Sunday 15 November 2020

A while back...

We invested in an electric pressure/slow/rice cooker. So far, I have only used the pressure cooker side of it. It is so quiet, not a single hiss until you vent the steam at the end.

DS told us yesterday they had bought a rice cooker, so thought it time to try out that side of it. It doesn't come with a recipe book but there are loads of recipes online for it. The rice cooker button cooks for 12 minutes but from what I read online, that seems too long.

Yesterday, we took the plunge and tried out one recommended recipe. It required 1 cup of thoroughly rinsed white long grain rice, 1 1/4 cups of boiling water, 1/2 tsp of salt (I forgot this). Put it all in, set the rice function, reduce cooking time to 3 minutes and leave it alone. Once it beeps to say it has finished, give it 10 minutes then release any remaining steam and fluff up the rice.

The water had all gone and the rice on first inspection looked solid but using a wooden spatula, it fluffed up fine:

It was a smidge hard but continued to cook for a little longer so maybe either a couple of tablespoons more water and 4 minutes cooking time or try a different rice?

Another recipe says 1 cup of rice, 2 cups of boiling water and cook for 5 minutes, we shall try that one another time.

Anyhow, the whole process took far less time and energy than the conventional way so we shall do it this way in future. We gave it 9/10.

15 comments:

  1. Thanks for that DC. I'm thinking abut getting a multi cookers and it's good to hear from a user.

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    1. We bought a 5 litre Pressure King Pro.

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  2. Love my electric pressure cooker and use it to cook rice all the time. I am now looking at a different air fryer, but as the one we have still works I will give that a pass for awhile.

    God bless.

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  3. I cook rice every 3 days for our dog and ourselves. My mum was Indian and I can cook fluffy rice with my eyes shut now and it takes about 15 minutes.

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    1. Mine is normally okay but nearly always boils over if I don’t watch it.

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  4. It sounds very good - these machines can be a real help, can't they?
    xx

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  5. Just to lower the tone, the only rice I cook is in a sachet in the microwave😄!

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  6. I have got a rice cooker, but I think I honestly prefer it done the old fashioned way in a pan using the absorption method. Fluffy rice every time. It's even easier in the Aga but I don't have that here unfortunately. I think with rice once you find the way that works for you it's best to stick to it.

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    1. Would like to try rice pudding next if that works.

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  7. Many years ago we got 2 tupperware microwave rice cookers, it's a covered container with a inner, the bottom of the inner has holes, the water goes to the bottom and the rice steams, perfect rice every time. Plus we use the containers in the summer BBQ as covered salad bowls.

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    1. We didn’t get one of those but all my Tupperware is still in use, 30 years after purchase.

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