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5 Cup Rice Cooker $11.20 Delivered @ Target eBay
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I think i saw them around that price at kmart iirc
EDIT: actually my bad , its was $14 http://www.kmart.com.au/product/homemaker-5-cup-rice-cooker/…
yeah there are lots of cheap kitchen appliances at target and kmart around $15 these days but this is a good deal when you factor in delivery.
Id prefer a d cup rice cooker personally. ..
(without the rice cooker)
I lolled…
Isn't this funny? Or is it misogynist? Trying to make sense of why it's got more thumbs down…
Good quality for cheap rice cooker . We have been using it without fail for the past 6 months .
Bought something similar from Big W and it was rubbish. I prefer cooking properly now but each to their own
What do you mean "cooking properly"?
Pot on a stove and stand there stirring. Greg, sounds like you need a Tiger.
Or a zojirushi elephant haha when you eat rice every second day
I don't use a toaster, because that's not proper cooking.
Personally, I would get a Japanese one (Panasonic, Tiger, Toshiba). You can get a nice Toshiba one at Costco.
Perfect every time. Settings for brown rice, white rice and congee. Timer so you can set it in the morning and have it cooked in the evening when you get home. Warmer.
I have never gotten these style cookers to cook as good as the rice I had when I lived in Japan. Only the Asian cookers give the same results. I mean, it's $11, so it is not going to be great, but I found the results to be very average.
I really like the Korean Cuckoo Rice Cooker.
:( There are several things that I miss from my home country, and rice cooker is sadly one of them. The Korean grocery store I went asked around $200~$300, which was too expensive for my budget.
The Toshiba one at Costco is about $150 if I recall correctly. Perfect rice, kept warm, every time :D
@Mr Wowtrousers: Sounds really lovely. I might chase up one of the costco member I know to bring me with her… I think it's reasonable if you eat rice constantly or if you are fussy like my brother.
Damn you I have been looking up Tiger rice cookers for the past 2 hours.
I don't even want to spend $200 on a rice cooker. But for some reason I do!
I have used the cheap $20 dollar cooker, Tiger, Panasonic, Toshiba and Zojirushi. None of them cooks rice as well as my current Cuckoo full stainless rice cooker. It even speaks in english, korean, and cleans itself. Trust me, once you buy a Cuckoo you will never buy another brand of rice cooker again. Yes it is a little expensive, but the rice tastes many times softer and 'fuller' than rice cooked in other rice cookers. This is perhaps because the Cuckoo uses a pressurized system to cook the rice. Even the reheated rice (yes theres a reheat function too) tastes 98% like newly cooked rice, so no more hardened or stiff rice. And Cuckoo uses marble coating for their inner pot, unlike teflon used in other rice cookers; over the 3 years I have had mine the marble coating has not thinned, is truly non-stick, and has never stuck to rice.
Heres a link to the model I am talking about.
http://www.cuckooworld.com.au/product/cuckoo-ih-pressue-cook…You can also buy them shipped from south korea via ebay (where I got mine).
I had a Tiger when I lived in Japan. Perfect rice every time.
Honestly, it is so much better. I can barely eat rice at my sis's place because the texture is just … wrong. It's just not enjoyable to eat. Same with when I had one like this cheap one. I lived in the "rice bowl of Japan", Niigata, and the rice there was amazing (very sweet and soft). So, back in Aus, I figured my crap rice was because the quality wasn't as good, or the water was different. Eventually got an asian rice cooker and first batch was as good as anything I had in Niigata.
It's a tool. If you use a tool often enough, buy good tools.
I have some really expensive tools I use all the time and throwaway ones that I don't care about/use much. Depends what you are doing :D
$150 at Costco.
If you want to eat crappy rice, get a crappy rice cooker. If you want crappy roasts, get a crappy oven. If you want hate cooking altogether, get crappy knives.
Has she considered getting a thermomix? That's $2100 .
@Mr Wowtrousers: Those cuckoo ones last long time too. My family owns one that's from early 2000s and it's working perfectly fine until now (we cook rice everyday, 3 times for the meal, so I think it paid for itself already). We've even taken it to China for 3 years (with a transmitter though). That being said, if you eat rice fairly infrequently, I think they are not worth it. I think like all the electronic appliances, if you don't use it frequently, you probably wouldn't need to buy one (or buy a fancy one).
We have one that looks identical, its been excellent and gets hammered:)
The Big W one from memory is similar not the same.I have this, I think they are alright for their price. That being said, I do know few problems with it. If you cook it with fair bit of water, water overflows while cooking; it makes a starchy puddle around the cooker. Though this probably applies more to medium grain rice and "sticky rice" (never tried cooking long grains so I cannot really comment). That being said, other than that, it works fine. For its price, I am not complaining (though the water puddle does make me worry since it's an electronic appliance).
