What are your unconventional kitchen tools/utensils you were skeptical of at first but feel you can’t live without?

  • @[email protected]
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    157 months ago

    Did I miss it or did no one say Rice Cooker yet? A good rice cooker makes rice texture so much better while simplifying the whole process.

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      7 months ago

      Someone gifted me a Le Creuset rice cooker. I use it at least once but often twice a week. At $200+ it’s truly something I never would have bought myself.

      • @[email protected]
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        17 months ago

        Oh my partner’s been trying to convince me to accept one because I make so much stovetop rice, but don’t want a digital rice cooker with plastic and circuits and all that.

        How does it do?

        • @itsgoodtobeawake
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          67 months ago

          If you make a lot of rice then spring for a zojirushi neuro fuzzy. Expensive, yes, gamechanger, yes. Buy once, cry once.

          • @John_McMurray
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            17 months ago

            That company makes the best damn coffee maker ever

        • @kender242
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          17 months ago

          Get a good pressure rice cooker. These are meant to let you leave the rice warm inside for about up to a week. Game changer and always have rice on hand.

          • @itsgoodtobeawake
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            47 months ago

            Not sure any food can safely be kept warm that long, they keep your rice warm and edible for quite awhile but even 12-24hrs is pushing it.

            • @John_McMurray
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              7 months ago

              If it keeps rice above the “danger zone”, dont see why not, but that’s hot, not warm. And a week is pushing it.

        • @[email protected]
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          07 months ago

          It’s great! It only makes 4-6 servings of rice at a time but I prefer that because it means there’s less leftovers

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      67 months ago

      A pot is IMO sufficient for single use cooking (maybe once every 1-2 weeks of cooking) if you are not a primary rice household.

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        27 months ago

        I mean I eat rice more days than I don’t and I use a pot. 15 minutes + mostly unattended, while I’m prepping some protein or whatever.

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          27 months ago

          My problem is the cleaning after with starchy stuff.
          Especially sticky rice variants are annoying to clean (read: throw in the dishwasher)

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            17 months ago

            With a rigid bamboo pot scraper (and, yes, a little soaking if really stuck on there), I’ve found it’s actually not worth the bother of the dishwasher when it’s so easy to do by hand.

            But I’m into a real rice rythme these days lol