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You don’t need a fancy slow cooker, you can use an oven to slow cook multiple things at once, or really big things. Oven-slow-cooked turkey is great (if you like turkey, anyway).
unless you want crispy outsides on the things, then crowding the oven makes it too humid in there
I’ve never had anything in the slow cooker end up crispy anyway, since there’s a lid that keeps the heat and thus steam in, so thats a non-problem.
Life, really.
Rice cookers use a thermocouple to detect when all the water has been absorbed, not a timer. That’s why it doesn’t really matter that much which setting you use.
It will not burn anything, but it just may be in a different consistence than you like
No they didn’t. Brown rice takes significantly longer.
Also, you making something edible doesn’t mean it can’t be better.
Well now I don’t know what to believe
If it’s a rice maker, it bases the cooking time on when the water all gets absorbed/evaporates, so as long aa you get the water ratio correct (or close enough), it will cook for as long as it takes for that water to absorb/boil off.
Better is al dente.
brown rice be leaving al dents in your teeth if you dont fully cook it
I eat nuts with the shell.
Deez shells
That’s nuts.
Yeah.
Fine? Sure. But the proper setting, especially on a higher end rice cooker, will result in better rice.
I had to put all my stuff in storage then move across the country recently. I did not bring my cuckoo rice cooker with me, and damn I didn’t realize how spoilled I’ve gotten. The rice I’m cooking in a cheap one just isn’t as good. I think it is over-cooking the rice, but it’s actually hard to dial in
this reminds me of how my friend recently used our entire allotment of coffee grounds to dial in the coffee maker at the place we were staying
ten probably hungover people the morning after a wedding, and this guy used all the grounds to make 2/3 of a pot of coffee, then dipped before anyone else but me woke up
love the guy, but that was not what I wanted to enter the kitchen to see
Ah yes and then the next bag is at a different level of roast and freshness and must be re-dialed in again
Wait, what do you mean “dial in”? I’m unfamiliar with this term in the context of coffee makers. Do they need to be calibrated?
Like, did he make a batch, taste it, say “too weak,” toss it, then make another, taste, “too strong,” toss, and so on until he gets one that’s “just right”?
If so, what an asshole.
Or did he just dump an entire can of grounds in the hopper, brew a 2/3 pot, then dump the resulting motor oil in a travel mug before dipping out?
If so, still, what an ass.
the first is exactly what he did lmao
I brought enough coffee for like half a dozen pots
Not only is that selfish, it’s also kinda stupid.
Like did he really need to pour it out because it didn’t suit him? If anything he could have moved it to a different container so that other people could still have some.
But also it’s like… if you don’t know the right ratio it’s not hard to ask. If there’s a scooper it’s usually like one scoop per two cups of water. Getting the precision down to ± three decimal places isn’t exactly necessary.
But whatever. I digress…
Coffee people are weird
Yes, we are the monolith known as coffee people and we have no variation of personal opinion, methodology, or taste 🙄
I’ve heard great things about the Cuckoos, my little Zojirushi is perfect though.
Oooh damn, I thought cuckoo was an adjective but it’s a brand name.
https://cuckooamerica.com/collections/rice-cookers
Damn you people are wealthy or just really really love your rice.
An instant pot does perfectly good rice too. Though it takes a bit of trial to get then ratios right.
That’s the advantage of high quality rice cookers, they can adapt if you get the ratios wrong. I’ve definitely been too drunk and added an extra 1/4 cup of water, but it does its best and still turns out okay.
I bought my Zorirushi at Goodwill for $7.99.
And yes, I love my rice.
Yeah, check Goodwills and estate sales. Old people like buying expensive nice shit, so you can pay pennies on the dollar for good stuff at Estate Sales.
Spend a couple hundred dollars once and never have to buy a rice cooker again, and have perfect rice every time. The total cost of my machine up to now is probably a couple pennies per batch of rice made (if that). They can also do more than just rice, I regularly steam veggies and even cook meat while my rice cooks.
Some things are worth splurging on. Having said that, $500+ for a rice cooker is just too much. 😅
It always comes down to boot theory.
I’m of the opinion that if you have to cook your rice in a $600 machine, you like your machine more than you like rice
I can like both equally. My Zojirushi sings a lovely little song when it finishes cooking the rice, how could not love it.
Better how
It’s like coffee. There are troglodytes out there who will tell you instant is just as good as anything else.
If you put in less water than the rice needs, it will result in a chewier texture, like undercooked pasta. Too much water, and it will cook down too much, become gluey and mushy. Perfectly cooked rice is incredible, and I didn’t realize how good plain rice could be til I was an adult and had it prepared correctly.
I own a rice cooker. I admit that it makes better rice more consistently. But I still use a pot on the stove most of the time because I can get it done quicker, but at the expense of it sometimes being mushy.
And I recognize that Zojirushi pot, so it definitely can make good rice.
I ordered a cake for my birthday that said Happy 29th. I’m 40, they didn’t even check my ID or anything.
I hope you at least got one that comes with little tractors on top.
Also that it wasn’t even your actual birthday.
I order the club sandwich all the time and I’m not even a member, man.
Mitch Hedberg
How do you feel about frilly toothpicks?
I’m for em!
“I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn’t have one. So I got a cake.” - Mitch Hedberg
I stopped buying birthday cakes when I realised most well-known places don’t really make them to be eaten but to look good in pictures and then be splattered onto faces. They were not tasty.
I’m sorry. Where I’m from birthday cakes are still made for eating.
The maniacs will sell you the cake even if it’s nowhere near close to your birthday.
