Turns Out, Your Rice Cooker Can Actually Cook 12 More Good Meals. Wow!

If anyone asks, you’ll tell them that the one slow-but-sure type of appliance you’ve in your kitchen is the slow cooker. Well, as much as that may be true to some extent, you might want to realize a few hard facts about the slow cooker’s other cousin: the faster and versatile rice cooker!

The rice cooker is called so because it’s just excellent in its job. However, that doesn’t mean that the rice cooker is only good at cooking rice. As it turns out in this cool clip right here, the rice cooker can do more than one thing besides making your rice the tastiest ever. Brace for this!

In the video, Oola is showing some 12 more interesting ways of using your rice cooker. As you can see, there are just so many meals you can cook with this loved gadget. Who knew these 12 meals could come from a rice cooker? You must want to click on this video right now!

Check this out to the last mark and try this at your home. It’s so cool that you’ll want your friends on Facebook to know about right away. Just SHARE with your Facebook friends!

• Cheesy Jalepeño Bread

Yup, you can make bread in your rice cooker! All you have to do is pour the batter in and cook it on the rice setting for about an hour. Once it’s finished, you’ll have warm, spicy, homemade bread, just like magic! It’s so easy you can go crazy, so try cheesy jalepeño, banana bread, or regular wheat.

• Macaroni and Cheese

Remember

this video recipe

? The Food Network shows us how to make the creamiest mac ‘n’ cheese yet, just by cooking the pasta in the rice cooker and adding a delicious cheese sauce right toward the end.

• Chocolate Cake

Rice cookers can get in on the dessert action, too, as we first discovered back when we found this

chocolate cake recipe from Pin PMN

. It’s easier than it looks and a treat like nothing else.

• Frittata

Want the fluffiest frittata ever? Whisk some eggs in your rice cooker, then add some cooked veggies and your favorite frittata fillings, then cook on the regular rice setting. The result— picture perfect!

• Giant Pancake

This one is a BIG idea— literally. Coming to us from RocketNews24 via

LifeHacker

, the recipe puts the “cake” in “pancake” by throwing the mix or batter for the breakfast favorite into a rice cooker. Just mix it to a nice consistency, then press “Start” and wait about 45 minutes. The result will be a giant, fluffy, beautiful pancake that’s like a stack turned into one delicious start to the day.

• Country-Style Ribs

You can have delicious country-style ribs in under an hour with this recipe from the

Domestic Diva

. Bonus— they’re beer-flavored!

• Oatmeal

You know how more and more people are making oatmeal in their slow cookers now? Well, you can do the same thing with your rice cooker! Soak the oats overnight in the cooker, then cook for 30 minutes in the morning for a healthy start to the day.

• Pork Roast

One of the easiest ways to cook a pork roast we’ve ever seen! Just put the roast in the rice cooker and let it cook for an hour for tender, fall-apart-on-your-fork pork.

• Hummus

In just 30 minutes, your rice cooker will have your chickpeas cooked and ready to be pureed into some smooth, delicious hummus. Prefer the tasty dip made out of sweet potato, edamame, or something else? Throw those ingredients in there, too!

• Cheesecake

Cheesecake is one of the best, most indulgent desserts out there, but there are so many varying opinions about the best way to bake and make it. Even so, the

easiest

way has got to be in the rice cooker! Just mix the ingredients for your favorite flavor and cook on the normal cycle for the thickest and most moist slices of cheesecake you’ve ever enjoyed.

• Potatoes

Rice cookers welcome

all

starches, and potatoes are no exception. Toss some of your diced favorites into it and cook for 30 minute for an easy side dish.

• Omelet

No flipping required! Add your eggs and your favorite omelet fillings to your rice cooker and cook for 15 minutes for the most perfectly round omelet you’ve ever seen.

So many of these ideas surprised me! You too? If you want to see even more ideas, be sure to check out the list over on Oola. Which one of these ideas are you going to try first?

What do you think?