->I own and use a rice cooker at home all of the time. It makes perfect ->rice everytime and is so easy to use. x Gee, how could anything be easier than stovetop rice, especially by the Chinese method? x > > > I love rice and have looked at the cookers several times but the > > > concept always ends seeming silly. x To me too, a bit, though I can understand it for *extremely* busy people. x > rice cooking task to be given to the children to do since it cannot > be screwed up. x True, but what kid old enough to cook at all can't learn to cook rice on the stovetop? It ain't exactly rocket science. :) And do you really want 'em thinking they have to have a big fancy appliance for every simple little process? A lot of well-off kids these days don't ever actually learn how to cook--they only know how to run machines that cook for them. And that's okay, I suppose...as long as they never become _nouveau pauvre_ and are suddenly stuck with actual pots and pans. :) x Rain @@@@ \\\\\