Growing up in an Asian family, I always used rice cookers. I never even considered cooking rice in a pot (who cooks rice in a POT?!) until my late teens when my white friends cheerfully informed me that they *always* cooked rice in a pot. I was aghast. Rice cookers are marvelous inventions. You just add a scoop or two of rice, a scoop or two of water (depending on the type of rice!) and hit...
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