Continuing adventures in rice

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Okay, picked up a Rival rice cooker/steamer today ($15 at Target, dunno what I'm ever going to want to steam, but it's good to have the option) and a bag of extra long grain white rice to start with. It strikes me that white is a little more forgiving, plus the carb difference between white and brown was negligble in the brands I checked (I guess the boil-in-bag type has such a big difference due to the effects of the pre-cooked nature).

Due to misreading the instructions, I almost used four times too much water (the cooker came with a special measuring cup for rice and I goofed on unit conversion in one step) but caught it before plugging in. The rice came out nicely fluffy, if a bit sticky. Also, the rice cooked at lower than boiling, so it didn't retain quite enough heat to fully melt all the added ingredients...gonna have to put 'em in a saucepan and pre-warm (no microwave) next time. Then just eat out of the saucepan, since I'm a bachelor.

Went with 1/2 cup of rice, about 60g of carbs (as opposed to about 90g for a single bag of boil-in-bag). Also had a smaller than normal cup of milk, maybe 8oz instead of 10oz. Now to wait two hours and see how the blood sugar likes it. Normally I wouldn't be having rice two days in a row, but since I'm in experimenting phase, I figured things would be different enough to avoid getting tired of it. :)

A bit more clean-up involved, since I don't intend to eat right out of the cooker bowl. That's a quick way to wreck the no-stick coating, as I've found with other cookware.

Update: 148 mg/dl, a little high, but not as bad as "the usual". Plus, of course, now I can tweak levels down as desired.

Comments

[hooper-x.livejournal.com]

Asparagus. Steamed asparagus is great.

-hx

[robotech-master.livejournal.com]

White rice may be more forgiving…but first you have to apologize to it.

Apologize to the rice!

[foomf.livejournal.com]

Talk to your dietician.

[realtegan.livejournal.com]

Love my rice cooker. I don't have the same issues as you, but I often do a quarter cup of rice and steam veggies of some sort in the steamer tray while cooking the rice. For me, the calories are the issue, and veggies can fill you up without lots of calories.

Clean up is the pain with a rice cooker. I've yet to find a way to keep some of the rice from sticking to the bottom. Maybe I need better quality rice.