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Not sure what smart it is about, but hey it's a nice IH rice cooker.
[eBay Plus] Xiaomi IH Smart Rice Cooker 3L - $212.46 Delivered @ Official Xiaomi eBay Store
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Covid? Less supply?
Use a rice cooker and dont drain rice in colander
-Uncle RogerDon't ever forget to add MSG to sweeten the deal.
Haha! I was going to say the same. Don't forget to measure water level using your index finger.
and don't forget it is the first joint of your finger LOL
remember, if your rice is too wet, you f—ed up.
Everything sold nowadays is tagged as "smart"…. as if things sold in the past are all manual
It is "smart" because you can connect the rice cooker with Mi Home mobile app
Which allows you to control the rice cooker such as setting timer or turning it on
(while in reality I don't know why I need to do so…)This will be useful if you go home for lunch and you want the rice to be cooked by the time you reach home.
Or perhaps just the rice the night before and microwave it when you get home
genuine question
wont rice be soggy since its sitting been sitting in water for hours?
@thirtysixd: not really, there are different methods of cooking rice (imo using a colander isn't one of it. lol) , there are times you need to soak the rice. Depends on the rice type/species.
soaking brown/red rice for a few hours makes it easier to cook together with white rice. (I use a 1/2red:1brown: 2white ratio)
That, to me, is merely a remote control. But it is kinda pointless as It's not like you can just leave home for work in the morning, and have the cooker cook the rice and be ready when you get home (since you can't simply just wash and put the rice+water in the cooker from 8am till 4pm then have it scheduled to cook as it will end up being porridge than rice).
Don't most rice cookers have the function to switch to warm mode, which keeps the rice at a safe temperature, after they have finished cooking?
@Astronaut Joe: Two scenarios:
1) If the cooker starts cooking in the morning and keeps it in warm mode afterwards for, say, 6 hrs. Your rice will likely be very dry.
2) If the cooker doesn't start cooking until, say, 30min before you get home (so that it will be cooked just when you are back), that means the rice has been soaked in the water for at least 4-6 hrs… in such case, you will get porridge, not rice.Therefore, unless you can connect the rice cooker to a water source (or have a water reservoir) to allow the cooker to time itself so that it wouldn't start washing the rice and add water until it is ready to start cooking, the remote control function is pretty much useless in my opinion. With the App connectivity, my guess is that it allows more recipe support to set the temperature/timer accordingly.
@muddrex: Get the zojirushi/tiger rice cookers, they have "extended warm" function which can keep your rice warm up to 48 hours without making it dry.
@Astronaut Joe: Yes it does but if it keep warm for too long, the rice dried up quite a lot and you can definitely see the difference.
I used to leave my (uncooked) rice with water in the cooker overnight, with a timer set so that the rice will be ready in the morning. It was fine.
Japanese people do it all the time, and rice cookers have built-in timers precisely for that reason.
@RCMD11: From my understanding, Japanese rice does recommended to soak before cooking
while for Thailand Jasmine rice it doesn'tSo it does make sense for Japan made rice cooker to have those timer to schedule start cooking
Mate my nan used to cook rice with an app back in the 80's, NBD!
I've got this rice cooker, was given to my partner and I from a friend who's now gone back to China.
Cooks rice very very well, always comes up perfectly every time.
Apparently it can connect to WiFi so you can start cooking rice before you get home or something (although that means the rice needs to sit in the water all day?), but we've never used the WiFi function.
Overall great rice cooker.
Don't let the rice sit in water all day… unless you want to make porridge…
Yeah exactly, which is why I'm not too sure about the purpose of this function, but it's there.
unless its brown rice
Dishwasher safe?
Not sure, I've always handwashed the bowl.
It seems to be non-stick material so I assume the bowl would be dishwasher safe.
I always thought all rice cookers were the same, IT just cooks rice. Then I brought a Cuckoo rice cooker and it was the best 400 bucks I've spent.
You want your rice to cook evenly and perfect , then buy a decent rice cookerMy $20 kmart job cooks it evenly and perfect every time too. It's rice. It's not that complicated. (And I'm a lousy cook!)
i have tried the same rice in different grade of rice cooker and 100% they dont taste the same unless you dont eat rice everyday (non asian) then any rice may taste the same to you.
Wow, that's pretty exxy post covid. But it is what it is, the current market price.
Post covid?
damn, which timeline is that?
Wow, I didn't realise the price go up that far since I post a deal last time!
By the way, it is cheaper here on a private sale, if someone is interested and live close by.