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  • StudSpud The Starchy
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    The second best kitchen appliance is the rice cooker*
    Shiny base, matte black lid, uh such a looker
    No I don’t have a crush on the rice cooker
    This appliance can’t be my culinary hooker
    My heart only has space for one nutritional love
    A nightshade root, gifted from mother nature above
    Its many forms, into my mouth I will shove
    Apologies, I digressed from my second true love
    Rice cooker
    Without ya
    I probably just use pasta 🤷‍♀️

    *the/first/being/the/microwave/with/a/potato/inside/of/course/though/until/I/can/get/mine/fixed/or/replaced/the/rice/cooker/takes/top/spot/in/lieu

    • Force_majeure122
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      🥔🍠
      Edit: I don’t really use rice enough to have a rice cooker, also small kitchen. Lots of times if I’m making a rice dish it’s cooked in the with sauce too, like risotto, paella type dishes, chilli con carne style meals where I add rice into the pan. On the rare occasion I want to make some plain rice I feel like I do a good enough job in a saucepan

      • Bottom_racer
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        Easy stove top fluffy rice every time:

        1 cup rice unrinsed, 1.5 cup water. Add to cold pot bring to boil lid off. Simmer on low 12 mins with the lid on. Turn heat off wait 10 mins with lid on (do not take off).

        Fluff with fork.

        Fluffy

        Every time

        Major fluff.

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            You seem like a pretty knowledgeable person. I can’t really believe you would be supporting this non-rinsing nonsense (aside from risotto, exclusively). Can you please help me talk some sense into the heathens?

            • PeelerSheila @beehaw.org
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              I do it similarly but I wash the rice very well, and when it’s cooked and I turn it off I place a dry teatowel between the pot and the lid to absorb the steam for 10 minutes. Awesome rice every single time.

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        I like cooking more rice then needed, I dry the leftovers out in the oven on low for a few hours and use that in stirfrys. Tbh, I have not cooked rice in a pan/pot before haha

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      yes!!! I have a microwave rice cooker, cos i don’t have space for a real one. It works. I should really start padding my meals out with brown rice again, it’s such a great food.