You shouldn't be monitoring the rice (stirring) regardless. Rice is the easiest thing to make. Clean it with water, drain it. Pour in the appropriate amount of water (depending on the rice, 1:1 to 1:2 rice to water.) Bring to a boil on a stove. Close pot with lid, turn heat down to about its lowest setting, let it sit for ~20 minutes steaming itself. Or longer if you forget it's there. You're done. Clean, set on stove, bring to boil, lower heat, let sit, don't touch it, don't look at it, don't do anything with it for 20 minutes or so.
No idea why y'all need an extra implement to do something so trivially done on a stove.