Vent: My cheap rice cooker died after 3 months and I'm tired of people saying 'just buy a new one'

I got this $15 rice cooker from Walmart back in July because everyone in this sub swears by the cheap ones. It worked fine for white rice but the pot coating started peeling after 8 uses. Now the lid hinge cracked and rice is flying everywhere. I'm going back to cooking rice in a regular pot with a timer, at least I can control the heat. Has anyone else had a cheap appliance fail way faster than you expected?

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brooke_jones1d ago

The bit about the pot coating peeling really gets me. I had a similar thing happen with a cheap microwave where the turntable plate chipped after two weeks. I ended up just using a paper towel under my mug for months before it finally died. Now I'm kind of paranoid about non-stick coatings flaking off into my food, like is that even safe? I've been thinking about getting one of those glass pot rice cookers but then I remember I have a perfectly good stovetop. Maybe it's just me but I feel like everything made these days is built to break.

keith2741d ago

Double down on just using a regular pot on the stove. Those glass rice cookers are nice but they're just another thing to break or lose the lid for. I've had the same stainless steel pot for about eight years now and it still works fine. No coating to peel, no plastic to melt, just metal and heat. Stuff is definitely built to fail these days but a basic stovetop pot is pretty hard to mess up.

fiona_carr261d ago

Right? I once had a non-stick pan where the coating started peeling and I just kept using it out of laziness. Probably ate a bunch of mystery flakes, but hey, extra texture? My backup plan now is a battered old stainless steel pot that looks like it survived a war. Works fine though, no plastic bits ending up in my dinner. You ever just get attached to a cheap gadget and refuse to let it go even when it's clearly falling apart?