You cannot leave the rice in the cooker overnight (with the cooker on in "keep warm" mode) like some rice cookers I know, it's going to make it so dry and inedible.
So tempted to buy to convert to be temperature controlled. But I will resist, since I already have 1 rice cooker sitting on my workbench lined up for that project.
Does this have a removable cord?
This looks a LOT like one I purchased from the good guys some time ago, I mean I thought it was the same until I saw it was Target, so it is very likely to be the same OEM, in which case yes, it's a removable IEC/Kettle Cord cable.
We've been using an identical cooker for about three years. Perfect. Foolproof. And it's teflon non stick so clean up is a breeze. When I think of all those years of boiling over or dry with stainless steel pots and then the awful cleanup……
1 cup of rice in pot
2 cups of water
bring to boil
turn down to low
10 minutes or so you have cooked rice, why is this so hard for some?That's fine if you don't eat rice often. But imagine having to toast bread in the oven every time you wanted toast. It's not hard, but it's not convenient either.
Rice cookers are simple. You set it, cook your other dishes, and by the time you're done, the rice is done, and you have your meal.Pretty much, also, cleaning the pot can be annoying as hell if they stick.
If you do it right it never sticks
@Davros: Yes, it takes a long time, constant attention, cannot cook for large family without rice sticking on the bottom and it doesn't really work well with sticky rice, but yes, I guess you could say that.
@AznMitch:
You are obviously doing it wrongThe absorption method takes no more than 15 minutes, about the same as a rice cooker
With the absorption method you don't take the lid off while cooking, so no constant attention required
If you get your timing and measurements right there is no sticking.
Clean up is the same as a rice cooker . one pot@Davros: It's fine if you think that way, it may work for you depending on rice you use etc. My problem with your method is this.
You probably eat long grain/cook your rice fairly dry. If I have generalised too much, I apologise, but that's what I've seen most of the time in Australia. If you cook the rice to be sticky, as you guys describe it, it requires more water, which adds on to cooking time. If you use wholegrain, it requires longer cooking time. My brother for example, only eats rice that's cooked to his liking and your method would make the rice too dry for him.
In fact, there are dishes that are based on the fact that the rice sticks to the bottom i.e. nurungji in Korea, guoba in China etc.
@AznMitch: And if those cooking methods need the rice to be scorched well guess what, it will be scorched on the rice cooker as well and it will require cleaning so please dont try to make out that a rice cooker is some miracle device.
I have had one and used several others when overseas and scorched the rice as you describe and as others mentioned, where there was an abundance of starchy water leaking out if using excess water in one of your wet methods.
I got rid of the rice cooker and went back to a pot, which as I said, was just as fast and imho required less cleaning.
@Davros: Those don't work with rice cooker, you need to cook rice in a pot to make them. One of the dessert/drink you can make from the stuck parts cannot be made using a rice cooker. Some people credit this as a reason why Korea ended up getting a really massive instant coffee market. People wanted to drink something sweet (well relatively sweet) at the end of the meal and instant coffee filled the gap in. It's more of a speculation though.
I am not trying to make the rice cooker sound like a miracle device, but rather pointing out that cooking on a pot is not a ideal method for many people. It may work for you, with long grain rice and less water, probably for a meal or two a day, but please don't generalise it to every single situation and say, "I don't understand why people want rice cooker, just cook it on a pot". There are countries where rice cooker is more or less in every single household, it's not because we don't know how to cook rice without rice cooker.
I buy rice in 10kg bags and do 1 every month or two.
Possible reasons
— monitoring the rice in case it doesn't overflow
- possibly easier to clean (easier getting rice stuck on pot)
- cooking stuff like chicken rice would require you to cook it on stove for a much longer period of time
- freeing up a spot on the stove if you say only had 2
- aesthetics like a nice nespresso machine
- plain lazy or cbb to learn how to do it right
Is this after you have got the wood and started the fire?
That only works if you're cooking for one or two people.
This.
I've never managed to cook rice well in my rice cooker. I use it for everything but cooking rice. I put in water, let it boil, pour in rice, turn heat off/low, cover, and walk away for 10 minutes. You don't need to watch it. And unlike rice cookers there isn't starchy water spitting off in every direction.
A tip would be to use an inverted stone mortar pestle on the lid to stop the rim getting all mucky by pushing the lid down. Also soaking your rice for at least ten min before cooking.
