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You can make up to 4 cups of cooked rice in the Decor Microsafe® 2.75L Rice Cooker. The rice cooker comes with a handy measuring cup and rice paddle. Other features include the red steam release vent and safe-hold handles that stay cool to the touch.
BPA Free
Food Safe
Australian Made
Does it differ for different sized cups and what is the water to rice ratio normally like.
This looks good for a quick and easy clean up and can be used as a food bowl also so two in one.
Put into jug 1 cup medium or long grain rice and 2 cups hot water. Microwave without lid on high until cooked through (about 12 minutes). Remove from microwave. Cover with lid and let rest for 2 minutes. Fluff rice in jug using two forks.
Serve. https://www.decor.com.au/recipe/perfect-rice/
Since the lid is not required during microwaving, might as well just use a normal bowl ?
i use the same ration regardless 2 to 1 with a dash more water
That is my ratio as well.
2 water : 1 rice
more water if I want it too be more soggy and wet which is nice sometimes
I like sometimes eating it just before it completely dries when it is still wet.. make a really nice soggy texture goes well with vegetables
@AlienC: make sure you are chucking the lid on after a gentle stir with Basmati rice you cant get it wrong
100 of these or 1 Tiger?
Plastics containers like this become powdery white from the inside after few times in microwave
I feel like the plastic would melt from the heat of the rice.. I bought some sistema one recently and reheated some pizza too hot and yeah the bottom of the container feels kind of soft or bent a bit.
I don't think these containers deal with heat very well.
Oils and fat get superheated in the microwave which damages most plastic containers.. If you avoid oily foods most containers last fairly well, or keep the power down, avoid "high" with oily foods..
lol all I eat is oily fat food at least in containers
pizza
burgers
stir frys
thai noodles
thai fried rice
yeah so maybe this is not a good idea for me then
I used to eat mi goreng two minute noodles and microwave pasta maybe I could use it for that but I feel a large porcelaine or whatever material but microwave safe white bowl does a better job.
@AlienC: these 'microwave safe' plastic container usually only rated up to 120-150deg
heated oil = over 200deg
@dcep: is that Celsius?
I know the microwave heats up the oil but I feel like it is not 200 degrees Celsius because that would burn my tongue
@AlienC: yes, celcius when it sputters inside microwave and microwave doesn't heat evenly
surely you let it cool down to allow the heat spreading evenly around the mass before putting it into your mouth
the temperature difference after 5 seconds of removing from microwave is huge as it dropped drastically
@dcep: Ah I get what you mean so like peak temp is 200 deg when heating oil but yeah that dies down fast after few seconds so you never get to actually put it in your mouth at 200 deg
I've been through a few rice cookers over the years due to them breaking down like that, have had this particular brand for 18 months with no deterioration yet. I use them mostly for those continental pasta packets that you add water and margarine to.
Honestly I think anything with water will be fine because the heat is not as directed or intensified as something like pizza or a burger where all the heat is concentrated into one area especially if you over heat it.
Boiling water seems to be fine in these microwaveable plastic containers but anything that can get piping hot easily more so than water might start mimicking the heat intensity of say a flame and well yeah these plastic containers are not melt proof like metal, ceramic or stone.
@AlienC: I treat this one the same as I treated the others and it hasn't started flaking/peeling like they did. I also cook Green's self-saucing pudding in it pretty often, they get very hot.
These microsafe ones don't.
They do. I can upload a photo of a few containers that have become white…
Don't know what to tell ya. I've had one of these for several years and would have made hundreds of batches of rice and been through the dishwasher hundreds of times.
@coxymla: Yeah, haven’t had that problem with my containers either. But you are meant to throw them out when they do start to show wear.
I bought the previous version of this about 3 years ago. It's made of the very same material and colour, just taller than this one with a locking lid. I've used it many dozens of times. There's no powdery white happening. It looks just like the day I bought it, apart from light marks from using a stainless whisk to rinse the dust off the rice in water before cooking.
HOWEVER… I also have one of their thinner-walled mugs that is the same red, but I don't know if it's the same material. A few weeks ago I used it to reheat some gravy in the microwave. It completely ruined the inner surface.
So I think the difference is what you heat in it. i.e. The gravy in the mug was based on butter/fat. That obviously melted the plastic surface. So maybe the food had a high oil content. In other words, use this as intended: water only, no fat or oil (though I often put a little olive oil in mine too, if I don't have time to rinse the rice thoroughly, so it doesn't stick as much), and only use the plastic spoon (no metal utensils) and it will last years. Well, apart from the lid anyway… I have other containers by them with that same pattern on the lid. They break really easily in the freezer. So unless someone plans to cook rice in their freezer, this will be fine.
