RPCookin
Executive Chef
Mad Cook appears to use the same mug for the rice as she does the water.
The trouble is that the way she wrote it, she mixed mug and cups with no explanation that she was using the same vessel.
Mad Cook appears to use the same mug for the rice as she does the water.
A 3-cup rice cooker is small, perfect for a single or a couple. It's automatic so you don't have to wonder if it's cooked properly or not, and allows you to concentrate on the main course. Definitely used more often than a crockpot, pressure cooker, oven, blender, or food processor in our household.
The trouble is that the way she wrote it, she mixed mug and cups with no explanation that she was using the same vessel.
I don't think my brain was working properly. Sometimes my typing fingers have a mind or my own.I guess I was the only one who knew what she was talking about without further clarification.
Hey, Mad Cook..we think alike.
A rice cooker is like a coffee maker. If you use it every day it is definitely worth having it. We use our's almost daily.
I NEVER thought I would use a rice cooker, again, dislike single use appliances, but we got one as a wedding gift, and it has its uses. I mean use, cooking rice. It does, as everyone said make the rice you want without messing about. I also use it to steam veggies sometimes.
My problem in the apartment is I have four burners and an oven. I also have a limited amount of good pots. And rice cooking to consistency really needs a burner and a good pot with lid, so I have to use the good pots, not my stamped aluminum just used to heat up stuff go to hell pots. So both of those are tied up. It is worth the counter space (also a premium, but fungible, where the need for burners of differing temperatures is dynamic), when I am cooking an 'interesting' meal. (define that as using most of my pots, and all my burners at once, which happens with alarming regularity, need a bigger kitchen)...
Unless I'm flavoring it, I make rice in the microwave. It's foolproof.
1 cup rice
2 cups liquid (water or broth)
1 tsp salt
Combine ingredients in a microwave-safe bowl; cover with a paper towel. Microwave on high for 7 minutes. Stir and microwave on high for 8 more minutes. Done.
A rice cooker is like a coffee maker. If you use it every day it is definitely worth having it. We use our's almost daily.
I don't think my brain was working properly. Sometimes my typing fingers have a mind or my own.
Don't know if you saw my response, but cooking rice in the microwave results in perfect rice every single time. It stops cooking by itself and stays hot till you need it
Cooking with a microwave oven, for me, feels like cheating, sketchy dorm room cookery, and those bad years where the apartment didn't actually have a stove.
I'm going to go with the idea that the real thing that is holding 'fox back from using his microwave is more "sketchy dorm room cookery, and those bad years where the apartment didn't actually have a stove" and less "cheating".
Yeah got it it one CG.
There is a great degree to which you can plot on an x and y axis, how convenient a cooking device or method is say x, and how much satisfaction I get from using said device on y.
Microwave is a great tool, and I use it at times, but it rates high on convenience and utility, but very low on satisfaction. And yeah, using the microwave has bad connotations cooking wise for me.
My problem in the apartment is I have four burners and an oven. I also have a limited amount of good pots. And rice cooking to consistency really needs a burner and a good pot with lid, so I have to use the good pots, not my stamped aluminum just used to heat up stuff go to hell pots. So both of those are tied up. It is worth the counter space (also a premium, but fungible, where the need for burners of differing temperatures is dynamic), when I am cooking an 'interesting' meal. (define that as using most of my pots, and all my burners at once, which happens with alarming regularity, need a bigger kitchen).
Yeah GG I hate my microwave, if you look at a picture of my kitchen it is way up on top of the refrigerator, I make it the most inconvenient piece of cooking gear I use, ever.
I lived in an apartment where that was the only way to cook, no range, no oven that and a hot plate.
You don't want to know what happened to the hotplate.
I learned to cook in the scouts, direct heat, campfire.
Cooking with a microwave oven, for me, feels like cheating, sketchy dorm room cookery, and those bad years where the apartment didn't actually have a stove.
I know there are a lot of reasons not to, but I hate my microwave oven.
TBS