I’m looking for a little advice on steaming rice in a vegetable steamer. I bought this steamer and used it to cook rice today: http://www.amazon.com/5712-Electronic-2-Tier-6-1-Quart-Steamer...

"cup") 4. Add olive oil or butter – I prefer oil (1 good swirl per "cup" of rice) 5. Start your cooker 6. Once the rice is cooked, let it rest for a few minutes, ideally 15-30 minutes, without touching the rice. Good luck!

While all the new fancy rice cooker that have function like non stick and keep warm, they are not as nice as what an old fasion electric steamer/cooker can do. When we were growing up, there are these electric pots that you put...

temperatures are reached and sensed. The average cooker from recipe perspectives is a 6-cup. You need a bit more water to cook brown rice than the same volume of white rice. Here is a guide for water volumes for three sizes of...

with cold water, on the fourth time putting cold water, add enough water so that the water level reaches the first line of the middle finger when you stick your finger in( make sure the tip touches the top of the rice). This is...

I seemed to have survived cooking rice on the stovetop, so the steamer seems like another countertop cluttering gismo. I might change my tune if I ate rice with every meal. Cooking white rice should be a snap. One cup of rice and...

Has anyone made Glutinous / Sticky Rice in rice cooker? How? I brought home a ton of different types of sticky rice from Thailand but don’t have a Thai rice steamer.

I just bought a Krups 8 cup rice cooker at a garage sale for my dorm room but the thing didn’t come with a manual. This is my first rice cooker so it’s all really new to me. If anyone could give me some advice or...

I like rice with my meals but rarely need more than a single serving (usually a cup cooked). Getting it right on the stovetop is maddeningly difficult – it always seems to come out underdone! A friend of mine suggests I try...

A friend recently traveled to Cambodia and Laos and brought back this piece of bamboo cookware for me. She described it as a rice cooker that the local people she worked with would use to cook their lunches. It has a top that is...

Hi, I just got a Zojirushi rice cooker, 10 cup capacity. I want to use it to make 2-3 cups of Indian style Basmati rice at a time. I like my rice fluffy, not sticky! The documentation is poor and I don’t know how much water...

Use your rice cooker as a steamer — eg. steamed vegetables, steamed poultry, steamed fish, etc.

What size of rice cooker do you have? To cook 1 1/4 cups of oats do you need a 10 cup machine so it doesn’t overflow? (I am presently debating between a 5 & a 10 cup machine)

I have a small rice cooker (makes about 4 cups of rice max) and have made saffron rice in it but wondered if anyone has other recipes for meals that can be made in the rice cooker — preferably featuring but not limited to...

than others with brown. For a family of two big people and two little ones, I’ve had folks recommend a 5 1/2 cup cooker, but that seems like a lot for folks for whom rice is a one meal thing. What do you say? I mean, I...