Old-fashioned rice cookers are extremely clever
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"i dont eat rice as a staple"
owns at least 2 rice cookers.
You should see my toaster situation!
@@TechnologyConnections LOL!
Doesn't everyone own at least three, and generally more? Oh wait . . . no . . . that's just my hoarder friend. (My Asian hoarder friend, to be fair.) The same one who owns, oh, six barbecues and three or four smokers. I suppose my wife and I (who do eat rice as a staple) own pretty much the same two as TC: simple, easy cheap three cup, and a big one for when company is coming. (They really are alarmingly close to his, save that twelve cup is still simple and just cooks rice.)
@@SymphonicPoet I have two, though one is a four-slicer and the other is part of my microwave, featuring a bagel mode.
@@Archgeek0 The funniest part? I was trying to figure out what kind of rice cooker has a bagel mode or is part of a microwave. :D Too many non-sequiturs make for poor understanding, but GREAT comedy. :)
"So now its a permanent not magnet"
Oh come on, you totally missed the opportunity to call it a Magnot
Good joke in writing, but it might not be as clear with certain north american accents.
That's good enough to deserve a rewrite or a dub.
*mag-ain't
The point at which this happened would be The Magnot Line.
He missed this as he did NOT have a NET.
It was the one that got away.
I'm not going to lie I took this video as a good review for this specific rice cooker and said "eh, it's probably good enough" and bought my first rice cooker.
dear God how have I lived so long without a rice cooker.
My rice comes out slightly worse than when I just cooked it like pasta, but hey it's much quicker and simpler
lol i hate this rice cooker. always leaves so much crunchy rice at the bottom. Zojirushi is where it's at
@@TaylorDiamondTurtle either wash the rice first or add just a quarter cup more water than it asks for
I got one after moving into my own place, and it's been very nice. I'm currently watching this video as I cook rice to try and make some onigiri
Basic rice cookers are not only cheaper but usually last way longer than the fancy ones. I had a classmate in uni who moved into her own apartment and one of the appliances she bought was a multifunction rice cooker, which broke in less than a year even though she used it 1-2 times a week at most.
Meanwhile, my dad's rice cooker from my childhood home was older than me by several years, used every day, and lasted way into my teens until a typhoon came and it got washed away in a flood 😂
And still, somewhere down the river today, there is a couple of mermaids that have been eating perfectly cooked rice every day since that faithful storm...
Another example of how well built the older stuff was, as well as more reliable technology.
Ive been using my $15 rice cooker I got at a Korean market like 6 years ago in college, still running strong 💪
@@Nico-od4yv pfffffffffffft
@@Nico-od4yv also, common misconception, it's fateful, not faithful.
My wife saw me click on this video and said, "Is that the toaster guy?"
the toaster vid got me started! ive been running out of Scotty Kilmer videos and needed something new to binge on.
I mean the dishwasher video got me. But the toaster videos got my sub.
@@surfride101 For me it's the Macrovision video.
I was asked why I was watching Otho from Beetlejuice.
@@seanramirez6396 oh shit.. that's too funny
"Simplicity is the highest form of sophistication."
And thus, the basic rice cooker won.
@@skipfred In murrrrica, even the most basic of tasks needs "simplifying" for them. Lol n
@@unlokia Because we have better things to do than make the simplest tasks needlessly complicated, like the rest of the world...
AvE pointed out once that "over-engineered" is a contradiction. Building a bridge that can carry 100x the maximum weight that will ever cross it is not good engineering, it's wasteful. Building a device that can function faultlessly for ages with limited sensitivity to the environment is very good engineering. This is why we still don't have "smart guns." Guns need to shoot every time, so "dumb" ends up being smart.
Cobb Butterscorn a Pot doesn’t always cook rice perfectly every time, and needs to be monitored, a rice cooker is set and forget and will be perfect every time. 🙂 ‘Basic’ rice cookers are the best. 👍
@@awo1fman Rest of the world make the simplest task needlessly complicated?! WTF that even mean?! WTF are you talking about?
It was Pierre Curie, husband of Marie Curie, that discovered the phenomena that bears his name. The Curie temperature varies considerably for different metal alloys, there are even some that have Curie temperatures well below freezing. There are magneto-optical data storage drives that rely on the Curie temperature to record and erase data.
the other fun point is that at least for some materials they only become magnetic past a certain temperature
i think it was aluminium (or an aluminium alloy for casting at least) does become magnetic and this is quite notable due to the magnetic field caused by some furnaces heating said aluminium for casting
*phenomenon (singular)
if it happens to different types of alloys at different temperatures would it be plural?
@@mattmarlow1458: You seem to have suggested you think it's likely singular with the phrase "it happens", just as the OP indicated with "bears".
Like MiniDisc, for example
I have that exact same Aroma rice cooker and I've always wondered how it works. This is genuinely fascinating
Same
i assumed it was entirely based on the weight of the water evaporating.
Because of this video, I now understand why my basic rice cooker regularly burns the bottom layer of rice for me. I live at altitude, and water boils around 200 degrees Fahrenheit for me. I'm guessing my rice cooker keeps the heating element on until it exceeds 212 degrees Fahrenheit, and that continued heating after all the water has been absorbed is probably what causes the rice to burn!
