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(Doug Freyburger) wrote in
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> Ken Knecht wrote:
>>
>> >> Can someone give me directions for making brown rice in
>> >> the microwave? Or does the brand of rice cooker matter?
>> >> My experiments did not work very well. The MW rice
>> >> cooker works fine for white rice but has no directions
>> >> for brown.
>>
>> I fear that I used the wrong words to describe my rice
>> cooking device. This is not a fancy electric cooker, just a
>> plastic dish with two lids that cooks rice in the
>> microwave.
>
> Is it a hard plastic dish that almost looks like a small
> pressure cooker without a lid? I had one like that made by
> Viking at one point. It built up pressure to the point it
> hissed as it steamed the rice. Worked fine but I never saw
> another one in the store.
>
> If you have one of those, the usual approach of using more
> water and less rice will work just like in a regular pan.
>
> If the dish is flat, maybe just use a thinner layer of brown
> rice before adding the water.
>

I think ours are different. Mine has a lid with a hole in the
middle, and over that a solid lid that is clamped down by the
main pot's handles. I have no idea why two lids.

I tried it at 1:2 rice:water, boil first, and 32 min. at 50%
power. The rice was a bit underdone to my taste. But I like soft
rice and perhaps the brown doesn't get as soft as I think it
should. I noticed yesterday that the rice package says 1:2, boil
first, and 45 min at 30% power. I may try that next.

Ken

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