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Who sleeps while cooking rice?
People who pre-set their rice cooker. Common in Asian countries/cultures.
I think some rice cookers popular in Asia do have features to keep it warm, activate at a certain time etc. Perhaps you want cooked rice for breakfast (perhaps already cooled down but still moist and fluffy), or have it prepared so you can make Sushi later while taking a nap. Can definitely see the usecase in a food culture with lots of rice.
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Sounds like timed coffee machines, but for food. Even better.
Imagine having both.
I don't think coffee rice (rice coffee?) sounds all that great, but I should give it a try...
they make rice tea. i hated it but ymmv
i haven't experimented but i think my instant pot does that
is it possible to get rice cookers that don't default to a warming mode? Even the cheapest rice cookers I've found in the UK only have a cook and warm mode when it's plugged in
Most decent rice cookers have a time delay option. You load it up with water and rice and set a couple hours of delay and then in the morning you have fresh hot rice.
Any but the cheapest Zojirushi
Who makes sushi while they're napping?
I have a cousin that made a turkey sandwich while waiting for pizza rolls to bake, all in his sleep. It was weird to watch. He had no idea the next morning when he woke up snuggling with it all in bed. To this day he swears we did it to him.
My partner once sleepwalked into the kitchen to get food (bad habit of sleep eating, probably due to alcohol) and I just watched them because they were talking nonsense so I knew they were asleep. My sister was also a big sleepwalker/sleep talker, so this was fairly routine for me.
At the end they offered a plate and said “here, do you want some?”
They had unboxed a new wireless NES-style controller that had been sitting on the counter, plated the controller, and offered to me as a snack. Had no memory of it the next morning.
Been a running joke ever since when we try to decide what to eat.
oh dude when i was on ambien... the food i would wake up to. sometimes eaten, sometimes not, hopefully with all the fire turned off.
I want to snuggle with a turkey sandwich and pizza rolls.
Asian moms.
I’m going to guess you didn’t come from an Asian household? There’s almost always a rice cooker running or on keep warm. The kids find it weird when there’s no rice immediately available. Also, it keeps the bacteria at bay while you’re taking a nap.
My rice cooker keeps rice hot for up to 30 hours. Very convenient.
What happens after 30 hours?
I mean, if you’re gonna keep it that long, why not just keep going?
Total protonic reversal.
Ok that’s bad.
fried rice
I guess you'll just end up with rice porridge at some point, bacteria growth, or run out of moisture.
It depends on the cooker and how well it seals/temperature regulates. My old shitty rice cooker would just dry everything out after a few hours.
Your new solid puck of rice starts to cool.
One member of the household cooks rice while the other is napping?
okay, so my rice takes 7 minutes to come to temperature, 12 minutes to cook, and 15 minutes to cool properly (that is important). i can rush it and get bad rice in 20 minutes or good rice in 35. maybe i want to wake up to rice.
Nap?
I like to set up the breadmaker overnight so I wake up to hot fresh bread. I guess it's the same with rice.