Rice - this is brutal

I used to eat a lot of rice but in recent years I hardly did. Back then my youngest said rice is food mom eats. Indeed you can wake me up for a bowl of plain rice, but it is no longer my daily meal. There is so much to eat plus I hardly eat these days.

Last weekend, I was cleaning up and found a bag of rice. To my surprise, there were bugs in it. The bag is unused and to throw it away now. I just put it outside on the windowsill. For the next few days, I kept studying the bag. A day later, the pests seemed to become more sluggish and the day after, dead. Meanwhile, I no longer see the pest. Could it have crawled into the middle of the bag? It will definitely be a bit warmer there than on top of the rice which, although in a sealed bag, was in the night frost twice.

I wonder what it is that crawls around in that bag but don't feel like finding out. For now, the bag lies there just fine.

I was planning to give the rice to the chickens but don't think I will. In a while, I'll empty it and see what's in it. Maybe all the little monsters are hibernating in my rice? How did they get into that bag? Is such a bag not sealed properly by the factory or did these critters come with the rice and end up in the bag that way?

Talking about rice. I bought a rice cooker. According to the many reviews, it is a good one. Unfortunately, I got the Monday morning model again, a failure in other words. Several times I tried to steam rice but it always failed. The rice was never cooked and always burned. It didn't matter if I used a lot or little water. There is a hole in the lid of the rice cooker. I say hole because the diameter is 1 centimeter and that is big, too big. As soon as the rice cooker was switched on, it spurted out all the water while shaking the lid. So with such a rice cooker, it's not easy to cook rice without standing by. I had to cover everything with cloths.

When so much water squirts out, it makes sense that the rice won't cook. To be honest, cooking rice with a pan on the fire is much easier. It also keeps the kitchen much cleaner.

I would have liked the Russel Hobbs but, to be honest, the name sounds more interesting than the device looks.

Why my rice doesn't cook I did look up. So the reason is not me, because some of the people with the same rice cooker deal with the same issues. It's down to the heating element. I am not the only one with whom the water sprays through the kitchen like a fountain. I am not the only one with whom the lid won't stay on and rattles continuously expecting it to fly up at any moment. I don't want a rice cooker that doesn't work and can only make burnt, cold, unready rice while everything is covered in rice water. I hate cold rice, I had that as a child just ask my grandmother. I filed a complaint and today the monster was collected. Now I am waiting until I receive the purchase price back and then I will see if there is a rice cooker that does get the rice cooked. Maybe I'll start using the critter rice to test it. I wash rice before I use it anyway.

Then if there is tasty rice that is ready within 15 to 20 minutes, I can go back to eating rice, making a rice cake and who knows, I might try making rice ice cream. Rice ice cream would be very much eaten this year. I think it's just frozen rice pudding what do you think? I need to look up a rice ice cream recipe too.

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