It's Not Just a Rice Cooker!
Written: Mar 19 '02
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Pros: Excellent rice every time and so much more.
Cons: None.
The Bottom Line: Make life easier and healthier by including the Aroma rice cooker in your kitchen.
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| Teraisa1's Full Review: Aroma 14-Cup Rice Cooker and Food Steamer ARC-837 |
Aroma Cool Touch Rice Cooker and Food Steamer
Rice Cooker Features:
- nonstick inner pot
- makes up to fourteen cups of rice
- one touch operation
- seals in moisture
- keeps food fresh and warm
- includes a Yan Can Cook cookbook
Yan's Cookbook Features:
- Meatball Minestrone
- Sweet Steamed Pears
- Curry Chicken
- Hot Pepper Beef
- Sweet Tapioca Pudding
- Blackened Fish
- Vegetables and Ham Soup
- Three Flavored Dumplings
- Sweet and Sour Pork
- Beef Congee
- and much more.
This beautiful rice cooker is almost an asset to your kitchen -- with it's sparking white exterior. It comes with its own spoon and measuring cup and a detachable inner pot. I suggest you always wash these by hand and immediately place them INSIDE your rice cooker until you are ready to use them again. This keeps your utensils from disappearing.
Cleaning is simple. Just wipe with a clean sponge.
How To Make Rice
Using the recipe in the book, add water by using the included measuring cup or by using the line inside the detachable pot, add measured rice, close lid and press on the cook button. Less than a half an hour later -- perfect rice is ready to eat.
More Than Rice
Rice cookers have come a long way baby! While thumbing through Yan's cookbook, I came across this sentence:
Heat oil in the pot until hot.
What?
I bought a rice cooker, not a deep fryer (which were strategically placed beside the rice cooker)! I turned back to the cover, searching for the words proving they had enclosed the wrong cookbook.
Boy was I surprised. It was the right one. It seems you can cook not only rice and steam veggies, but it's designed so versatile, you can even make meatballs or porkchops.
No kidding!
Originally, I bought Westinghouse's small rice cooker, but as our family grew to nine, we finally broke down and bought this one. Am I ever glad, too. This cooker makes absolutely perfect rice every time.
When cooking, be sure the cord is not hanging over the edge of the counter and that the younger kids do not put their hand in the steam rising from the top of cooker.
Many people feel the rice cooker is a luxury, but I foresee it being a necessary item in the future, such as the telephone and microwave once were. Okay, perhaps I am exaggerating a bit, but this cooker is well worth the money.
Vegetables are healthier when steamed and the rice cooker couldn't make it any easier. You can ignore the veggies while you do other things. They will not overcook or burn.
If you are still pondering it's necessity, please read on about the pleasures of adding rice to your diet:
Why Rice?
- Rice alone has no fat. Zip. Zilch. None.
- Rice in an invaluable source of complex carbohydrates*.
- White rice contains only 103 calories per half cup.
- Brown rice contains only 108 calories per half cup.
- Rice is cholesterol free.
- Rice is sodium free.
- Rice is non-allergic and glutton-free.
- Rice is easily digested.
- Rice is extremely affordable.
Which Vitamins Are Found In Rice?
Both white and brown rice contain some of all of these vitamins:
Dietary Fiber
Protein
Thiamin
Niacin
Iron
Riboflavin
Vitamin E
Calcium
Phosphorus
Potassium
Why Are Certain Rices Enriched?
According to Cooking With USA Rice, "..during the milling or polishing process, the quantities of these nutrients are reduced. To bring the nutritional value of the milled product up to that of whole grain (brown) rice it is enriched with thiamin, niacin, and iron."
How Do I Get My Family To Eat Brown Rice?
Our first rice dishes were pure white rice. When I heard brown rice was a bit healthier, we bought a ton of it and discovered... it is a bit harder in texture and our kids did not like it.
I didn't want to give up, yet I wanted them to actually ingest the rice without force. We started making rice by combining white and brown. The first month we used one quarter cup of brown rice to each cup of white. Next, we used half and half. Now, we use three quarters cup of brown rice to each cup of white rice and everyone is happy.
I honestly doubt my family -- myself included -- would have ever made the switch without the rice cooker. Brown rice on the stove just doesn't cut it for me, and it's no fun.
*A carbohydrate, as sucrose or starch, that consists of two or more monosaccharide units. The primary function of carbohydrates is to provide energy for the body, especially the brain and the nervous system. The body breaks down starches and sugars into a substance called glucose, which is used for energy by the body.
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