All electric galley: rice cooker

[s/v Jedi]

Originally Posted by zstine

I would like to tryone, but I'm limited on power. What is the Amp draw?? Amazon listing doesn't spec. I assume about 20min for rice and that this is 110VAC, so I have to invert.
Thanks

Originally Posted by Dsanduril

We love our ricemaker, wouldn't be without it. Will be interesting to see Jedi's numbers. Cooking a cup to cup-and-a-half (the 180ml ricemaker cup, not a 8oz cup) takes 12-14Ah @12V, so ~150Wh. When it first starts and is in full heat mode is can draw 40-50A @12V (~500-600W) for a minute or so.

The results are in: for the rice cooker I linked to, with 1.5 of “their“ cups of Thai jasmin rice and the recommended water level, maximum power used was 445W and total energy consumed was exactly 100Wh. I think that is pretty good. It is about a 35A peak draw from a 12V battery and about 8Ah but with inverter loss lets say 10Ah at most

May be I will test the same quantities with a regular pot on an induction cooktop and show results here.

[s/v Jedi]

Originally Posted by thinwater

Another very effective and even lower energy rice cooking method is to boil the water and rice, and then remove it from the stove and immediately wrap it in several fleece blankets. No need to watch the time. Thermal cooker work, but a blanket is enough.


I use a rice cooker at home. Very handy.

That is the old school way. The rice cooker does the same thing and I bet at lower energy consumption.

Originally Posted by ranger42c

Thanks. Sounds semi-normal. We usually use equal measures of rice and water for plain white rice... in a stovetop pan. Haven't really experimented much with our Instant Pot... which apparently has a magic setting for rice...

-Chris

Originally Posted by rslifkin

At home I find my instant pot makes pretty good rice and much faster than a rice cooker. But the output from a proper rice cooker is still better, so being that the house kitchen has space, I have both.

Originally Posted by Wood

I use a 4 qt pressure cooker. 5 min at pressure for white rice, 7 - 8 for brown. Takes 3 -4 minutes to come up to pressure.

We have tried at pressure using our Instapot and that was a fail. It may work with a plain rice like Uncle Ben’s etc. but our jasmin rice was overcooked.

Originally Posted by Simi 60

We eat a lot of rice , have about 20kg of Jasmin, basmati and sushi rice on board now.
Bought a rice cooker about 4.5 years ago.
Haven't used it in 4 years.
Easier using a pot.

Then you did it wrong or tried a weird appliance because nothing is easier than the rice cookers and nothing produces better results. A good chef can match it.

Here is a great comparison:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uABJWCGrFPo

[JDanielBryant]

If you have the 120 V, think about an instant pot: they made rice cookers obsolete 5 years ago. It’s a pressure cooker with a pressure activated heater coil. Cooks brown rice in 20 minutes, but can cook a pot roast in an hour. Fantastic appliance; I use it at least once a week.

[s/v Jedi]

Originally Posted by JDanielBryant

If you have the 120 V, think about an instant pot: they made rice cookers obsolete 5 years ago. It’s a pressure cooker with a pressure activated heater coil. Cooks brown rice in 20 minutes, but can cook a pot roast in an hour. Fantastic appliance; I use it at least once a week.

It was a fail on our test with jasmin rice. Rice does not cook well in a pressure cooker and some freshly harvested rice does not work at all. Rice cookers are the gold standard world wide

We do some other things with the Instapot which are okay but when we switched to pressure canning, that wiped the rest off the table.

[rslifkin]

The instant pot definitely requires careful timing to not over-cook rice. And even then, you don't get the nice crust at the bottom that some rices get in a rice cooker, etc. In my book, the only way it beats the rice cooker is speed (it takes a little less than half the time).

[fivecapes]

These guys are the go to of rice cookers. In Japan it's either them or Tiger.

Rice cookers obsolete? According to whom?

Mostly available in both 110/120 and 220/240V flavors.

