Maddy lore: We have a rice cooker by a brand called “Cuckoo”. It has the last two letters covered up by a sticker that came from a fruit. We call it the “Rice Cucker”

Me and my partner are both very mature adults, mhm.

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This is what I’m talking about

@maddy how do you like it? i’ve been looking at fancy rice cookers and cuckoo is one that i keep running into

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@jiub It makes making ‘good’ rice trivial. We dump the ingredients in based on the stovetop instructions on the back of a bag of rice (although washing your rice is generally recommended), press the ‘cook’ button, and we have tasty hot rice ready in ~20 minutes. It automatically goes into ‘warm’ mode after cooking so forgetting about the rice or not hearing the beep doesn’t mean it’s wasted!

Love this thing, honestly. We’ve gotten a ton of use out of it.

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@gwenthefops @maddy I always say that I value your thoughts and experience. This is why.

@jiub I say ‘good’ ‘cause I know someone could get really pedantic about rice and say you can make it much better without these machines, but it’s really as good as any stovetop rice I’ve had.

@maddy v nice! i kinda suck at making rice so even the $10 rice cookers make better rice than i usually do lol

i use my instant pot to make rice sometimes, but it doesn’t always turn out great especially if it’s not regular white rice. plus i’ll often be using the instant pot to cook something else

i miss having a rice cooker, but i kind of don’t have the space

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.......a little mechanical bird pops out and makes a sound when the rice is done cooking, right?

@apophis Sadly no, just a high-pitched beep that plays for a couple of seconds.

@maddy le cucker

@maddy CUCK4011 sounds like a fedi robotgirl’s serial number,,

@maddy I’m as mature as you, I think. I giggled a lot

@maddy or, like, a video game title. like imagine cyberpunk 2077 but it’s cuck 4011 instead