The Advantages of Rice Cookers

It used to be that if you wanted rice with your meal at home, you had two choices: try to cook it in a pot and hope it doesn't burn or buy one of those bland box mixes. But a new product on the market gives the home cook a brand new option. If you are someone who enjoys eating a meal that includes rice, you need to think about purchasing a rice cooker.

A rice cooker is a great specialty appliance that simplifies cooking rice by taking over the heating and timing so you don't have to think about it. Although using a rice cooker doesn't usually speed up the cooking process, the cook's only real involvement is adding the right amount of water. After that, he or she is free to work on other projects. It has another advantage of freeing up one of your stove top burners to use for some other purpose.

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To accommodate your needs, rice cookers are made in a variety of sizes from small to industrial size. They are different cooking methods as well. Some are based on induction heating while others use fuzzy logic technology.

Older appliances to cook rice were very basic. They had a cook and warm setting. Once you put in the amount of rice and water necessary, you started the cooking process. It worked by weight. When the water was cooked away, the rice cooker switched to the warm setting. There was no way to designate what type of rice you were cooking. The new ones are light years ahead! Most have digital displays. And they go way beyond on and off. Many have different settings, depending on what you are cooking. Yes, rice cookers are for more than white rice. They usually have brown, white, mixed, porridge and even cake settings. So what you may have purchased as a cool appliance to cook your white rice just turned into a multi-functional tool.

The other amazing feature of new rice cookers is the timer feature. Here's how it works: put all of the ingredients into the rice cooker that you normally would. Choose what type of food you are cooking, for example brown rice. Then set the timer for when you want it finished and leave it alone. You could do this at night if you're cooking breakfast or before you leave for work, if you are preparing dinner.

The Advantages of Rice Cookers

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