Maybe adding a pinch of salt to the water can fix that problem? And create a new one (salty rice).. but hey, nice experiment anyway.
@@ttaibe putting salt will raise the boiling temperature of water, just be careful it won't disabled the magnetic as the water temp rises, or else you get half cooked rice that as good as gone. Seriously, half cooked rice has the worst texture ever. It's like eating sand and glass yet soft on tongue...
Thank you for sharing this, as I often stay in CO.
Are you washing your rice first? It could very well simply be excess starch burning at the bottom.
That was exactly what I was wondering as I watched the video. I thought maybe if your water boils at 190F, the temp rises fast enough to the cutoff (215F?) that it doesn't matter. Now I see that it does matter, and the rice burns. Oh well, not quite the foolproof design I'd hoped. We have an electric kettle, and I believe it's using a fixed temperature for stopping. When I hear the water madly boiling away, I just take it off the base, figure our water won't be getting any hotter. A clever electronic rice cooker could monitor the temperature, look for the plateau point, and shut off once the temp starts rising again.
To those wondering; it uses about 40 watts when in the warm mode, according to my Kill-a-watt
Did you notice your theme music in The History Guy's Elevator video?
Thank you as always for making accessibility a priority in your videos, Alec ☺️ your captioning work is much appreciated!! 💖
212 Fahrenheit is 100 Celsius.
So don't remember the ridiculous Fahrenheit number and just remember
100 Celsius.
100 Celsius is %100 easy number to remember than the crazy Fahrenheit system.
Would it be automatic beyond belief if when you set the bowl in and it was full of rice and water it automatically pressed the lever from warming mode to heating mode?
Wouldn't you think that also water cookers use the same principle with a magnet, though not keeping the water warm afterwards?
The best part about these rice cookers is that they are physically automated as apposed to mechanically automated. This kind of automation is personally my favorite due to the lack of moving parts and the reliance on something as constant as physics. Absolutely beautiful.
Well, these are mechanically automated.
That lever is mechanic, although controlled by magnet.
One of the most finicky things is that thin copper switch terminal. It could really easily bolt in if there is an over current and then you cannot turn it off.
But it is clever and gracious design.
Over time the magnet will lose it's power though.
@@DaDunge Over time, everything is bound to stop working due to degradation from one reason or another. The point is, it will easily last a relatively long time, and is very consistent.
What would you say is a long time? Mostly I'm curious about the record 🤭 the Panasonic rice cooker that works exactly like the one in the video hung in there for my family for over 15 years, finally kicked the bucket this year, and I found one exactly like it brand new on eBay from an electronics store and its packaging looked like it was sitting on a shelf since the 90s 🤭
@@rhythmelia my general rule is: if an electronic gadget can outlast the average family pet, its a venerable design.
electronics should have a lifespan to some degree, otherwise the wires, heating elements, and whatever else could decay too far and cause a fire/blow fuses. but some things don't need the complexity that claims to bring additional comfort. if rice cookers were more popular in the west, theres a high liklihood one would come with GPS tracking and an stat tracking app that tells you how much rice youve made quarterly... and stop working altogether if you didnt buy that companies rice.
I bought my glass lid rice cooker for $12 in Australia back in 2005, still working perfectly like new. We eat rice almost daily. Incredible and simply amazing !
I've used these rice cookers for years and never really questioned how they actually worked. I just assumed it was some sort of bimetallic switch. This was eye opening, thank you!
Most cheap ones have a thermoswitch. I have never actually seen one using this system
@Howard Black I assumed myself that it was weight based, and would release when a certain amount of water was boiled away.
@@Tinfoilpain but it does'nt boil away, the rice absorb it
@@dabigbadwolf5081 : And a pound of rice looks like half a pound of rice + half a pound of water.
@@Mr371312 Umm, NO most cheap ones have this magnet system as does the original design
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Oh man, prime Discovery channel. Do you remember "Beyond 2000"? That show was mind-blowing as a kid.
I wouldn't think I was smart without the 90s programming on the discovery channel.
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The atmosphere
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3:18 Al dente rice *is* a thing, but not cooking the rice long enough makes your al dente rice swim in water. So the main way to achieve that is to put in slightly less water and rely on the same mechanism to time the cooking. Also, a couple of small tidbits: When Toshiba first invented these, they used a bimetal strip instead of a magnet. While the double-boiler version (with either bimetal or magnet) is slightly less convenient when cooking rice, it can also be used to heat up other things as long as you put the right amount of water in the outer layer-quite useful before microwave ovens were common.
You could also just boil the rice like pasta, pull it out whenever you like. It's good for very starchy rice as even with the right ratio I can't seem to manage good rice-cooker rice with anything but basmati or parboiled, so just wash that excess away with the rest of the water and there you have it.
For plain rice, a rice cooker and the right kind is always going to be best and you won't be wanting that one "al dente", but here lies the beauty of choice.
I once tried something called rosoto and was surprised they didn’t cook the rice through. Maybe that was intentional?
