Perfect Rice

I don't like a lot of kitchen gadgets.  I don't like lots of "stuff" on my counters.  In fact I'm wary of buying any new fad item that I suspect will end up sitting on a shelf after a short time.

BUT, I have to say that I absolutely love my new rice cooker.  We eat rice often with all of our soups and vegetables.  And I've spent more time than I want to admit scraping rice from the bottom of my pots.

I went to our local bargain store, Ollie's, and bought a $12 rice cooker.  It has a 6 cup (of cooked rice) capacity, more than we would ever cook at one time.  I tried it out and we've been enjoying PERFECT rice for 2 weeks now.

We use Basmati or Jasmine long-grain rice.  Put 1 cup of rice and 1 1/2 cups water plus a pinch of salt in the bowl and turn it on.  By the way, it also cooks Quinoa perfectly.  The ratio is 1 cup Quinoa to 2 cups water.

The lovely thing is that it starts on "Cook" and then magically switches to "Warm" when the rice is done.  I can leave it alone for an hour and when I return for my perfect rice, it's still perfect!! It even comes with a plastic spoon that scoops out the rice from the nonstick bowl wonderfully.  The bowl rinses clean quickly along with the lid.  It also cooks Quinoa perfectly.  The ratio is 1 cup Quinoa to 2 cups water.

I looked online and discovered that you can spend over $200 on rice cookers!!  Who knew?  I think I'll stick to my Rival cheaper model.

If you like rice or quinoa and don't like to clean the sticky pot, try a rice cooker!