[Pizzazz]

A lot of online reviews say that Instapot is a very good rice cooker. I am happy with the results but I would not say I am very picky. I agree that you need to time carefully the cooking time and the amount of water and it varies from one pack to the other. But it costs nothing to experiment a few times. You can also use the slow cooking feature of the pressure cooker at low pressure. I cannot see how this is different from a rice cooker. Plus, the Instapot has ten other uses at least.

It has better insulation, so it should be more energy efficient than even the best rice cooker. I have the 3 qt version.

[Dsanduril]

Originally Posted by fivecapes

These guys are the go to of rice cookers. In Japan it's either them or Tiger.

Rice cookers obsolete? According to whom?

Mostly available in both 110/120 and 220/240V flavors.

If I ever got rid of our Zojirushi Neuro Fuzzy I suspect it would end in divorce. We joke about the name, but the rice that comes out is pretty darn good.

[Simi 60]

Originally Posted by s/v Jedi

Then you did it wrong or tried a weird appliance because nothing is easier than the rice cookers and nothing produces better results.

Cooking rice is easy if you know how to do it.
People managed to do it with perfect results for hundreds of years before rice cookers appeared on the scene.

Those that can do
Others buy gadgets to make up for their lack of skill.

[StuM]

Originally Posted by Simi 60

Cooking rice is easy if you know how to do it.
People managed to do it with perfect results for hundreds of years before rice cookers appeared on the scene.

Those that can do
Others buy gadgets to make up for their lack of skill.

You obviously know more than the people who have been eating rice as their staple carb all their lives.
Just about every home and restaurant in Asia with electricity uses one.

[Simi 60]

Originally Posted by StuM

You obviously know more than the people who have been eating rice as their staple carb all their lives.
Just about every home and restaurant in Asia with electricity uses one.

Some do, plenty don't.
Restaurants and big family's sure, but its not worth it for a couple IMHO.
Are you really trying to tell me you can't cook rice without a machine to do it for you?
A tiger rice cooker is anywhere between $200 and $600, I would have thought that a touch over the top for the average Indonesia, Vietnamese, Philippine family to buy

[fivecapes]

Originally Posted by Simi 60

A tiger rice cooker is anywhere between $200 and $600, I would have thought that a touch over the top for the average Indonesia, Vietnamese, Philippine family to buy

Pretty sure they can afford this.


This reminds me of a LiFePO thread....

[StuM]

Originally Posted by Simi 60

Some do, plenty don't.
Restaurants and big family's sure, but its not worth it for a couple IMHO.
Are you really trying to tell me you can't cook rice without a machine to do it for you?
A tiger rice cooker is anywhere between $200 and $600, I would have thought that a touch over the top for the average Indonesia, Vietnamese, Philippine family to buy

Go to your local Target and get one of these for $AUD 18 (USD 12)
https://www.target.com.au/p/target-2...src-5/60934185


or if you are feeding a real crowd how about one of these 20 cup ones for 40?
https://www.target.com/p/instant-zes...r/-/A-54643332

[StuM]

Originally Posted by fivecapes

Pretty sure they can afford this.
This reminds me of a LiFePO thread....

For those who don't know, that's also about USD12 !

[StuM]

Originally Posted by Simi 60

Some do, plenty don't.
Restaurants and big family's sure, but its not worth it for a couple IMHO.
Are you really trying to tell me you can't cook rice without a machine to do it for you?
A tiger rice cooker is anywhere between $200 and $600, I would have thought that a touch over the top for the average Indonesia, Vietnamese, Philippine family to buy

Indonesia for a start, I can't be bothered with going through all the others, but believe me, they are the same:

Handbook of Markets and Economies: East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, 2016:
"The second aspect of Indonesian durable goods ownership is the somewhat more limited penetration of labor-saving devices and modern kitchen appliances that might be expected. Every household with electricity has its electric rice cooker but may have little else."