This is not necessarily a long term thing, but as the holiday season creeps up, things like ‘favorite utensils’ posts might gain some traction for people looking for gift ideas.
ooo I got one for ya - got this for my mother, it’s both a utensil (sort of) and a gift idea. so difficult to shop for my folks, they dont “need” things anymore. anyway --> apple peeler/coring machine
This is different from the sweet potato casserole recipe that I use from ATK. Mine has you bake the potatoes first. It’s in the make-ahead book I have from like 15 years ago.
It depends on your skill level and whether replacement parts are available. Based on the way you asked the question and the general throw away nature of most consumer goods I would guess the answer for you is no.
It probably could be repaired, but you might be looking at replacing components on an electronics board or replacing specific components that have gone bad. This would require the ability to troubleshoot and root cause the issue before figuring out how you can repair it.
I used to never wash my rice, but did notice the rice sludge in the rice cooker so figured, why not, let's wash it, and no more sludge, go figure. I even bought one of those two piece rice washing bowls from amazon which makes it so much easier. I'm a rice washing convert. Also, rice cookers are the greatest invention since sliced bread.
The biggest benefit of a rice maker is that it takes care of itself. I pour in the ingredients and click to start. Then it’s just ready when the rest of the meal is, and I have to worry a lot less about timing that or about doing as many things at once.
Mine uses 1.5 c water per cup of rice and takes 15-20 min with an Oster $20 unit. U telling me a pressure cooker is faster, and uses less water than that?
Just over 1 cup water to 1 cup rice (pretty much 1:1, plus the residual moisture from rinsing) for most white rice. 4 minutes at pressure, but probably comparable in practice. (have to wait for it to come to pressure and lose pressure after)
Really, it's been about consistency for me, but I've only compared to a basic Aroma rice cooker. I really liked my rice cooker, but side by side the IP was just better. Seemed like the grains were more consistent all the way through, like the rice cooker grains had a bit of hardness/density at the center and weren't as fluffy, from what I remember.
Interesting. I don’t have the hard in the center issue with my rice at all and it comes out the same way every time. What kind of rice do you use most? I use jasmine.
Jasmine and basmati, usually. Sometimes, calrose. Rarely, something else.
I never would've said it was hard centered per se by itself, just in comparison. Before trying rice cooked both ways side by side, I really liked my rice cooker. But, after getting the pressure cooker, then trying both freshly cooked, this was my impression.
But, it's been years since I switched over, now. I remember looking into it (the Bacillus cereus issue also came up in reading), comparing, and finally getting rid of the rice cooker as the pressure cooker could do more, better.
Here are my findings for both, which are interesting, if you're counting calories and on a diet:
Cooking for consistency, initial consistency of rice cooked in Instant Pot is better, but yields much less rice, Rice Cooker yields almost 25% more rice per oz of dry rice.
1280 calories for 2 cups of uncooked white rice + 4 cups of water. Rice Cooker White Rice recipe yields 48oz of white rice .
1280 calories for 2 cups of uncooked white rice + 2.25 cups of water. IP White Rice recipe yields 32oz of white rice.
Now, of course I used less water in the IP than I did in the rice cooker, but it's the consistency of the rice I was testing.
I've also found if I cook a big batch in the rice cooker, and it's gloopy, I freeze it in individual sized meal weights of 8 oz, and when it defrosts, I can break it up in the plastic bag with my fingers, put it in the microwave for 3 minutes at 50% and it's perfect.
By the time it's been frozen, thawed and microwaved, wouldn't rice cooker rice lose water weight and quite possibly be more in line with IP rice initial values? Not to mention all the energy used in the extra steps.
the weight doesn't change all that much post freeze, and the ease of having readily available frozen rice i can leave in the fridge to thaw overnight for the next days meal, beats having to use (and clean) the rice cooker or ip each time. it works for me, and feels like i'm cheating in how simple it is. one rice cook sets me up for a couple weeks of meals that i use rice with.
