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Chief Eating Officer
What a great deal gadzooks. That will possibly be the best $6 you ever spent.
Amen to that...I also like brown rice, and my rice cooker is a better rice cook than I am. I enjoyed some leftover brown Basmati this morning, reincarnated as fried rice. Yum!I couldn't live without my rice cooker, especially because I eat a lot of brown rice, and the stovetop method never cooks it half as well as the rice cooker.
Amen to that...I also like brown rice, and my rice cooker is a better rice cook than I am. I enjoyed some leftover brown Basmati this morning, reincarnated as fried rice. Yum!
I love my rice cooker, too. It makes it so easy and always comes out right.
Brown rice for fried rice? Is that was most Chinese restaurants use? I know it's brown after cooking, but I always thought it was the same "sticky" white rice w/ soy and browned.
But anyway - brown rice for fried rice?
Chinese fried rice is made with left over white rice. It can be made with brown rice but the color of fried rice comes from the soy sauce and oyster sauce used to flavor it.
Sorry to post again on this, but I didn't think of it until it was too late to edit...has anybody used their rice cooker as a slow cooker, like a crock-pot? If yes, what results?
I cook rice in a waterless slow cooker. Before I bought that, i used a rival crock pot. 2 cups of brown rice to 5 cups of water for two hours on low, and the rice is perfect. No sticking.
Thanks for the great advice everyone. I just purchased a Panasonic SR-MGS102 fuzzy logic (pricey at $200 from William Sonoma) and I love it. It has 8 program settings including slow cooking and cake! I have made jasmine and brown rice in it already with perfect results. I really like how the dimpled inner pan is non-stick and the inner lid and steam vent remove for easy cleaning. Thanks again for all of the expert advice in this thread. I would not have purchased a rice cooker without all of your wonderful input!!!
I have a 7 Cup Wolfgang Puck cooker and lost the instructions shortly after the purchase. Can anyone give me some guidelines. Thanks