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

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    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.

    • Manmoth
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      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.

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

        • kender242English
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          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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            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.

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

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          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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      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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        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.

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