Cheap Vs. Expensive Rice Cooker Taste Test

Would an expensive rice cooker make your food taste better? Let's talk about that. Good Mythical Morning. We're about to see if expensive rice cookers are better than cheap ones. But first, this portion of today's episode is sponsored by Oura, creator of Oura Ring, the Revolutionary Smart Ring. Yes. This is, this is how we hold our hands to show them to you. Now, listen, we've been wearing these for a few years.

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Mm-hmm. To answer that question by blind tasting a variety of dishes. Okay, boys, behind you are two rice cookers. On Rhett's side is the low price point option. That is the aroma rice cooker, a trusted brand, which costs $19.86. Whoa. That's a steal. And on Link's's side is the high price point option from, I'm gonna mess this up, Zojirushi. You nailed it. Zojirushi. You nailed it.

Both times. A Japanese brand widely considered to make the best rice cookers for two hundred bucks. $199. Whoa. Um, both have the same capacity, three cups. Move the decimal much. Yeah. This one has a handle so you can pick it up and carry it like a bucket. You got a handle, you got side handles on it. You, you, you, you gotta have two hands to use that one. This one's got a glass lid and, and it's. Why are you so rough with it? What is this? It's $20.

What? So we've got this, that's washable. We've got this that goes on it. We got that, that goes in there. It looks like a crockpot to me. This one. You open that up, like that, you take this out and boy look, this right, it's got. It's $200 worth. It's got all types of measurements stuff in there. Now it says sushi in there. So I see that we've got sushi. Yeah. In front of us. You add different types of water and the mythical kitchen ears, uh, use both rice cookers. to make the salmon nigiri in front of you. So you're gonna, I'm both on.

Stevie, I'm still I'm, I don't wanna be distracting. Quit being so rough with it. I mean, like somebody's gonna take this home with it and you gonna ruin it. Well, I already have one, so I don't need it. I have, I have one of these at home. Mine's a little bit different, but it does sing a song. Yeah, but does it work? I don't use it. Yeah. You wouldn't know. It's Japanese. But this one currently does work. You know what I'm saying? Let's just keep it that way for somebody. Okay. Stevie, as you were saying. You ready? Um. Mythical Kitcheneers cooked a bunch of rice dishes for you.

So first up, you have salmon nigiri. You don't know which is from which rice cooker. Uh, there are different settings on the expensive one, depending on the type of rice that you're. supposed to cook, and then a guide for the other one. Um, and, uh, I think in this, in the cheap one. It took just like 25 minutes to cook the rice. And in the expensive one it took 48 minutes to cook the rice. But anyway, taste and see if there's a difference.

Interesting. Hmm. And that one, so that one stops and it stopped at 20 minutes. 25 minutes, yeah. Stops automatically. Mm-hmm. But there's no, it just says cook and warm. That's it. Yeah. And if you try to like click it back down, it won't let you. Mm oh. Mm-hmm. It's got an attitude. Yes. Likes to be in charge. I mean, that just tasted like, so. It tasted like rice. Rice. I mean, I'm no expert on this, but the reason why we have one at home is because Lando is really.

into cooking, and especially like Asian foods. A lot of foods with rice. Hmm. It's falling apart a little bit. Um, for Christmas, he asked for, um, a rice cooker. Uh, and you know what kind of parent's gonna stand in the way of that? So. Good point. He uses it and then I eat it. There's a slight difference in the rice. Only slight though, right?

This one is a little bit stickier. I don't know what that means. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Okay, I'm gonna ask you to put your hand over the one you think was cooked by the expensive rice cooker. Okay. I have a logic, but it could very well be wrong. 3, 2, 1. Oh, we disagree. The only reason I'm saying that I think this might be the more expensive one is because the rice is stickier, which is what you want for sushi rice, and because there's a sushi rice setting on this one, maybe it's. able to do something different that makes this happen.

I was just guessing blindly. It's on Link's side. The more expensive ones on Link's side. Yeah. Okay. I hope you learn your lessons. Yep. So there's no, so I was completely wrong in my assumptions. But what about Lily? Lily? Because what, what, what, what do you, what do you think about what I said and why I'm wrong? I feel like you make sense, but I feel like with sushi rice, you want the individual grains. So you don't want it to be you. You want it, you want it to kind of fall apart like it did. It falls apart a little bit more. Well, that might have been the sushi chef, this, but, oh.

Um, I, yeah, the, but you're right, this is individual grains and this is more pasty. Well, Brittany just said that the mythical crew that tried this before overwhelmingly knew. that the more expensive one was the better one. It, they know more than us. And you're, you're, Lily, you're certifying that, you agree that it's worth it for that one. Yeah. I think for sushi, like specifically expensive would be. Alright, let's break this down. Let's, let's break this down. Take, get, get just rice on that one.

