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Okay, now tell your SO or a friend or roommate to make the day's rice. Rice cooking isn't terribly difficult, but a good rice cooker makes a very regular part
by thedz 11y ago
Okay, now tell your SO or a friend or roommate to make the day's rice.
Rice cooking isn't terribly difficult, but a good rice cooker makes a very regular part of my meals something that is routine to prepare. And more importantly for me, makes it something that anyone can prepare, without supervision or trial and error.
Plus, there are a few other benefits: a good keep warm function that can keep rice in a pretty decent state for hours on end, timers, can cook brown rice unattended, lowering/increasing heat as needed, etc.
If you only eat rice once or twice a week, the counterspace a good rice cooker takes up probably isn't worth it. But if rice is a daily process? Then yeah, for me, a good rice cooker pays for itself pretty rapidly.
- ghaff 11y agoEven once or twice a week. Once you've prepped the ingredients, stir fry usually only takes a few minutes to cook. I find it super-handy to prep my stir fry and turn on the rice cooker. When I'm ready to eat, the rice is ready and making the rest is 5-10 minutes work. Making rice isn't hard but it does require at least a modicum of supervision. I'm admittedly something of a kitchen gadget person, but my rice cooker is something that I genuinely use a lot.
- dekhn 11y agoI can't say I've ever been successful making stir fried rice with immediately cooked rice. It works much better if you make rice then store it in the fridge overnight.
- fluxquanta 11y agoFor fried rice, yeah, day old is best. But nothing beats stir fry of meats/non-meats (tofu)/vegetables over hot, fresh rice.
- ghaff 11y agoI may have been unclear. I was talking about making fresh rice for fresh stir fry--not fried rice.
- mapleoin 11y ago> Okay, now tell your SO or a friend or roommate to make the day's rice. Erm, all of those people know how to cook rice on the hob (and would probably be taken aback when asked to use a rice cooker) And I'm not even Asian. We must live in very different worlds.
- snayan 11y agoCan confirm, none of those people know how to cook rice in my world.
- jessaustin 11y agoBut... we just told them how! I'm imagining someone saying, "sorry, I never learned how to wash the dishes... I won't be able to help you with that task."