{"id":2685,"date":"2014-07-03T14:09:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T14:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/?p=2685"},"modified":"2014-06-30T14:49:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T14:49:35","slug":"awesome-thing-rice-tub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2014\/07\/03\/awesome-thing-rice-tub\/","title":{"rendered":"Awesome Thing: Rice Tub"},"content":{"rendered":"

I asked for a rice cooker for Christmas, and my parents got me one. Well, sort of. It was listed as Gremlin’s present, but I was the one who asked for it. <\/p>\n

I like rice, I just don’t like making it. And the easy-to-cook rice costs so much more than regular rice. Regular rice is, what, fifty cents a pound or something? Something ridiculously cheap. Especially if you buy twenty pounds at once.<\/p>\n

Which causes a problem: what the hell do you do with twenty pounds of rice, if you’re not cooking for five hundred people at once?<\/p>\n

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Obviously, you store it. But how? <\/p>\n

Initially, I stored some in this OXO brand container [I’m not sure what they’re called, I just know they’re made by OXO, and they have this nifty button in the middle of the lid, so they’re easy to open, which is important to me] that was intended for spaghetti [or whatever long-type pasta, but probably spaghetti, because where the fuck do you find packages containing more than one pound of fettuccine?], which was not at all ideal. The scoop that came with the rice cooker [intended to measure a cup of rice, which is apparently different than, say, a cup of sugar] would not fit into the pasta container. <\/p>\n

I happened to see another OXO container on the Really Good Sale shelf at Target. And this one actually had rice all over the label. Score!<\/p>\n

But it did not hold much rice. I had a twenty pound bag, and this container would probably hold, like, one of the smaller bags. I don’t really know how much, but not twenty pounds. Not at all.<\/p>\n

I used a bag clip from Ikea to seal the bag, and began researching rice storage.<\/p>\n

Apparently, this is a very real concern. A concern which has resulted in the invention of rice storage systems that also dispense a cup of rice at a time. <\/p>\n

Neat!<\/p>\n

And they generally hold twenty or more pounds of rice!<\/p>\n

Fucking awesome!<\/p>\n

And they cost fifty dollars or more.<\/p>\n

Boo.<\/p>\n

Obviously, this amazing piece of storage technology will have to wait. Perhaps, when I am finally able to get one, Ikea will have made one with an unpronounceable name. I can put it on my list with the adorable fat, round little Spoka light. <\/p>\n

Then we went to H Mart. And what do I see, first thing, when I enter the store? Non-grocery items! What? This is totally unexpected! <\/p>\n

Not only do they have chopsticks and rice cookers, but they have this mysterious box that is clearly a rice store-and-dispense-o-matic! <\/p>\n

And the only thing printed in English on the box? The words ‘Rice Tub’. Well, there’s also a URL on the back, but I couldn’t see that. All I could see was the thing I wanted. Right there on the shelf. <\/p>\n

And for less than I could find it online [with free shipping, anyway, and I honestly did not look very hard]. <\/p>\n

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Look at that majestic thing. <\/p>\n

Okay, I lied. There were also numbers in English. Confusing numbers. Like ’12kg’. What the fuck does that even mean?<\/p>\n

I asked Gremlin. <\/p>\n

“Obviously not the weight of the box.”<\/p>\n

I assumed that it was quite a lot when translated into pounds. I also assumed that it was the storage capacity. Perhaps even twenty pounds. I asked if it was over twenty pounds.<\/p>\n

It was.<\/p>\n

I bought it. Because I am impulsive and stupid, and I had over ten pounds of rice in a bag, and that bag was within the reach of a freshly rambunctious kitty. And that just seemed like a recipe for ‘picking dry rice out of things for the next century’. <\/p>\n

I hoped that, when I got it home, I would be able to figure out how to work it. Because, based on the box? There would not be assembly instructions in English inside. <\/p>\n

It turned out that there weren’t any instructions inside at all. They were all on the back. And I didn’t really need them, because it was all very logical and clear. Bottom, measuring mechanism, shield, top, rice in, press the push-down thing to test, see how it does compared to the scoop, hooray!<\/p>\n

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It now takes up a hell of a lot of counter space right next to my rather large rice cooker. <\/p>\n

Because I’m paranoid, I applied Press and Seal to the bottom, and over the top under the lid, just to be absolutely sure that no horrible little bugs can infest my rice.<\/p>\n

I look forward to dispensing many meals worth of rice, and to eventually refilling it and not having to worry about ‘what the hell do I do with a twenty pound bag of rice?’ <\/p>\n

Because, obviously, I put it in my Rice Tub. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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