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Off Topic / Re: Rice part-II, Presoaking and Hydration
« Last post by tp4tissue on Mon, 07 September 2026, 09:12:03 »The thing with advanced rice cookers.
The whole thing is a cauldron of forever chemicals, and all that "plastic" in the hot heat path, microplasix + evaporated plasticizers .
Hrrrmm...
The only other option is the 1 button cookers, the stainless version which just has a glass cap and nothing else, not even a silicone seal.
With stainless pressure cookers even, those still have the silicone gasket.
The benefit is uniform rice texture, buhhhh honestly, the difference isn't that hughhg, if you presoak the rice for at least 1-6 hours.
Minor drawback however is that it DOES stick. So you have to soak the pot for a minute before getting the extra rice off. Hrrrm.

The whole thing is a cauldron of forever chemicals, and all that "plastic" in the hot heat path, microplasix + evaporated plasticizers .
Hrrrmm...
The only other option is the 1 button cookers, the stainless version which just has a glass cap and nothing else, not even a silicone seal.
With stainless pressure cookers even, those still have the silicone gasket.
The benefit is uniform rice texture, buhhhh honestly, the difference isn't that hughhg, if you presoak the rice for at least 1-6 hours.
Minor drawback however is that it DOES stick. So you have to soak the pot for a minute before getting the extra rice off. Hrrrm.

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So thanks, Joe!