Comments on: My Life in A Grain of Rice and How I Found My Rice Cooker http://www.notyourmotherscookbook.com/my-life-in-a-grain-of-rice-and-how-i-found-my-rice-cooker/ Home of the Not Your Mother's® Cookbook series, by the Harvard Common Press Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:24:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Beth http://www.notyourmotherscookbook.com/my-life-in-a-grain-of-rice-and-how-i-found-my-rice-cooker/#comment-350 Beth Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:23:35 +0000 http://www.notyourmotherscookbook.com/?p=778#comment-350 Yes you can use the ZO Induction Heating System Rice Cooker interchangeably with the Neuro Fuzzy and Microm cookers. This means you can use the recipes in my rice cooker book as written without any adjustment. This type of rice cooker does not do the steaming except if you place some ingredients on top of the rice while it finishes cooking. Some rice cookers have a small footed plastic tray that can be used for a small amount of steaming. The large on/off machine does the steaming more efficently due to the size. I love the model that has the plastic stacked baskets, Asian style, that fits on top. Back to the high-teck Induction Heating. The induction system uses the most advanced heating method in rice cookers today. Because of this new heating method, rice cooks exceptionally well. This IH Rice Cooker has the same multiple menu cooking functions as the fuzzy logic and microm: white (regular, softer or harder), mixed, sushi, porridge, sweet, brown, and quick cooking. However IH offers a GABA brown rice cycle. This is not a new variety of brown rice, but a newly discovered way of cooking brown rice to “activate” it and increase naturally occurring gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), an amino acid in brown rice believed to make the rice more healthy. The brown rice is soaked at 104°F for 2 hours before the actual cooking begins. IH is different than the regular electric coil in the other rice cookers. IH heating method uses coils within the bottom of the rice cooker to create a magnetic field. When the stainless steel cooking pan is placed into the rice cooker and the unit is turned on, a magnetic field is generated to create instant heat. Through this technology, the inner cooking pan itself becomes the heat source utilizing both high heat and fine heat adjustments to control the cooking process. The result is more evenly distributed heat. In comparison, the Neuro Fuzzy® Rice Cooker & Warmer features electric coil technology that allows the rice cooker to 'think' for itself and make fine adjustments to temperature and heating time through the digital programming. Both styles of machines are excellent and make fantastic rice. I wouldn’t be without my ZO rice cooker. Yes you can use the ZO Induction Heating System Rice Cooker interchangeably with the Neuro Fuzzy and Microm cookers. This means you can use the recipes in my rice cooker book as written without any adjustment. This type of rice cooker does not do the steaming except if you place some ingredients on top of the rice while it finishes cooking. Some rice cookers have a small footed plastic tray that can be used for a small amount of steaming. The large on/off machine does the steaming more efficently due to the size. I love the model that has the plastic stacked baskets, Asian style, that fits on top.

Back to the high-teck Induction Heating. The induction system uses the most advanced heating method in rice cookers today. Because of this new heating method, rice cooks exceptionally well. This IH Rice Cooker has the same multiple menu cooking functions as the fuzzy logic and microm: white (regular, softer or harder), mixed, sushi, porridge, sweet, brown, and quick cooking. However IH offers a GABA brown rice cycle. This is not a new variety of brown rice, but a newly discovered way of cooking brown rice to “activate” it and increase naturally occurring gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), an amino acid in brown rice believed to make the rice more healthy. The brown rice is soaked at 104°F for 2 hours before the actual cooking begins.

IH is different than the regular electric coil in the other rice cookers. IH heating method uses coils within the bottom of the rice cooker to create a magnetic field. When the stainless steel cooking pan is placed into the rice cooker and the unit is turned on, a magnetic field is generated to create instant heat. Through this technology, the inner cooking pan itself becomes the heat source utilizing both high heat and fine heat adjustments to control the cooking process. The result is more evenly distributed heat.

In comparison, the Neuro Fuzzy® Rice Cooker & Warmer features electric coil technology that allows the rice cooker to ‘think’ for itself and make fine adjustments to temperature and heating time through the digital programming.

Both styles of machines are excellent and make fantastic rice. I wouldn’t be without my ZO rice cooker.

]]> By: hopesews http://www.notyourmotherscookbook.com/my-life-in-a-grain-of-rice-and-how-i-found-my-rice-cooker/#comment-83 hopesews Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:13:16 +0000 http://www.notyourmotherscookbook.com/?p=778#comment-83 There is a new kind of rice cooker the IH pressure rice cooker. Have you reviewed this kind? I.E.- Cuckoo, Tiger and Zojirushi. Can this type be used for your recipes and what changes need to be made? Will it allow for steaming? Thanks! There is a new kind of rice cooker the IH pressure rice cooker. Have you reviewed this kind? I.E.- Cuckoo, Tiger and Zojirushi. Can this type be used for your recipes and what changes need to be made? Will it allow for steaming?

Thanks!

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