Somebody mentioned rice cookers

[Tab]

Someone I once worked for had spent a number of months in Japan and brought back this rice cooker



It has "fuzzy logic" (all the rage around 1990). Made by National, subsidiary of, or partner with, Panasonic.

It makes the BEST goshdarn rice, and will hold it for hours.

You get cheap "rice makers" from Wal-Mart, but they're pretty pointless - nothing you can't do in a pot.

But this thing made the best rice - short grain is the stickier kind - and held it forever. We ate it constantly until we figured out maybe it's a little TOO much carbs to eat all day long.

One ordering place is here (not recommending it, or not NOT recommending it, just the first place I found it listed).

http://www.galtak.com/nat_srna18p.html


(Edited to use a more reasonably sized pic)

[Tab]

1. Sorry for the huge pic!

Apparently this site has a 2k x 2k pic, which they scale down for display.

Am looking for an honest-to-god smaller pic. Will replace it if I can find it.

[Dover]

2. These look great! Thanks for the link.

Gosh, it even makes Congee! I love to have congee in the winter, especially when I feel a cold/flu coming on. And coincidentally I just made a pot of it for a sick friend even though it's miserably hot here.

Like you, I too have cut back on starches/carbs like rice (except for brown rice), so don't know if
I could justify an expensive rice cooker. But this one is clearly an excellent choice if you DO partake of rice often.

The Japanese must have very different metabolisms or habits or something.
They also generally eat a much healthier diet than most Americans.

[Warpy]

3. Don't knock the $14.00 jobs from Wally's

Since I got a computer, I've turned into a space cadet. The cheapo rice cooker does it perfectly every time, and brown rice never boils dry in it.

If I still lived at sea level, I'd still be doing it in a pot. However, a mile up and in the desert, a cheap rice pot is a great convenience that has paid for itself in the rice I haven't burnt.