I bought an electric rice cooker two or three years ago now, an Aroma brand. It is like an Instant Pot because it cooks rice, brown rice, beans, and other things I don't remember, doubles as a slow cooker, a pressure cooker, and you can prebrown meat in it before slow cooking it or pressure cooking it. It is accessible, but you have to read the button descriptions if you forget things as easily as I do. I keep a notebook in the kitchen with all the notes I need to run various appliances throughout my kitchen. I really like all the new appliances these days. My latest is an OptiGrill from t-Fal. I love what it has done with the meat I have tried with it. I have had it for 2 weeks now. It is the best electric grill I have seen, but I have only used 3 of them over the years. This one seems the safest of any I have used. It has been out for several years now but I had to wait for my old grill to die before I could justify purchasing this one.
Pamela Fairchild <pamelafairch...@comcast.net> -----Original Message----- From: Cookinginthedark On Behalf Of Nicole Massey via Cookinginthedark Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 5:19 PM To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org Cc: Nicole Massey <ny...@gypsyheir.com> Subject: Re: [CnD] electric rice cooker I've had three of them. One was so small it only did a single serving of rice. I don't know what brand that was. I had a nice Panasonic that was almost big enough to run an oriental restaurant. It gave me years of great service before burning out the heating element. I got a smaller one from Aldi about two years ago, I'll have to look up the brand. All of them were single control devices -- you put the rice and water in and push down the little lever and they start up. (assuming you've also plugged them in) I've found that brown rice does well if you soak it for an hour or so before cooking. Oh, and all three heated like a warming tray when not cooking, so you can keep the rice warm after it cooks. Sent from my HAL 9000 in transit to Jupiter -----Original Message----- From: Cookinginthedark [mailto:cookinginthedark-boun...@acbradio.org] On Behalf Of Marilyn Pennington via Cookinginthedark Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 3:54 PM To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org Cc: m51penning...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CnD] electric rice cooker Could people tell me about their electric rice cookers? I do not cook rice on the stove very well. -----Original Message----- From: Cookinginthedark <cookinginthedark-boun...@acbradio.org> On Behalf Of Pamela Fairchild via Cookinginthedark Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 4:48 PM To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org Cc: pamelafairch...@comcast.net Subject: Re: [CnD] electric rice cooker Each rice cooker will be a little different. What brand do you have? Is there a model number on it anywhere? If so, you can maybe find instructions for it online. That would be better than guessing. Does the pot itself have any sort of fill lines inside? That could give you an idea. It sounds small, so I would start with 1 cup rice and 2 cups water. All of them should cook that much no matter what the size. There should be buttons or some sort of guide that lets you know what setting to put it on, unless there is just one choice. Then watch it like a hawk the first time to make sure it shuts itself off properly at the end of the cooking cycle. Pamela Fairchild <pamelafairch...@comcast.net> -----Original Message----- From: Cookinginthedark On Behalf Of Jeanne Donovan via Cookinginthedark Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 1:35 PM To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org Cc: basilleaf2...@gmail.com Subject: [CnD] electric rice cooker Someone gave me an electric rice cooker, but it didn't come with instructions. My question is: How much water would you put in with 1 cup uncooked rice. The usual 2 cups rice seems too much. _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
