Riceburner

[roadrunnertwice]

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...

John Darnielle sang, "Fill your mouth with berries / by the full light of the moon / work all night if you have to / the Magpie comes at noon." If you find this to be the case, you should just make do with the berries and feed the rice you made in your Oster Inspire rice cooker to the magpie.

I did try to give it a chance, honest--I must have tried like eight different ways of making brown rice with the thing (more water, less water, way more water, soak the grains for ten minutes, soak the grains for half an hour, soak the grains for half an hour in more water, etcetera ad nauseam). 'Twas all bootless: if there was one certainty in my kitchen during that unhappy time, it was that the Oster Inspire would burn half of my rice to the bottom of the pan. So then I got my money back and bought a far better ricemaker for half the price.

Product is broken as designed. Avoid.