On 2013-10-20 15:36:23 +0000, Janet Bostwick said:

>> A rice cooker has no appeal for me, it's very rare I eat plain white
>> rice, and when I do an ordinary pot can't be improved upon, no way, no
>> how.

That's how I feel about every applicance I've never had and don't use!
A toaster, for instance, is useless, when you realize you can stick a
fork in it and hold it over an open fire.

> My neighbors have 3 rice cookers of different sizes.. it makes sense
> because they eat rice at every meal.

Not that it matters to the "why do it when we never done it" crowd, but
rice cookers don't reject ingredients other than rice. I've cooked
rice in a cooker with mushrooms, Goya sofrito, packets of Japanese
vegetables, chopped olives, chopped giardiera, among other things in my
"plain white rice" cooker.