Rice Cooker Tip

Have you ever struggled with cleaning the rice cooker after every meal where you had to scrub and scrape all the burnt/stuck rice from the bottom of the container?

This happened to me, especially when the rice cooker gets older and the non-stick surface of the rice container degrades.

One tip which I like to share to solve this cleaning problem is to use ALUMINIUM FOIL.

What you can do is to put the uncooked rice and water onto an aluminium foil and place it into the container. Make sure the water in the aluminium foil does not leak out. In the space between the aluminium foil and container, add a little bit of extra water. This is to make sure the foil gets good contact with the container through the water and to allow the rice cooker to detect when cooking is done. (This works cos most rice cookers use a thermostat to determine when the rice is cooked i.e. when the water dries up, temperature goes > 100 degrees C)

Result: 100% Fluffy rice without s single grain getting burnt! Better yet, just rinse the rice container, no scraping or scrubbing!



BTW, for those who want to know how a rice cooker works, here's some interesting links:

How Stuff Works (Rice Cooker)
How a Rice Cooker Works (Some girl on YouTube)