@@cat-.- It's risotto. Risotto is very creamy, if the rice is overcooked it tends to get lost, though I'd be hard-pressed to call the ideal consistency al dente, more at the very end of it.
"Al dente" means leaving just a little bit of the core of the pasta or rice still uncooked, enough to give it some structure. It should not feel hard or crunchy, just enough that you feel some resistance when you bite down (hence the name), tune it at your liking.
Of course, it all depends on what you mean by "they didn't cook the rice through", if it's by a big margin then it probably means whoever made it got tired and took it out of the stove early, if you mean just enough to be noticeable from say plain basmati rice which is long and thin then yeah.
We have al dente rice in hungary. We call it "pergős" rice.
I like my rice being more hard and less mushy
Who else came here from the Dankpods video about the rice cooker with "AI"?
I mean, I watched this video a long time ago, but had to watch it again after the shoutout! lol
Meeeee.
Fun Fact: When Toshiba decided to begin manufacturing electronics, it's rice cooker was already iconic in Japan being of the highest quality yet affordable, and nearly ubiquitous in every home there, so they decided to make a transistor radio receiver shaped like their rice cooker but smaller to offer on the Japanese market as a means to capitalize on their market image of high quality and advanced technology. It is now one of the "Holy Grail's" of transistor radio collecting, exceedingly rare and valuable. This was in itself another first: it began the "Novelty Radio" craze of receivers being placed into all manner of plastic case shapes like Coke bottles, world globes, and various 'ball' shapes among many others.
“I prefer it to my fancier one.”
The Asian delegation welcomes you as honorary Asian.
I'll get him his card
Just having a rice cooker was enough for that. I think Asians are the only human beings unable to cook rice in a pot
@@Carewolf why would anyone cook rice in a pot when rice cookers exist? youre flexing about being able to make shitty rice
@@Sara-bk3yi Why would anybody buy things they don't need? At least other optional kitchen appliances can do something faster or better. Rice cookers, like breadmakers and electric knives are just kind of pointless unless you have need an extra free space on the stove.
@@Carewolf Rice cookers are better than stove tops. They makes things so much easier. You don’t have to set a timer on a rice cooker and it turns off once it’s done cooking. I don’t have to worry about Leaving the rice on the stove too long and it being burnt. I also don’t have to worry about turning the knob at the perfect point. It makes sure that you get perfect rice every single time while keeping it low maintenance. World War II is over, use technology.
OMG! I just got my Aroma rice cooker and I have been pondering how the hell it knows when my rice is done. I watched 3 other videos before I found yours and they were useless. Yours absolutely satisfied my curiosity! Thank you, sir!!!
Still one of the very best channels on RUclips. You don't just have knowledge; you don't just explain things; you find the perfect sweetspot of teachable background as it relates to perfectly common unobserved phenomena. All the things we take for granted, you take the time to offer just enough base level knowledge and just enough specific fact, to leave us thinking "wow I know so much more about that now and I didn't even have to try following along!"
The trick with the gasket type rice cooker is to simply not look at it. That way you can avoid the difficult cleaning.
That's a similar strategy for when something is going wrong with your car. Turn up the radio, and you don't hear it any more.
Cartoon physics, it's not a problem until you look down.
@@andrewwilliams6963 That's what Wile E. Coyote says!
@@josephgaviota beep beep. That roadrunner makes around 400 horsepower
I've got one with the central stub. Its like cleaning a 4 sided hub or a ninja star and its a theft deterrent device
Toaster: suicidal electromagnet
Rice cooker: water magnet
Light switch: fidget clicker
Microwave: electromagnetic whistle
@@xenontesla122 Hotel: Trivago
Cellphones : microwave whispers
Funnily enough i've always wanted a rice cooker, a week after seeing your video I stumbled across an identical 'old style' one brand new in the box in a discount shop for £3.50! Trying it out now and it seems to be perfect, love the old fashioned technology and design!
I have this same exact rice cooker and it works much better than the expensive one I currently have in storage. It’s inexpensive, super simple and you’re correct about it being very easy to clean.
These things are incredible. I've actually fallen asleep while the rice was cooking, and the rice was totally fine when I woke up. Not burned, not dried out, not on fire. Doing that with a pot on the stove doesn't end so well.
Sire of the shire, whom'st've came from the lands of the feeble noita crashers how may bilbo shit his pants today?
Can agree. Someone did this when I was in college and caught their dorm room on fire
I made a hockey puck out of an egg yolk once
And you are exactly the sort of person a rice cooker was invented for 🤣
I tried making arroz con pollo with way too much water one night when I was rather drunk and fell asleep on the kitchen floor. I awoke to what was essentially congee. Happy accidents do happen sometimes!
“And you have to remove the gasket and clean it regularly.”
H-haha yeah I totally knew that was a thing [nervous sweating]
[rice cooker sweats as well]
Yeah I had a rice cooker with the lid made of two parts (well 5 if you count the rubber ring, and two brackets that holds the two pieces together, I am purposely ignoring the screws) and it was a pain to take out and clean.
I think we all have same experience - buying fancy rice cooker and then have to unscrew the top just to clean it
[Rice cooker lid trying to crawl away]
That’s why you need a hammer close by.
