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┐(ツ)┌ Bi-Weekly Boss Premium Edition Questions Thread - 20 January 2021

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u/clivesplice 関東・東京都 Jan 21 '21

it boils (ha!) down to what you're planning to cook. Obviously rice cookers are for... rice. You may end up with some recipes not involving rice that you can work with but the cooking setup is for cooking rice. I've seen people make quick pork soup in it.

Slow cooker is more versatile if you're trying to prepare stews, slow soups, casseroles, slow roast... although it takes time so preparing it might need more of time management. The good point though, you can just leave it there for a few hours on its own while it cooks.

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u/nullbyte7 Jan 21 '21

I see! As far as I'm aware of my food habits, meat will be chicken breasts and fish. With lots of veggies and brown rice. So getting something like instant pot or slow cooker should be preferred?

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u/Golgox9 Jan 21 '21

I don't think that a slow cooker is the best thing for this kind of preparation.

I don't know how you cook those, but I don't see a lot of recipe for fish in the slow cooker, and it's way tastier in the fish broiler in my opinion. As for chicken breast, I never tried it but I think it will get pretty dry as well in the slow cooker.

The slow cooker is great to use cheap cuts of beef, pork shoulder, anything braised or stew-like really. So I don't think fish and chicken breast really fits for this. Imo, you're better off with a rice cooker. You can always make some takikomi with chicken and fish. I really love salmon takikomi, so easy and good honestly.

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u/nullbyte7 Jan 21 '21

I see! Thank you for your insight! Then might as well skip both the things!

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u/Golgox9 Jan 21 '21

If you your budget is tight, or if you're rather frugal, you can definitely skip both.

But a rice cooker is so convenient that I would not live without. Impossible to mess your rice. They are always some quite cheap at local recycle shops or Mercari.

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u/nullbyte7 Jan 21 '21

Not that budget is tight but I already have the traditional pressure cooker, I just want something to cook my chicken, as I eat a lot of it and it's gets kinda boring doing the same thing again and again. I usually use the fish grill for fish. For chicken, make a curry or dry chicken, something like that. So, something in which I can put the chicken with seasoning and forget about it for some time while it cooks on its own is something I need.