Never knew all this about rice cookers. We had one of those plastic ones with the water going in the bottom, a container for rice, a steamer basket, and a lid. You would cook vegetables or even boil eggs in the steamer without the piece where you put rice. It had a standard analog type timer on the front. I also had one of the metal kind with the pot and lid type structure and a strainer at the bottom that trapped and collected a lot of the starch. It had the lever that you pushed down to turn it on.
-----Original Message----- From: Cookinginthedark <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Deborah Armstrong via Cookinginthedark Sent: Monday, August 10, 2020 10:06 AM To: [email protected] Cc: Deborah Armstrong <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [CnD] Cooking Brown Rice in a rice cooker I don't know about wild rice, but that information is probably on the bag (look at directionsforme). For brown rice, I found that older cookers I had didn't know when it was done. My last two cookers did. 2.5 cups water for 1 cup of brown rice worked for me fine. The other tip is to measure the water and rice and let it sit for an hour or so. The outer shell on brown rice is tough so it helps to soak the grains a bit before turning the cooker on. Lastly, the cooker will either turn off or go back to warm if the water evaporates. Old cookers had a timer built in. New ones use a temperature sensor. Once the water boils away the temperature rises above the boiling point which is how the cooker knows it's finished and also how a fire or burning or overheating is prevented. The way you can tell if your cooker turns completely off or goes to warm is to plug it in but don't push the lever down. If it's warm after a few minutes then that is it's default state once the lever pops up. There are new fancy cookers with buttons and settings. More confusing than helpful. Get cheap ones with a single lever. If it's down it's boiling the water; if it is up it is in its default state, either warm or off. --Debee _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
