Help! Cooks please help me! January 25, 2006
Posted by spacemom in : Food and Drink , trackbackI need help. I’ve emailed a few friends and I want some advice. I am not a good cook. However, I am slowly learning. We have a longer commute home since we switched daycares. We need to eat rice with dinner when Dr. Jay has a flare up, so we plan our meals around that. However, cooking rice is a royal time sink. So I am considering a rice cooker. I have NEVER had one and the only ones I have seen I have bad memories of. I was a resident assitant and three of the suites on my floor had rice cookers. We also had roaches. You can see where this is going. Everytime we had a safety inspection, I would see little baby roaches around the rice cookers. YUCK!
So, I am fighting that stigma of rice cookers. I want one that I can program so the rice doesn’t cook the moment I leave the house. I want one that can do brown rice because we eat that more than white rice. I am looking at this one. What do you think? Any advice? Suggestions???
Thanks folks!
Here’s a photo of it.
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First, there were roaches because they didn’t clean up after themselves. It’s like saying you are nervous around pizza because you saw pizza boxes in college with roaches around them.
Second, electronics? Bad idea. That’s a bit of overkill. Simplicity is the key.
I bought one off of Amazon that is purely weight driven. You put in rice. You put in water. It’s got this simple built in mechanical scale. When enough water has evaporated from the cooking process it goes from “Cook” to “Warm”.
But even that was pricy (more than $50).
I know, stupid, isn’t it? I have these stupid things like the roach thing to get over.
Yes, I am looking pricey here… hmmmm
Coming from a long line of Asian cooks, I can tell you that rice cookers have been used in my part-Chinese family for generations. It was a rite of passage when my mother gave me my first rice cooker. Frankly, I have never been able to cook rice without one. They are the one appliance I couldn’t live with, and have carted one with me in my suitcase to every place I’ve moved to.
The rice cooker we have does both white or brown rice. It can also do “congee”, which is sort of like rice porrige, but eaten more like soup. Also does rice pudding, though we’ve never tried that.
I decided to go for it… I was contiplating making the rice at night and then reheating it, but then the girls didn’t go to bed until, oh…10:30 and I realized I would never get anything done then….
It should arrive next week…