On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:46:46 GMT, "James Silverton"
> wrote:

> hahabogus wrote on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:12:43 GMT:
>
> ??>> plain
> ??>> rice of any type is best and most easily cooked in a
> ??>> Japanese-style automatic rice cooker.
>
> h> Which is plain rice to you? To me in Canada it is a long
> h> grain basmati...In japan it is a medium grain rice mostly.
> h> To some in the USA it is Uncle Ben's converted (par boiled)
> h> rice. In Italy the short grains are more commonly used.
>
> Any unflavored rice that is to be served as an accompanying
>starch is "plain rice" to me. I'm sorry that I am a heretical
>non-connoisseur of rice and don't worry much about type:
>arborio, short grain, long grain, basmati etc.:-)
>
All of the above is fine in the rice cooker. Can't say I've ever
cooked brown rice in there though. I cook that stuff on my stovetop.

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