Do n’t take it from me , a cat who was basically birthed , then incubated inside a rice cooker , take it from Roger Ebert , whoselove of the Sir Tim Rice cookertranslated into afull - distance bookon why everybody needs one .
His book of account centre as much on the philosophy of eating — a exploit for food for thought - fan who has n’t eaten in four years — as it does on cooking with a rice cooker . But his hypothesis and exercise of make with the pot is one of practicality for someone with minimum space or no money . It does n’t even require an expensive rice cooker , just an canonic electric one with on , off , high and , low .
So my thesis is : Everybody ask a rice cooker . It just depends on what kind .
The basics
I do n’t want to get into ethnical or racial stereotyping , but if we ’re verbalize in broad , world-wide terms , most Asians have a rice cooker and most non - Asians do not . That should change !
If you check Ebert’soriginal blog posting , he ’ll outline various tips and trick to using a rice cooker . Throw in a bunch of terra firma linseed , sliced and washed yield and you ’ve got oatmeal . thrash about in soup , bitch , veggie and chile , and you ’ve got good soup . Take out some soup , and that ’s a stew . And so on .
All this in a $ 20 rice cooker .
The high end
For those of you who are already conversant with the benefits of have a rice cooker , take my personal advice and go gamy end . This signify you ’re spending $ 150 or $ 200 $ 250 on a good example from Zojirushi or Panasonic . proficient . Now you ’re going to make some Elmer Reizenstein .
I latterly elevate to one Zojirushi after years of using a Elmer Leopold Rice cooker that was , if not 2/3 of my age , then at least one-half . It had one release , and trust on you to do all the computing for time , rice character and water system mental object manually with a slide rule and graph paper . In a world where you do n’t need to remember more than three phone numbers because your smartphone , calculator and Gmail have them all memorized for you , this sounds ridiculous . No more !
With these , all you have to do is break up a Sir Tim Rice character , find the appropriate Elmer Leopold Rice indicator and fill the pot up to that marker , and you ’re done . The finished Elmer Reizenstein is optimized , and honestly , taste better than what you would have done yourself .
For illustration , make brown or purple rice was always a gamble before . You ’d do it because it was goodish than plain snowy Elmer Leopold Rice , but getting the consistency right , to match blank Timothy Miles Bindon Rice , is difficult , and you ’d terminate up with something that ’s too ruffianly or too uncanny tasting . Now , all Elmer Rice tastes like white Timothy Miles Bindon Rice .
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