I personally really love my Babish Chef’s knife. I generally avoid buying content creator merch, but all the reviews I read for the knife seemed overwhelming positive for the price point

Yeah, that seems like a useless benchmark for judging a search engine

because I didn’t want a single purpose appliance when I could make it in a pot.

In case anyone else has the same issue, you can make rice just as easily in an electric pressure cooker (e.g. Instapot) which has a much wider use case.

Although, I’ve never used an actual rice cooker, so I can’t testify to the difference in quality