can you use grains other than rice on steam?
638371
I steam vegetables, fish,farro, rice...anything that taste best steam...I also reheat leftovers with steam, so they do not get dried up.
1365093
Yes, definitely. The steaming part is used when you need to steam something otherwise just use put the rice on the "bowl" into the base and cover with the glass top. Don't forget to press the switch to cook :)
117156
Yes you can. Brown rice 2 cups/3.5 cups water/ 2tblspns butter(optional) for 25 min. White rice is the same except for cook time is 10min. These times are intended for Long Grain Rice and it is notrecommended for instant rice in this cooker. There are recipes that include rice, like Black Beans and rice or Red Beans and Rice, both are good. When cooking rice you have to select the Manual Cook button. I have not tried other Grains myself, so I can not comment on that. Hope any of this helps.
1365097
Yes, that's what I do all the time. To be honest, I'm not sure where my steamer part even IS any more as I use this exclusively for rice.
1005230
You can use a rice cooker with any rice but it'll be almost the same hardness as uncooked. It will puff if you do it on the stove with double the water and double the time.
1251874
No, it makes it very fine like flour. If you just want to crack grains I suggest trying a food processor on "pulse".
481950
I haven't been able to. Using as little as cup steel cut oats, on either brown or white rice settings, the water ALWAYS boils over, getting starchy water all over the top of the rice cooker and spilling onto the counter. I've determined a larger rice cooker is needed to make oats for 2 people. If others can do it, I'd love to know how.
1130
I guess you can steam in the pressure cooker but timing will be VERY tricky in my opinion. Use a covered Corningware in your microwave preferably.
555900
Not sure about other brands but I do know that this rice cooker is excellent. It also has a computer chip which allows you to use a time, I put cracked wheat in at night and it is ready for me in the morning, and yes you can use it form many grains since you have different cooking options.
1073085
Yes you can even though that is not the purpose of a pressure cooker. The best use for this would be to cook meat/vegetable/rice faster with the build up of steam inside.
739800
While I have not used it for this purpose a rice steamer came inside the unit. The instruction manual also talked about steaming vegetables in this unit.
585849
Yes, but if you are using short grain rice, use 1 & 1/2 cups water. Long grain rice will work with the 1 & 3/4 cups water.
1039896
I've never tried steaming rice, but I don't think it would work well. There are two trays inside, one with larger holes and one with smaller. The larger holes definitely would be too big for rice, and the smaller ones probably would also be too big.
93771
No. Use lettuce or other leaves (kale, cabbage, escarole, etc.) to line the steamers or, if you are steaming fish and can find it, fresh seaweed.
1129401
I used it several times it burned my rice. Takes up too much counter space. Don't know about veggie steaming
1818565
You can, but I don't think that's a good idea. It supposes to cook rice only, oily food will decrease its useing time.
1922241
Yeah, you can use short grain rice for sushi. It's stickier than long grain rice.