Bruh I never knew you had to clean the gasket. And I eat rice all the time.
Wade brought me here any other dankpods fans in the house?
What video?
@@JEST3R_ the AI rice cooker.
🙋🏿♀️
Surprised to not see that anyone from DankPods said that they were sent here... Maybe I'm the first one here? 🤔
Because the video came out today
I did watch this prior to the Dankpods video but I did decide to come back here again due to said video.
The AI got most of them on the journey over here, RIP dinguses >.
Am here.
"we'll get to that when we tackle air conditioning and refrigeration"
Me: I AM EXCITE
Yes, and wow. That's a lot to tackle. I learned from Bryan Orr (HVAC School). Neat thing is, once a person knows why the hot tube carries the cold and the cold tube the heat, they've pretty much got it.
Not too excite or you vaporize.
PongoXBongo It would make for a nice change of Phase. Err Pace.
Also an excuse to delay CED
Refrigeration is TIGHT
@@davincent98 YA BOIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!
“Doesn’t beep incessantly for 15 seconds when it’s done” (glares at microwave)
Mine sings to me
@@slightlyevolved Its a silly annoying shit until it became useful
How can something beep incessantly if it stops at 15 seconds? Those terms contradict each other!
People think I stop the microwave at 1 second because I'm impatient but really it's to avoid the loud beeps at 2am letting everyone know my cow-ass is eating a hot pocket.
Apparently microwaves have a mute function. You just need to figure out the right combination of button presses for your model. I haven't looked into it for my latest one yet, but I did play with an older one that had the instructions on the keypad. It was neat until other people forgot about their food for the third time.
I love how the basic rice cooker has a crooked switch under the lights, as if to really drive home how simple and basic it is.
While the original Toshiba rice cooker from the 50s went out of style in Japan in favor of more advanced ones from Zojirushi etc and became a display in an appliance museum, it actually survived and has become a household item in Taiwan in the form of Tatung rice cooker. Available in various colors and sizes, Tatung rice cooker is said to have become a popular souvier for Japanese tourists when they visit Taiwan.
Yes exactly! Also wanted to add these are just about the only rice cookers you can buy with a stainless steel inner pot ie without non-stick coating! The coating is toxic imo, and it always flakes off eventually. Replacement pots are very expensive too.
I bought a rice cooker just like that when I first moved out of my parents home. Over 20 years later it's still the only rice cooker I've ever owned. It's worked flawlessly every single time.
Is it cheap and affordable?I want to buy a rice cooker,but I don't wanna spend money on zojirushi,it's 350 dollars.
@@alexandrathearmy8464 yeah just buy a cheap one by decent brand it will be ok
@@alexandrathearmy8464 ...any cheapest one will do.....though a brand name might last forever until you outgrow its size.
@@jcjc3671 ok,I was thinking about buying instant pot duo,cause it has good reviews,many cooking options and you can buy it online for 30 dollars.
@@alexandrathearmy8464 I almost bought one after all the excellent reviews, and watching cooking recipes on utube. I was even offered one by a friend in Ont. who bought one and isn't using it. Turned around 180°, saved some money, and am using a max of 2 biggest Sanyos, a big Chinese one, and a small Black and Decker. Easiest I've even come to cooking my one daily meal. 4different sizes classical Hawkins pressure cookers sleeping in cupboard. 2new portable induction cookers and large dedicated pots same. Easy Cooking pushing one button for myself and dog!!!
“...212F delightfully easy to remember, idk what that is in Celsius probably some silly arbitrary thing...” I love these little gems lol 👍🏼
I thought that as well. subtle and still makes me laugh.
Hmm... exactly 100 likes for this arbitrary comment...
I mean yeah, it is arbitrary. Why pick water's freezing and boiling point as the 0 and 100 degree marks? That's a completely arbitrary choice.
100C
@@gabydiaz1083 whoosh!
I have a rice cooker similar to the one in the video. I like it because there’s a small insert that I can place on top of the metal bowl and use it as a steamer.
I am SO grateful to you for these videos, and particularly for this specific one. I love rice and I was instantly convinced to buy a cooker, and it made rice recipes sooo easier. Enough with burnt rice and badly cooked rice. Thank you!
As an Asian who eats rice everyday, this has been the question of my childhood.
As an Asian, do you approve this rice cooker?
@@MaxiRSilva as an Asian I approve of this rice cooker
Aroma is a solid brand actually. It’s not fancy like Zojirushi but it gets the job done well for the price.
@@majist0 _Aroma is a solid brand actually. It’s not fancy like Zojirushi but it gets the job done well for the price._
Thanks for that useful review! I'm interested in getting one now :-)
@@MaxiRSilva as an asian, i very much approve of rice cookers.
I bought my first rice cooker in 1980 while stationed on Okinawa. It worked fabulously for over 35 years.
You could probably fix it with a soldering iron.
@aristedes9449 nah, after 35 years, it might need to be out inside of a display case and retired
@@Bistinglolwut why? the new ones are still built the same way. 35 years isn't even that long for an appliance to survive, you're just conditioned to expect shit to break after 5 years max by planned obsolescence.
