kerble wrote:Mandroid2.0 wrote:ironyengine wrote:kerble is lazy. again.
FYP
on your marks, get set, go fuck yourself!
Dear Aeropagite, are you going to trust a bunch of white folks who buy boxed rice or are you going to trust
all of Asia? My family has had rice for dinner every single night of the year for as many years as my family has been around. We got behind the rice cooker in the 80's, and most of these relatives are the most fantastic cooks I've had the pleasure of learning from. Lazy my ass, at least we're not rubes!
Every asian family I have known (I literally mean this, Arabs, Indians, Pakistanis, Chinese, Koreans) uses a rice cooker and it works just fine-basmati, jasmine, brown, whatever. It's not laziness, it frees up a stove burner and time for making lots of other good food.
Our rice doesn't come with directions. it comes in a brown burlap bag in at least 10lb sizes. it's fucking luddites like Mandroid that make me embarrassed. Don't waste your time!
all the "recipes" people have given are saying: leave it covered, boil it, simmer it, and leave it alone. hey that's exactly what a rice cooker does!
Don't want crusty burnt rice? don't buy cheap shit!
Want to make rice sticky? add less water!
Want to make fancy rice? throw peas or turmeric or chilis or lentils or fried onions in the cooker!
seriously, do you 'stove cookers' have any fucking recipes for fucking boiling spaghetti that we should all write down?
Jesus H., people.
Dear Mr. Kerble,
An Indian professor taught me how to grow and cook rice. Said Indian professor is involved in setting up various forestry and agricultural UNDP items in China, India, and Africa, and I'd wager he's a pretty intelligent 70-year old guy. I know far more about genetically engineered varieties of IRRI rice than anyone would ever wish to know because of our two weeks spent focusing on the subject of rice.
I had a bad experience with a rice cooker. It was probably a shitty rice cooker to begin with, but that doesn't distract from the fact that one doesn't need a rice cooker. I'm going to guess that 60% of Americans have some useless and unnecessary cooking contraption like a bread machine or one of those Magic Bullet thingies that sound like they are a masturbatory aid but really just do what a small food processor does. That doesn't make the substantial ownership of the product a reason one should own the product.
My ex-roommate here in the Oakland area was Taiwanese and had a rice cooker. She made way too much rice for one person to eat and it usually boiled over on the counter and formed a starch crust. As per usual in that house, I wound up being the one to clean up her mess and throw out the rancid rice that had been left sitting out for 48 hours. This did not make me happy, nor did it endure me to rice cookers. Cook what you need, not enough to feed 20 family members.
All of this aside, I don't still don't grasp your staunch advocation of the rice cooker. In my experience, it takes longer and requires more preparation and work than just using cookware already available. It's messier and grows less precise with modifications to volume.
"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
-Gustave Flaubert
