Enough entertainment...let's talk about rice cookers!

[nik-]

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Originally Posted by DoubleF

I don't know if I'd call it overcooked, but anyone who has gone to a Korean restaurant and seen the rice will know it's moist, chewy and you'll be unlikely to easily pull of individual grains as you would for Indian, Chinese and Persian/Mediterranean styled rice. It'll stick together in a clump, but it's definitely a ways off from being a congee type mash.

That being said, using an airtight non-pressure type rice cooker for Korean and purple/black rice, it always feels like the rice is slightly uncooked after it is done. This even if you use the brown rice function etc.

Korean restaurants here will often make it more like what people expect rice to be because only Koreans like mushy rice.

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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

That's nuts. Great Canadian success story. It was all the hype then other brands like Ninja came in with their copycats and better models, then they made the ill-fated decision to merge with Corningware and the whole company became too bloated.

I'd say it's more the half-billion in debt they raised that did them in.

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

The measuring point is not the joint, but you use your thumb as a moving depth gauge to judge the distance between the waterline and the top of the rice.

Agreed. But my grandfather was a cook in Hong Kong and I recall watching him put his hand flat on the rice to gauge the water vs a finger, so the method used is parallel to the water and rice vs perpendicular.

I occasionally see Chinese cooks at restaurants do the same.

[CRXguy]

https://www.amazon.ca/Zojirushi-NS-Z...n%2C130&sr=1-2
Have this one and so does all my family, for many years.

[Snuffleupagus]

Originally Posted by calumniate

have a $20 rice cooker.. works perfect. The science is in your water ratios, rinse vs not rinse, and if you're feeling crazy add some butter

I paid $32 for my 7 cup Hamilton Beach unit 8 years ago, non stick, auto shutoff/warm and unlike my ex's $150 fancy ####oo it makes starchless rice/quinoa perfect every time.

Sometimes, cheap is good