Riceburner

So you might remember that I bought a ricemaker a little while back. It was one of these--I chose it because I'd had good luck with that cylindrical, latching-lid type in the past, and expected that this one would be pretty much the same as the Zojirushi one they had at 1373. In point of fact, it turned out to be complete ass. I must have tried like eight different ways of cooking brown rice in that thing, and every single time, it burned half of my rice onto the bottom of the pan. And the rest of the rice was usually pretty chewy and inedible, too, but let's not get off track, here--I was throwing away half of every single batch of rice.

So I took it back, and bought this instead:

It was half the price, it cooked this afternoon's rice perfectly on the first try, and it's totally frikkin' adorable. I reckon that as a clear win.

Now if only I could get that popcorn popper to not make a mess all over the kitchen...

( Here's the bitchy Amazon review I wrote. )