All the 'learn to cook on a stove' comments. I guess you grow your own rice too?
I'm guessing you cant cook eh?
OzBargained. 3 were sold in the hour before I posted, and a further 106 sold in the 90 minutes after.
what's the best rice to buy? looking for premium taste. thanks.
sunrise medium grain. they r always on special. we use one of these cookers. we also have a tiger cooker but prefer this $10 Aldi cooker because it's compact, light and easy to clean. I have no idea what others are saying because the rice taste perfect. it's not the cooker you use but more how you cook the rice.
we're asians with a household of 6 and this small cooker is plentiful. rice is high in calories and has no nutritional value so we dont eat that much rice each time anyway. max half a chinese bowl..
we've had one of these for yrs and use it 3 to 4 x a week. brilliant.
sometimes we will use our big rice cooker if i want to steam something with rice. trick is put vegies in a tray/bowl ontop of the rice then cook together and all perfectly cooked. i also steam fish, minced pork with egg, tofu etc 2 in 1 .. u get your rice and dish in 15 mins
Jasmine rice in a white bag (plastic like that stuff blue tarpaulins are made from) with the coloured picture of a Thai dancer in traditional dress on the bag. It's really really nice! At a pinch, the small bag of jasmine rice from Aldi is also not bad.
Edit: You'll need to go to an Asian supermarket to find that rice.
I think both rices given by sal78 and douglasb are decent ones, but just be aware that both of them are different. Long grain rice and medium grain rice require different amount of water and tastes different, so be mindful about that while you cook them (google how to cook them, amount of water does have an impact on taste) and try them first before buying like 10kg.
For those that missed out, Aldi have one on sale for $12.99 starting 06/06/15.
DAMN missed it! Should I buy the aldi one or the $14 target one? Do you have a link for the Aldi one? The past Aldi rice cookers have not gotten good reviews…
No, I have the catalogue in front of me and it looks pretty much the same.
Aldi have a 60 day satisfaction guarantee, so if it's no good just return it.No, like I said above - looks just like the Target one.
out of stock - Broden Strikes Again
Hi guys - genuine question here. I know OzB is frequented by members of the Asian-Australian community so perhaps you can help.
I seem to see quite a few Asian plane passengers travelling to Australia with Rice Cookers boxed up (either carry on luggage or checked it). I've never understood it, they're bulky, they can be bought here for $10-20 and you'd also need an adaptor. The ones from OS wouldn't be AU standard either (a friend burnt his house down with one of those boiling water urns brought back from Malaysia due to dodgy wiring).
Are there better brands back home or do people not realise they can be bought here cheaply? Do people get attached to their favourite ones?
Like most appliances, the price of purchase seems to be proportional to quality. Quality in terms of a rice cooker means how well the cooker can cook rice. In other words, what a $20 cooker and a more expensive cooker can do with the exact same rice is likely to differ in terms of how 'full' and soft the rice is. Plus, longevity and durability are two other important aspects people are likely to consider when purchasing a rice cooker. Whilst the same brands might be offered in Australia, such as Cuckoo (a Korean brand of home appliances), they may be offered at a higher price. Thus, people become inclined to buy them during their overseas trip and bring them back. Also, people are more likely going to purchase an appliance of the same brand if they have experienced great reliability, and durability from it in the past. In this sense, as you mentioned, people do become used to using that certain brand.
These cheap ones are cheap for a reason. They lack the functions and generally are worse than the expensive ones. Few of the example would include, lack of pressurised cooking, timer, keep warm function that doesn't dry the rice, etc etc. Also, these types of rice cookers don't cook rice like the expensive ones, I think it's something to do with pressurised cooking, but I am not too sure on that. Also, these cheap ones cannot handle much water, you have to cook your rice fairly dry. In short, more expensive ones are better than the cheap ones you can get in terms of function and the quality of the cooked rice.
Also, most of the Asian people already own fairly expensive one, so carrying it to here is cheaper than buying a new expensive one. It's hard to find expensive ones in Australia to begin with, and most of times, they are overpriced.
Hey this is back in stock …bought one @$11.20 delivered.
used mine last night. did a good job with the rice. none stuck to the bowl.
neat design - the power cord is detachable (a standard computer power cord) which is great as it means the rice cooker filled with cooked rice can be taken to the table with out an annoying powercord getting in the way.
I use one of these
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Midea-Electric-Pressure-Cooker-Br…
They work fine, keep the steam cap in on position and you get perfect soft rice every time also you also get to use it for cooking meat etc. You can find these on sale at times for $79. There are other brands as well that offer the same functions.
wow thats a really good price including delivery.
Nice find!