@aristedes9449 Look, I enjoy repairing broken appliances, but that doesn't mean everybody has the time, wants to put in the effort, or even cares about something that might as well cost 15-20 dollars.
Is that what people call "Wife" these days? :D
Oh my goodness this is absolutely fantastic. I am on my second Aroma basic rice cooker just like this one and have wondered from day one how it knows when the rice is done. It really does make great rice every time once you nail the rice/water ratio. It's good for cooking other grains as well. Thank you so much for this information.
I love the closed captions on your videos, I can tell you definitely put a lot of work into them. Most content creators would just ignore the transcript.
I love his humor in this vid. Especially when he shows how well he knows how RUclips watchers can react to the slightest thing.
Like the use of imperial or metric. The idea anybody could familiarise themselves with both or at least learn simplified conversions is just crazy talk, of course.
WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT RUclips WATCHERS?!?! HOW DARE YOU!!! lol
@jonny j Got a bit of a fanatic 'ere, ain't we?
You missed to chance to end with:
"Have a rice day"
A rıice day?
@@parnikkapore You stop that now
That would rice..
Rice guys finish last😕
He neglected saying this just to get a rice outta you.
I really love your channel, you explain things so clearly, and the fact that you do it with everyday objects make the connection very easy ! Keep going !
When this video was first released, it inspired me to ask for a basic, simple rice cooker for my Christmas and low and behold, a couple years later, it's been an amazing tool that's easy to clean and just wonderful to have around
My rice cooker has all the alarm signal I need--the metallic CLUNK when the switch snaps back to WARM.
truth
for me in college that was the cluck of needing to reset the wooden spoon keeping the stove on.
dorms didn't allow any cooking other than a rice cooker, and god dammit i want a burger.
Wyatt Roncin Makes sense only letting students have only a rice cooker. We all know that college students have NO common sense! 🤣
@@samiam619 no, it was in the same building as the Culinary Arts portion of the school. They just hadn't added in a dorm kitchen yet, and the individual rooms are not equipped for cooking in.
The beauty in a device like this is that it is passively automatic.
Like selenium-powered cameras!
Felt the need to manually write a negative comment about your statement.
Having my iPad in a different language and so having the subtitles on by default gifted me some of the best examples of humor in this channel at the end of the video. I love you, SPIRIT OF THE CREDITS. 🎉 I hope you recover from your existential crisis soon!
Honestly even without using either of them - I prefer the basic unit too. Not only is it definitely easier to live with, no doubt going to last longer (there isn't too much to go wrong), and cheaper, but it's just charming honestly, especially knowing how simple yet intelligent and elegant its method of operation is. It has kind of an 'old world'/old school sort of vibe to it that I like a lot, and a no-nonsense style in general. It just... is, nothing fancy here.
"This ain't no toaster, that's for sure."
I think he has a slight problem.
Felt like a toaster to me: amazing ingenuity hiding as a really simply circuit and senses reality in a way that was unexpectedly indirect.
Might be a reference to Technology Connections' "Antique Toaster that is Better than Yours" video. ruclips.net/video/1OfxlSG6q5Y/видео.html
I mean, it's no Sunbeam Radiant toaster, but it's at least equally as amazing as a normal toaster. At least it is to me.
Now I want to see a video on how toasters work
As someone who also owns that exact “fancy” rice maker, I too despise that 15 seconds of screaming when the rice is done.
YES! It sounds like a radiation alert or some such thing--why so shrill, fancy rice cooker, whyyyyyy?
And I have the cheap one. Works just fine for sushi rice...
I think we all have one appliance that we yell “shut up!” at.
@@AlchemicSoul in my case it's an egg boiler.
My instant pot plays a little tune when it's done, then shuts up and keeps it warm until you tell it otherwise.
Yep. This video convinced me to buy a rice cooker. One of these cheap ones like the one featured in the video. I love the engineering behind it and this video was literally the best advertisement there could've been. I love your videos. Please keep it up ❤
Watching this video ended up being a journey of over four years! Back when you covered toasters I wondered how rice cookers worked. Then you came out with this video, but I never got around to watching it. Fast forward four years and three months to the recent past, and I heard Neil Degrasse Tyson mention latent heat of vaporization, and I thought ah, I bet that's how rice cookers know when to stop. And just now in May 2024 while I was making some rice I remembered I still needed to watch this video! These little guys are more clever than I imagined with the magnet. Thanks for making this video. It's still being appreciated!
“This ain’t no toaster” cracking me up.
His toaster content is top notch.
To be fair: Toasters and Coffee makers ARE proof of Man's achievements! I would not be without them, even if my other appliances crapped out!
I just finished cooking rice with this exact model of rice cooker, opened RUclips, and this video was my top recommendation.
At least say hi next time you visit!
OMG uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Turn off the googles maybe lol ohhhhh
Anthony Peters ...
google found a way to accses the rice cooker through a magnetic link
@@transwave50 Sounds about right...... waves! hmmmmmm........ maybe were on to something.............
Alexa can smell now.
Fascinating! so it’s not about cooking time, or pressure, but instead the ratio of water to rice. Thank you. You also instilled confidence in getting a cheap rice cooker.
