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yeah, i literally make rice w. almost every meal and i pour it into a lidded container, cover with water and put in the microwave for 8 minutes and leave to steam for another 8-10. it takes about 30seconds to prepare and the rice is ready and perfect every time.

i don't know why I would need more 'control'. There are advantages to having a rice cooker but they're mostly if you're making it in huge quantities or want to be able to keep it warm for a long time after.

that isn't any quicker than doing it on the hob

it is impossible to scald the bottom if you forget it, its also more energy efficient.

let us not forget that ur literally ilx-named after a gentleman who sought ill-fated shortcuts in situations of domestic heat-appliance

oh wait sorry he's the one who shot himself by accident, not ironed his shirt while wearing it, ignore

v impt distinction

guys are ye really still talking about rice

Keir Starmer drains his rice after cooking it

— marcus (@marcusjdl) July 23, 2020

he likes his rice like his politics

..blanched in his own mediocre tepid piss!

I don't really understand rice cookers, cooking rice is the easiest thing you can possibly do, I don't need another appliance in my kitchen

― Temporary Erogenous Zone (jim in vancouver)

i have very, very high standards for rice. i eat rice 3-4 times a day, and i am a gringo cooking for a majority southeast-asian family. a rice cooker is THE device, not ANOTHER device. I use it more than my water pitcher, my stove, my oven. my rice cooker and wok together account for 80% of my calories. i revere good rice, and the zojirushi is my altar.

fwiw i have found that most people will eat bad rice and think it is good rice, or even make bad rice and kinda choke it down knowing that it ain't ideal. but my zojirushi always makes good rice and sings 'twinkle twinkle little star' to me when i put rice in to cook.

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thank you, although mine isn't that good and only has on and start switches on it but still i get very good results

Even bad rice cookers make better rice than most home cooks! I had a $19 on/off rice cooker for years and it was great. This one has fuzzy logic features, so it makes the rice at the right texture even if you try to make bleary-eyed rice at 2am. It also keeps rice perfect for 2-3 days.

I really like this video, because I feel like Uncle Roger is speaking for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53me-ICi_f8

lol that extended version is even better!

I suppose if you eat it 4 times a day it makes sense but I probably eat it no more than once a day on average

I've had a cheap rice cooker in the past and it was fine I suppose, no better than on the hob imo

i’ve recently started making basmati rice the right way - washing it, letting it soak, using the water it soaked in - and the fluffiness is out of this world. insane.

you guys are making me want a rice cooker i’m not gonna lie

washing rice is so essential, just like when you make chips and wash potatoes!

never mind the MSG where is the frigging soya sauce?

i have been told that cheap rice cookers suck and u might as well put it in the bin

Was it DW Winnicott who came up with the idea of 'good enough' rice? I'm with him.

talking to too many metropolitan elites plax!

IME they are finicky and you have to learn their gnostic ways, and there is a very short window of time in which the rice they produce is edible. You might have just six minutes to scoop out the rice before it becomes crystallized and/or gummy. (Usually both).

I thoroughly rinse my rice before putting it in the 30 quid rice cooker and make the water ratio lower to allow for the amount it has already absorbed, bingo!

the insufferable andrew graham-dixon has a 2-part series on rome on bbc four that i can’t help watching. i went there for the first time last year (only 2 days). he’s awful. probably my least favourite bbc presenter with the possible exception of stephen smith, the guy who does gormless “kooky” cultural packages to fill out the running time of newsnight.

anyway, he’s just read a link over some footage of some austere modern buildings in rome. here’s what he said.

“the most famous dictator in italy’s recent history was benito mussolini.”

THE BBC LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. BBC FOUR. THE ONE FOR “INTELLECTUALS”

that said the guy he’s with, georgio locatelli, is totally bananas and amazing

Yeah but what are his views on rice? Is he a basmati man or a parboiled freak?

have they cancelled Meades?

I love Andrew GD!

No-one is worse than Stephen Smith.

that rice video is horrifying.

aw i kinda like Andrew GD even tho yeah he's too much sometimes, somehow he has an ASMR-ish effect on me at 2 in the morning

i can see glimpses of humanity there tbf to the poor fucker

By the way, who is this ugly cunt and why does it seem like I'm seeing his face every time I turn on my telly?

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xps

one bit where uncle roger is wrong is, to make good egg fried rice you are best off using a carbon steel pan with very high temperature oil and it doesn't make a shit of difference if you use a metal spatula to toss that rice whilst it gets fried.

i believe he is a comedian of some sort Tom say no more

bbc comedians aka the worst people in human existence since the paedophile nazi clique in the belle & sebastien fanclub

is this where we're talking about rice?

was looking for some hot rice on rice action

we're talking about rice everywhere #onethread

#onerice

#omurice

that said the guy he’s with, georgio locatelli, is totally bananas and amazing

Giorgio Locatelli the chef? I have been meaning to go to his restaurant for years and am guessing it won't exist for much longer.

People are right that it's the bit where she rinses the rice off after draining it that's the most egregious offence. It means she hasn't washed it at the start and why wouldn't you do that?

yes the chef. he’s like every positive cliche of italian men rolled into one - passionate, demonstrative, emotional, effortlessly good looking. during the show he makes a classic jewish-italian dish of chicken meatballs in tomato sauce and deep fried artichoke. and he rolls round to a deli stall where they get a kidney sandwich. best tour guide ever, basically.

People that don't wash rice are savage murderers, that much is beyond question. But washing it after cooking it is doesn't make any sense at all, it's like having a shower and then rolling about in a pigsty or something.

this clumpy starchy mess that you've already boiled with far too much water can't be washed at this point, can only assume she is blanching it in the vain hope it won't clump together even more as it cools down! At home economics in school instead of teaching kids to fuck up some fancy flan they will never try again in their entire life they should just some simple rice module and give them some real survival skillz.

There's a point where uncle roger references a finger knuckle joint method for measuring your water to rice ratio, I've looked this up elsewhere and I can't make the maths of it work in my head, what am I missing? Basically the theory is you put your rice in the pan (any quantity, any shape/size of pan), then rest the tip of your index finger on top of the rice and add enough water for the level to reach the first joint of your finger, and that will in theory mean your rice/water ratio is perfect. But how can that be right? Like, if my rice layer is only one or two grains deep the r/w ratio can't help be tons higher than it would've been if my rice layer was six inches deep, right?

I have spent most of my life being terrible at cooking rice, but I'd at least have the self-awareness to be incredibly embarrassed at doing it like that on camera let alone for a cooking segment.

since buying a microwave rice cooker it's super easy although mine came with instructions where the measurements, which were in cups/ fl oz which I never use anyway, were clearly just translated from metric so it was 9.4oz rice and 14.2 fl oz water or something rather than nice round numbers. I eventually realised it was just enough water to cover the rice and then a little bit more so I just do that now and it works out fine. It's never been great for small amounts though e.g. for my kids do I still do that in the pan.

sometimes a bit of sludgy stuff boils over into the microwave but the rice in the basket is usually fine.

I don't know about that finger method and have been using a rice cooker or a steel rice ball for years now, once uncle Roger gets into your head you don't want him taking the piss out of your hot rice-takes!

xpost i don't use my finger, i rest my flat hand on top and make sure it's covered in water.

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my biryani is not photogenic, nor one for the purists but it'll do for me!

when a thread blows up and you're wondering if it's clusterfuck or food derail

rice chat has been good but I won't lie, I prefer a good clusterfuck