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How to Use a Rice Cooker | gastrobackuae.com
How to Use a Rice Cooker | gastrobackuae.com
Perfectly cooked rice might be a subjective term, but all of us around the office think this machine gets pretty close to achieving it. For simple batches of white rice that are ready to eat in half an hour, a basic rice cooker, like the Zojirushi 3-cup or even the super-cheap Aroma 3-cup are fine options. But if rice is a regular fixture of your diet, and you are accustomed to having more precise control over the final product, you should definitely go for the more expensive models. The Cuisinart 4-Cup Rice Cooker had the biggest capacity of any mini rice cooker we tested, but it fell short on execution. The rice it made—in record time for a mini, just 19 minutes—was a little too firm, and during the cooking process, it leaked slightly starchy water all over the sides and down the counter. This is seemingly a redesign of Cuckoo's CR-0655F model, with a sleek new modern control panel and design.
- We especially enjoyed trying out the GABA rice mode, which soaks brown rice in just-warm water for hours to start the germination process and release the amino acid, then cooks it to perfection.
- Use it for one-pot meals, hands-off hot oatmeal, perfectly peelable hard-boiled eggs, or mac and cheese that makes itself.
- The stick surface makes it easy to serve rice, and they are easy to replace at the price.
- If you have a larger family or entertain a lot with rice, you will likely want something like a six- to eight-cup cooker.
And we think the pressurized cooking caused our delicate long-grain rice to come out a bit mushy. Because the Cuckoo is pricey and comes in only a 10-cup capacity, we recommend this cooker to people who want to cook short- or medium-grain white and brown rice often and in large batches. This is an enormous machine, with a capacity of 10 cups of dry rice—that's 20 cups of cooked rice. But as a pressure cooker, the Cuckoo cuts down on cooking time for larger amounts. It made a full batch of white rice in about 25 minutes, and there's a special turbo mode that cuts that time by almost half.
Tiger JKT-D Series IH Stainless Steel Multi-functional Rice Cooker
Cuckoo rice cookers cook great rice, and also have uniquely appealing settings—like one that specifically gives you a crispy bottom—but this redesign was just a bit of a mess in our opinion. GreenPan’s Bistro rice cooker is notable because it’s one of the few options out there with a ceramic nonstick interior rather than a PTFE-based interior. We found that this rice cooker runs far too hot, as it scorched the bottom of each batch of rice we cooked in it, and the keep warm setting caused the rice to yellow in a matter of minutes.
Best Overall: Zojirushi Induction Heating System Rice Cooker & Warmer
Use it for one-pot meals, hands-off hot oatmeal, perfectly peelable hard-boiled eggs, or mac and cheese that makes itself. I could write a whole entire post on all the things you could make in a rice cooker, but we have that already so just read all about it right here. Have fun exploring, and may your rice cooker steam multiple happy decades of food for you. But wait, there’s more to this gadget than just convenience and versatility. During the Good Housekeeping Institute's road tests, the NS-TSC18 MICOM consistently produced perfect, evenly-cooked rice.
Instant 20-Cup Rice Cooker
We followed each individual rice cooker’s instruction manual for rinsing, which ranged from the obsessive (the Zojirushi induction model calls for around eight rinses) to the casual. Sure, it made a good batch of sushi rice, but not enough for you to justify paying double the price of the other Tiger models we tested. Cuckoo is a popular maker of high-end rice cookers, and this particular model, one of its best sellers since 2014, is one of the few rice cookers to offer pressure-cooking technology at this price. It should not be conflated with electric pressure cookers like the Instant Pot, which costs less than half of what this Cuckoo model costs. Although the Instant Pot is a masterful multipurpose cooker, its rice just isn’t as good as what you can get from the Cuckoo CRP-P1009.