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TRACYPALERMINI
5/16/07 8:46 P
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| Use your oven, its the best thing to use. preheat oven to 350. Just use a traditional brownie pan. use 1 cup rice to 2 cups water, a pinch of salt. Be sure to mix up the water with the rice so all the rice is seperate. then cover tightly with foil, and put in oven for a half hour. and you have perfect rice. You can do the same thing with traditional white rice, only subtract 5-10 minutes. depending on if you like it aldente or not.
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CHELSADILLA
5/13/07 10:33 P
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I cook brown rice in an electric rice cooker, and I use 1.25 cup water for 1 cup brown rice. (For white rice, I'd use one part water to one part rice).
The only difference I've noticed is that brown rice scorches really quickly if I leave the cooker on the "keep warm" setting too long...
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JONIWANTS2LOSE
5/11/07 5:13 P
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| oooh thank you for those links!!!!I was very leery about brown rice because I have never been able to make rice outside of using a ricemaker (always burned it) LOL
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CLASSICANA
5/11/07 12:32 P
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Brown rice definitely has to cook longer than white - I'd add about ¼ cup extra water for 1 cup brown rice and try it. I know I had to make some adjustment when I was using a regular rice cooker, otherwise it was still a bit under-cooked.
edited: I just found these two websites with rice cooker/brown rice info:
http://www.sallyskitchen.com/html/cook_rice.html
http://www.mealsforyou.com/cgi-bin/recipe?id.8572
Sally's kitchen site says to double the water! Wow, I'm sure I didn't add that much, but maybe her's will be a better result.
Good Luck!
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JONIWANTS2LOSE
5/11/07 11:58 A
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By self-regulating, if you mean it shuts itself off "COOK" mode and goes to "WARM" - YES.
For white rice 1 cup of white rice needs 1.25 cups of water in my rice cooker. 2 cups of rice = 2.5 cups, etc., etc.
So I am just curious if brown rice in the electric rice cooker/steamer would be the same water-rice ratio.
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CLASSICANA
5/11/07 11:27 A
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I use a microwave rice cooker now, but I've found the ratios to be about the same as my old electric one.
I only use brown rice - I've found wonderful long-grain Basmati brown rice - YUM..
For 1½ cups rice, I use 2¾ cups water - about ¼ cup more than the white rice ratio--
For the microwave, I set it for 18 mins. The electric ones are self-regulating, right?
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JONIWANTS2LOSE
5/11/07 12:46 A
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| Is it the same formula/ratio of rice to water as regular white rice?
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