Protip for cooking rice: Right amount of water for white rice is putting rice in the pot, then fill with water until the water is one fingerjoint above the rice
@@MrProthall depends on the rice type though. Some rice in some areas need more water and some need less. You need some experiments before getting the desired result.
Mine is like 4/5 upper finger joint to get the desired result.
I love the dry sarcasm that you use. It always makes me smile. Thank you for doing such great videos
Your jokes and humor keep getting better and better.
Thank you for always being there for all of us and making such great content. ;-)
I agree. The boiling point joke amused me particularly.
Love getting notifications for this channel or your own Deviant
Oh hey, two of my favorite youtubers watch each other! (Or at least one does)
Wtf hi Mr Penetration Man
Huh, I felt like his jokes felt more strained here than previous videos. Loved the episode though, one of my favorites in a while.
"I mean, it's no Toaster!" :)
*Sad toaster lover noises*
I saw this video a while back, maybe a year, and yesterday finally decided to buy a rice cooker
I came to rewatch the video and realized I bought the exact one you said was difficult to keep properly clean because of the rubber gasket, I went back to the store today and returned it since I had not yet opened it and I bought the same white one you had in this video
Im very happy with it after using it for dinner tonight, thanks!
Having just bought our first rice cooker this week I came to your channel to learn how it works! Thank you!
"This device is unremarkable" - Goes on to remark about it for 11 minutes. lol
@Will Pack So true! thats why I have backup power, I cannot be without juice. When the power goes out my backup battery system kicks in, and I'm the only house on the street with the lights on. :)
The device is unremarkable.... the way in which it works is remarkable, and thus the center and focus of his remarks. He says that... literally. 0:23
And get the rice cooker paid back 10 folds by the views. Genius.
@@dash8brj IS THIS GUY CAPTAIN DISILLUSION?
See, this is why I love this guy. He makes even cooking rice interesting and more educational than just taking the cooker apart. Somehow.
Cuz he spends time to understand how it actually works, and actually knows his stuff
He knows how to show that even the most ordinary things have an interesting operation! ANY RUclipsr can shill the latest "iGadget", But this guy knows that we are surrounded by cool shit all of the time, and shows what makes these things so cool, otherwise we would miss it.
James Slick and XDTuber, very good points indeed
Dude. Great video. Stumbled on your channel and your approach is rock solid. Thanks so much for taking a deep dive on the rice cooker topic. Physics and culinary meet head to head. Keep up the good work. New sub. 👍
I ended up getting one of these last year and love it. So easy and no mess on the stovetop
A functional, clever kitchen appliance without Bluetooth and a Twitter app for some reason, don’t tell Kickstarter!
but i need to be able to see what the weather is by looking at my rice cooker. How am i going to know? And don't tell me to use my refrigerator that thing is rude.
Kickstarter will probably make a glorified Dehumidifier out of it.
Haha technology can be useless sometimes. Let us all joke and laugh about it. Haha
I just don’t understand the humor
@@sirBrouwer - Lol!
It already exists Now im sad
Plus, that little lever on the mechanical rice cooker is incredibly satisfying to push.
We have that exact rice cooker and you’ve made me appreciate its simplicity. I had originally thought it worked by lifting off the burner when enough of the water has evaporated. It works consistently well but makes a mess as starchy water percolates through the loose lid. I wanted a more advanced, less messy one, but you have me reconsidering after pointing out how messy it gets under the seal. I think I’d rather wipe up the counter.
This was a very interesting video for this rice lover. Thank you for having subtitles! The ones at the end are what finally made me subscribe.
As someone who routinely works with liquid water at 300 deg C, I appreciate your disclaimer!
guessing around 9 MPa I am curious
@@kissingfrogs could just be the lack of a nucleation point, thou I'm not sure that you can get to 300°C that way...
@@kissingfrogs The pressure of an espresso machine?
Just microwave it
Funny thing too
Theres Pressurized Induction Rice Cookers as well. The Zojirushi NP-NVC10, so boiling points are adjusted accordingly.
"I prefer it to my fancier one simply because it doesn't get gross"
Me: Just finished spending 15 minutes wiping down my fancy rice cooker because it was getting gross. ._.
I have a super fancy one and never touch the top seal thing and it is never gross. Not sure what is causing yours to get gross.
@@vlogerhood Yeah, my Zojirushi rice cooker is pretty easy to clean and the seal looks exactly like it did when I first bought it, never had to clean that part.
@@vlogerhood I am going to guess overfilling the pot would make the seal gross.
@@jcstalesoftrails9249/videos And boiling colorful aromatics, or adding fats/oils.
I have a basic one with that gasket style lid, and I didn't know that it came apart. Now I'm afraid to look in there.
I bought one of this kind of rice cooker a few month ago and I was really wondering how it works.
My initial thoughts was that the pot was being lifted up once the weight of water has disappeared, but it wouldn't really checks out as you can put more or less rice (and thus, water) in the pot.
I'm glad one of the best explainer yt channel had a video about this very exact thing, I knew it would be impressive, thanks a lot!
