hi just started using a rice cooker and am using american long grain rice , but when cooking in cooker its ok but just after cooking and then warm mode light come's on, then skin appears on bottom of rice is it a case of adding more water and stiring ,or any idears
cheers andy

Don't use American long grain rice.


BigRed

Agreed. Jasmine rice or Basmati if you're stuck. Rinse well a couple of times in cold water and add equal amounts of water to rice, 1 cup to 1 cup. If it doesn't work, your rice cooker's knackered.

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If it doesn't work, your rice cooker's knackered.

GTG, you are beginning to sound like me..... God help you!!!!

I just have little idea aboth skin non stick at the bottom of rise pot,
If the hob is electrict that easy to non stick.

Put rice and water ( over rice )
Boil rice in couple minute until rice looking change and turn heat down little bit ( about 5-6 )and keep stiring.
turn heat down to 3, when see the lavel of water drop down. and little stiring.
Turn heat down to 1 or 2 with cover the rice pot.
Wait for couple minute ( about 5 minutes ) turn off the hob, but don't move the pot from the hob, and don't open the lid because stream inside the pot will working and skin won't stick at bottom of the rice pot.

I always do this way before i got electrict pot rice.

hope that can be little help.
By the way I used any rice that I can get, but I prefer Jasmin Thai Rice because have lovely smell good trst.
Kob

cheers all will try different rice in cooker tonight see how it goes , kob if my cooker is knackered i will try your suggestion cheers, i see we live close im just outside Eastbourne been here about 5 years nows
regards andy

andy,

"How did your tea go tonight"?

Personally I'm back on takeaways etc while Dao is in LOS for a month!
Regards
colin 244

colin244 errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
i used basmati rice little bit more water than sugested and yeppp still stuck, rice perfect on top just skin again on bottom ,it,s a argos cookworks , i had perfected boiling rice before or so i told myself guess ill have to take it back got recipt just no box ,,, im pre washing rice (cold water) adding more than 1 to 1 of water to rice using level on cooker and more guess its been euroed
cheers andy

Hi Andy.

When the rice was cooked did you leave the rice cooker plugged in?

If so it might be the problem like mine, i used to

leave the plug in the socket.

Now I take off the plug when the rice is cooked and now my rice is always ok.

Good luck.

had chips and omlete tonight aroy chibasixty yep i see what u mean, but then that eliminates the warm mode , so i will try that next time but think GTG will be proved correct
cheers andy

The rice type shouln't matter too much. My wife only uses Jasmine, but a [Thai] friend of ours much prefers American long grain, matter of choice I suppose. Anyway they both cook all right!

thongchai - perhaps you need to take a trip to somewhere like Wing Yip in Croydon to get some Thai rice.

hi peter, good link, drove past there many times, the online service looks ok for now , when the wife finaly gets here will make a trip then
cheers andy

andy,
I had rice tonight which was ok mind you I bought it at the local chinese!
colin 244

Thai Rice is available in Earl's Court, Putney and Hammersmith

as well

- Skippy

Last time I was in the UK thai rice was available at Tesco's although in farang sized packs and not sticky rice.

ash

Starch is your skin you need to wash american rice two or three times before cooking.

jasmine rice high grade 5 star will be full polished and need no washing,tolly boy and tilda veetee etc are 3 star these need washing to clean off starch.

basmati is often used in the thai restraunt trade as its
good and easy to cook, restraunts often use old rice that is very dry this takes in the water, new crop is softer
and breaks up with too much water.

sean

Most Indian or Pakistani grocers sell Thai rice in 10kg bags, at least round here they do.