I don’t understand what you’re trying to say with the yield. The rice didn’t go anywhere. The nutritional value of that pot of rice is the same regardless of how you cook it. Different methods just produce rice that absorb different amounts of water, so the weight is different.
Pressure cooker is better than a cheap rice cooker, but a higher end rice cooker is about the same. You can do more stuff with the pressure cooker though.
Pretty well. Some might argue better than a rice cooker.
Modern pressure cookers usually change to a warm setting, similar to rice cookers, once the specified cook time has elapsed. Additionally, there are certain pathogens in rice (Bacillus cereus) that can survive in spore form to about 100C, but have been shown to be destroyed in the slightly higher temperatures that can exist under pressure. So, arguably, pressure cooker rice is food safe for longer at 'warm' settings than rice cooked in a rice cooker. There's less chance for pathogens to grow if the food has been better sterilized to begin with, provided no subsequent cross contamination occurs.
What pressure cooker do you use? I just tried today with an Instantpot and the bottom completely solidified after a few hours with the rest of the rice turned into mush. This is with the keep warm setting.
I use an instapot. A few hours might be too long to leave rice in there. I don't know. I usually at least turn mine off within the first hour or so and do something with it. Pretty sure food safety guidelines don't recommend leaving rice on warm for hours in any case.
Ah, okay. When I said “throughout the day”, I actually mean throughout the day. As in making a large pot of rice in the morning and eating from that same pot for breakfast lunch and dinner. One of the main appeals of rice cookers is the ability to do that. It may not be recommended by food safety guidelines, but it’s standard practice in any household that consumes a lot of rice and it’s never been a problem.
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I think this is a great decisien, even though it might be a hard one. I hope other communities follow your way as a scattered community helps less than a united.
In my humble opinion, and this is just a personal suggestion and not a criticism of how you manage your community:
Tag enforcement is a useful feature when there is an abundance of content and users need to filter out the relevant information from the noise. However, it can also discourage some people from contributing if they feel pressured or annoyed by the tag requirements.
Finding the sidebar on some mobile apps can be challenging for some apps making it difficult to even get the list of acceptable tags adding tags to their posts.
I would recommend that you encourage and recommend tags, but refrain from pestering or threatening to delete posts that do not have them, unless it becomes a serious problem for the community.
Tag enforcement is a useful feature when there is an abundance of content and users need to filter out the relevant information from the noise. However, it can also discourage some people from contributing if they feel pressured or annoyed by the tag requirements.
Definitely agree with this. And the goal is exactly that, filtering and organizing. I think whenever Lemmy implements tagging or flairs, it will be less invasive, while still having the same effect.
Finding the sidebar on some mobile apps can be challenging for some apps making it difficult to even get the list of acceptable tags adding tags to their posts.
This is a good point, will probably copy the info into this post until we can come up with a better solution.
I would recommend that you encourage and recommend tags, but refrain from pestering or threatening to delete posts that do not have them, unless it becomes a serious problem for the community.
I think I speak for the other mods as well in saying we are all pretty laid back about modding. We don’t want this to turn into Reddit and we understand Lemmy is in growing stages. There are some hard and fast rules, like posts must be food/cooking related, but we’re not going to go crazy with a banhammer or removing good content just because it’s not tagged properly. I wish we had the ability to edit posts and just add them ourselves to make it easier on everyone. And in this early stage we are hoping tags get added organically and we always want to be updating with the best approaches. I will reword the sidebar to be less “threatening”. We don’t want users to feel like it’s us against them at all. You should see us all in the comments a lot because we love talking food and we’re not here to just be mods.
So really appreciate the feedback and feel free to add suggestions if you think there’s a better way. We want to be as transparent as possible and take community input at every step we can. That’s why we did the vote instead of just making the changes. We’re here for the community first and I hope that shows in our actions. Thanks!
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