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Q: Do you know any Chinese people who can cook rice in a pot?
... that is, not using a rice cooker
Do you mean boil in the bag rice Scan ?
Thats how I cooked it back in my home country. Uncle Bens was easy.
I'm guessing you mean a saucepan? Always cooked rice in one back in the UK. Must admit a rice cooker is easier!
Scandinavian:
erh, saucepan is for making sauce a pot is for .... making pot ?
This is a pot
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usually the saucepan has only one handle, this is a BIIIIIG difference isn't it. The one handled saucepan means you can have a firm grip while stirring, as you would when making a sauce, whereas rice requires no attention, except lifting the cooked result to the serving area, making the two-handled pot a better choice.
Hotwater:
Ok ok, you're right (partially!). Where I'm from I used a one-handed pot with a tight fitting lid. Technically not a sauce pan, just a small pan :-)
Mother-in-law always used a saucepan until she finally got a rice cooker. Rice cookers are just 100x more convenient.
I used to cook rice in a pot back home, like everybody else. I'm pretty sure that countryside folks know the trick. Rice cooker is very convenient, it saves water and I would wildly guess that it saves energy too. Solar rice cooker would be awesome ^^
I've never asked! Rice cookers are awesome, I'm getting one when I'm back in England- it's just perfect every time. Also you can use it as a super slow cooker and cook stews and soup in it (I mean really slow, like all day) but it works out really well
Scandinavian:
I am not knocking the rice cooker, they are awesome. We actually use it for a lot of stuff, and you can cook an egg in it, by simply putting a vet tissue/paper napkin in with the egg, thus having enough water for the cooking process. (I have done this both successfully and less successfully with some smoke from burnt tissue)
jetfire9000:
if you use a rice cooker as a slow cooker, the cheap interior coating will be eroded off in 6 months to a year. Rice cookers have been manufactured to meet the demands of cooking rice in water, and not much else.
Maybe if you stay away from acidic things (tomatoes) it'll hold out for a lot longer ... but I've seen people do this and when I saw the decay of the interior, it made me wanna' cry imagining that their body had to do something with that.....
Most Chinese people that I know are functionally useless, so no...
