Who sleeps while cooking rice?
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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.
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.
I want to snuggle with a turkey sandwich and pizza rolls.
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.
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?
What happens after 30 hours?
Total protonic reversal.
Ok that’s bad.
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.
fried rice
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.
I like to set up the breadmaker overnight so I wake up to hot fresh bread. I guess it's the same with rice.
Nap?
"Why did you make my food so hot and hard to get too. It's hurting me!" *takes another bite "it's still hurting me!"
I'm that cat with fresh hot pizza.
"Ah! Hot hot hot!" takes another bite "Ahhh!"
Molten cheese burning the top of your mouth. Then you have that tiny flap of burnt mouth top hanging down for the rest of the evening.
I happened to have a dentist appointment the day after doing exactly that. The hygenist and dentist enjoyed some playful banter at my expense regarding the painful joy of hot fresh pizza
"Burnt mouth" cracked me up 😂 I always just called it burnt skin but never talked to anyone about it, so it was enecpected to see it be called something else
"HEY! HEEEEEEEY! nom COME HERE! nom YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT I FOUND! nom nom WE SHALL NOT STARVE TODAY!"
What kind of cat eats rice? Mine barely eats cat food...
Mine eats any and all carbs. Rice, bread, potatoes, sweet potatoes, peas, triscuits…
She turns her nose up at raw salmon though. Such a weirdo.
Don’t cats get the equivalent of lactose intolerance when they eat carbs? I thought they basically can’t digest carbs.
I looked real quick and it seems they can?
Maybe you’re thinking about the obligate carnivore bit with cats?
My coworker showed me how her cat tore into a loaf of bread and then had horrible farts after that.
I bet it's the complex carbs. So potatoes, brown bread, and cereals won't digest at all, while chips and white bread won't be as bad.
I don't think all cats have the same digestion or gut flora either. Some cats have stinky farts for anything but wet food, while others eat anything without an odor at all.
That makes sense. No enzymes to cleave the carb chains into simple carbs. That’s how lactose intolerance works too.
Mine likes to eat popcorn and packaging tape
I had a cat that liked rice.
He also like to eat corn, especially off the cob. He also liked frozen minted peas. Mother fucker thought was candy.
Well mint is in the same family as cat nip
i had one that would DEVOUR watermelons. which was great, because kidney problems. we haven't been able to teach another cat to eat them since.
Honestly, I get it.. Pizza is all I say
I hope you are suitably proud. What a smart cat!