h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've been the ecstatic owner of a microwave rice cooker for a couple of years. This is basically a plastic bowl with a vented lid. You add rice, and 1.5x its volume in water and pop into the microwave. If you use boiling water it's even quicker at around 8 minutes for a mug of basmati rice.

Other models come with a 'liner' as well which has holes in the bottom and can be used for steaming other vegetables such as mangetout.

Do you want to add something in about that?

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Caroo

Huh. I've never heard of such a thing, but it seems like a really good idea. Since it's fundamentally a different sort of device, I think it deserves its own entry. (Care to write it?) We could link the two entries since both devices do cook rice. But (for example) my beef stew recipe would be impossible with a microwave rice cooker.

-J.P.

This is true. But then I tend to cook my stew in a slow cooker [pot with gentle heating element] for anything up to 12 hours. Lovely!

I think we might be looking at a whole kitchen gadget subsection here

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Caroo