Rice cooker WITHOUT Aluminum ??

[Old Curmudgeon]

 

Searching for an electric rice cooker with inside pot NOT aluminum.

 

Stainless okay.  Glass okay.  Ceramic okay.

(Found stainless but it is not electric -- designed for camping.)

 

Size: about 1 Ltr.

Not huge restaurant unit.

 

Teflon non-stick doesn't matter.

 

"Features" and settings don't matter.

Just steam the rice and turn off.

 

Just no aluminum.

 

Where to find a rice cooker with pot that is not aluminum?

 

 

[scubascuba3]

My Otto one is non aluminium 

[Old Curmudgeon]

9 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

My Otto one is non aluminium 

 

What is it actually?

 

Model #?

 

Where did you buy it?

 

Thank you.

[Ralf001]

I have a Tefal cooker with stainless steel pot.

[Old Curmudgeon]

23 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

I have a Tefal cooker with stainless steel pot.

 

Model #?

 

Bought where?

 

Thank you.

[scubascuba3]

2 hours ago, Old Curmudgeon said:

 

What is it actually?

 

Model #?

 

Where did you buy it?

 

Thank you.

Just look online, every supermarket sells Otto, or Lazada Shopee, i bought mine 4 years ago, models change 

[Puccini]

Aluminium for the inside of an electric rice cooker? What's this world coming to?

 

There are two electric rice cookers in my wife's kitchen cabinets. How do I know if the inside is made of aluminium? Is it when a magnet does not stick to it?

 

The magnet doesn't stick to either of them. The label of one says that it is made in Japan, the label of the other does not give the country of manufacture but the name and and address of a company in Germany.

 

My wife is not around at the moment to ask her where she bought them.

[GypsyT]

You got got point there, I never understood why aluminum!

Rice stick to it hard and it can emit bad stuff to the rice.

Same with teflon coating etc

 

[Lacessit]

If the OP is concerned about a link between aluminium and Alzheimer's, it's an urban myth.

 

The misconception arose when brain schists from dementia sufferers were analyzed post-mortem, and found to contain traces of aluminium.

 

On further investigation, it was found an aluminium microtome had been used to prepare the brain schists. Cross-contamination.

[redwood1]

7 hours ago, Lacessit said:

If the OP is concerned about a link between aluminium and Alzheimer's, it's an urban myth.

 

The misconception arose when brain schists from dementia sufferers were analyzed post-mortem, and found to contain traces of aluminium.

 

On further investigation, it was found an aluminium microtome had been used to prepare the brain schists. Cross-contamination.

 

Sure Aluminium is not bad for you..

 

Neither is Fluoride, or MSG or Aspartame, or GMO food or bla bla...Which the the authorities say are all as safe as can be..

 

I would say there is a very good chance cooking with Aluminium on high heat could be very bad for your health....

[Lacessit]

1 hour ago, redwood1 said:

 

Sure Aluminium is not bad for you..

 

Neither is Fluoride, or MSG or Aspartame, or GMO food or bla bla...Which the the authorities say are all as safe as can be..

 

I would say there is a very good chance cooking with Aluminium on high heat could be very bad for your health....

Aluminium forms a passive layer of aluminium oxide on exposure to air. That passive layer is inert to everything except strong alkali or acids. It melts at 660C, I guess that would be bad.

 

I understand. Everything is out to get you. Don't wash your dishes in nonionic surfactants, they are endocrine disruptors. Don't cook with stainless steel, chromium and nickel are poisonous. Cast iron cookware contains manganese. Glass cookware has boron, Teflon is fluoride.

 

About 99% of canola oil is GMO.

 

There's a risk of silicosis if you are in desert areas. The terpenes will get you if you are in a pine forest. Asthma in a wheat field.

 

Funny thing, I have survived 81 years being exposed to all these toxic perils. You take care out there.

[Peterphuket]

On 11/17/2024 at 9:11 AM, GypsyT said:

You got got point there, I never understood why aluminum!

Rice stick to it hard and it can emit bad stuff to the rice.

Same with teflon coating etc

 

About Teflon, used not only foul odour or smell but also PFAS.

[Thailand J]

I have a Cornell electric rice cooker with a stainless steel inner pot, but lately I have been cooking rice in a microwave oven.

Use a glass dish with cover. Rice to water in the ratio of 1:1.5.   10 oz rice plus15 oz water is enough for two. No leftover to deal with and freshly cooked rice taste very good.

Cook in a 800W microwave oven at full power for 5 minutes, then at 400W for another 15 minutes.

 

 

[OneManShow]

TOSHIBA RC-10NMF 

[ravip]

7 minutes ago, OneManShow said:

TOSHIBA RC-10NMF 

It says Healthy Flon coated on inner pot for non-stick and easy cleaning.

What exactly is Flon?

[Lacessit]

36 minutes ago, ravip said:

It says Healthy Flon coated on inner pot for non-stick and easy cleaning.

What exactly is Flon?

Contraction of Teflon.

[xtrnuno41]

6 hours ago, Thailand J said:

I have a Cornell electric rice cooker with a stainless steel inner pot, but lately I have been cooking rice in a microwave oven.

Use a glass dish with cover. Rice to water in the ratio of 1:1.5.   10 oz rice plus15 oz water is enough for two. No leftover to deal with and freshly cooked rice taste very good.

Cook in a 800W microwave oven at full power for 5 minutes, then at 400W for another 15 minutes.

 

 

THanks for the idea, Always did in electric rice cooker but with plastic coating.

Should stop with it, as coating will be PFAS and is not good.

It is so easy in the cooker but at the same time also like this and no worries about the PFAS.👍

Stupid I didnt think about it my self.