So, as you can see, this rice is like, it's super, uh, starchy. They're just rice balls. Bumpy. No, but watch, watch this. So you can see the individual's, uh, pieces much better on that one. One. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And so this one doesn't, it doesn't fall apart. This, when I do that, it does fall apart. You want it to fall apart? I think you wanted that to happen and I thought that you did want it to fall apart. So are we saying it's worth it? I, no, we're saying that you were wrong.

Yeah, that's it. I was wrong. And that It's worth it. It is worth it. To get the more expensive one. Why are you say to say that? Because Lily said that. But did you like it? Did you like one more than the other? I'm saying this is for us. It ain't about Lily. That's $180 more. You've already got one. You've already spent all your money on that. Listen, listen. I'm with Lily, okay? But it's worth it. Next up, you have some mushroom risotto and again, took about twice as much time in the.

expensive rice cooker, but which is which? But you know. Why is that happening? Who cares about time these days? We all need to slow down a little bit, take a little bit of time to do things, you know? Mm-hmm. Especially if it costs more, you're gonna spend 10 times as much for something that takes twice, 10 times as long to cook. Hmm. I don't often risotto, but, but when I do, I mushroom.

But when I do, it's in a $20 rice cooker. Um, that's mushy. You love mush. I'm just saying. You're a mush man. I'm just saying that that one's mushy. Do you like. And I like, is this one less mush? I'm just saying as a mush man, I've never seen you risotto. And will I less like. Why don't you risotto. I've risotto'd. I've never seen you risotto. Not with you. Until right now. I, I refrain from risotto-ing with you.

Who do you risotto with? I've risotto'd with my wife. Okay. I've risotto'd with another friend. Who's this risotto friend. Well, it's more about the place. I've only risotto'd at one place. You've only risotto'd at one place. I, I, I go back to, uh, there's, there's a nice restaurant called Backbone. Ah. And they have a nice risotto. I've been back. Bone. So you've risotto'd without me. I haven't risotto'd at Backbone.

This one's more granular in its rice-iality, not as mushy. There is a distinct taste difference. Did the same person make these? Yes. The same Lily? Yep. And you agree that one's that they're different, right? I think texture, but everything was measured out perfectly. Did put your foot. What was that? You know how that's the Southern saying. Put your foot in one. You put your foot in it. Like when, when you eat something, it's so good.

And oh, she must have put her foot in that based on the. You feel like I did? You put your foot in one of these? Uh, if you didn't, then the rice. The rice put their foot in, the rice keeper. Put their foot in. Yeah. Rice. Okay. Seems like rice. You're really preferring one, hand over the expensive one in 3, 2, 1. Gotta be. This is so much better. It's so much better. It's so much better. The granularity. The definition of rice. It's just a much better rice. It's a much better rice. Boys, boys, boys.

I hate to break it to you. That is the cheaper one. Oh, no, it's. Well, no, it's could be good news. It's great news. Well, not for you playing the game. And not for me 'cause I have one of these. This is the expensive one. Is this because you're doing it Lily, and you know when to stop it and take it out? No, it does it on its own. But what I think is the aroma one, just blasts the heat. And that's also why it's finishing a little bit earlier. Uhhuh. That's an early finish. Finisher.

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People like to turn, you know? Yeah, yeah. People like to just turn it on and just have it just go. Just have it in the on in the background. We're just have it. We're like your companions. Yes. Hello. Hello again. Hello, companion. Okay, now we are moving on to One Pot Adobo Chicken Rice. Oh, I love this stuff. Remember, remember, get this leaf in your mouth and chew it. Okay. I am not falling for it. My nana would put these in the spaghetti sauce. And she'd say, Link, now don't eat the leaf. Don't eat the leaf.

I don't really need to throw chicken. You just throw everything in there and. Yep. What's the difference between doing this in a, in a rice cooker and a crockpot and I'm eating the wrong one. I need to be eating. Mm-hmm. Crockpot's gonna take longer. Because of the heat blast. Yeah. That one goes low and slow. The rice and the chicken is cooked together. Yes. Interesting. Hmm. I just, I no longer know how to tell, like if I just dig for the rice, I mean, the whole thing tastes really good.

What, what's the chief, um, ingredient? Ingredient, uh, sauce? Is that like soy sauce? Soy sauce and vinegar? There's black peppercorns in it. This is quite good. It for? Where, where does this originate? This dish? Philippines. Philippines. Okay. So I'm gonna start off with just some of this rice. Wow. Okay. Way different. It textures very different, very different tastes, very different.

It's, um, individual grains of rice. But how do we describe that? The taste is different. The taste is better. Don't you think? Also it cooked chicken. So, I mean that the rice cooker did cook chicken. So I wanna taste the chicken. Yeah, I'm gonna compare that piece of chicken to this little piece of chicken. The chicken's dryer. Yep. Chicken dryer over here.

Rice more? No chicken's dry over here. What? Okay. I think sometimes this happens, guys, bear with us. We gotta figure out which chicken's dryer. I am trying to eat from the same part of the chicken on. I'm going from a thigh in both places. I mean, it's, it's not that much different. It's pretty, oh, I just spit. Where'd that land in that, what I was saying was it's pretty much the same.

