My new rice cooker

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I've never been really happy with the quality of my rice, I've tried loads of different methods, also some methods are quite laborious so I looked at rice cookers.
Apparently in Asia 80% of households use a rice cooker, the best ones are fuzzy logic ones that monitor and adjust the time and temperature to achieve perfectly cooked rice, when the rice is cooked it goes into a keep warm mode and the rice will stay perfect for hours.

Of course after researching and reading reviews of rice cookers I had to have a fuzzy logic one.
They don't just do rice but steam food and there supposed to make fantastic porridge, set the timer and it'll be perfect for when you wake up.

I purchased a Sanyo fs50uk and paid £87. I appreciate it's a fair chunk of cash but we have rice based meals probably 3 times a week and hopefully it'll last many years so we'll get lots use out of it.



Use the provided cup to measure the rice, rinse the rice, fill with water according to how many cups of rice you're doing and you're good to go.



Select white rice and press cook, roughly 40 minutes later (it can't give you an exact time as it uses the fuzzy logic to cook it to perfection) it's ready.

And it tastes absolutely lovely, I've just had a bowl now, nothing else as I just wanted to try it. It's moist and fluffy and the best rice I've ever had :)


 
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Good stuff, that looks really nice!

We eat allot of rice in our house as I like cooking currys, sweet and sour etc but it's always with boil in the bag rice, or Uncle Bens Express stuff.
Although it's not bad, I've never been 100% happy with the outcome from boil in the bag or microwave......it always seems to be either under, or overcooked :(
 
15 minutes in a pot with simmering water and don't touch it at all while it's cooking has done me fine. Although it probably does taste a lot better in that cooker.
 
You make me jealous, my rice normally turns out like rice pudding, might have to invest in a rice cooker, they are very useful.
 
You can make perfect rice in 12 mins without the need of a cooker. I can get perfect rice everytime using the method.

Although the cooker does other things too so i guess thats cool.
 
Pfft i make it in a big pan with boiling water just like how my mum makes it and it comes out much much better than the rice in a rice cooker.

Although i was tempted to get one of these before my mum slapped me upside the head...told me that it doesnt take a rocket scientist to make boiled/steamed or cooked rice:p
 
My local takeway using a big version of these, and the chinese student i used to live with also had 1. I'd like 1 but I couldn't justify the output, with my cooking you wouldn't notice a difference..
 
jonno.co.uk said:
anyone got any secrets to good rice without using one of these?

mine always goes a bit gooey and not nice and fluffy :(
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Fill up one cup with rice then pour into pan, add a cup and a half of water from the same cup into pan add salt to taste. Turn on cooker to the highest heat then wait until the water starts to boil, once this happens turn down cooker to it lowest setting and cover pan. In twenty minutes you will have enough rice to serve 2 people. This method will work for any type of rice. :D

If you also want to learn how to cook curry goat let me know. :p
 
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