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From: peters@cubsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: how do you reheat rice in rice cooker?
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Date: Mon, 12-Mar-84 11:17:33 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 12 11:17:33 1984
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TO reheat rice in a rice-cooker, you add some water, STIR THE OLD RICE
UP IN IT, then cover and turn on (the rice-cooker that is...).

The point is that water, and not rice, must contact the bottom, 
because the way the thing works is that it turns off when the 
thermostat in contact with the bottom of the pan senses a temperature
in excess of the boiling point of water.  If you don't free up the old
rice, the water may not filter down through it fast enough to boil
before the sensor kicks off.

Actually, you don't really have to STIR the old rice up... If you
just free the old cake of rice from the bottom & make a token effort to 
scrape the bottom (e g, with a wooden paddle), that's enough.

How much water?  Not real critical, as with cooking the rice in the
first place.  Say enough to make a 1/4 to 1/2 inch layer on the
bottom of the empty cooker, depending how much rice you have.

{philabs,cmcl2!rocky2}!cubsvax!peters            Peter S. Shenkin 
Dept of Biol. Sci.;  Columbia Univ.;  New York, N. Y.  10027;  212-280-5517