Oh my gosh I love this. I worked for a guide dog school, and stayed late
some times and sure could have used this info.
the rice cooker we have belonged to my husband before we got married,
and honestly it is my favorite appliance. It's so easy to use, and it's
so low tech. I'm surpised that he had it as he can be rather scientific
about everything.
Oh, I really love this story! Happy cooking with your little rice cooker!!!
On 8/3/2020 3:35 PM, Deborah Armstrong via Cookinginthedark wrote:
You basically just treat the rice cooker like an electric skillet at a low
temperature. The simple ones with just one button only get hot and then shut
off or go to warm when the rice is done. They know it is done when the
temperature climbs -- water can't go over 212F or 100C so the cooker knows if
all the water boils away and either shuts off or goes to warm when that occurs.
You can still burn food if you aren't careful but you'd smell it long before
you'd have an actual fire.
The ones with more buttons are more fancy but I like the single button -- it's
a mechanical lever, actually. When I plug it in it goes to warm, probably
around 120DG F and then if I push down thereby setting it to cook, it raises
its temperature so the water can boil.
The one I have at work cost a whole $12.
People saw me cooking at work all the time because I hated to waste my lunch
eating. I work for a college so I swam, ran on the track or worked out in the
gym at lunch. I was often sitting at my desk chopping vegies and reading email.
I also loved those flexible cutting boards for that. And I worked with my door
open so it was a regular sight. I think they never thought much about it except
to ask for a recipe.
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Oh wow! I wish I would have known this when I worked; not that long ago.
I would have loved to let my co-workers smell all that good smell, and then
tell them that they couldn't have any of my lunch. (smile)
I am going to try this. Can you share more ideas? Thanks. Oh, my co-workers
would have loved to see the blind lady cook. (lol)
On 8/3/2020 3:18 PM, Deborah Armstrong via Cookinginthedark wrote:
About rice cookers, I have one at home and one at work. I read I Love My Rice
Cooker on bookshare and started trying all these new ideas. Did you know you
can fry onions in one? It's just like an electric skillet. At work, I put some
butter in it, a red bell pepper or onion chopped, fry it, add liquid and close
the lid and let the whole thing cook a while. If I've measured the right amount
of liquid and rice I let it shut itself off when the rice absorbs all the
liquid, but if I'm making soup or stew I just turn it off after ten minutes or
so. I don't cook meat in it but a lot of vegie type stews and of course rice.
I also have a crockpot at work. I would soak beans in it overnight and then
turn it on when I got to the office in the morning. I also often combined a can
of soup with a few fresh vegetables in the crockpot, or I'd core and slice
apples and stuff them in there with a pinch of cinnamon for a few hours.
My co-workers always thought it was crazy , me cooking right there in my office
but I liked having a hot healthy lunch and it was fun to experiment. I would
spend my lunch hour exercising, then return to the office and prepare my meal
while I continued to work.
Stuck now at home due to Covid with a husband who doesn't like vegetables I
make a lot of hamburger helper on the stove but I miss my office and my
appliances and endless vegetarian experiments.
--Debee
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