because I didn’t want a single purpose appliance when I could make it in a pot.
In case anyone else has the same issue, you can make rice just as easily in an electric pressure cooker (e.g. Instapot) which has a much wider use case.
Although, I’ve never used an actual rice cooker, so I can’t testify to the difference in quality
I’d read that too. I hadn’t let myself buy an Instapot either because I have a stovetop pressure cooker that I’m comfortable with using. I have crockpots, and a sous vide circulator (which I love dearly, omg, wanna talk about set it and forget it) . I already had accumulated all the things separately that an Instapot can do. But when COVID started, I let myself buy an Instapot, because I expected to be cooking so much more and thought maybe this miracle appliance everyone raved about would save me effort in the kitchen. And what I found is that for my recipes and cooking style, the Instapot may do all those things, air fry, sous vide, slow cook, pressure cook, but it can’t do them as well as my existing equipment. It might hold the water temp ok for sous vide, but it’s not circulating the water (an important factor in the cooking style). It ran too hot on the low slow cooker mode. It took fricking forever to come up to pressure. I could only air fry one portion at a time. I finally conceded that I’m just not the target user for those things. I never did try making rice in it though. We’ve since moved and it’s packed up somewhere. When I find it again, I might try it one more time, but otherwise it is destined for my MIL’s annual yard sale.
I didn’t like rice. A food I had to eat to please my wife that she can have rice. Like once a month
Then she got a rice cooker. A cheap one. Good rice, I started accepting it better. Like, okay, every two weeks is okay. Maybe one and a half.
Then she got a good one. I mean, medium price range, like between 100 and 150€. I demand! rice one a week! Okay, I did some research and got good rice as well. But oh my gosh. This is such a difference.
And it helps so much with adhd as well - you can put in the rice and forget it an hour longer as planned and it is still great, warm and delicious. Just a game changer when it comes to rice.
This, so much. Especially if you cook short grained rice like sushi, makes it almost impossible to fuck up.
I resisted getting one for so long because I didn’t want a single purpose appliance when I could make it in a pot.
So I finally allowed myself to get a little one, and I love it so much. 1 part rice, 2 parts water, push button, walk away… perfect rice.
In case anyone else has the same issue, you can make rice just as easily in an electric pressure cooker (e.g. Instapot) which has a much wider use case.
Although, I’ve never used an actual rice cooker, so I can’t testify to the difference in quality
I’d read that too. I hadn’t let myself buy an Instapot either because I have a stovetop pressure cooker that I’m comfortable with using. I have crockpots, and a sous vide circulator (which I love dearly, omg, wanna talk about set it and forget it) . I already had accumulated all the things separately that an Instapot can do. But when COVID started, I let myself buy an Instapot, because I expected to be cooking so much more and thought maybe this miracle appliance everyone raved about would save me effort in the kitchen. And what I found is that for my recipes and cooking style, the Instapot may do all those things, air fry, sous vide, slow cook, pressure cook, but it can’t do them as well as my existing equipment. It might hold the water temp ok for sous vide, but it’s not circulating the water (an important factor in the cooking style). It ran too hot on the low slow cooker mode. It took fricking forever to come up to pressure. I could only air fry one portion at a time. I finally conceded that I’m just not the target user for those things. I never did try making rice in it though. We’ve since moved and it’s packed up somewhere. When I find it again, I might try it one more time, but otherwise it is destined for my MIL’s annual yard sale.
I’m not the target user for the instant pot either, but it does rice pretty well. That’s about all I use mine for, actually.
I didn’t like rice. A food I had to eat to please my wife that she can have rice. Like once a month
Then she got a rice cooker. A cheap one. Good rice, I started accepting it better. Like, okay, every two weeks is okay. Maybe one and a half.
Then she got a good one. I mean, medium price range, like between 100 and 150€. I demand! rice one a week! Okay, I did some research and got good rice as well. But oh my gosh. This is such a difference.
And it helps so much with adhd as well - you can put in the rice and forget it an hour longer as planned and it is still great, warm and delicious. Just a game changer when it comes to rice.