]

>>18639700
i'm whiter than you mutt

[Anonymous No.18640510]

Rice cooker or not, you are going to wash your rice, right?

[Anonymous No.18640668]

My rice cooker is on the way comes today or tomorrow

[Anonymous No.18640858]

>>18639625
Grim.

[Anonymous No.18640869]

>>18639106
Just drain it lol

[Anonymous No.18640906]

do these machines clean the rice for you?
everybody talks about cleaning rice before cooking it but I do not give enough shit to spend the effort

[Anonymous No.18640915]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSTNhvDGbYI

Rice cookers are a marvel of engineering magic. Unless you're spending hundreds on a top of the line japanese model that's autistic about rice, literally just get any rice cooker with your budget because it all works the same and you'll always get fantastic rice no matter what.

[Anonymous No.18640928]

>>18640668
It got delivered. Now I need good sushi rice

[Anonymous No.18640966]

>>18637830
>which is too large for me
You may have made a bad choice.
Because rice tastes better when cooked in a large pot.
If you cook rice in a small pot, when the rice expands, it squashes each other.
It is considered best to cook up to 1-2 cups in a 5.5 cup pot.

[Anonymous No.18641037]

>>18639484
NOOOO ANON YOU DONT UNDERSTAND NOOOO!
that's not CONVENIENT enough! i need CONVENIENCE or the flavor won't be top notch. only the most sophisticated of rice grown by $1 a day asian farmers can fit my pallet. rice has to be "sweet" and CONVENIENT or i can't spend my time bitching about over priced gadgets that i can't even read (it's more convenient that way)
you'll never (with your brainlet mind) be able to understand that water + rice in a pot (and set a NOT convenient timer) simply doesn't compare to my $600 elephant stamp of approval Rice Cooker à la Nip- which does rice+water-competence= PERFECTION that only machines can achieve.
don't be arsed to ask if i can even tell the difference because i most assuredly can tell the difference and it's not all in my head!

[Anonymous No.18641174]

>>18641037
>Mental illness.

[Anonymous No.18641239]

>>18640906
There's no reason to rinse rice. It makes very little difference in terms of taste or texture. Anyone who disagrees with me is coping and probably owns a $600 zoji do you can disregard what they say on account of being retarded.

[Anonymous No.18641255]

>>18637701
Microwaveable rice bowls are usually around a buck each.
I understand that anime raised you and all, but getting your whole identity from what turns into cultural fetishism is just pathetic.

[Anonymous No.18641277]

>>18641239
I'm sending 18 of my most powerful ninjas to assassinate you tonight.

[Anonymous No.18641304]

>>18641239
if you didn't exclusively make white rice like a retard you'd see the little bits of cum on all the grains when you don't rinse them beforehand

[Anonymous No.18641325]

>>18641277
Arsenic in rice is a nothing burger unless you are eating rice that was harvested in a literal industrial waste dump. Low end of toxicity for arsenic in humans is 140 mg. The amount in a kg of dry rice is less than a mg. You would have to eat literal hundreds of kilos a week to die from arsenic in rice.

>>18641304
>brown rice
That's because brown rice is gross and you're going to die anyway. Desperately eating gross things isn't going to result in eternal life or even a few more seconds of it.

[Anonymous No.18641331]

>>18641325
>brown rice
Yep it's a retarded ameriweeb episode. Can't even fathom doing anything but a basic salt boil/steam

[Anonymous No.18641342]

>>18641239
Maybe you don't notice a difference with whatever rice you cook but it's real fuckin' obvious when I haven't bothered to wash it enough.

[Anonymous No.18641347]

>>18641325
Regardless of arsenic and the fact it is carcinogenic...

If you're making sumeshi rinsing the rice very thoroughly makes a major big difference. You're acting a fool if you don't know this.

Basmati and other long grain? I rinse once. Doesn't make a huge difference.

[Anonymous No.18641436]

>>18641347
It really doesn't and the only reason you do it at all is because you saw an influencer do it and you've deluded yourself into thinking it's "authentic".

[Anonymous No.18641453]

>>18641436
You're tremendously stupid. I'll test it out and today with my high end rice cooker and let you know how it goes.

[Anonymous No.18641458]

>>18641453
Someone else has to do it for you, otherwise you'll be susceptible to confirmation bias.

[Anonymous No.18641480]

>>18641458
Mr loud and proud, big britches acting a little bitch now that his demise is in the works? I'll be honest don't worry.

Doing exact weight and settings for both cooks. I have a second rice cooker that I will use to keep the first batch warm while the other cooks. Going to take like 2 hours probably.

[Anonymous No.18641487]

>>18641480
I'm not worried. Confirmation bias is a real thing and as you're someone who spent $600 on a "high end" rice cooker you are clearly someone whose perception is malleable enough to be influenced by it.

[Anonymous No.18641498]

>>18641487
Firstly it was 1k. Get it right, dummy.

Here's the thing that your pea brain doesn't realize. Proving you wrong is secondary. I'm doing it for myself because I don't really enjoy washing rice 8 times. If I don't need to anymore great! I doubt it tho. It's a two birds one stone kinda thing, got it?

