Spec me a rice cooker

Did my second batch of rice today and it came out much better.

After the first batch I can't be sure I put water to the short grain or long grain 1 marker, it's not a huge difference in water but this time I definitely put it to long grain and while the quality of this batch was softer I had a whole base layer that caked. I also checked the water to first crease of my finger for curiosity and it was a off by quite a bit. Next time I'll cook to the finger measure.
 
Anybody got and decent vegetable pulao recipes for fuzzy logic cookers?

I’ve seen a few but they all seem to be for instant pot/ pressure cooker style
 
have asked the wench for a Panda mini for Christmas after reading this thread. im hoping it will help me to cut back on bread and lose a bit of weight.
 
just make sure you purchase the rice with the lower glycemic index Indian, or use brown rice (I mostly do) - still looking for a good deal/excuse to buy some Matta rice though.
 
Feek said:
It won’t. Your rice intake will increase.
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When I first got my rice cooker I was seriously worried about eating rice all the time :D
it can cause diabetes.

and I think there were other things like eating white or brown rice all t he time blocks your body absorbing some minerals.


if he rice cooker has a steaming mode it makes vegetables really easy to steam without much cleanup after.

in mine I've done cauliflower/sprouts etc and they came out really good
 
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jpaul said:
just make sure you purchase the rice with the lower glycemic index Indian, or use brown rice (I mostly do) - still looking for a good deal/excuse to buy some Matta rice though.
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In a typical meal in a Chinese household, the bowl used for rice is about the size of a small coffee mug, you don't actually eat THAT much rice per person. You eat some protein, some veg, then some rice to "cleanse" the palette and or mix some rice with some of the richer dishes.

A typical take away servicing of rice can serve at least 2 people in those bowls, perhaps 3.

So, we (my family or any Chinese person I know), never paid attention to glycemic index in rice. We buy them because it taste nice.
 
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I've went with the Russell Hobbs cheapo (£30) one the past couple of times but it has a habit of burning the rice at the bottom and we've gone through 2 of them in 3 years so they don't seem to last!

Any recmomendations on a rice cooker in the sub £100 range? The Yum Asia ones seem to be the model most people on here suggest? Any model in particular to go for? Panda Mini, Kumo Yumcarb, etc? Or another brand altogether?

Any featues/functions/etc I should be looking for?
 
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