Bro is just doing shit
Happy belated 29th birthday! What, I’m not checkin your ID, either
Hmm. You didn’t mention how belated. This all checks out.
It’s an older cake, but it checks out.
You can wash sheets on the towel setting.
People use those settings? It all goes through the heavy soiled gauntlet for me
Maybe others don’t heavily soil their sheets
well, if you have kids…
Having children makes you shit the bed‽ 😲 I don’t think I want any of those then.
No, you misunderstand: They’re washing by passing their stuff through gauntlets.
A dirty gauntlet at that. Not sure how that helps for laundry, but everyone has their own process.
Ah, that makes so much sense now!
To be clear though, the arcade machines or the gloves?
The arcade machines are superior because they can handle four at a time!
Like gauntlets without fingertips? Driving gauntlets?
You don’t have a peeing section in your bed?
Of course not, I pee in my wellies in the closet like a civilised person!
Live a little
This made my day
that is probably making your clothes age out faster than they need to (and takes longer and uses more power/water).
I’m mostly riffing on the mr lovestein comic, I don’t actually do that
I don’t do that either.
Because I look at that written before buying and then don’t buy it.
I wash clothes when the hamper is full, about once every two weeks. Everything together (except whites) longest wash, hot water.
Whatever comes out the other side goes back in the closet for the next round.
People make a big deal about buying clothes, washing clothes, folding clothes, organizing closets, matching clothes, shoes, belts, accessories, brands, who wears what when, blah, blah, blah.
Weather and society permitting, I wouldn’t even wear clothes. Fuck clothes.
For EU folks: the Eco setting actually cleans the most thoughly
I assume it was supposed to be “thoroughly” but I like “thoughly”, it should be a word.
Oh god not another one of those tough thorough thought ones xD
Look at the millionaire that has a towel setting.
Yeah but then your sheets will be extra absorbent and you’ll get dry skin.
Preheating the oven
This does not apply to bread.
If you’re just vibe-roasting some vegetables or a casserole or something, sure. But for bread and bread-based stuff like pizza, it does make a difference. Scientifically.
I’m thinking mostly of a frozen pizza lol. Pretty low stakes stuff. Love the username tho
You should do so for pizza, as well as using a pizza stone.
I honestly meant this in regards to frozen pizza. I’d never do this with a fresh pizza. Also I’ve been meaning to get a pizza stone but haven’t lol.
Most of the brown rice you buy in grocery stores today is actually parboiled. Parboiled rice cooks with less water and in about the same amount of time as white rice. If you want real, genuine brown rice, you have to read the directions on the back. If it cooks in less than 30 minutes or 35 minutes, it’s not really brown rice. It’s parboiled. If the ratio of water to rice is less than two to one, then it’s also parboiled.
Parboiled brown rice is still “real, genuine brown rice”. It’s just been parboiled. It’s not fake rice somehow.
What person that likes rice actually wants parboiled rice?
Shit - me! I rarely eat rice so get the Trader Joe’s frozen stuff.
Frozen rice?
Yeah, I said it. Usually get the Jasmin rice but this gives you the idea:
https://www.traderjoes.com/home/products/pdp/organic-basmati-rice-082778
I was turned on to the Jasmin rice by a Chinese person.
edit- got the basmati by mistake one time. it was good.
Btw is it just me or parboiled rice tastes much worse than regular rice? Granted I’ve been avoiding it like the plague in the last two decades, but I have some bad memories of how flavourless and weird-textured it was.
(And since I learned the trick of cooking rice in salty, olive-oily water that I wait to boil away/absorb, that’s all I do, the end result tastes amazing compared those sad plastic bags of rice we cooked in my childhood.)
Agreed. Parboiled brown rice does not taste like brown rice at all.
Lol.
Going through a Red Light (after a complete stop) at 3am in a desolate area when you are the only car on the road.
Also depends on the type of Brown Rice. We have one now, that cooks the same as white, but I bought one before that had a super thick hard casing and even after an hour of boiling it was still crunchy
Going through a Red Light (after a complete stop) at 3am in a desolate area when you are the only car on the road.
Definitely look both ways and be cautious. Anyone who has seen The Mexican knows what I mean.
I will roll the windows down, because in a desolate area you are going to hear cars.
Unless they’re travelling faster than the speed of sound.
Fair point
Going through a Red Light (after a complete stop) at 3am in a desolate area when you are the only car on the road.m
There will always be a cop watching that intersection. Do so at your own peril. I’d end up shot.
Not in my city. Running a red light is scarily common here. I once saw a pickup truck blow through 3 lights consecutively.
Do you live in Oakland California?
Nope. Somewhere much sadder.
Or even just a red light cam.
I’ve been in this exact 3am situation. Good thing I didn’t have time to actually make it into the intersection, because I would have absolutely been destroyed by the semi that came out of fucking nowhere going 20 mph over the limit.
The true rebel we need in these times.
Brown rice is more nutritious than white rice.
This may or may not work depending upon the grain size and processing of your brown rice as well as whether or not the rice cooker has some fuzzy logic built in that might detect it.
They have “soft bran” short-grain brown rice here (the hull is pre-cut, I think?) and it works fine on the white rice setting. My normal brown rice would not cook through, though, probably.
Looks like a neuro fuzzy. That thing will make decent rice even if you try to screw it up. Brown rice does take substantially longer to cook properly - your rice maker is likely figuring that out and picking up the slack.
The Zojirushi are pretty damn magic.
I have no idea what all those buttons on a microwave are for. I just stick it in the box, and blast it in 30 second increments.