I also have a $15k epi fluorescent microscrope(got it for 2k at auction) that I'm going to see if I can image the difference and show everyone something close to objective for everyone. Should be interesting.

[Anonymous No.18641570]

>>18641498
>I'm doing it for myself because I don't really enjoy washing rice 8 times. If I don't need to anymore great!
This only reinforces my theory that you only rinse/wash rice because you saw someone else do it. You lack any glimmer of curiosity since it never occurred to you (even once) that the ritual wasn't necessary.

[Anonymous No.18641575]

>>18637730
richfag here, and fell for the expensive rice cooker meme. theyre a waste of time and money. the rice cooker itself will make no difference to how it turns out. heat is heat, after all. sushi rice in a $600 rice cooker isnt much better than 40 second microwavable rice, which is what i go for now. save your time and money, buy microwavable rice.

[Anonymous No.18641589]

>>18637701
I recommend a cheap cooker -- key is to have a separating lid and none of these fancy gaskets and extra layers. What happens with a cooker like >>18638338 (I assume it has the gasket and an insulating layer) is that steam with bits rice fiber still suspended in it gets trapped in all the layers of shit and builds up (this is especially prominent with brown rice), and they get moldy and are a pain in the ass to clean.

I had a cooker like the one I linked, then dumped it to the thrift store after the second time I had to clean it and now only ever use my simple $8 cooker.

[Anonymous No.18641621]

>>18641570
My discernment provides me with enough to not second guess if I should rinse my rice or not you ding dong.

Here is the unwashed rice. The washed rice is cooking right now.

>>18641575
Ricelet.

[Anonymous No.18641622]

>>18641498
This actually sounds really cool. It certainly depends on the brand of rice going in, though, but if you did a variety of brands across a price range, and get images on the dry grains before and after washing as well as after cooking, it would make a sick-as-fuck writeup you could put on a quick blog page or send as a guest submission to an established food blog.

[Anonymous No.18641637]

>>18641622
Good idea. I love using my scope, and this seems like a fun application for an epi scope.

Ill have the raw rice and both in the same image. My guess is short grain rice benefits a lot more from multiple rinses than long grain. Depending on how the imaging goes I may just compare basmati as well.

Here's the rice I'm using. It is pretty high quality.>>18638048

[Anonymous No.18641757]

Just buy the cheapest one that is big enough and has whatever other features you want. My first rice cooker was $15. For whatever reason /ck/ is full of people who love overpriced gadgets.

[Anonymous No.18641766]

>>18637762
>>18637773
You can use a cheap, non-pressurized rice cooker as a small slow cooker. The higher-end rice cookers popular in asia are the same as electric pressure cookers here, the only difference is what they are marketed as.

[Anonymous No.18641779]

>>18641621
youre not japanese. your opinion on rice is irrelevant.

[Anonymous No.18641786]

>>18637984
2$ on dry beans
3$ on rice
2$ on green onions
2$ on 2 heads of garlic
approx 7-10$ on a dry sausage
1$ on a stick of butter
a buck or two on oats idk
need to include more greens might start adding peas or something

[Anonymous No.18641787]

>>18637773
In my experience vegetables cooked in rice cookers with built-in steamers come out soggy and overcooked unless it's a potato or something equally starchy/fibrous. For example it only takes 6-7 minutes of steam to cook broccoli, but in a rice cooker you're likely steaming them for upwards of 10-15 minutes. Pressure cookers are better at doing both at the same time, but the vegetables are still slightly overdone.

[Anonymous No.18641801]

Here are the washed and unwashed rice. Can you guess which is which?

[Anonymous No.18641814]

>>18641801

Okay, so now I have had both here is my review of the two.

The first and most obvious difference is in the actual texture of the rice grain. The washed and polished rice has a slicker and smoother feel to each granule. The unwashed grains feel rougher. Prefer washed over unwashed. This is the biggest difference between the two.

The washed rice has cleaner and brighter taste compared to the unwashed rice. Washed rice is better.

As for the texture when you chew the rice there is not much difference. The washed rice may be slightly more tender, but I am unsure if that is from washing the rice.

Overall I will continue washing my rice, and my assertion that washing rice is very important for sumeshi stands true.

Microscope pictures will come soon.

[Anonymous No.18641866]

>>18641801
I'd guess the bottom is unwashed as it looks, barely, like there's more cohesion between grains which suggests the starch layer normally washed off the surface stayed on. I'm surprised the difference seems so small however.

>>18641814
Without doing the tasting blind to which one was which your opinion on taste has unfortunately rather little value (it's just well-known psychology for literally everyone -- if you have a friend or cohabitant to come in later to taste test without knowing which is which, that would be a huge improvement, though your photos and more objective observations are still very valuable.)

