barbaral@tekig1.UUCP (Barbara Lee) (03/06/84)
How do you reheat rice in a rice cooker? (I have no idea where my instruction manual is.) Do you add water to the old rice? If so how much?
peters@cubsvax.UUCP (03/12/84)
TO reheat rice in a rice-cooker, you add some water, STIR THE OLD RICE
UP IN IT, then cover and turn on (the rice-cooker that is...).
The point is that water, and not rice, must contact the bottom,
because the way the thing works is that it turns off when the
thermostat in contact with the bottom of the pan senses a temperature
in excess of the boiling point of water. If you don't free up the old
rice, the water may not filter down through it fast enough to boil
before the sensor kicks off.
Actually, you don't really have to STIR the old rice up... If you
just free the old cake of rice from the bottom & make a token effort to
scrape the bottom (e g, with a wooden paddle), that's enough.
How much water? Not real critical, as with cooking the rice in the
first place. Say enough to make a 1/4 to 1/2 inch layer on the
bottom of the empty cooker, depending how much rice you have.
{philabs,cmcl2!rocky2}!cubsvax!peters Peter S. Shenkin
Dept of Biol. Sci.; Columbia Univ.; New York, N. Y. 10027; 212-280-5517norskog@fortune.UUCP (Lance Norskog) (03/14/84)
I've never even seen a rice cooker, but I've found that the best way to reheat rice is to *STEAM* it, not submerge it. Submersion tends to make rice pudding.
ed@unisoft.UUCP (03/20/84)
I usually steam rice to reheat it, much like steaming vegitables. To do it in a rice cooker, use the steamer plate that came with the cooker (at least I got one with mine) with a bit of water underneath it. Adding water directly to the rice will make it mushy. Of course, the traditional preparation for leftover rice is fried. -- Ed Gould ucbvax!mtxinu!ed