[RT555]

On 11/16/2024 at 1:13 AM, Old Curmudgeon said:

 

What is it actually?

 

Model #?

 

Where did you buy it?

 

Thank you.

JUST GOOGLE IT...SMH

[GammaGlobulin]

Buy one of these, and you can't go wrong:

 

 

BUT:

 

There are actually TWO quality standards for this one.

 

I bought a black one and a white one.

 

The WHITE one works great.

 

The BLACK one is garbage.

 

The white one cost much more than the black one.

 

I think, maybe, the black one was for export.

 

Anyway...to keep it simple....

 

Just buy what the Japanese buy.

Simple.

They know quality.

 

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

On 11/17/2024 at 9:23 AM, Lacessit said:

On further investigation, it was found an aluminium microtome had been used to prepare the brain schists.

 

Do you think anyone here even knows what a microtome is?

 

I spent hundreds of hours learning how to perfect my skills at using a microtome.

 

I was able to slice samples so thin that....one needed a human hair just to manipulate the slices.....as is normal.....

In preparation for viewing in an electron microscope.

 

What.

You think this was easy?

 

[Lacessit]

6 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Do you think anyone here even knows what a microtome is?

 

I spent hundreds of hours learning how to perfect my skills at using a microtome.

 

I was able to slice samples so thin that....one needed a human hair just to manipulate the slices.....as is normal.....

In preparation for viewing in an electron microscope.

 

What.

You think this was easy?

 

It's very easy to look up the term on Google.

[GammaGlobulin]

Just now, Lacessit said:

It's very easy to look up the term on Google.

 

Easy to look up the term.

Far more difficult to use one.

 

Also, preparing specimens for a light microscope is easy.

For an electron microscope...it's a whole different bowl of rice.

 

[Lacessit]

1 minute ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Easy to look up the term.

Far more difficult to use one.

 

Also, preparing specimens for a light microscope is easy.

For an electron microscope...it's a whole different bowl of rice.

 

Would you like a gold star on your forehead, or a Hoppy badge?

[GammaGlobulin]

42 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Would you like a gold star on your forehead, or a Hoppy badge?

 

Given a choice?

 

I would prefer to see you slaving away over an ultra-microtome, for the next three months.

 

This is not easy work, as you may not know.

 

This work is extremely exacting.

How would I even know if your hands might be too shaky for such work, anyway?

 

I spent hundreds of hours on one of these machines....in my callow youth....

 

 

Also, I sometimes use one after steaming my rice in my Panasonic steamer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Lacessit]

10 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Given a choice?

 

I would prefer to see you slaving away over an ultra-microtome, for the next three months.

 

This is not easy work, as you may not know.

 

This work is extremely exacting.

How would I even know if your hands might be too shaky for such work, anyway?

 

I spent hundreds of hours on one of these machines....in my callow youth....

 

 

Also, I sometimes use one after steaming my rice in my Panasonic steamer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Surprisingly, my hands are still very steady, considering my age. One of my friends has had hand tremors since he was a teenager.

Skill vs. stamina. When you have spent as many hours as I have with 1-2 litre extraction flasks, a strong grip is developed.

Never used a SEM, although I frequently used a polarizing microscope for asbestos identification.

[GammaGlobulin]

16 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Surprisingly, my hands are still very steady, considering my age. One of my friends has had hand tremors since he was a teenager.

Skill vs. stamina. When you have spent as many hours as I have with 1-2 litre extraction flasks, a strong grip is developed.

Never used a SEM, although I frequently used a polarizing microscope for asbestos identification.

 

When I was first using electron microscopes....

The SEM was ....

The NEXT BIG THING....

 

Anyway, the BIGGER THE MACHINE....

The better I like it.

 

And, the old traditional electron microscope....

Was bigger, and far more pleasurable.

 

 

See what I mean?

 

By comparison....

The SEM is just not sexy, at all.....

 

 

 

 

[ericbj]

Whatever some may say, aluminium toxicity is widespread in the modern world:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8767391/

 

Generally the effects are long term, resulting from ingestion of traces of aluminium compounds originating almost exclusively from man-made aluminium.  The body has difficulty in excreting it, hence its tendency to accumulate.

 

Aluminium is one of the most widespread elements in the earth's crust and in its natural form, usually tightly bound to silicon, it is harmless. (or even potentially beneficial, as in bentonite clay)

 

My solution is to place the rice in a handle-less stainless steel Indian cook-pot (if not fermented, the rice covered with water to the height of the second joint of a folded finger, if fermented barely covered).  The lid is placed on the pot.

 

A perforated stainless steel plate on four short legs (available commercially) is placed in the aluminium pot of the rice-cooker (this prevents bumping) and water added to just below the perforated plate.

 

Place the Indian cook-pot in the rice-cooker, put the lid on, and switch on.  I tend to put an upturned heavy stone mortar on the lid, but this is not essential.

 

I favour Sharp rice-cookers, a bit heavier and more expensive than some, but with a decent life-span.

 

A note for those with diabetes or pre-diabetes: freezing rice after it is cooked makes its starch more slowly digestible ("resistant starch") and therefore does not spike blood-glucose so much.  Search the Internet for: resistant starch.

 

[Old Curmudgeon]

Report for anyone wanting a rice cooker with no aluminum:

 

I decided to buy Camel (brand), model GL503.

Size 1.5 Litre.

Ceramic coating on stainless steel.

Bought on TikTok: 449 baht.

 

Used first time today.

Perfect steamed rice.

No burnt crust on the bottom.

"Keep warm" feature for an hour.

 

I can recommend this product.

 

 

[Luuk Chaai]

if you really have to eat this stuff  .

why not go back to basics ?

[wombat]

A TG to cook you sticky rice is the way to go.

Luuk Chaai has got the plot