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An easy solution
By Ryman Review on Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2016
My electric rice cooker started overheating and shutting off half way through the cooking process. This, of course, was inevitable because I used it everyday at least once oft though I would have to cook a second pot of rice. Now my big pressure cooker can cook rice too/I prefer to save this 8 quart cooker not take up residence on my counter. I hadn't taken the time to look for another cooker and was using the pan on the stove method. He has no patience. He saw this Microwave Cookware Rice Steamer by Sistema while looking for salad containers for his lunch. I wasn't real thrilled, I think I might be turning into Eeyore. Well, we got this steamer and I read the directions that said not to use fat while cooking. I instantly thought that I can only use water in the steamer to make my rice because isn't chicken broth also have a fat content. I was bummed. I cook using broth and coconut butter and several other ingredients and now I'm stuck with plain rice. Making rice with the Sistema Microwave Cookware Rice Steamer is simple enough. Just put in the right amount of rice to the ratio of the water. I use the normal cooking time depending on what type of rice between 7-10 minutes. The rice comes out perfect each time.I only cook about 3 cups of dry rice even though it says 8 cups cooked which should be about 4 cups of dry. It comes out pretty full and you watch the water bubble up into the lid. I hate cleaning up the mess so I just haven't tried maxing this thing out. After I found the recipes I was much happier with this steamer because then I knew I could make rice the way I normally do. I quickly replaced the water with broth, added the vegetables, seasoning and just a little fat. So much better. So much happier too. I can still do almost all the things I did in my electric cooker: steam vegetables, make soup and stew. I still miss my electric steamer but for smaller batches this is great. I have something that will work for the larger batches. I would recommend this especially if all you are doing is cooking for 1 to 4 people. I finally found the recipes that the reviewers were talking about and my
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Not recommended for rice, ok for steaming veggies.
By Jess on Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2016
I was really underwhelmed by this rice cooker. It didn't come with a lot of instructions of how to cook rice for anything other than 4 servings. I found the link that others have provided [...] that helps with some of this but it's all for a a specific serving size. There's no additional information of water to rice ratio or additional cooking time for over one serving. I'm used to rice cookers having a scoop for rice and a fill line for water and you match the water line to the number of scoops. I tried to just estimate and monitor for the amount of rice I wanted. I usually cook brown rice. I tired just the cooking time for 4 servings (I was doing 8) and the rice was way under done. I kept adding time and checking, rice still was underdone. The the cooker started boiling over constantly. Finally when I was sick of it boiling over again and again and the rice was 'close enough' I gave up and just ate it the way it was. This bowl works ok for steaming veggies. It doesn't use as much water then so the boil over issue goes away. But I really bought this hoping for a dishwasher safe rice cooker, not a steamer. So if you're picky about getting good rice, easily, you might want to just but a typical rice cooker. It does wash up pretty well is the dish washer so there's at least that.
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