# I Bought An Electric Rice Cooker Today

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-an-electric-rice-cooker-today/267300>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 3, 2004, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-an-electric-rice-cooker-today/267300 "2004-10-03T07:04:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-an-electric-rice-cooker-today/267300/21 "2004-10-04T13:37:04Z")

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My electric veggie steamer does it all for me. I can put rice and water in the bottom part, veggies in the top part and let em steam away while doing other stuff. Takes about 20-25 minutes but I don’t have to worry about it. It just gets done. How does it work? Magic of course!

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**Author:** ![Tony\_Montana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tony\_Montana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Montana)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-an-electric-rice-cooker-today/267300/22 "2004-10-04T13:51:03Z")

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> [@Revtim](#):
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> It’s actually the directions on the back of the bag that calls for boiling the water first, IIRC. Works great.

whahuh? :looks at bag : _My_ bag says basically what I said before.BTW it’s not the “instant” (or whatever that stuff is) variety.

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**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-an-electric-rice-cooker-today/267300/23 "2004-10-04T14:41:31Z")

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> [@Tony Montana](#):
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> whahuh? :looks at bag : _My_ bag says basically what I said before.BTW it’s not the “instant” (or whatever that stuff is) variety.

Mine is the store brand, couldn’t tell you what store since I’m at work now. It’s either Albertson’s or Winn-Dixie.

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