ABOUT THE USE OF RICE COOKER
The Rice Cooker is one of the best ingenious cooking gadget ever invented based on the simple knowledge that water boils at 100 deg C/212 deg F.
Rule of thumb in cooking rice is that water has to be 2 times the amount of your rice. Once water has been fully absorbed by the rice, temperature will rise beyond 100 deg C and thats when the rice cooker will automatically switches off.
Based on this knowledge about the rice cooker, there are a few exceptions to the rule to how to ‘cheat’ the rice cooker to cook other type of rice dishes other than just plain white rice:
1) Nasi Lemak rice, Briyani Rice, Chicken Rice
All of these rice pilaf dishes contains oil and oil will cause the temperature of yr rice cooker to rise rapidly even before the rice grains are cooked. So the trick to cheat the rice cooker is do not use too much oil/santan in the rice but stir in a tablespoon or 2 of the santan/ghee/chic fat after the rice cooker has switched
off and let the rice stand for 10 minutes before eating.
2) Cooking unpolished rice
Unpolished rice is not desirable to eat because they are hard and chewy. These type of rice require 3 times the amount of water of your rice. What happen is that the grains will be boiled for a longer time until the grains breaks and rice cooker will switch off after d liquid has dried up. Adding more water does not mean that this type of rice absorbs more water but instead it allows d rice grains to be boiled longer to soften so that you get fluffier and less chewy rice.
The newer model of the electric rice cooker now comes with Congee/porridge model too and with a steaming tray accessory and an extra inner pot.
For a more durable rice cooker, look to buy that comes with a stainless steel inner pot instead of one with a non-stick surface or aluminium inner pot.
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