I have this suspicion that they are more necessary in tiny east asian apartment kitchens to make a burner available, and westerners who have much more kitchen s

I have this suspicion that they are more necessary in tiny east asian apartment kitchens to make a burner available, and westerners who have much more kitchen space and larger stoves in comparison have latched on to as the right or correct way to make rice simply because its commonly owned in the east. Ignoring why one might own one or the fact rice was traditionally cooked for millennia without plug in cookers.