The main reason many of us will not ever wash rice is the known reduction in nutrients that you get by reducing further whatever fiber is left after the hulling process. But of course we would usually be buying brown rice anyway. The other people who would make their own decision on the matter would be chefs, particularly sushi chefs, based on the brand of rice they buy and the cooking technique they do -- what amount if any washing produces the optimal texture and stickiness for the majority of their rice usage. (A friend who was a first cook at a nice sushi place taught me the basics of their process -- iirc they washed twice, but a few decisions, like water usage, were kinda weird -- I was able to reproduce the rolls on a slightly cheaper unwashed rice however, but used the same water calculus.)

[Anonymous No.18641901]

Okay well here is the image. I fucked up the composite, so it isn't perfect, but you can see a major difference between the two grains. The one on the top is the unwashed. It clearly has a rougher texture. Aligns perfectly with how my tasting went.

I don't think I will redo the image. It takes a really long time to do everything and is a pain in the ass. Maybe if I get bored later.

>>18641866
The bottom is actually the washed rice. When I remove the unwashed from the cooker it had a duller appearance and it felt clumpier when I was doing the initial fluffing. The washed rice broke apart more easily.

[Anonymous No.18641918]

>>18641814
As the original person who asserted washing was unnecessary, thanks. I do agree with the other poster that someone other than you needs to do a blind test but I'm satisfied with the result since for you it's a preference thing.

[Anonymous No.18641921]

>>18641901
That's really slick -- if I start teaching again I gotta get that microscope. Even if you get only a few shots out there it'll maybe encourage academic or industrial researchers somewhere to do a more rigorous follow-up.

I'd be interested also in seeing the difference in the bond between pairs of rice grains coming out of the cooker, if you still have any.

[Anonymous No.18641929]

>>18641589
who doesn't wipe down the lid of their cooker after every use? it like not washing the lid of a pot. I never want to eat rice at your house.

[Anonymous No.18641998]

>>18641929
The gasket on those cookers is screwed onto the lid, and has a layered gap of metal and plastic that's open to the hole to which steam is expelled. Simply wiping down the metal plate doesn't get any of the shit, nor does it get the moisture build up from steam condensation in the plastic layers on the sides of rice cooker either. To clean it I have to literally plunge the entire giant thing in a bath of soap+baking soda+water, wait 10 minutes, plunge in water for 10 minutes, then dry upside down overnight.

[Anonymous No.18642107]

>>18641998
its been 10 year since I last opened the top to replace a thermocouple. the gaskets are water tight. if you're having problems just tighten the screws.

[Anonymous No.18642191]

>>18637701
I actually did it and got one. I can finally shitpost with my bros on /ck/.

[Anonymous No.18642204]

>>18642191
chineseium

[Anonymous No.18642323]

>>18637701
If you want fast and just below rice cooker quality, use a microwave.

It will make you rice in 14 mins, faster than any rice cooker.

[Anonymous No.18642341]

>>18642323
I don't a microwave but i would test this claim. My guess is that it would be worse than even the super fast cook mode on my rice cooker, which takes roughly 30 minutes.

[Anonymous No.18642583]

>>18642341
>>18642341
I cook rice in the microwave at least twice a week. The rice is wetter, but I don't feel the need to get a rice cooker and besides i know a rice cooker will be slower. I grew up eating rice cooker rice and don't feel i am missing too much.

If and when i have a family, i might get a rice cooker, but for cooking for myself, the space and time lost isn't offset enough by the quality of the rice.

Rice Cooker (min 30m) or Microwave (13-14 mins). You takes your choice. You will never burn your rice in the microwave and the quality is extremely consistent.

Pot fags can fuck off. Take at least 30mins and you get inconsistently cooked rice.

[Anonymous No.18642611]

This is my normal rice. Looks wet, doesn't taste wet. Rice cooker fags post your rice.

[Anonymous No.18642620]

Another batch on another day. I used less water this time. It is thai jasmine rice.

[Anonymous No.18642632]

>>18642611
>>18642620
Yep, it's rice.

[Anonymous No.18642638]

>>18642620
>>18642611
It doesn't look terrible, but it doesn't look great for long grain rice either.

[Anonymous No.18642643]

i just cook it in a pot

[Anonymous No.18643022]

Honestly can't be arsed to use a rice cooker these days. Got one of those fuzzy Toshiba with really thick and heavy inner pot, used it for over 2 decades, decent rice, but I can just blanch and steam my rice, it's quicker and better.
t. Asian with parents that grew up during the Vietnam war

[Anonymous No.18643030]

>>18642620
Are you measuring out the ratio of water as instructed by the brand of rice you buy? They used to significantly overdo the water proportion on the package, but nowadays where most people have a rice cooker it seems even cheap brands are giving about the correct amounts.

[Anonymous No.18644095]

>>18641575
>heat is heat, after all.
oh you poor little cooklet, when will you learn?

[Anonymous No.18644157]

>>18642643
because that's what assholes do because it's utterly simple shit. FUCK. I hate people.

[Anonymous No.18644161]

>>18643030
I use index finger method.

I notice very few rice being posted, however. Really makes you think.

[Anonymous No.18644163]

>>18644157
Its inconsistent and requires more time and attention than in a microwave. There is literally no reason to cook rice in a pot when you have a microwave.

[Anonymous No.18644270]

LOL move over FAGS