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What happens when you cook beer with potato chips in a rice cooker?
- Oona McGee
Jul 1, 2023 - Tweet
The lazy drinker’s guide to a good night in.
- Japan
- (beer • chips • COK • cooking • food • Japanese potato chips • potato chips • recipe • rice • rice cooker • rice cookers • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • SoraKitchen • taste test • weird • wtf)
Coffee-infused rice for rice balls and curry? Taste-testing a recipe from Japan’s coffee experts
- Katie Pask
Mar 10, 2023
Soaking your rice in some Italian Roast makes a world of difference!
- Japan
- (coffee • COK • cooking • curry • food • KALDI • onigiri • recipe • rice • rice balls • rice cooker • SNJO • taste test)
Thanko lucky bag gives us gadgets we didn’t even know we needed
- Oona McGee
Jan 8, 2022
One of the weirdest fukubukuro purchases we made this year.
- Japan
- (bento • cool • fashion • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2022 • gadgets • lucky bag • Lucky Bag Roundup 2022 • Lucky Bags • Masanuki Sunakoma • rice cooker • Thanko • weird)
How to cook rice in a Ziploc container【SoraKitchen】
- Oona McGee
Aug 14, 2021
Turn your Tupperware into a rice cooker with this simple cooking hack from Japan.
- Japan
- (COK • cooking hack • easy recipe • food • hacks • Japanese food • Japanese recipe • microwave • recipe • rice • rice cooker • SNJO • Sora Kitchen • SoraKitchen • ziploc)
Testing out a Japanese rice cooker bag from a 100-yen store
- Oona McGee
Jun 24, 2021
Is this the next best thing to investing in an actual rice cooker?
- Japan
- (100 yen shops • COK • food • Go Hatori • Japanese food • review • rice • rice cooker • rice cookers • Seria • SNJO • taste test)
Did you know your rice cooker is also a ramen rice cooker?【SoraKitchen】
- Casey Baseel
Jun 1, 2021
Ramen rice fills our stomach with guilty pleasure, and our heart with hope for the future.
Man cooks rice, stir-fried noodles in convenience store parking lot before starting police chase
- Casey Baseel
May 28, 2021
Usually, going to the convenience store or cooking for yourself is an either/or question, but not this time.
- Japan
- (convenience stores • cooking • crazy • crime • rice cooker • weird)
Rice cooker cooking: Bacon onion rice is amazingly easy, awesomely delicious
- Casey Baseel
Mar 6, 2021
Japanese Twitter chefs fall in love with a hassle-free way to make an entire meal with only about a minute of work.
Nametake tuna rice: A delicious rice cooker recipe using just three ingredients【SoraKitchen】
- Shannon
Feb 12, 2021
Some of the best recipes in life are the simplest.
- Japan
- (delicious • easy recipe • Japanese recipe • recipe • rice cooker • SoraKitchen • takikomigohan)
We try cooking lots of things with Japan’s double-decker one-person bento box-sized rice cooker
- Dale Roll
Dec 23, 2020
The new version of the popular cooking bento box boasts of cooking other things…but does it really work?
- Japan
- (bento box • bento boxes • convenience • cooking • cooking gadgets • food • lunch • rice cooker • Super High-Speed One-Person Bento Box Rice Cooker)
Rice cooker recipe: How to make a giant cheesy okonomiyaki pancake in a rice cooker
- Oona McGee
May 14, 2020
Epic Japanese comfort food is easy to make with just the push of a button!
- Japan
- (food • Japanese food • okonomiyaki • recipes • rice cooker • rice cooker pancakes • rice cookers • twitter)
Let’s cook this jet-black chicken in the rice cooker and see what happens【SoraKitchen】
- Casey Baseel
Apr 30, 2020
When the opportunity to recreate a mouthwatering manga meal comes up, we’re not going to turn it down.
- Japan
- (anime • chicken • Chuka Ichiban • COK • cooking • cool • crazy • food • manga • rice cooker • SNO • SoraKitchen • weird)
We try a $10 Japanese grape from a bunch that retails for over $400 【Taste Test】
- Oona McGee
Sep 20, 2019
Japan is known for its crazily expensive fruit, but is the Ruby Roman really worth the exorbitant price tag?
- Japan
- (cooking • cooking adventure • eggs • experiment • gourmet • Mr. Sato • rice cooker • SoraKitchen)
Mr. Sato shows us what happens when you try to cook rice with only eggs 【SoraKitchen】
- Shannon McNaught
Sep 11, 2019
It seems like a good idea in theory, but how will it play out?
- Japan
- (cooking • cooking adventure • eggs • experiment • gourmet • Mr. Sato • rice cooker • SoraKitchen)
You can make rice with tapioca bubble tea, and it’s surprisingly tasty【SoraKitchen】
- Casey Baseel
Jun 26, 2019
Tapioca tea is everywhere in Japan these days – even in the SoraNews24 office rice cooker!
- Japan
- (boba • bubble tea • COK • cooking • food • Mr. Sato • pearl tea • rice cooker • SNOJ • SoraKitchen • tapioca • tapioca tea)
Does instant noodles cooked with rice make super noodle rice?
- Master Blaster
Oct 18, 2018
Just because two things taste great, doesn’t mean they always taste great together.
- Japan
- (cooking • instant noodles • Mr. Sato • Peyang • recipes • rice cooker • yakisoba)
A faster, easier way to make cake: Use a rice cooker【SoraKitchen】
- Casey Baseel
May 29, 2018
Meg steps into the SoraKitchen, and steps back out with a strawberry shortcake in record time.
- Japan
- (cake • COK • cooking • Meg • rice cooker • SNOJ • SoraKitchen • sweets)
We turn Japanese bamboo shoot rice dish into a delectable dessert【RocketKitchen】
- Meg Murphy
Mar 14, 2017
This sweet treat will give rice pudding and bread pudding lovers the best of both worlds.
- Japan
- (cooking • food • recipes • rice cooker • RocketKitchen • sweets)
How to make amazing sweet apple pancakes using a rice cooker 【RocketKitchen】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 9, 2016
We’re back in the RocketKitchen for a super-easy dessert recipe to impress family and friends with this holiday season.
- Japan
- (cooking • food • pancakes • rice cooker • rice cooker pancakes • RocketKitchen • sweets)
Check out how this huge chunk of U.S. beef looks after using our rice cooker roasting technique!
- Master Blaster
Dec 1, 2016
Usher in the holiday season with a huge mound of “rice cooker roast beef” using our all-too-easy recipe.
- Japan
- (cooking • food • recipe • rice cooker • roast beef)
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