On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:46:19 -0700, Dee Dee > wrote:

>Not too long ago I bought the Micom Fuzzy Rice Cooker & Warmer NS-
>MYC10/18
>http://www.zojirushi.com/ourproducts...rs/ns_myc.html
>and the book "Ultimate Rice Cooker" book.
>
>This book gives lots of recipes and ways to use a rice cooker for more
>than just rice. My first trial was the risotto with porcinis. Even
>used my own homemade chicken stock and dried porcinis from Germany.
>But what the heck, looked foolproof....

Dee, you really didn't expect to be able to make risotto in a rice maker, did
you?

Yes, you can cook Italian plump, short-grain rice in it, but that does not
result in risotto (at the risk of re-kindling the risotto wars of a year or two
ago... 8 ).

Real risotto is generally going to require a water to rice ratio (by volume) of
3.5 to 4, sometimes more, especially with a thirsty component like mushrooms.

-- Larry