Comment on Tabletop convection oven

• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’ll give counterpoint

  1. Many rice cookers are a fairly small appliance. There’s plenty of room on the counter in even the smallest kitchens
  2. My rice cooker is the reason I cook rice all the time. Before getting one, rice was rarely worth the effort, but now it is the easiest, most convenient starch

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  • FishFace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t really get this. I mean maybe there are some that are smaller than I know of - mine is a bit smaller than a microwave.

    But the methods of rice cooking I know (absorption is what I use and I also know the one where you use loads of water then drain it off, like pasta) are dead easy. As easy as pasta, and noone complains pasta is hard to cook.

    I use a rice cooker because a Chinese ex gave it me and it makes better rice, not easier rice. It takes longer to cook, meaning that if anything it’s a tiny bit harder to plan for.

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    • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Cooking rice on a stove may be easy but you have to pay attention to it, and it’s easy to go wrong if you don’t have all the meal done at the same time.

      Using a rice cooker is filling it up and pressing a button. It’ll be ready when you are and does a pretty good job of keeping rice on standby if it needs to wait for the rest of the meal

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      • FishFace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        but you have to pay attention to it

        Not really? After it comes to the boil (<1m) you can turn it down to a simmer and leave it until the timer goes. Because it’s quick, if you err on the side of starting it late you won’t be far wrong, and if you do have it ready early, it’ll keep warm in the pan with the lid on for a decent length of time.

        It’ll be ready when you are

        this is no more true than it is for cooking it on the stove?

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    • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      True, there is a huge variety of sizes of rice cooker, depending on how much they make and how fancy they are

      The rice cooker I have is cheap, simple and small, makes enough for at least four people and is the size of a 1.5 qt pot, about 9” in diameter. It has one button and consistently cooks decent rice in 15-20 minutes

      • www.amazon.com/…/B00N9N6GOY

      I guess microwave ovens are all sizes as well: mine has got to be 30” across by 15” deep

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