Good at the same time you said it. So I don't need to keep eating it. Huh? I can though. I want this rice. It's just my spit. I thought this rice was, uh. Heads above that rice. And shoulders. Too movie. That's not the word I was looking for. Too movie. This is too movie-like. What is wrong with me? This is too movie-like, too mushy. Okay. I don't know, guys. I, I don't, I don't, I just don't know.

Mom, that rice is too movie. I don't know. I'm, and what did I learn last time? Okay. All right. Okay. Hand over the more expensive 3, 2, 1. I'm trying to apply the fact that the one that I like less, I'm voting for the one I like less. And I'm going back to the individual grains over, over here. Link. You're correct. Okay. So the more expensive one, you don't need it unneeded, send it back to Japan.

Yeah. No offense to Japan. Yeah, everybody's going there and coming back with rave reviews. Yeah. Yeah. But it's a great place. This right here is, you know what? All you need is little grandma, grandma. $20. $20. And you can do it. I don't, all of these buttons, Lily, are we crazy? I, can I say something? Yeah, no. I feel like people, like you put everything in like a rice cooker, and then there's people. like Lando who use the rice cooker for rice. True. And so that's the difference is you guys.

Just, yeah. So what? But are you trying to insult us? I mean, if you're trying to insult us, you need to be more clear. Not that you have like lower standards, but if you're just like busy and you wanna throw everything in a pot. rather than taking the time to cook it in a separate pan. Yes. Then I think the rice cooker, the expensive one would be worth it. Mm-hmm. Guys. We have another round. I just can't, I can't get over it. Yeah, I have, and I knew that it's dessert. It's dessert.

Oh, okay. So maybe the rice cookers are different when it comes to dessert. And it's worth three points. Okay. For our final round, things are looking a little different, so we had to put blindfolds on you. Link? As you can see, we can't. Thank you. Uh, it's Japanese cheesecake. What? That's a thing. Yeah. So go ahead and taste away. What? Okay.

Spoon, maybe. Japanese cheesecake. What? I think I missed. What? What. Japanese. Something just hit my ankle. Something down there. Something crawling down there. Hold on. It smells so good.

It smells like it's gonna taste so good. If I can just, do you need here? Do you need some? Here's some. Oh, it's like basket cheesecake. It's crusty on top and it's custardy underneath. Hmm. And quite a bit of it is underneath the table. It's, it's like egg custard. I don't even think it tastes like cheesecake. It's very eggy. It's more like basque.

What in the world. This is the weirdest look, this is way different over here. I mean, I can tell it's different even with the blindfold on. It's, um, it's a lot more juicy on the bottom. It's like it's not as crusty on the top. Something, something just made my elbow wet. How did my elbow get wet?

Why is my, it's something going down. What? I don't know what's happening. Oh, it's, how did that happen? Did you do that? Did you do that? Did you put a fork down my shirt? How long was I there? I really felt like something was wet. Ah, it's very, they're very different. Okay.

I like one of them a lot more. Oh, way more. So. Wait, should I vote for that one? Okay. Okay. More times. No. And this is one's three points, right? Because it's a dessert. Fine. It's worth three points. That's fine. Three, hold on. Let me, let me think. Okay. Yes. One more expensive over here. Ah, because. Ooh, that's beautiful. You are both correct because also the top of the one on red side was, is literally black.

Oh my God. But you both were like, this is delicious. Hence the blindfold. Look at these cake. I was like, it's crusty on top. Look at this. So this is what a Japanese cheesecake. Yeah. And Lily, do you wanna speak on the um, situation? Yeah. So for the aroma one, it stopped at 10 minutes and it was still completely raw. So I had to stand there so I didn't feed you raw things with it on the cook setting, just.

like with my finger on the cook setting. Oh, wow. Until it cooked through and then I kept it on. What would you have preferred to be doing then? Just anything but that. Hmm. But yeah, it's, so that's a complete fail, which makes me feel good. So clearly it's worth it for this one because this is like a de a delicate. C. A delicacy and, uh, it, it, you know, you need some precision to do it and you cannot get that one with a cheap, so. I think, I think what Lily was getting at in the last round is if you don't know your rice.

from your butt hole, then get the cheaper one. 'Cause you'll be just fine. But if you're like a, if you're like an aficionado and you're like starting to, to. ambition yourself to this type of stuff. Yep. That's a word. You cannot skimp. You got to go for the Japanese big dog. So basically we're saying that if you know what's up, it's worth it.

Yeah. If you don't. But if you're like us, it's fine. It's fine. Well, Link, you are a winner today, which means you get to perform some fresh rice wraps in Good Mythical More. Oh. Oh. Those are gonna be good. Thanks for commenting and sharing this video. Oh yeah, I thought it was over. You know what time it is. Yeah. I'm Roman and I'm Annalise, and we just had our Christmas party, and it's time spin in the Wheel of Mythicality.

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