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GREAT PRODUCT FOR THE PRICE!!
If you're using pre-cooked rice (and most of it is these days) use only 1 cup of rice to 1-1/4 cup of water or it will stick, get gummy, burn on the bottom etc as other reviews state. Also I recommend you only cook two cups dry rice per cycle to avoid the boil over that other's complain about here on amazon. And if you keep taking the cover off to stir as some others write about here on amazon, you'll ruin the rice. You need the steam to fluff the rice properly. If you remove the lid to stir you let steam/water go out each time thus changing the ratio you first measured. Unless you have managed to locate raw uncooked rice (which as I stated above is extremely rare these days), you will not want to use the old ratio of one cup of rice to two cups of water. I recommend you try any new purchase of rice with the 1:1-1/4 ratio and if you have managed to obtain raw rice you can always add more water to complete the steam. With rice it's a matter of common sense. It's an art form. Steaming rice is delicate work and this steamer will help to get it done. I've cooked rice on the stove top for many years with great success as well. But this little bugger makes my job easier than ever before. Unfortunately much of the rice you're buying today in those big plastic bags off the supermarket shelf is pre-cooked these days. And as such requires experimentation to perfect. It's become more like minute rice than raw rice. I can't tell you more than to just try until you get it right. It's not the cooker, though if you are experiencing sticky, burned or gummy rice. It's the rice. Each batch is different and requires your discretion.
[Monday, October 27, 2008]
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Poor design. North worth even a 10 dollars
I bought it on a Friday Sale for around 10 dollars, and then found it's nearly garbage. The Amazon "List Price" is obviously too high for this little thing. Don't believe it.
[Friday, August 01, 2008]
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Ready Rice!
I bought the Salton 3-cup rice cooker over the negative reviews of several people. However, with a little tweaking, it does what I want it to do perfectly! The criticism that rice sticks to the bottom happened only one time. After that,I started to add a bit (a TBS or 2) more water than the book recommends, and sometimes I put a tiny drop of oil on the bottom & spread it around w. paper towel or fingertip. No more sticking! The criticism that it boils over? ONCE that happened to me, & that was when I tried to cook Trader Joe's Harvest Blend multi-grains & pasta in it. This cooker does brown rice and quinoa for me with no problems. We're just 2 people & the bigger, fancier ones were not for me.
[Friday, February 08, 2008]
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