Rice Cooker Hats

The rice cooker runs on household folklore. The best known piece is the knuckle method: water up to the first knuckle, with a fingertip resting on the rice, written up by Tasting Table and The Kitchn and demonstrated by Jo Koy and Uncle Roger, whose rule on HuffPost is "First joint, you measure the finger." Food blogger Vicky Pham says rice in a rice cooker is "one of the first things we learn to cook as Asian kids." On one forum thread about eating rice with every meal, a poster says a proper Chinese meal is "like 70% rice in volume," and on another a poster says they have kept rice "for days on 'keep warm'" in an Asian rice cooker. These hats are about the machine and the ritual. RICE COOKER and ZOJIRUSHI are the badges, and the Zojirushi blog says its models play a tune instead of beeping. The sentences cover the knuckle-measured water, standing up when the cooker sings, the cooker as a family member, rinsing until the water runs clear, the one-button chef and the 70% plate. The knuckle line and the singing line each come in a second colorway. Rice Cooker Club already sells as a throw pillow, so this page stays with the cooker rather than any single cuisine. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Choose one for your own counter, or give one to the person whose cooker has been on keep warm for days.