Confession

I just read a previous post on the Honorable Rice Pot and looked at the posted picture.  It is the same one used in the promotional materials of the video I created, the Traveling Rice Pot.

I cheated.  If you look closely, the aluminum teflon coated 3 cup inner rice pot was inserted into the rice pot.  I had cooked the rice and didn't want to take the time or effort to cook it the retro way.

It was corrected in the video.  All rice shown was cooked in the pot.  The hard part was finding a wooden shamoji (rice paddle).  Auntie Yoshi, naturally still uses one.  Now, shamojis are plastic with holes and bumps to prevent the rice from sticking to it.  At home, we have a pink rice paddle, one that stands up on the end of it's handle, and one shaped like a Mickey Mouse white glove. I'm now looking for a non cancer causing asbestos heat insulating pad.  The family used to remove the pot from the stove and place it on a asbestos pad to rest for about 5 minutes..

Just a FYI, there are numerous posts on the internet on how to cook rice in a pot on the stove.  Up until I had inherited the rice pot, I had forgotten you could cook rice without an electronic cooker.  Google 'How to Cook Rice'.

Note:  For those of you that have seen my video, No I haven't heard from my Aunt yet on the last clip.  For those of you that haven't seen it, I will post a link later.  There are issues that I need to clear up on posting with Visual Communications.

Modern teflon coated pot inserted into the Yokoi rice pot.

Cooked rice in the Yokoi rice pot.

Collection of rice paddles, with bumps, holes, slots, color, standing and Mickey Mouse glove.