I just love love love inventions like this one that can be built by anyone but coming up with the actual concept takes true ingenuity.
5:01 *plugs the rice cooker in and proceeds to screw it apart.*
My brain: AHHHHHHHH
Better not let your brain watch ElectroBOOM's channel then.
_Same_
You know, if someone opens an electric device while it's plugged in, they are either a master at handling it or a complete amateur. No in between.
Scrolled until seeing that
i was wondering about that, it is unplugged when he opens it though, just bad editing
Technology Connections: Rice Al Dente isn't a thing
Hell's Kitchen: Hold my risotto
Hot wet rice. -The Katering Show
Hell's Kitchen in Minneapolis is one of my favorite restaurants. I don't know if they do al dente rice though...
Who wants Crunchy rice?????
@@AMPProf Actually crunchy rice taste good, sort of like pocorn but I do preffer soft fluffly white rice.
Eating anything al dente is weird. Al dente is used to precook pasta in water before you finish cooking it in sauce. You cook it in water first to keep the sauce from tasting starchy. Anyone who actually eats anything al dente is just being pretentious and just eating it that way because they think it's proper.
I had a housemate who had a fancy one, and I only ever used it for rice. When we stopped living together I bought a super basic one, looks exactly like the one in this video, and I love it.
So glad I've stumbled upon your channel. I'm learning so much!
"Magnets are confusing"
Insane Clown Posse: "I told you!"
gibbdude spoiler, it’s magic.
@gibbdude Miracles 😉
WHO!????
Seriously, this is probably going to sound like an old person question but why am I getting notifications for comments that I have nothing to do with? It just started sometime recently
Ok, I could delete my comments to erase the stupidity, but I literally thought that all the comments on the video were in my notification screen. I got this iPhone recently and I’ve never had one before ... embarrassing
"CED part 5 coming soon."
I think this series is going to be around longer than it was originally.
Came looking for a CED comment, thank you for making me happy!
Thank you for this video. Helps me discuss with my son latent heat and concept of rice cooker we are using right now
I love my little rice cooker! It's one of three appliances that I use at least once a week. It's so easy and is actually faster than trying to mess with it on the stove. I've been wondering how it knows when to turn itself off, so thanks for the explanation!
I now need a rice cooker!
They are a class device and take the hassle from cooking rice
@@chris9650 Yo, for real, I never knew how hard it was to cook just fuggin rice in a pot and this is like "nah fam I got it"
An Instant Pot pressure cooker cooks rice extremely well and gives you more cooking flexibility.
I just got one of these cheap simple ones a few weeks ago. I always thought I didn't need one because I can cook rice on the stove just fine, but the great thing about this little appliance is that you don't need to watch it al all - it's 100% fire and forget. I like mine very much.
I have the exact model he shows at 3:55, it's so nice not having to worry about ruining rice any more. I do a lot of cooking, but rice was my nemesis. Every damn time I ended up with a solid lump or a puddle of mush. Also works as a tiny Crock-Pot which is convenient.
Who needs the dang metric system when we have a perfectly good system of measurement based off the foot size of and old English king.
More like ancient greeks ?
Don’t worry, you don’t need to use degrees with circles, you can use your beautiful metric gradians instead
@@Nova-du5on Ancient romans (which also used the foot) used decimal multiples, but dozenal fractions !
@@Nova-du5on The SI unit is radian. Example: Apply 1 Newton of force to a 1 m long lever arm. You have 1 Nm of torque. If the lever arm then rotates with 1 rad/s, you are pushing with 1 Watt of power. If you do this for 1 second you have done 1 Joule of total work. SI is beautiful, no ugly constants as far as the eye can see.
Bagi Badoo the radian is not a metric unit though. It’s an SI unit, but it’s definitely not metric.
I have that cooker and i love it.
Works great for making oils without burning them without even checking them
Came across this video while doing research on rice cookers and this has solidified my decision! I had a hunch that the simpler rice cookers give you the most bang for your buck and I enjoyed how you explained all the cool science and engineering that makes this work, loved this video!
I've had this exact rice cooker for a couple years, and it works great. I bought it to replace a 20+ yo version of the same one, which was actually still working just fine, but the bowl was losing it's coating, so I started to worry about its food safety.
I really like your sense of humor.
oh i hate it, but thats why i love this channel lmao
Why don't you marry him
@@Whityfisks youre so cool
@@Whityfisks i would
Who doesn't? ^_^
As I watch this, I'm eating rice that was cooked on almost that exact rice cooker, and I love it. I eat rice pretty often (half my cooking skill set is Korean) and it suits my needs great. My only complaint is that the "warm" setting is hot enough to dry the rice out, if I leave food out for a buffet style dinner.
And yes, a digital sensor is just a thing that will break. If you don't absolutely need them, don't use them.
Your cooker might be trying to keep the rice above 60-63 degrees Celsius in order to prevent the growth of Bacillus cereus; which is important for a "buffet style" arrangement (see my previous comment: ruclips.net/video/RSTNhvDGbYI/видео.html&lc=Ugx5q1cbi1Edv-wWOQl4AaABAg).
