Hello, I use the oven and the toaster oven for most cooking tasks. I do a limited amount of top of the stove food preparation, such cooking boil-in-bag rice and browning meat. I do have an electric skillet that I use for most browning meat tasks now.
I use the microwave mainly for heating things. I do not use it to cook stuff, as the results were not to my liking. Pauline On 8/3/20, Immigrant via Cookinginthedark <cookinginthedark@acbradio.org> wrote: > I use the oven and the microwave for my cooking, trying to avoid stovetop > cooking as I don't trust myself boiling and especially frying. And I cannot > think of any foods that I would prefer boiled anyway. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cookinginthedark <cookinginthedark-boun...@acbradio.org> On Behalf Of > Karen Delzer via Cookinginthedark > Sent: Monday, August 3, 2020 3:48 PM > To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org > Cc: Karen Delzer <catwa...@verizon.net> > Subject: Re: [CnD] Cooking Brown Rice in a rice cooker > > We use Success rice sometimes, and it's great! You just boil the bag for > about ten minutes, and then you're done. They've got different ones, too. > > Karen > > At 12:44 PM 8/3/2020, you wrote: >>As I said, my rice is minute rice, so it is partially cooked. It comes >>in 4-ounce cups, and it is meant for microwaving. I don't buy regular >>rice because I don't feel the need for a bag of 5 or more pounds of >>rice for just me, and all that stovetop cooking for just one person >>when I can cook a couple of those cups for a minute and a half and they >>are ready. To rinse or not to rinse is not a question as this rice is >>prepackaged and I cook it in its cup. >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Cookinginthedark <cookinginthedark-boun...@acbradio.org> On >>Behalf Of Deborah Armstrong via Cookinginthedark >>Sent: Monday, August 3, 2020 11:30 AM >>To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org >>Cc: Deborah Armstrong <armstrongdebo...@fhda.edu> >>Subject: Re: [CnD] Cooking Brown Rice in a rice cooker >> >>Well I prepare rice completely differently but I mostly eat brown. >> >>I have read that it is important to rinse rice, but packages in the >>U.S. and cookbooks published in America advise against it. >> >>Turns out after further reading, I found out why; rinsing originally >>removed field debris. Now that rice is prepared in factories, rinsing >>removes excess starch which can make it sticky. The reason they advise >>against rinsing is given is that here in America, rice is fortified >>with spray-on vitamins and minerals which rinsing removes. >> >>If you eat plenty of vegies you don't need the spray-on nutrients, so >>go ahead and rinse it to remove the starch. >> >>I put my rice in my cooker with 1 cup of rice to 3 cups of water for >>brown and 2 cups of water for white. I sprinkle in a little salt; >>that's all. I then let it sit an hour or two. I've read this makes the >>rice better absorb the liquid and this works especially well for brown; > makes it less chewy. >> >>I let the cooker do its thing; there's a sensor that knows when the >>water is almost gone. Once it is back to just warming, I turn it off >>and let it set ten minutes. Then I stir and cover again so it won't dry >>out and put it in the fridge when it's cool enough. >> >>I generally flavor it when I add other things -- for example I might >>microwave it with garlic or curry and vegies. Or I might mix it with >>cumin and add it to enchiladas. Or I might make a salad with cold rice, >>mayo, vegies, spices, pickles -- yum. >> >>I have tried flavoring it in the cooker, but especially with brown >>rice, the hull is so thick that most of the flavoring is lost. >> >>--Debee >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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
