Weekend Bread: Rice Cooker Edition.
currently populating our feedsPart curious, part skeptical—and, with nothing better to do—I decided to bring Azuma's rice cooker bread into my own, real-life kitchen.This past weekend, I cued up the scene, got my ingredients ready, and pressed play.
I kneaded everything together right in the bowl, as the show instructed. Sadly, my hands did not glow from warmth like Azuma’s, but my normal-temperatured hands seemed to suffice. After the first rise, the instructions said to drop the dough from a height of 50 centimeters, so I took out measuring tape to drop it at precisely that height . It landed into the bowl with a loud thud. I assessed the damage: The dough seemed to not only survive its fall, but was properly degassed.
After one more hour of undisturbed rising, the dough was ready for its first of three one-hour cooking sessions. At the end of each round, you have to flip the bread over to help it cook evenly. My rice cooker plays a little jingle once it’s done, so each time I heard the music start, I popped the lid—releasing a cloud of milky-bread steam—and gingerly flipped the light brown loaf.
My apartment filled with the aromas of a Japanese bakery. When I opened the rice cooker, I gasped. The bread looked like a very thick, tall pancake. The five-hour anime recipe was a success! It looked similar to the one I saw on TV but not as glossy. I cut a slice off the massive pancake-monster and smeared it with butter—it tasted like a pillowy, heavenly dinner roll.
I’m now on the hunt for a new anime , though I still think about that rice cooker bread often. It wasn’t the prettiest or most delicious thing I’ve made, but it was a wonderful, much-needed five-hour break from our world.
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