I plan on using this mostly only for rice. I saw that the white rice come out good. How does the brown and sticky rice come out?
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Beautiful: The DE103 has separate setting for Brown and sticky rice. I've had this rice cooker for about a year and I can't say anything bad, It's a wonderful rice cooker.
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The brown and sticky rice comes out excellent every time once you get the proportions correct (water to rice). Fill water to line first in rice maker bowl then add same number in cups of rice. In other words, if you fill water to line 2 then add exactly 2 cups of rice (their measuring cup). I hope this helps.
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Sticky rice is perfect! Have not tried the simple brown but a mix of wild rice was great.
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i`ve made regular brown rice (directions included) but don't know about the others. Love this item though.
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Yes, I think most rice cookers can cook both brown and white rice. My wife is Japanese, so she cooks a lot of rice. Brown rice takes longer to cook, and a bit more water. She likes to soak the brown rice overnight before cooking. These cookers have some kind of sensor inside to tell them when the rice is cooked. Perhaps the sensor shuts off when all the water is evaporated.
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It works great for both white and brown rice. I tried steel cut oatmeal and turned out well, but so far have not tried wheat, barley. According to the Aroma
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I haven't noticed that brown rice takes longer to cook...it always comes out nice.
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My wife always cooks white rice. So we do not have that experience. I guess that cooker should work well with brown rice.
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Johnny - you might want to experiment with a little more water than regular white rice. I cook brown rice in my Aroma rice cooker daily.
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Actually this unit, my 3 cup did not have a sticky rice setting. But I found advice out at Zojirushi that said rinse the rice as you would for sticky rice (strain it until there is no white color in the water), and then let it dry for 30 minutes, use the normal white rice setting. perfect sticky rice.
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Yes. I cook Asian sticky rice. It is fool proof. Once cup rice, 1 1/3 cup water. Six minutes on the high pressure setting. Then let it steam on warm for a few minutes. No stirring, boiling over, or cooking down. You can double, triple (or more) the amount and it's still six minutes. You need to adjust water a little for brown rice.
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Hi, you can cook brown rice, but you have to make sure you soak the brown rice for a couple of hours first.
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It works well for brown rice. I haven't found a rice it doesn't handle well (except wild rice which is not really a rice). I still need to do more wild to figure that one out.
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Have not cooked brown rice in it. Any rice cooker will cook brown you just have to add extra water. Makes fluffy white rice.
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I like sticky rice - Korean style. I rinse the rice. Then add 1 cup of water for each cup of rice.
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I cook it in my rice cooker all the time. I use the same amount of water as for white rice. I like it a bit chewy. You might add an extra Tablespoon or two of water if you like it softer.
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This is short grain white rice, which is the most commonly used rice to make "sticky rice" for sushi. I am a novice sushi maker myself and this the only rice I use for my home made sushi. You'll want to read up on how to prepare sushi rice but I can give you my general steps. First, I wash the rice in a strainer until the water runs as clear as possible. Otherwise, the rice powder from processing and packaging will make your rice overly sticky. Next, I soak the rice in my rice maker for 30 minutes, then I use the white rice setting and cook until done, then I leave the rice in the machine on the warm setting for 30 minutes. Afterwards, I season the rice with my rice-vinegar sushi seasoning mix and fan to cool. These basic steps will give great tasting sticky rice.
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I too found my brown rice to be a little "mushier" than I would have liked. I just use a little less water than the marking on the cooker and have excellent tasting rice that is neither mushy nor hard.
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The machines do tend to "spit" somewhat out the top. I find that if I rinse the rice in the basket and leave it a little wet, then add 1/2 cup more water than recommended, the brown, black, or other specialty rice comes out moist and there is no dryness at the bottom. If you leave it on the warm setting too long before serving, then you can also get the dryness (crust) from that as well.