Originally Posted by
gfunkdave
Hey
uk1 and other Zojirushi owners - do you find that brown rice sticks to the cooking pot? Do you have to pre-soak brown rice?
I'd like to get a rice cooker so I can make whole meals with one button, but I'd mostly be making brown rice. I was also considering
this Sanyo (which is $50 cheaper than the Zoji NS-ZCC10 and seems like it does more - includes a steaming tray and can function as a crock pot), but the reviews say that brown rice sticks to the nonstick surface. This would be too much of a pain for me.
Basically, I want to be able to throw rice, veggies, and maybe chicken or fish in the rice cooker and have dinner ready. I would also like to be able to make oatmeal. Do I even need a fancy rice cooker, or will a simple one suffice for this? If so, which simple one do people recommend? I
want the fancy Zoji because I want a new toy...but I can't quite justify the expense.
So far no rice has stuck!
Thrilled to bits with the Zoji but as I have no other rice cooker experience (previously manual) I cannot compare.
The thing is that once you've bought it it should last so it's a one-off expense. I'm shortly off to our other base in the UK and I'm wondering how we're going to survive down there without Zoji but boot space (non-existant) doesn't allow him to join us on our trip ..... everything else is duplicated right down to the fully automatic Gaggia - so I'm thinking of a second one!
I tend to buy specialist equipment for different tasks so all I want from a rice cooker is perfect rice ... not stews or other things. Like many things, you don't think you need one until you have one then you regret the time you didn't have it. For the first time I've recognised why more of the world's populations' daily staple is rice than any other staple.
It is my instinct that if you are making a dish that has rice in it ie with meat and everything then a rice cooker isn't for you because the process you're describing simply cooks the rice for the same length of time it takes to make the meat tender. So you could do the same by substituting potato for rice. So a slow cook pot would do it probably far better. But also so would a decent oven pot on a very low temperature.