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I was cooking rice today, and then I placed it in the rice cooker, plugged it in, then set it to cook. I wanted to make sure I had the water level correctly (I set it to nearly double the expected level when cooking brown rice) but as I turned it open (while it was cooking) it suddenly made a huge spark at the hinge.

There's some black marks on the hinge now. Pic related is the cheap rice cooler I have.

What the hell happened? I thought it'd be safe to open the rice cooker since whether it's cooking or just warming, that's just the temperature. Did I just fuck up by opening it while it was going to cook, or would it have happened anyways even before I set it to cook?

Should I just stick to cooking my rice on the stove?

>> No.4622574

Sounds like it overflowed, and the designers were too stupid to foresee this and water got somewhere that it shouldn't have gotten into.

This is why you buy Zojirushi, kids.

>> No.4622584

>>4622574
oh okay

I'll get a better rice cooker eventually. I just hope this one doesn't start a fire or something before then.

>> No.4622598

>>4622584

The whole point of a rice cooker is you can walk away for an essentially indefinite period and nothing bad will happen. If you're hovering around to make sure it doesn't catch fire, you might as well go with a pot and stove.

>> No.4622602

Sounds weird. Maybe there's a heating element in the lid, since Google says this has a '3D Heating design'. Either way, it's probably fucked now.

The bigger lesson is: Unless you're a Chinese restaurant, don't buy a rice cooker.

Especially not $200+ fancy ones. A basic electric pressure cooker will cook perfect rice in 10 minutes, is useful for much more, and costs less than any but the dumbest, most basic rice cookers.

>> No.4622609

1. Put rice in pan of water
2. Heat water
3. Cook rice
4. Put rice in face

how lazy are we that we can't even be bothered to cook rice

>> No.4622610
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>>4622602

>> No.4622611

>>4622570

Could have bought a rival 10 cup for 15 bucks. it doesn't have a lid other than a normal glass pot lid and there is no connector on the lid to spark.

would have saved yourself 30 bucks over that crappy design, and will save yourself 250 bucks on the price of an overpriced, and overly ocmplicated, hard to clean zoji.

this is why you buy rival kids.

>> No.4622617

>>4622602
Does your pressure cooker fire up a while before you get home from work and start cooking your dinner for you? Does it by itself keep a large quantity of rice warm all day without drying it out or overcooking so you, family, and guests can have rice any time?

>> No.4622628

>>4622617

Of course it doesn't, but it doesn't matter because he eats rice like once a week if that. So it's not extra time spent on every meal, 365 days a year. It's a few minutes a week, at best.

>> No.4622638

>>4622617

The only reason any of is necessary is because of all those crappy rice cookers that take almost an hour to cook rice (and 2 hours for brown rice). When it literally takes 10 minutes to go from nothing to perfect rice, you learn to just make rice whenever you want rice.

>> No.4622644

>>4622617

I dont have a machine that keeps everything else I could possibly ever want to eat cooked just in case so why the fuck would i waste money on one for rice?

>> No.4622648

>>4622638

I wonder why asian restaurants and asian people at home still use rice cookers. Must be because the super seekrit pressure cooker technology isn't known to the finest minds of the orient.

And let's not get into indians and their rice pilaf. We're talking about rice that doesn't need to be toasted and mixed with a ton of ghee to taste good.

>> No.4622651

>>4622638

My rival takes about 15 minutes to make rice. Don't know what anyone here is on about. If you do anything besides buy a 15 dollar 10 cup rival, you made a mistake and bought a shitty rice cooker, or bought a nice one but paid way too much.

>> No.4622652

>>4622644

White people should post in the golden corral thread. Thanks.

>> No.4622653

>>4622648

There are high-end rice cookers that have pressure cookers in them. They're just ridiculously expensive.

>> No.4622654

>>4622644
They're great for me because a big part of my daily supper is rice.

I throw something to add some flavor in, then when I get home, I quickly cook up a piece of meat, toss it and some veggies in the rice, and a fairly decent meal at a time when I can only be bothered to do so much (I hate cooking after work).

>> No.4622655

>>4622652

Pretentious Asian faggots should learn how to cook rice as it's all their race eats (oh look, I can do stereotypes too, bellend)

>> No.4622656

>>4622653
> ridiculously expensive

You mean $300? How much did you spend on your TV?

>> No.4622660

>>4622656
>TV

People still use TVs?

>> No.4622664

>>4622656
>paying $300 to cook one side dish that's easy as fuck to make

If I could watch TV in a $5 pan, I wouldn't have spent $300 on a TV either.

>> No.4622666

>>4622638
>all those crappy rice cookers that take almost an hour to cook rice (and 2 hours for brown rice)

A $10 dollar store rice cooker only takes 45 minutes for brown rice. My friend's big expensive one takes the same amount of time.

I don't think you've ever used a rice cooker before or have any experience with them at all.

>> No.4622670

>>4622664

I love this post.

People trying to defend zoji rice cookers need to just stahp. no one has ever been convinced that 300 bucks to cook rice is a good idea.

shit.. i could have 4 cups of white rice delivered to my house every day for a year from the chinese joint down the street for less money.

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>>4622644
>>4622628
>rice cooker thread
>people that rarely ever eat rice come into the thread and start bitching and moaning

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>>4622656
>2013
>using a TV

>> No.4622675

>>4622664
I'm sure you would. oh is that a Simpsons quote? sorry I didn't catch the reference.

>> No.4622676

>>4622656
>TV

ultra pleb spotted

>> No.4622678

>>4622672

4chan

>> No.4622682

>>4622670
except millions of people. the difference between you and them? employment.

>> No.4622687

>>4622666

I owned the older version of http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16896200216 before I wised up. The white rice cycle was 50 minutes and the brown rice cycle was 2 hours, although it had a quick mode for white rice that was only 25 minutes. That's pretty standard for the Japanese non-presurized, Micom-style rice cookers.

>> No.4622703

>>4622687
I've never in my life used or seen a rice cooker that took that long to cook any type of rice.

>> No.4622704

>>4622687
>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16896200216

Seriously.. the rival 10 cup.. the one with just a metal pot and a glass lid on top the metal pot.. that just sits one top of a warming element takes 15 minutes...

how do these shit tier rice cookers cost so much and cook rice so crappily?!?!?


srs people. rival 10 cup for 15 bucks.