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Having lived in Japan, and Hawaii, my impression was that rice cookers were VERY common.

I normally boil mine in a pot, but I've been looking around for a rice cooker. Most of them steam veggies to perfection as well.
 
Alright, bought myself a rice cooker, but came with absolutely NO instructions. Zilch Zero Zadda.

It is a microwavable pot with a strainer inside and a lid with vents that you can open and close?

Does anybody have any instructions for how to properly use this?? It would be greatly appreciated.
 
Microwaveable?

That is not the rice cooker to which we refer. You would be wanting plug-in, resembles a slow cooker. Instructions: dump in rice and water to correspond with amount and type of rice, plug in in an out-of-the-way corner, turn on, ignore. When done, cooker will stop. They come fancier than that, but that is the basic version.
 
Who eats white rice? Is it YOU?
 
^ Um. It was Jadakris.

Oh, and Jadakris, Kiss is the man. Kiss of Death is gonna be so dope.

Peace.
 
ha i got brown rice today, white was the only i had in my house

yeep
 
Shit, I just buy the Uncle Bens long grain brown rice in a box and just cook it in the microwave for the time it states on the box. Works well for me and easy as crap to do!
 
Speaking of rice, what is the best thing to have when you go for Chinese food? I am going away, and have a feeling that I will be eating out a lot (twice in four days)...
 
When you go for chinese have them bring you a pot of plain steamed rice on the side. Don't expect them to offer anything but white necessarily.

That way you avoid all the fried rice and other junk they tend to mix in with the rice (veggie oils, msg type stuff etc).
 
always asked for steamed stuff with no sauce at the chinese resteraunts...they use alot of oil and sugar in preparation of many dishes so be careful...just beacause it says "chiken with veggies" doesnt make it healthy if it has some sugary sauce spread all over the veggies that are dripping with sesame oil.
 
Originally posted by DrChiro
always asked for steamed stuff with no sauce at the chinese resteraunts...
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Not that that isn't the healthiest option. But if you're going to ask for steamed stuff with no sauce, why waste your money at a restaurant pissing off the chef?

Makes me laugh, the "healthy eating in restaurants" advice. "Get plain steamed veggies and grilled chicken, no oil, no sauce." And pay a premium for it, when it tastes like steamed ass and grilled cotton batting, and I could take the same ingredients and make them into actual, enjoyable food for half the money.

Save the restaurant eating for what it's supposed to be, an occasional treat done properly, and learn to friggin' cook is what I say.
 
Originally posted by Akateros
Not that that isn't the healthiest option. But if you're going to ask for steamed stuff with no sauce, why waste your money at a restaurant pissing off the chef?

Makes me laugh, the "healthy eating in restaurants" advice. "Get plain steamed veggies and grilled chicken, no oil, no sauce." And pay a premium for it, when it tastes like steamed ass and grilled cotton batting, and I could take the same ingredients and make them into actual, enjoyable food for half the money.

Save the restaurant eating for what it's supposed to be, an occasional treat done properly, and learn to friggin' cook is what I say.
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Err... most of the time when you go to a resteraunt, youre not alone.

What are you going to say to the people you're with? "fck off! im going home to get my chicken and brown rice." :confused: :laugh:
 
I eat before I go, and order tea or diet pop or a veggie stick appetizer (at least no one usually notices that I don't dip). Or meet the rest there later, when they're mostly finished eating. I've noticed nobody else seems particularly impressed, either, when one sits there over an austere platter of broccoli and skinless bird while they chow down on the finest the menu has to offer. They give one looks of mingled pity for you, and guilt for them. "I wish I could eat like you," they say. "How do you do it?"

I don't feel as though it improves anybody's pleasure in the occasion, really. Including mine, since as I say, I can make something that fits my diet and that I will actually enjoy eating (as opposed to resenting, bitterly, spending any money on) myself.
 
Bring the water to a boil before dropping in the rice, you can even pre-wash the rice if you feel like removing more starches but I dont know the effectiveness and then you dont know the caloric totals either.

Rice cookers rule.
 
Originally posted by Akateros
Not that that isn't the healthiest option. But if you're going to ask for steamed stuff with no sauce, why waste your money at a restaurant pissing off the chef?

Makes me laugh, the "healthy eating in restaurants" advice. "Get plain steamed veggies and grilled chicken, no oil, no sauce." And pay a premium for it, when it tastes like steamed ass and grilled cotton batting, and I could take the same ingredients and make them into actual, enjoyable food for half the money.

Save the restaurant eating for what it's supposed to be, an occasional treat done properly, and learn to friggin' cook is what I say.
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Since I am the one that does the cooking at our house...we eat what I cook. If I want to have chinese out, we do. And to be honest, if you ask the wait staff in a nice manner, they usually have no problems in preparing the foods the way asked. I don't think going out to eat and having foods prepared a certain way as a waste or pissing off the chef.
 
lol..I appreciate all your advice, but I still don't know what it healthy to order (as an entree) from a chinese restaurant.
 
Very little, unaltered.

Try this:
http://www.cspinet.org/nah/chinese.html

Centre for Science in the Public Interest's Chinese Restaurant study. Their book, Restaurant Confidential, is quite good. You may never eat out again. At least, that appears to be what they are hoping, in their ascetic depths.
 
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YES! This was exactly what i was looking for, thanks!
 
Instant brown rice is no good. High GI, processed. I'd say it's even much worse than long grain white.

Has anybody tried black japonica, wild or all the exotic varieties of brown (Lundberg makes many types, of which wehani is probably my favourite)?

Hulled barley is a great replacement for rice if any of you are game for experimentation. Brown basmati is a LOT better than regular brown and quinoa is a great substitute too. Oh, and kamut berries.

What do I know, though, I'm too cheap to buy that stuff usually, and stick with the bargain bin brown rice, haha.

Peace.
 
Is instant the stuff they serve in restaurants?
 
No. Most restaurants, and certainly any Asian restaurant, would have a rice cooker, and use regular rice. Very few, alas, in my experience, serve brown rice.
 
Oh shit, thanks for the advice on the instant brown rice! I had no idea tht it was that bad. All that I know is that it is precooked but I didn't know that it was processed. Man, I guess I need to get me some real stuff!
 
Hold on, all it says on the box is precooked, parboiled instant long grain brown rice. I looked at the carb, calorie, and fat content on the label and it is all the same as a real bag of brown rice. So, I don't understand.
 
In theory, it would be higher on the glycemic index, being more processed. However, I just looked it up on Mendosa's GI list (http://diabetes.about.com/library/mendosagi/ngilists.htm), and according to that, Rice, brown (regular) has a GI of 55+/- 5 (mean of 3 studies), while Uncle Ben's Parboiled has a GI of 64 +/- 7. Which, taking the plus/minus part into account, is not a terribly overwhelming difference.
 
Thanks alot Akateros for that info! You've been very helpful. I will continue eating my instant brown rice until I get rid of the 3 boxes I have then I'll switch to the real deal. Thanks Again!
 
lol :)
 
I still don't know what to order when I go to a chinese restaurant. I know that I should not have instant brown rice, that was established. But I think they serve the long grain stuff at most places. I looked at the "Take a wok on the wild side" article, but it said that the sechewan shrimp had 18 grams of fat...what can i eat as an entree!?
 
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