Dept. of Did You Know

[kaffy_r]

 Fun With Rice Cookers

Did you know that you can make one hell of a pancake in a rice cooker? Yes, we tried it (apparently it's A Thing), and it works.  Bob learns so many interesting things by reading Rocket News .... (Note: I just linked to the Rocket New feed that's tagged for food. There's loads more if you just go to Rocket News in general.)

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Comments

[st_aurafina]

You can cook so many things in a rice cooker! I'm too scared to try, but I can dream. (Although, I don't see how that's a pancake, really? As opposed to an actual cake?)

I need to live the dream and cook something in mine. It has all these fancy buttons I never use.

[kaffy_r]

Yeah, it's definitely more of a cake, but since it's made with pancake batter, one can still technically call it a pancake. You know; a cake, put into a pan. A rice-cooking type of pan. Ahem. Heh.

I never thought I'd want a rice cooker (although I was horrible at cooking rice without one), and then we got to temporarily borrow my son's, and I realized that this was what I'd been missing all my life. So off we trotted to get our own, and now I don't know what I did without it. Especially since we make a lot of quasi-Japanese/Korean/Indian dishes that need rice. And actually, ours has a lot of fancy buttons, but I generally use the "white rice" button and don't even worry about the other buttons. Sometimes I make brown rice, so I hit the "brown rice" button. That's the extent of my adventuring. Just hit one button and ignore the rest - and have fun!

[shanghaied]

Duuuuude. That's so gorram cute I'm going to have to buy a rice cooker now! And there I was so perfectly satisfied with my trusty old microwave rice steamers...

[kaffy_r]

Heh ... isn't it just?

I have always been so awful and talentless at making rice that finally breaking down and getting a rice cooker was a glorious epiphany, and a reason to keep cooking loads of rice (which I love). Since I also love making curries and such, it becomes particularly helpful.

[shanghaied]

I've passed the links on to a bestie who does already own and use an electric rice cooker. She is all agog. Agog, I tell you! :-)

[kaffy_r]

Agog, I tell you

Heh. Well, if her agog-ness evolves into actual experimentation, I'd love to hear what her results turned out to be.

[shanghaied]

If it happens, I shall let you know. Even though this is the (longtime) bestie with the use-by date, and since herits brain is full of weird spacey hormones, she's just as likely to feed the pancake batter to the dogs and put the dog food in the rice cooker :P

[kaffy_r]

Well, I imagine even dog food can be improved by judicious use of a rice cooker ....

[shanghaied]

Excellent comeback :D

[kaffy_r]

*bows*

One does what one can.

[heliopausa]

That's no fun, being bored. I'll try to think of interesting things to post. :)
I'm with st aurafina, though, about the recipe - I don't think something as seriously unflat as that can be called a pancake - I think it's a steamed pudding.

[kaffy_r]

Yeah, it's definitely not a traditional pancake, but it's fun to call it that anyhow because, hey, it is made of pancake batter.

As you learned from my subsequent post, things got significantly less boring and far more interesting, in the Chinese curse sense of the word, later yesterday. Sigh.

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

I consider this Misc. Information I Need to Know. Brought by boredom, yes. But still essential. *CACKLES*

*HUGS*

[kaffy_r]

I consider it equally wonderful and necessary to my interests. Heh.

[clocketpatch]

It looks like a pancake... cake. Heh. I'm unlikely to try it though since I have a tendancy to break rice cookers and this seems like just asking for trouble

[kaffy_r]

It actually is tremendously easy, although you have to take it on faith that it takes about 45 minutes to an hour. The thing will beep and tell you it's done long before it's really done. It gets completed while it's on the "keep warm" cycle.

Hmm. I suppose, looking at what I've written, that it might indeed seem a little complicated.

[clocketpatch]

I have a special talent for breaking rice cookers though. I've killed over half a dozen of them by this point. I am in awe of your mad rice cooker skillz though.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Did you know you can make brownies in a waffle maker? Another fun fact.

[kaffy_r]

I can see the waffle maker providing pre-cut brownies. Heh - it's amazing how we humans can adapt technology, isn't it?

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

Yay, cooking! ;)