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Unconventional kitchen utensil you can't live without? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 8 months ago by dhcmrlchtdj__ to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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] 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] John_McMurray 1 points 8 months ago

That company makes the best damn coffee maker ever

[–] kender242 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] kender242 2 points 8 months ago

It depends on the brand. Western rice cookers have a keep warm feature that I wouldn't trust.

Zorushi and Cuckoo that keep the rice under pressure at around 140F will keep for 2-3 days. https://kitchencuddle.com/rice-cookers-that-keep-rice-warm-for-days/

Yeah, a week is really pushing it, I think I just remembered wrong.

[–] John_McMurray 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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] 0 points 8 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