Blake Olson wrote: > > I love rice and have looked at the cookers several times but the > concept always ends seeming silly. > > It's another electrical appliance > It won't make rice any better than a decent saucepan. > It's harder to clean. > You have to store it UNDER THE BED????? > it takes up room on the counter. > Blake, that is, more or less, exactly what I wrote earlier, and I have been cooking rice that way for over forty years, ever since I learned it from a Chinese gentleman! Who owned a Chinese restaurant, where he would ask me to ccok, on ocasion! As I said, I have a perfectly useless rice cooker, which sits on a shelf, gathering dust, while I cook rice the Chinese way, perfectly! Cheers, Doug in BC (and the leftover rice, a couple of days later is just fabulous for chow fan(flied lice)