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Wish i had one. My rice is always hit and miss. Poor DH

I was just going to say, my brand new zojirushi has "fuzzy logic" which means it knows exactly how we like our rice and does it perfectly each time.

Heat pot, add tiny bit of oil, add one cup rice, mix around a minute then add 1 3/4 cup water, cover, bring to boil, mix one time and lower to simmer on smallest flame, timer for 20 minutes. Done and perfect every time.

@Anagram: what does the oil & vinegar do? I've never added that before.

I rinse the rice twice and then add 1:2 ration of rice to water and then turn on the rice cooker. And we eat all rice from the bottom; it's usually just a little bit brown.

I agree with @yin, @locavore_mama, @Mrs. Jacks--I use my trusty Zojirushi to make rice. It's the shiz!

My husband likes his rice sticky, he hates when I make it because it's always too dry. Here's how I do it -

I use 1 cup of Jasmine rice, and 2.5 cups of water, no rinsing just straight into the pot. I bring it to a boil, cover and then reduce to a low simmer for 15-20 minutes. There's usually a crust on the bottom and I know it's overcooked

I go with DHs method - put 1 cup jasmine rice, 1.5 cups water, a sprinkle of garlic salt and a tablespoon or so of oil or butter in the rice cooker and leave it until done. (I prefer butter, but DH always uses oil.)

Sometimes if I am feeling especially energetic, I will saute the uncooked rice in the oil before I put it in the rice cooker. It's really great, but negates the ease of using a rice cooker.

I don't know what kind of rice we use, but I do twice as much water as rice, bring water to a boil, turn the stove down, add the rice, some salt and some butter and stick the lid back on til the top layer of rice looks dry and shiny. we love it, perfect every time

I've been trying to eat more brown rice. I like this baked brown rice recipe courtesy of Alton Brown:

Ingredients
1 1/2 cups brown rice, medium or short grain
2 1/2 cups water
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
1 teaspoon kosher salt
Directions
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
Place the rice into an 8-inch square glass baking dish.
Bring the water, butter, and salt just to a boil in a kettle or covered saucepan. Once the water boils, pour it over the rice, stir to combine, and cover the dish tightly with heavy-duty aluminum foil. Bake on the middle rack of the oven for 1 hour.

After 1 hour, remove cover and fluff the rice with a fork. Serve immediately.

Read more at: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/baked-brown-rice-recipe/index.html?oc=linkback

Wow, there are some fancy rice recipes here!! I didn't know you could/should add things like salt/butter/oil/vinegar to your rice while cooking! I wanna try...

Mine is just 3 cups of rice, rinse/swish once, and water up to my middle knuckle (when laying my palm over the rice), and press "cook" on the rice cooker!

There are some fancy ones, wow!

I just put two cups (rice cooker cups) rice, rinse a couple times, add water to the line in my finger or to the 2 (or whatever #) and hit the button!