• Natanox@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    51·
    1 day ago

    I think some rice cookers popular in Asia do have features to keep it warm, activate at a certain time etc. Perhaps you want cooked rice for breakfast (perhaps already cooled down but still moist and fluffy), or have it prepared so you can make Sushi later while taking a nap. Can definitely see the usecase in a food culture with lots of rice.

      • TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip
        12·
        24 hours ago

        I have a cousin that made a turkey sandwich while waiting for pizza rolls to bake, all in his sleep. It was weird to watch. He had no idea the next morning when he woke up snuggling with it all in bed. To this day he swears we did it to him.

        • ButteryMonkey@piefed.socialEnglish
          19·
          23 hours ago

          My partner once sleepwalked into the kitchen to get food (bad habit of sleep eating, probably due to alcohol) and I just watched them because they were talking nonsense so I knew they were asleep. My sister was also a big sleepwalker/sleep talker, so this was fairly routine for me.

          At the end they offered a plate and said “here, do you want some?”

          They had unboxed a new wireless NES-style controller that had been sitting on the counter, plated the controller, and offered to me as a snack. Had no memory of it the next morning.

          Been a running joke ever since when we try to decide what to eat.

        • BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
          31·
          17 hours ago

          oh dude when i was on ambien… the food i would wake up to. sometimes eaten, sometimes not, hopefully with all the fire turned off.

        • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          22 hours ago

          I want to snuggle with a turkey sandwich and pizza rolls.

    • TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.today
      8·
      24 hours ago

      is it possible to get rice cookers that don’t default to a warming mode? Even the cheapest rice cookers I’ve found in the UK only have a cook and warm mode when it’s plugged in

      • UnspecificGravity@piefed.socialEnglish
        6·
        23 hours ago

        Most decent rice cookers have a time delay option. You load it up with water and rice and set a couple hours of delay and then in the morning you have fresh hot rice.