I mean the one you do when you want something easy to do, but not when you’re tired at the point you microwave a frozen-meal, or just cut down a piece of cheese and put it in a bread
I mean the one you do when you want something easy to do, but not when you’re tired at the point you microwave a frozen-meal, or just cut down a piece of cheese and put it in a bread
If there is leftover rice in the rice cooker, a fried egg, chili paste and pork fu on that rice is great. Avocado on there is good too. Chili paste on rice if you don’t want to make an egg.
A piece of cheese and an apple is good. Apple and peanut butter good. Cheese and crackers good.
I think your best bet, though, is to cook and save a portion you can pop in the microwave when you don’t want to cook. And keep something like hummus on hand, healthy and easy. Seasoned canned beans.
What’s the deal with left over rice in the rice cooker? You just make a full pot and leave it in there for days?
Hopefully not what they mean, rice needs to be chilled fairly quickly after it’s done - even then, you don’t want to keep it for long. There’s a specific bacterium B. cereus that thrives on rice and can be really nasty.
I cover it with a damp paper towel and yes it lasts a couple of days like that.
Please stop doing this. Food poisoning from rice can potentially kill you.
ETA: The recipe you suggested sounds crazy good, though.
Some rice cookers have a “keep warm” option, which might be what they’re using
Warm is arguably even worse. Heat kills microbes, but all the reactions driving their growth tend to accelerate when it’s warmer. Rice can harbor some nasty pathogens so it’s important to chill and refrigerate it ASAP
The “keep warm” function on a typical rice cooker isn’t 100° warm, it’s a food safe temperature like 140+.
As long as the cooker is working properly, it’s fine to eat hours later. I wouldn’t go overnight or anything.
Why wouldn’t 100° be food safe? Is it because that would only kill stuff in water when it boils, but solids won’t boil?
If any dangerous pathogens are kept out or killed, I guess more power to the you? However, I’m just thinking: “Why not make fried rice out of that?” Heck, you’d just need some oil and garlic and letting that day-old rice cool and dry out a bit.
Fry the egg first, then using the same oil the egg is fried in, then once the garlic is almost golden brown, take it off the oil and add the rice. Let the rice heat up and then add the chili paste, the garlic, the pork fu and/or whatever else you might have on hand you fancy adding. Season to taste and cook to desired “doneness”. Some like it cooked to the point of the rice gaining that scorched and crunchy layer.
And that’s just basing off your recipe. A lot of dinner left-overs can be added to next day’s fried rice, and it’s just basically a way of dealing with left-overs (and rice) and cooking a one-dish meal out of it…
I was just basing it on “too lazy to cook”. I will note egg fried IN chili paste & oil is ridiculously good too. But haven’t really worried about rice kept out, it has a keep warm button on the rice cooker? It’s only for a day usually, have a family so it gets eaten.
Oh, yeah, I hear you! My go-to for those “I feel too lazy to cook something substantial” would be ramen because fried rice can actually be pretty hard work, lol!
Also, thanks for the tip about fried eggs. We usually don’t add much to our fried eggs here, just a bit of salt and a bit of all-purpose seasoning if we’re feeling fancy. Otherwise, it’d be an omelette with onions and tomatoes and all that and it’s already become a dish of its own.