I got an Instant Pot!

[conuly]

Used it to make beans, they cooked fast and soft and not gritty, so yay.

Buuuut then I wanted to use it for a rice cooker, and the suggested proportion for brown rice was 1:1. I'm used to cooking brown rice (mixed with quinoa) on a 1:2 grain:liquid ratio... and I noticed that their proportion for white rice was also 1:1. Is this a typo, or is that really what you're supposed to use for rice cooking, equal parts rice and water, even if it's brown? (The rice, I mean. Don't cook with brown water.)

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[marahmarie]

We came across a rice cooker a few months ago that's not only Chinese, the menus on it are too, and the only manual available for it in the world is also in...Chinese. So I don't use it, but the person I live with basically just mashes some buttons (he doesn't even know which ones; he can't recall what he hits from one time to the next) and gets perfect rice every time. And I'm just like, grrrrr. :)

So we have multiple machines to cook food in now (all gained over the last 12 months or so, either unexpectedly or bought) and I can't bring myself to use any of them. That said, getting rice to come out right on the stove is tricky. I follow recipes except for cooking times, which I've recently learned I have better luck "feeling out" than actually "timing", so.

[gatheringrivers]

If it helps you at all:

We usually use a japanese sushi rice (a "short grain" variety) in the ratio of 1:3 rice:water - I think our current variety-of-choice is a "Haiga" variety. Also, the rice is tossed in a bowl and the bowl filled-swished-water-dumped usually 3 times before it goes in the cooker for cooking (this removes a large portion of the loose starch, and makes it less inflammatory later.)

I took a quick look on Amazon and don't see our particular rice cooker model, so it may not be available anymore. The Zojirushi ones on amazon are usually available in english, though.

As long as rice cookers are a thing, I'll probably never EVER cook rice on the stove again - my luck has been THAT bad on the stovetop. :(