I hate

A designated person who cooks rice for you.

I'm that designated person in my house and I use a rice cooker, but want a better one.

shortgrain brown I cook to the consistency I like, a quick rinse in a sieve under a cold tap, then pour a kettle of boiling water on before serving.

Self improvement will give you a better designated person.

Zojirushi.

Even easier is:-

• Wash spuds
  
• Dry spuds
  
• Chip spuds
  
• Dry chips with tea towel
  
• Lightly coat in oil
  
• Bake for 30-40 minutes at ~190C
  
  

Can be done with sweet potatoes too, although they generally take 5-10 mins less than normal potatoes.

Skin on fries much nicer, no deep frying required, much less unhealthy.

Skin on fries much nicer

FFS. Might as well eat the things raw.

You monster.

Cooking rice is the simplest thing in the world!

Works equally well for basmati and sticky rice (which are the only kinds of rice anyway).

Measure your rice into a smallish pot with a tight fitting lid. For four people I use a coffee mug filled with rice to the level you’d fill it with coffee.

Cold tap, using fingers swish the rice. Pour out the water. Repeat until the water is mostly clear. Drain fully.

Now add exactly twice the volume of cold water as the measured volume of rice. So in this case two coffee mugs.

Do not add salt, stock or anything else. Just cold water.

Loosely fit the lid onto the pot (because it will come to the boil faster obvs.) and put it onto the heat until it is boiling properly.

Remove from heat. Jam that lid on tight. Sit the pot on a nice non conductive surface (like a breadboard) and cover it in tea towels for insulation.

When you are done with the rest of your cooking (or circa 20 minutes) take off the lid and fluff with a fork if basmati. Let cool if sticky.

It will be perfect EVERY SINGLE TIME.

You’re welcome.

Get a rice cooker.

my rice cooker.

Your a rice cooker.

Your coffees are too large or your rice portions are too small

If you want to do the rice cooking equivalent of cooking on a camp fire or watching black and white telly that's fine but don't push your quirks on ther people 😀

Gah! Bet you microwave your meat too as a charcoal grill is too agricultural :-)

What's wrong with you people?

They just sound like potato wedges shaped like chips.

your a rice cooker

Sticky rice steamed in a banana leaf on a wood fire? Now we're talking!

That's just pretending to be a rice cooker on the stovetop and is what I did before using a rice cooker (except you've gone overboard on the water, 1.5x please), a rice cooker just does half that shit for you and you can just put it on and concentrate on the other stuff.

Not everyone has a 40K kitchen with enough space for a rice cooker.

Though I'd buy one if it can fry the rice and the spices first for my pilaf.

My rice cooker was free because my MIL's partner clears out student accommodation and a lot of the wealthier east Asian students leave loads of barely used kitchen stuff, also got some knives, a kettle and a nice steamer, slimmer pickings this year unfortunately.

Probably need one of those one pot ninja things.

They just sound like potato wedges shaped like chips.

And so (potato based) enlightenment is achieved.

I have a 3K kitchen with (barely) enough space for a rice cooker.