My husband and I received a Vita Clay rice cooker as a gift. We'd like to start using it, but it the recipe/instruction booklet is missing. [more inside]
posted by burntflowers on Jan 3, 2009 - 3 answers

Know any freezable and/or crock-pot-able stews that also happen to be vegetarian (or pescatarian) and go well with rice? [more inside]
posted by piedmont on Nov 9, 2008 - 8 answers

Is there such a thing as a decent rice cooker for $50-75? Where should I get it? Do cookers with "brown rice" settings work any better for brown rice? Anything else I should know? [more inside]
posted by piedmont on Oct 14, 2008 - 16 answers

My Zojirushi rice cooker is contaminated with some kind of bacteria or mold. If I leave cooked rice in it for more than 24 hours, the rice goes mushy and stinky. This never happened with my $15 cooker. Help! [more inside]
posted by rxrfrx on Jul 23, 2008 - 20 answers

What size is my rice cooker? [more inside]
posted by The corpse in the library on Jan 30, 2008 - 6 answers

I wish to end my barbaric method of cooking rice in a saucepan. I'm stuck between the Zojirushi NS-LAC05, NS-ZCC10, and NS-TGC10. I've checked the product comparisons. Will I miss not having "Extended Keep Warm" - and how is that different from the already-present "Automatic Keep Warm" anyway? What in the world is this "Rinse-Free" and "Sweet Rice" settings, and will I miss them? Is "Cake" decent? Why is picking a rice cooker so complicated? [more inside]
posted by Xere on Nov 3, 2007 - 26 answers

How can I make boiled peanuts using my rice cooker? And other unusual things not indicated in the operators' manual? [more inside]
posted by DenOfSizer on Jun 17, 2007 - 14 answers

What is this red mould in my rice cooker? [more inside]
posted by 999 on Sep 28, 2006 - 10 answers

How on earth does the "high speed white rice" setting on a rice cooker work? I know the basics of rice-cookery (thermostat attached to heating element checks for the presence of liquid water, as evidenced by temperature staying at the boiling point) but I have no idea how it manages to optionally cook short-grain white rice in half the time it usually takes.
posted by DoctorFedora on Aug 17, 2006 - 12 answers

Does my rice cooker self-clean? [more inside]
posted by nakedsushi on Jan 23, 2006 - 5 answers

Should I try cooking pintos or lentils in my rice cooker? Are there hazards or pitfalls associated with doing so?
posted by namespan on Jul 19, 2004 - 7 answers