Used to work at Chipotle, where we had to keep rice at a safe temperature. It would dry out, but that's why we mix it up between every couple customers, and it helps that we went thru pans quickly
@@mattb4721 Yeah, rice must never be allowed to spend much time at room temperature. It must either be hot or chilled.
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 I'll eat it up to 24 hours later but I prefer 12
Not worrying about germs as much ... top tier immune system
I just recently discovered your videos and am truly grateful
I am very pleased to find your channel. Great teacher you are.
I have always wondered how these things work! Thanks for clarifying it! I also find cooking rice well to be less than obvious.
I get pretty good results by measuring the height of the rice in the cooker bowl with my finger, then add the same height of water above the rice.
Add a little more water if you like slightly more cooked or softer rice. Less water if you prefer 'dryer' or less mushy rice.
If you are cooking long grain rice get any cup. Fill the cup with rice. Place rice in pot. Use same cup that you used for rice. Add 2 cups of water to pot. Add 1 tsp of salt and oil for flavor. Cover pot. Bring to a boil on medium high heat. Once pot is bubbling, reduce heat to low and leave it for 25 mins. Do that step by step and it's hard to mess up. Rinsing the starch off the rice makes the lid easier to see through if you are willing to put more effort but it doesn't make much difference in the dishes quality.
I don't know what the ratio for short grain rice is though. Only weirdos who like math too much eat it anyway.
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yo, you should check your camera setup; that shot used at 0:37 is some really grain-y footage
I took this seriously at first...
...but then I gave you 100 points for that excellence
I don't understand how this doesn't have more likes man, this is gold
@@TechnologyConnections there are some real white blobs at 7:37 no joke.
@@TechnologyConnections fix your mic please too reverberant
@@TechnologyConnections BOOM!
I have been wondering about this as I watch my rice cook for a while now. Thank you!
My parents gave me their 14-year old rice cooker to take to college, and I absolutely adore it. It's worked flawlessly every time I've used it.
If I ever have kids, I'll give it to them when they go to college.
I didn't know basic rice cookers were this complex. I've been around them for 30 years and simply assumed they worked due to the difference in weights between uncooked and cooked rice.
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You can cook other stuff on a rice cooker. The most interesting one for me is the anime Yakitate Japan's bread cooked in a rice cooker. They even did a live demo of it to show it could be done in real life and not just in the anime.
Thanks for the anime suggestion!
6:48 I love how you treat Internet people just like a very very slowly learning child... which we are.
Speak for yourself, thanks.
Well yes. Nobody is omniscient knowing absolutely everything about everything. The average person who buys a rice cooker or say a vacuum cleaner has no idea how it works, just that it does.
Better to slightly bore the experts than to leave the simpletons behind. ;)
@@patrickjohnson5658 I think the reference was about checking to see if 50 other slow internet children had already added the correction.
But, as a slow internet child, I suppose you missed that part... ;)
I've been using the same model (albeit with the stainless steel pot) for the last three months, almost every day. I love the simplicity.
The old Weller WTCPN soldering station uses a variation of this technology. I started working at a TV shop in about 1975 and have been soldering almost daily since, This is the best soldering station I have used to date, and recently bought 2 of the TC-201 Pencils. The pencil shaft has a permanent magnet connected to a switch with a pushrod that contacts the butt of the tip, which has a pellet of an alloy that has a curie point of 600, 700, or 800 deg F. This turns the heater element (outside the pushrod) providing full power to the heater when it calls. The pencil can be left running all day without overheating, and is powerful enough to solder to an old tube style chassis, or works equally as well on a modern SMD board. They stopped making these because the electronic controlled models would be cheaper I guess, but they sure don't outperform the WTCPN Station.
Thanks for another interesting video!
When I took electrical engineering classes and we got to transistors, I remember my professor going "We're not going to touch on digital circuits, they're too easy"
I think I understand what he meant now :B
digital circuits are easy, until you try to design an asynchronous CPU, guess why no modern CPU is truly async and need to have clock lines, such children toys...
@@monad_tcp You don't get it. There's beauty in simplicity, as well as efficiency. If you can design a thing to do what an IC does, but with even simpler construction, that is true genius. Theoretical wanking about kilobuck computers that rich kids own or work with is not so relevant to the point made above.
I think your professor forgot the existence of fighter jets and Nuclear power plants. Two processes that depend on digital circuitry to function. Because without it, they don't work.
@@Helveteshit You're a terrible liar, or terribly ignorant of facts. Which is it, Swiss cheese?
@@Helveteshit Ya sure about that one?
i had always assumed it used a bimetal switch like a thermostat, but this is definitely more elegant and probably more reliable and cheaper
Unlike technology, physics have a absolute 0% failure rate.
@@bazil4146 though a commercial consequence here is lack of planned obsolescence. I bought a magnet-style rice cooker 10 years and there isn't any indication it will break down soon.
@@mipmipmipmipmip That's amateur, mine has been working since before I was born and doesn't even look like it needs replacing until after WW4.
Thank you for the explainer - I had always wondered about this, and now feel like that you've completely answered it. thank you!!
You have the most enjoyable sense of humor on the Internet together with This Old Tony..