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Why does nobody warn you that a tiny rice cooker turns dinner into a math problem
My sister called me last Tuesday from her apartment in Boise while she was making dinner and asked why her rice always came out crunchy on the bottom. She had been filling the little 3 cup cooker to the top line for two people, every single night, for six months. I said you are cooking rice for four and eating it for two, so the extra sits there and burns while you wait on the stir fry. Now she does 1 cup dry rice, 2 cups water, and dinner is done in 20 minutes flat with nothing scraped out of the pot. What is your go to one pot meal when you get home at 7 and the kids are already asking about food?
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the_tara20h ago
The line about cooking rice for four and eating it for two got me because I used to be the person who filled the pot all the way and then wondered why the bottom was a crispy sheet every night. For years I blamed the cooker, blamed the rice, blamed myself, then finally measured it once and realized the pot was never the problem. Now my go to on a 7pm night is a big pan of rice with frozen peas, a couple eggs, and whatever leftover meat is in the fridge, all tossed together so there is nothing left sitting and burning. My kids eat it out of bowls with soy sauce and nobody asks questions. It took me way too long to figure out that a smaller batch that actually gets eaten beats a full pot every time.
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