Re: Vegetable Steamer/Rice Cooker

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 07:27:34 -0800 (PST),
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>Congratulations on your great purchase, Pat!  Sounds like quite a good
>deal, compared to the online prices you mentioned.  I've never had or
>used a rice steamer, but sometimes I'm tempted when so many people here
>sing their praises. 

Mine is NOT a rice cooker, as such.  I've never had a
dedicated rice cooker.   

Mine's primarily a vegetable steamer, in which one can also
cook rice.  I like to use it to cook rice, because it
doesn't take any watching ever.  It cooks brown rice very
nicely too.

It's really excellent for cooking veggies too.  My old one
was round, which isn't as good.  The new one is oval -
better for asparagus, corn, broccoli and maybe other things
I can't think of right now.  


>
>Speaking of rice, when DH's sister moved a little while ago, she gave us
>some food from her pantry, including some rice.  It's just plain white
>rice, but I've noticed that it's still fairly crunchy inside after
>cooking (stovetop) for the usual 20 minutes, and I have to start with
>more water and give it several extra minutes to make it tender.  What
>could be the problem?  Maybe one of you long-term food store-ers knows,
>does rice start taking longer to cook after it's been stored for a
>certain length of time?  The rice tastes fine, it just takes longer to
>cook.
>
>Any ideas would be appreciated, thanks!
>

Sorry, can't help, I'm a brown-rice person.  <g>  

Pat
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