Guest guest Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 I see a lot of you have rice cookers. I don't have one and we almost always eat ordinary long grain white rice (it's a major crop in Arkansas so I kind of feel like I'm supporting my state). But I have a lot of problems with rice when I cook it. It clumps up, and it's often sticky. Would a rice cooker stop that? I don't know anyone in my " real " life who has one and I hate to spend money on something that will be a lot like my little food processor - it will sit in the cabinet and just gather dust, or be borrowed by my daughter until I go to her house to retrieve it! We eat a lot of stir-fries so we use a lot of rice. I'd love to be able to have leftover rice that isn't all clumped together. Any advice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 Some rice cooker advertizes " perfect rice every time " and basically that is what you get as long as you get one with an automatic shut off based on the water, not the time. It makes a difference if you get a rice cooker that doubles as a vegtable steemer, or a vegetable steemer that doubles as a rice cooker. They are not the same. Get one whose first and primary function is rice cooking and it will have an automatic shut off at perfection. Katie Penny <pennytilotson wrote: I see a lot of you have rice cookers. I don't have one and we almost always eat ordinary long grain white rice (it's a major crop in Arkansas so I kind of feel like I'm supporting my state). But I have a lot of problems with rice when I cook it. It clumps up, and it's often sticky. Would a rice cooker stop that? I don't know anyone in my " real " life who has one and I hate to spend money on something that will be a lot like my little food processor - it will sit in the cabinet and just gather dust, or be borrowed by my daughter until I go to her house to retrieve it! We eat a lot of stir-fries so we use a lot of rice. I'd love to be able to have leftover rice that isn't all clumped together. Any advice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 Thanks! On Behalf Of Katie M Tuesday, April 24, 2007 1:03 PM Re: Question about rice cookers Some rice cooker advertizes " perfect rice every time " and basically that is what you get as long as you get one with an automatic shut off based on the water, not the time. It makes a difference if you get a rice cooker that doubles as a vegtable steemer, or a vegetable steemer that doubles as a rice cooker. They are not the same. Get one whose first and primary function is rice cooking and it will have an automatic shut off at perfection. Katie Penny <pennytilotson wrote: I see a lot of you have rice cookers. I don't have one and we almost always eat ordinary long grain white rice (it's a major crop in Arkansas so I kind of feel like I'm supporting my state). But I have a lot of problems with rice when I cook it. It clumps up, and it's often sticky. Would a rice cooker stop that? I don't know anyone in my " real " life who has one and I hate to spend money on something that will be a lot like my little food processor - it will sit in the cabinet and just gather dust, or be borrowed by my daughter until I go to her house to retrieve it! We eat a lot of stir-fries so we use a lot of rice. I'd love to be able to have leftover rice that isn't all clumped together. Any advice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 I have two rice cookers. One is a standard cook/warm, the other is fuzzy logic. I love both of them for different reasons. My cook/warm also steams, the fuzzy logic has lots of settings for different things. The rice I cook in both is very good. A regular cook/warm cooker will give you fluffy rice. A fuzzy logic cooker makes the regular rice cooker seem as though the rice is not fluffy at all -- the difference in performance is like comparing a Porsche to a VW. Both will get you to your destination, but the Porsche has options and extras the VW doesn't have. I have an old stove that doesn't cook properly and the new model I want is not in the budget. Plus, I'm lazy and don't want to have to watch over my food. So the rice cookers allow me to push a button and walk away. I also cook full meals in my cookers and steam veggies. In the summer it's great because I'm not heating up my home. Last night we had seasoned rice with cubed tufo and veggies. I had the rice and tufu in the fuzzy logic, and had the veggies steaming in the cook/warm. The nice thing about steaming in the cook/warm is that, unlike my sister, if I forget about it, I will not cause a fire since the cooker shuts off when the water is gone (rice cookers have weight sensors in them). My sister has ruined way too many pots to count due to running out of water. She also has had a couple of small kitchen fires from that as well. And even if she catches the pot before it starts smoldering, the veggies are ruined due to being " smoked " . , " Penny " <pennytilotson wrote: > > I see a lot of you have rice cookers. I don't have one and we almost always > eat ordinary long grain white rice (it's a major crop in Arkansas so I kind > of feel like I'm supporting my state). But I have a lot of problems with > rice when I cook it. It clumps up, and it's often sticky. Would a rice > cooker stop that? I don't know anyone in my " real " life who has one and I > hate to spend money on something that will be a lot like my little food > processor - it will sit in the cabinet and just gather dust, or be borrowed > by my daughter until I go to her house to retrieve it! We eat a lot of > stir-fries so we use a lot of rice. I'd love to be able to have leftover > rice that isn't all clumped together. Any advice? > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 Out of my rice cooker, the rice never clumps and is always fluffy and separated. Marilyn Daub mcdaub Vanceburg, KY My Cats Knead Me!! - Penny Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:29 AM Question about rice cookers I see a lot of you have rice cookers. I don't have one and we almost always eat ordinary long grain white rice (it's a major crop in Arkansas so I kind of feel like I'm supporting my state). But I have a lot of problems with rice when I cook it. It clumps up, and it's often sticky. Would a rice cooker stop that? I don't know anyone in my " real " life who has one and I hate to spend money on something that will be a lot like my little food processor - it will sit in the cabinet and just gather dust, or be borrowed by my daughter until I go to her house to retrieve it! We eat a lot of stir-fries so we use a lot of rice. I'd love to be able to have leftover rice that isn't all clumped together. Any advice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 You've convinced me! I'm going to get one in the next couple of weeks! (And the part about burning down the house is an added bonus... I put a kettle on for tea a couple of years ago and boiled it dry, scorched the wooden wall next to the stove, filled the house with smoke and didn't notice, even though I was in the next room that had no door! That's why I have a tea maker and every time my daughter tells me I'm crazy for getting one, I remind her of the teakettle fire...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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