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A rice cooker might seem like a one-trick pony, but it's a multi-functional tool that's great for cooking much more than just rice. You can use it to steam vegetables and eggs using the steamer basket ...

Your rice cooker has capabilities far beyond its namesake. Here are a dozen things you can make in a rice cooker that aren't rice. Pamela is a freelance food and travel writer based in Astoria, Queens ...

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Perfectly cooked rice requires a surprising amount of precision and nuance. Who among us hasn’t struggled over a stovetop trying to find the right ratio of water to rice or the ideal heating ...

I’ve been cleaning my rice cooker all wrong. Meaning I’ve really just been washing the bowl with every use but neglecting to clean other parts of it, including the removable inner lid, because, well, ...

In my wider tested review, the Aroma Housewares ARC-914SBD Digital Cool-Touch Rice Grain Cooker And Food Steamer stood out as the best value rice cooker of the bunch. Ahead, learn more about this ...

As a chef and cookbook author, one of my pet peeves, aside from when folks mix up macarons and macaroons, is when someone fluffs rice, still inside a rice cooker bowl, with a metal spoon. Or with any ...