You can wash a stainless steel pot in which rice sticks to the bottom in less than a minute if you just start with cold water. Cooked rice dissolves very quickly in cold water. If you start with warm or hot water the rice will cling tenaciously. Put a cup or two of cold water in the pot and brush with a dish brush or rub it out with your bare hand. Dump the cold water and then use warm soapy water to finish. Basic rice cookers like these are excellent for long grain rice. The reason some cookers are so expensive is mostly because they are designed to run on elaborate time and temperature cycles to cook high protein, short and medium grain rice varieties. Long grain, fluffy, low protein rice is much easier to cook as the starch cooks quickly and does not stick to the pot and burn as easily as chewier, shorter grain types of rice. The 5 cup uncooked to cooked measurement probably applies only to short grain rice which does not swell up as much as long grain rice does. It's true that there's no way the cooker in this video could hold 10 cups. 5 cups of short grain rice will only swell up to about 7 ½ cups finished and that looks like about what this cooker could hold. I'm glad to see this cooker works well. I've been curious about the Tatung stainless model that I've seen online. It's more expensive but it looks like it's quite nice and still nowhere near as expensive as fancy cookers.
l bought a breville tice cooker, aluminium pot with non stick coating, the coating has not come off, but it tends to brown the bottom of the rice that touches the pan, bought an instant pot and it cooks the rice without burning, not cheap but it does so much more
Hi Tak. I have a smaller version of this rice cooker, and while I love it, my rice is sticking to the bottom much more than yours, and I'm finding that I am wasting a good amount of rice. I always use jasmine rice. I really like fresh rice so typically only make 1 cup at a time, so this little guy is perfect for us. I use 1 and 3/4 cup water to 1 cup rice which my package suggests. Should I change the ratio? Do I need to make sure I get it off warm quicker, or should I leave it on warm for a few minutes? Should I stir it immediately once the rice cooker switches to warm? Any suggestions would be so appreciated. Thanks for the videos, I love your channel!
I always get confused about the “CUP” size. Is the recipe always equal part rice, to equal part water. (no matter what pot is used.) ? Sometimes the cooker comes with numbered lines on the inside of the pot for water. And they give you a smaller size “cup” to measure the rice. 6 oz. ?
It's ratios not weight so equal amounts of water to rice so if you have a nice large mug of rice then use the same large mug of water. If you use 2 mugs of rice then use 2 mugs of water, the size of the mug is irrelevant as it's about ratios 1:1.
Thank you Tak!
Happy New Year!
Thanks again! Could you make a video of a grocery list for a newbie implementing your fast cook method?
Excellent healthy cooking. Will this cook other grains like brown rice, wild rice or quinoa?
You can wash a stainless steel pot in which rice sticks to the bottom in less than a minute if you just start with cold water. Cooked rice dissolves very quickly in cold water. If you start with warm or hot water the rice will cling tenaciously. Put a cup or two of cold water in the pot and brush with a dish brush or rub it out with your bare hand. Dump the cold water and then use warm soapy water to finish.
Basic rice cookers like these are excellent for long grain rice. The reason some cookers are so expensive is mostly because they are designed to run on elaborate time and temperature cycles to cook high protein, short and medium grain rice varieties. Long grain, fluffy, low protein rice is much easier to cook as the starch cooks quickly and does not stick to the pot and burn as easily as chewier, shorter grain types of rice.
The 5 cup uncooked to cooked measurement probably applies only to short grain rice which does not swell up as much as long grain rice does. It's true that there's no way the cooker in this video could hold 10 cups. 5 cups of short grain rice will only swell up to about 7 ½ cups finished and that looks like about what this cooker could hold.
I'm glad to see this cooker works well. I've been curious about the Tatung stainless model that I've seen online. It's more expensive but it looks like it's quite nice and still nowhere near as expensive as fancy cookers.
No link for the rice cooker,?
Very helpful. Thank you so much!
Thank you for this!
l bought a breville tice cooker, aluminium pot with non stick coating, the coating has not come off, but it tends to brown the bottom of the rice that touches the pan, bought an instant pot and it cooks the rice without burning, not cheap but it does so much more
Hi Tak. I have a smaller version of this rice cooker, and while I love it, my rice is sticking to the bottom much more than yours, and I'm finding that I am wasting a good amount of rice. I always use jasmine rice. I really like fresh rice so typically only make 1 cup at a time, so this little guy is perfect for us. I use 1 and 3/4 cup water to 1 cup rice which my package suggests. Should I change the ratio? Do I need to make sure I get it off warm quicker, or should I leave it on warm for a few minutes? Should I stir it immediately once the rice cooker switches to warm? Any suggestions would be so appreciated.
Thanks for the videos, I love your channel!
Noice! That's the same one l have!
lt cleans easy and makes great rice.
In my country (SEA) this type of rice cooker is difficult to find nowadays
I always get confused about the “CUP” size.
Is the recipe always equal part rice, to equal part water. (no matter what pot is used.) ?
Sometimes the cooker comes with numbered lines on the inside of the pot for water.
And they give you a smaller size “cup” to measure the rice. 6 oz. ?
It's ratios not weight so equal amounts of water to rice so if you have a nice large mug of rice then use the same large mug of water. If you use 2 mugs of rice then use 2 mugs of water, the size of the mug is irrelevant as it's about ratios 1:1.