That’s not even a rice cooker, it’s a pressure cooker. While it can be used to cook rice, that’s not its primary purpose and many, including me, would argue that the conventional electric rice cookers do a better job (at least for short grain rice, see the reply to this comment). Pressure cooker rice tend to come out either mushy or too chewy, and texture is pretty important for rice. Most Asian households have both a regular rice cooker and a pressure cooker, especially since then you can conveniently cook two separate things at once, like rice and stew, and have your entire meal figured out both on the cheap and without that much time or effort. It’s great.
Pressure cookers are really good at making congee (rice porridge) though! The conventional cooker takes way longer to simmer, on the order of several hours compared to just one hour in the pressure cooker, and because pressure cookers keep all the water inside, you don’t have to worry about it drying out or remembering to add water as it cooks all day.
Source: Am Asian. Not about to touch the shameless racism in this post because I might burst a blood vessel in my brain, so… nitpicking common Asian cooking appliances it is!
Rice cookers are the fkn coolest things ever. I finally caved and bought one, and it did improve pretty much everything I make immediately. Doesn’t take that long ( maybe like 40 mins?), and it takes to seconds to add rice + water and hit a button, so its easy to do before you prepare everything else.
Rice cookers also use some pretty cool physics to know when to stop heating. What other kitchen appliance uses both latent heat of vaporisation and Curie (loss-of-magnetization) temperatures! The latter is a quantum effect BTW, rice cookers (at least the analog “dumb” ones) use quantum mechanics! Well I guess the digital ones do too, since semiconductors are also quantum.
I wouldn’t do that actually. Hot tap water isn’t considered safe to drink even if the cold water is, or at least there’s a pretty big risk that it’s not and you wouldn’t know for sure. Definitely get cold water and boil it manually (or go full Asian and get a hot water dispenser lol).
Huh, interesting. My place was built in the 2000s so I don’t think there’s too many risks, I’d have to read the Lee study to find out how much newer pipes can corrode from hot water.
Pressure cooker is fine for Basmati and other long grain rice, not the short grain rice common in China and Japan, that will come out mushy as you stated.
This is super true. 15 minutes in the pressure cooker, and as long as you get the ratio of water to rice right, it’s a big-ass pot of perfect basmati every time.
We have a pressure cooker and they are amazing for making soups and the like. They automate a lot of the cooking process. I need to use that thing more though.
That’s not even a rice cooker, it’s a pressure cooker. While it can be used to cook rice, that’s not its primary purpose and many, including me, would argue that the conventional electric rice cookers do a better job (at least for short grain rice, see the reply to this comment). Pressure cooker rice tend to come out either mushy or too chewy, and texture is pretty important for rice. Most Asian households have both a regular rice cooker and a pressure cooker, especially since then you can conveniently cook two separate things at once, like rice and stew, and have your entire meal figured out both on the cheap and without that much time or effort. It’s great.
Pressure cookers are really good at making congee (rice porridge) though! The conventional cooker takes way longer to simmer, on the order of several hours compared to just one hour in the pressure cooker, and because pressure cookers keep all the water inside, you don’t have to worry about it drying out or remembering to add water as it cooks all day.
Source: Am Asian. Not about to touch the shameless racism in this post because I might burst a blood vessel in my brain, so… nitpicking common Asian cooking appliances it is!
Rice cookers are the fkn coolest things ever. I finally caved and bought one, and it did improve pretty much everything I make immediately. Doesn’t take that long ( maybe like 40 mins?), and it takes to seconds to add rice + water and hit a button, so its easy to do before you prepare everything else.
Lentils and quinoa do great in there too.
Rice cookers also use some pretty cool physics to know when to stop heating. What other kitchen appliance uses both latent heat of vaporisation and Curie (loss-of-magnetization) temperatures! The latter is a quantum effect BTW, rice cookers (at least the analog “dumb” ones) use quantum mechanics! Well I guess the digital ones do too, since semiconductors are also quantum.
What an I going on about? https://yewtu.be/watch?v=RSTNhvDGbYI
I’m gonna blow your world bro, put hot water from the tap in the cooker and it gets done even faster.
I wouldn’t do that actually. Hot tap water isn’t considered safe to drink even if the cold water is, or at least there’s a pretty big risk that it’s not and you wouldn’t know for sure. Definitely get cold water and boil it manually (or go full Asian and get a hot water dispenser lol).
https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/25976/can-i-drink-warm-hot-tap-water
https://www.home-water-heater.com/drinking-hot-water.html
https://homeexplained.com/is-it-bad-to-drink-hot-water-from-the-tap/
Huh, interesting. My place was built in the 2000s so I don’t think there’s too many risks, I’d have to read the Lee study to find out how much newer pipes can corrode from hot water.
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And cake.
👀 really!?!
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Pressure cooker is fine for Basmati and other long grain rice, not the short grain rice common in China and Japan, that will come out mushy as you stated.
This is super true. 15 minutes in the pressure cooker, and as long as you get the ratio of water to rice right, it’s a big-ass pot of perfect basmati every time.
This is the type of discourse Lemmygrad needs
I need to get a rice cooker.
We have a pressure cooker and they are amazing for making soups and the like. They automate a lot of the cooking process. I need to use that thing more though.