The lids are my bugbear with the decor range. They do tend to break
@try2bhelpful: Yep. I bought 2x of their largest square flat ones for pastry sheets. Put them in the freezer and the lids broke on both within a couple of days. One just slid a little and bumped against the freezer wall and I watched it crack. They're just not suitable for their designed purpose. The lower part is fine. But drop or bump the lids AT ALL (while they're in the freezer) and they just snap through, like tapping thin toffee with a spoon. The first one I tossed the lower half in disgust (it broke within 24 hours). When the second one broke just a couple of days later I phoned them and gave them an earful how they weren't fit for their designed purpose, and should come with a warning NOT to use them in the freezer. They sent me two replacement lids. So I now have a spare because I had tossed that first one away. Now I have to treat it like a delicate flower: it always has to be on top on everything else, perfectly level so it doesn't slide and bump anything else, and I take it out before doing anything else in the freezer so nothing bumps it by mistake, wait a few minutes out of the freezer before removing the lid so it softens, etc. You shouldn't have to be anywhere near that careful with plastic freezer containers.
@GregMonarch: I don’t use them in the freezer and the lids still break. I use my ziploc bags for freezing everything. I wash them with dish washing detergent, and air dry them, and they stand up well to repeated uses.
@try2bhelpful: I can't believe they put that same awful lid on this new rice cooker. The old style (the one I have) was a more robust material, so obviously wasn't making them enough money through people buying replacements. It only just fits in my small microwave. Perhaps that is why they changed the design. (This one is wider and shorter.) But the old lid had permanent holes in it too. Because this one can be 100% sealed, I can see some people putting this new one straight into the freezer (and many broken lids in their imminent future).
@try2bhelpful: You wash ziploc bags… LOL.
Q1: Are you female?
Q2(a): Single?
Q2(b): If yes, what are your thoughts on polygamy?
;-D
@GregMonarch: Washing the Ziploc bags is a no brainer. We bought an octopus clip from Ikea and leave them hang over the laundry sink to dry and then turn them inside out to complete drying. We do similar for the green bags for the veggies. We also reuse the material bags rice comes in for potatoes and onions in the pantry. Let's them breathe and really easy to pop in the washing machine to clean.
https://m.ikea.com/au/en/catalog/products/art/50421215/?bvrr…
We have a worm farm. Yogurt containers make good veggie scrap containers for the worm food. If you can't take it out immediately then you can put the lid on to stop the flies getting in.
We reuse packaging for bins. A reused good stiff paper bag is great for recycleable things like toilet rolls as you can just pick it up and put in the recycle bin - no sorting.
We get ziwipeak air dried food for the cats, and they won't eat the crumbs/powder, so we preseive it with a wide mesh basket, put the seived stuff in one bag, and put the crumbs into another to mix it into their wet cat food.
One of the advantages of going to an electronic "newspaper" is we don't have the plastic wrapping anymore. I can still do my cryptic crossword with less guilt.
We try to keep the house around 18 degrees in winter and 28 in summer. Using as much passive temperature control that we can.
We live inner Fitzroy so we mainly walk/public transport everywhere - the car comes out roughly a couple of times a week.
I would really love it if supermarkets had areas for bulk refill of products like laundry liquid. I'm sure an automatic filler could be rigged up and a label printed to stick on the side to scan through the checkout. Similar to the deli section.
There are so many ways we can reduce our foot prints with only a very little bit of effort. It isn't everything but it is something.
Female, with partner, - you still interested?
@try2bhelpful: LOL. Nah - love my wife to bits.
I hope we get to own our own home one day. I want to have all sorts of fruit and nut trees, chickens if the neighbours don't whine, etc. If I had my way, we'd be out in the country somewhere with a running creek or river to spend summer days in… [sigh].
@GregMonarch: Absolutely agree with you. As a kid we had a small house but a big backyard with fruit trees and an almond tree. Nothing tastes better than fruit straight off the tree and climbing trees is good exercise.
We have friends with chooks and their neighbours haven’t clucked about them. The main issues are they will trash the garden if left free range and they do need to be locked up at night to avoid foxes, even in urban areas.
Best of luck to you and the missus for the future.
I have one of these I've used in my campervan for the last 3 years so I can cook without splatters and eat straight out of it… I've never used it for normal rice but it's had a fair bit of use doing 2-min noodles, Continental type packet pasta and rice dishes, heating canned food and such, it's still as good as new, no complaints…
yeh i use mine for rice at least twice a week for 2 years , still in perfect condition.
Love these things. I use it to microwave vegetables when I’m too lazy to steam them.
Yeah, I do that. I boil the kettle first though, cover the vegetables with hot water, and microwave 7-9 minutes.
Thanks so much I picked up mine yesterday, hoping it puts an end to my tragic rice cooking
Rinse the rice first till most/all of the cloudiness is gone. And once you get the amount of water right, leave the rice sit for a few/several minutes after cooking with the lid still on (but the clip open). The rice just comes out better that way, than taking the lid off and/or serving immediately.
12 mins of microwaving