any of various relatively long pieces of metal, wood, stone, etc., manufactured or shaped especially for use as rigid members or parts of structures or machines.
Brown rice takes longer to cook than regular white rice (about 45 minutes vs. 15 or 20 minutes). However, it's easy to cook a larger batch and enjoy more than one meal for your effort. Cooked brown rice can be stored, covered tightly, in a shallow container in the refrigerator for 4 days. It will maintain good quality in the freezer for 6 months but will remain safe indefinitely in the freezer as long as the temperature remains at 0 degrees F or lower.
Traditional diets are rife with food pairings that taste good and keep people health. Regarding rice cookers, my Japanese rice cooker states that for health reasons, cooked rice is not to be eaten more than 12 hours after it is cooked, unless it is refrigerated within the first two hours of being cooked. It looks like Japan has some experience with the potential danger of mishandeling cooked rice.