Has anyone actually cooked something in this other than rice and soup? I can cook those in a pot on the stove. Cooking a chicken perhaps
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Made a lamb and veggies stew in it twice - came out perfect. Fried onion and lamb in a bit of grape seeds oil for 7-10 minutes, than slow cooked for 2 hours layers of meat an veggies in this order: onions, lamb, potatoes, carrots, cabbage, egg plant, bell pepper, tomatoes, garlic, dill and parsley stems. Salt and black pepper between each 2 layers. You should really try it!
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Browned sausage and made cream gravy to go with buttermilk biscuits today. Cooked a blueberry cake in it last weekend. Sauteed chicken and mixed veggies middle of last week. Roasted potatoes with veggies. Beans and rice. Browned hamburger and then made spaghetti sauce. I haven't had it but a couple of weeks but unless it breaks prematurely, it's a great appliance, easy to clean and if you read the manual first to understand how to set it, it is very easy to set to the different cooking modes, times and temps. As one person mentioned it does cook faster than stove top, so watch your times until you get a feel for it. Very easy clean up. Easy to adapt my regular recipes. Be sure to use plastic or high temp silicone utensils with it, what comes with it are fine if not quite all you need. If I was sending a kid to college with 2 appliances for their dorm room (or picking 2 for an RV/Cabin) it would be this and a microwave. I haven't turned on my stove top since I bought it and my oven only once to bake the biscuits, which I could have baked in this before making the gravy, but wanted extra to stick in the freezer. Tomorrow night I am thinking a quiche or frittata for supper as we were given 2 dozen fresh eggs today.
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I HIGHLY recommend a rice cooker for rice. I've not used this particular appliance, but own a rice cooker and it is so much easier, better, and more consistent than cooking it on the stove. Set it and forget it!
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Don't eat canned chicken that stuff is horrible for you! Boil your chicken shred it and you can make anything with jt
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I haven't tried soups. But I normally make a brown, black, sweet, lentil and bean rice which I like. Hope that helps.
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I believe it is. It takes about 55 minutes to cook on the stove and you can tell it is cooked when the grains fluff up, hence I would say it is uncracked. It definitely is not like the quick cooking version you find in the grocery store. I prefer cooking it on the stove rather than a rice cooker--the first time I cooked it using the rice cooker but it never fluffed up. I read about wild rice in the Joy of Cooking and the rice is properly cooked when it gets fluffy (cracks open). Sorry, long answer to a short question.
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Even tho I usually use rice cookers for rice...I cooked this rice the old fashioned way, on the stove. :) Good luck.
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I have cooked 1 cup of rice as the smallest quantity. I normally use 1 to 1 with my liquid (usually chicken, beef, vegetable or mushroom stock). Give it a try at 3/4 but use 1 cup of your stock and watch it carefully the first time. I bet it works just fine. Good luck!
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I would do it but not a large amount because it is Batsami rice is does tend to foam more as I cook it on the stove top and have to watch it closely till it simmers. Delicious and healthy. U will love it. Sure is not Uncle Bens Converted Rice! Had a rice cooker once a long time ago when I was making much to feed a crowd. Still 2 to 1 ratio. All we buy now unless I want to make brown rice or wild. Quinoa is great as well as kasha as an alternative to rice !
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well, if you do with boneless & small cut finger food size chicken, yes. otherwise i wouldn't do it because, it is not deep enough for frying.also the bottom is like embossing not flat at all. i did rice cook in 15 min that was too long and got brown part on the bottom. i had to soak with warm water to remove the burned rice mostly on the embossing bottom. i needed extra work. it wasn't hard though.for me, i bought it for quick rice cooking & meat stew. rice cooking takes about 7 ~ 9 min. the others i did not try yet. anyway i love it.
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I make steam rice in the same pot too. Whether you have a gas or electric stove, once the water is boiling you have turn the heat down to very very low. There is no need to stir it. Low low heat. Just steaming is enough to cook for rice.
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Interesting question! I do not think I would do this. The instructions that come with the rice cooker do not address using this for long term cooking. Would stick with a crock pot for a stew. Crock pots have thicker sides and would hold the heat better, I would think.
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I cooked raw chicken thighs just today and they turned out GREAT. I saw a reviewer's photos of his chicken wings and decided to try, and it worked fine.
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I have cooked quinoa in my cooker and it did a fabulous job. I used approximately the same instructions for rice as for quinoa. I did not use any oils as the manufacturing instructions says to avoid this. I did use some light seasonings. Worked great.
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Wish I could help. All I've ever done is cook brown/wild rice. Set it and let it go. Sorry.
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Mostly veggies (green beans, broccoli, baby potatoes, baby carrots, whole artichokes). Steam raw shrimp to cook it perfectly. Steam whole eggs instead of boiling them for Hard Boiled Eggs (this works GREAT and the shells just slide right off). That's all I can think of at the moment, but I'm sure others have more creative usage ideas. :)
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The printed materials accompanying this product are at the bare minimum. However, you can just load the pot with your ingredients and press the button that says "soup" (or rice, or...). We mostly make porridge and rice. Any standard pressure-cooker recipe will work, as you can select how long to cook on the front panel and then the cooker heats up and cooks quietly until the food is done.
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we've been cooking all kinds of combinations of brown rice, quinoa, millet, etc. works great! you may have to adjust water amounts, but beyond that, nothing special required.
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it depends on what you want to do. pure meat - can use soup botton. but rice and meat together, dont know how you are going to deal with it.but it does work well, i do love it