Rice!

[aular]

We consume a lot of rice - I like cooking with it, well, because it's easy and pretty versatile

Comments

[tlatoani]

Rice cookers aren't an unnecessary gadget in our household, but YMMV depending on how often you cook rice. We do a lot of Asian cooking, and it's the only way to go. (Also, we wouldn't want that rice salted.)

[aular]

Cool - I'll try omitting the salt. I haven't made a decision about a rice cooker yet; it's just an issue of storage here. All of our cabinets are full and the ones upstairs have all the thing I semi-regularly use and I don't want to run up and down stairs to get anything routine, so I hold off on getting anything until it becomes a "must have".

What rice cooker do you use? What advantage does it have over a stove or oven method? Is it that easy? Durable? Dishwasher safe?

[shekkara]

Both of ours are 20 years old or older and we picked them up at Asian grocery stores. They're basic models with two settings: cook and warm.

[tlatoani]

We have two, and that's because we each owned one before we moved in together. Meaning, I'm sure neither of those models is still available.

They're incredibly easy to use. Rinse the rice a couple times, toss it in with the requisite amount of water, and click the switch. When it's done, the switch pops up. Makes it right every time.

[tlatoani]

(And btw, it's actually even been helpful on occasion for us to own two of them, but that's another story.)

[colomon]

Yeah, I'm with you on the "unnecessary". Our rice cooker is one of our two most-used kitchen gadgets.