I don’t know who spread the rumor in the west that rice cookers are simply ‘unnecessary single use gadgets for foodies who eat a lot of rice’, I think of them more as ‘versatile device for depressed people with no (emotional, not literal) spoons’

Put rice (don’t even need to wash it), water, place vegetables, meat, tofu, eggs. Add soy sauce. Close the lid. Walk away.  

And if you get a nice one: cook rice and eat off the cooker even 3 days later. 

Even the cheap ones are so handy. 

#Food 

 I am those people… I had a cheap one once didn’t know how to use it properly I suppose so I burned a lot of rice. Eventually, learned how to get perfect results in a pot instead and stopped using it. Then I got a crock pot as a gift… again saw no use for it. Finally, I got an instant pot and that was life changing! So many quick and easy meals were made in that device ☺️