Anyone do anything interesting with a rice cooker?

[Stigmorgan]

You'd be surprised what you can cook in a kettle boiled eggs for instance

 

[Terry - Somerset]

Buy a camper van - not only do you save on hotel costs, but you can fit a full range of cooking equipment, and no one but you will be concerned about the smell.

 

[Suffolkboy]

I admit I have made tea in the bathroom of a ferry cabin (no smoke alarm, as you point out), using a camping gaz burner, so I get where you are coming from. Not something I would advocate, but if you are on a ferry for 30 hours, and need a cup of real tea, as opposed to the European concept of tea, then needs must. It struck me as particularly unsanitary, but I was young and naïve, and I needed the tea.

We have had something like one of these for some time (worn out two of them so far), and they are certainly useful, and can cook almost anything. It's about 700watts so no more abusive than a hairdryer. You would have to smuggle it past the front desk up your jumper - someone is expecting, perhaps?

I reckon something's gone funny with that link...

 

[Trainee neophyte]

I reckon something's gone funny with that link...

You're not wrong. The blurb is correct, but who is the nice lady with her hair in a towel?

Another example would be Geepas 1400W Turbo Halogen Oven, 17L | 60min Timer, Adjustable Temperature Control & Self Clean Function| Bake Grill Steam Broil Roast BBQ | Low Fat Air Fryer, Removable Glass Bowl & Extender Ring : Amazon.co.uk: Home & Kitchen

Note that I have never heard of this manufacturer - just an example of the type.

 

[stuart little]

I like the cut of your jib, sir! Rules are for the little people!

Cooking in a bathroom will always be a positive - gives the immune system a good workout if nothing else, and in these current times of tribulation, that can only be a good thing.

Now, your rice steamer, as long as it doesn't run out of steam, can cook all sorts of good stuff. Spotted dick, jam roly poly, bread, vegitables and other assorted vitamins etc. Stew would be up there, and ratatouille - anything that slow cooks. You could even set it up in the morning, go out for a few hours and come back to a lovely slow-cooked lunch waiting for you on the lavatory seat. Marvelous!

Steamed bread, and steamed puddings would be my choice, but then I love stodge. You could poach eggs, fish, meat(?!) Containment of the item being steamed would be the issue.

You can also cook food by using the heat from your car - I think Top Gear covered this. Won't work on a Tesla, but then progress isn't always progress.

As long as the cleaning staff don't get there first!

 

[stuart little]

"You can also cook food by using the heat from your car - I think Top Gear covered this."

I have cooked bacon wrapped in foil on the exhaust manifold of an Opel Ascona.
Never watched Top Gear, I think the idea is as old as the Internal Combustion Engine.

There was a fad, back in the 70s, IIRC, for cooking fish(I think) in sealed bags in the dishwasher. Can't see the point in that myself.

Kippers on the exhaust manifold!

 

[stuart little]

I admit I have made tea in the bathroom of a ferry cabin (no smoke alarm, as you point out), using a camping gaz burner, so I get where you are coming from. Not something I would advocate, but if you are on a ferry for 30 hours, and need a cup of real tea, as opposed to the European concept of tea, then needs must. It struck me as particularly unsanitary, but I was young and naïve, and I needed the tea.

We have had something like one of these for some time (worn out two of them so far), and they are certainly useful, and can cook almost anything. It's about 700watts so no more abusive than a hairdryer. You would have to smuggle it past the front desk up your jumper - someone is expecting, perhaps?

Rorschach

Nope - I am sure you wouldn't take a bath. But it is so easy to be on autopilot and someone else may turn the shower on unthinkingly, to get the hot water going.

I will give you an example of self inflicted stupidity. In my kitchen I have one of those flexible hose taps that is used for spraying off. It has a lever that adjusts it from stream to spray, and it is forever clogging with limescale. So every couple of weeks I have to take it off and descale it, leaving the bare hose. If I turn the tap on it delivers a huge blast of water akin to a fire hydrant.

Now - I know this. And it is me that has taken the tap head off. But does that stop me absentmindedly turning the tap on the fill a kettle or pan? No - every now and again I catch myself too late and am soaked.

If an accident can happen, then sooner or later it will. (homer)

Much like when cleaning out the trap using a bowl to catch the water, & then emptying bowl into sink before re-connecting the waste!!

 

[bp122]

I have one and use it religiously (I'm South Indian )

However, in your case, I'd take a good quality panini maker (something with a floating home that keeps the two halves parallel). Far safer, much more portable than a rice cooker and you can make all manner of things from simple cheese toastie to wraps, melts, grilled veg, extensively complicated paninis you find in gourmet or specialist cafes.

Food for thought (literally)