What's a good rice cooker to use for brown rice? Does it matter what rice cooker one uses? Any tips on cooking brown rice?

Fewer farmers, changing diets, outdated agricultural policies and even an earthquake scare have contributed to price rises affecting Japanese rice. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/04/07/food-drink/rice-shortage-japan-reserves/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #fooddrink #rice #food #agriculture #climatechange #heatwaves

Move Over Mediterranean Diet: African Cuisine Reduces Your Risk of Cancer, Heart Attack and Stroke https://www.diningandcooking.com/2000656/move-over-mediterranean-diet-african-cuisine-reduces-your-risk-of-cancer-heart-attack-and-stroke/ #cassava #HealthBenefitsOfAfricanDiet #HealthNewsTimesNow #HeartDiseaseType2DiabetesCancer #leafy #Mediterranean #MediterraneanCuisine #Millet #QuirijnDeMast #RadboudUniversity #Rice

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Dinner today: We made Onigiri with tuna-mayo-filling ( the bunny was for the kid, we also made normal ones ), Korean Shrimp Gyoza and Smashed Asian Cucumber Salad. Omnomnom, it was so good!

#food #foodporn #Onigiri #gyoza #smashedCucumberSalad #CucumberSalad #Salad #rice #Dinner #Abendessen #Familienessen #BerlinFoodie

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Anyone have a recommendation for a rice strainer?

I do have a strainer, but the holes are too large for long-grain rice as the grains escape through them - It's great for short grain, but I'm not making Sushi and Onigiri all that often lol.

Japan bento chain’s ‘no rice’ April Fool’s joke goes down the wrong way https://www.byteseu.com/889637/ #AprilFool'sDay #AprilFool'sPrank #AprilFools #bento #FoodAndDrinkManufacturers #HokkaHokkaTei #Japan #Philippines #rice #RicePrices #shortage #SocialMedia #TaragisTakoyaki #WageCosts

I want a tshirt that says ‘don’t talk to me until I’ve eaten rice’

With rice prices staying high, Japanese retail giant Aeon said that it will sell a blend of rice produced in Japan and the United States. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/02/companies/aeon-rice-blend/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #aeon #rice

#EAS #WEA for Ellsworth, #KS; #McPherson, #KS; #Rice, #KS; #Saline, #KS: National Weather Service: #TORNADO WARNING in this area until 10:30 PM CDT. Take shelter now in a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. If you are outdoors, in a mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter and protect yourself from flying debris. Check media. Source: NWS Wichita KS ** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***

Japan should aim to boost annual rice exports, including packaged rice and rice flour, to 353,000 tons in 2030, up eightfold from last year, a government panel has said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/03/28/rice-exports-boost/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #rice #agriculture #food #maff

The cost of living in Tokyo rose more than anticipated from the previous month, keeping the Bank of Japan on track for further interest rate hikes. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/03/28/economy/tokyo-cpi-march/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #japaneseeconomy #economicindicators #inflation #boj #tokyo #rice

Aight, poll time. (I'm expecting more than ZERO votes in the next three days, Mastodon.)

When #cooking your own #rice in a #ricecooker, do you:

The agriculture ministry has begun to accept bids in the second round of its auction for government-stockpiled rice. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/26/japan/stockpiled-rice-second-auction/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #rice #inflation #maff #food

I am cooking an Indian rice tonight - Karuppu Kavuni rice. Online it is mostly equated to "black rice" and "forbidden rice". I am not sure this is correct (as incorrect info can propagate around the internet with lightning speed, so even seemingly reputable sources can have incorrect info)*.

In any case, and despite what the internet says, it's cooking requirements *seem* (on the label) much different to the usual "black rice" and "forbidden rice" - a long soaking plus a long cooking with a high water ratio.

I am going to try it in the instant pot so wish me luck! It'll be pretty much guess work.

* I wouldn't be surprised if sometimes forbidden/black rice is being sold as Karuppu Kavuni rice Worse things have happened.

"Rice, a staple crop feeding 4 billion people daily, contributes to 10 per cent of global human-made methane emissions.

At the world's largest rice research hub in the Philippines, an elite team of rice scientists is on a mission to slash #rice's carbon footprint and develop new varieties resilient to #ClimateChange."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-23/reducing-climate-impacts-of-rice-farming/105076090