Rice Cookers and Steamers
If you are looking for a small appliance that will get lots of use in your home you need to check out rice cookers and steamers. These little cookers will not just end up in the small appliance grave yard with all those other little tools that are handy but just too much trouble to get out and clean up. They is a handy tool that can cook rice perfectly every time, can steam vegetables, and can be used for cooking soups and stews.
Of course, the rice cooker can cook rice. It will cook your rice to perfection every time. A thermostat in the bottom of the cooker senses when the last bit of water has cooked away. The cooker switches to warm just before your rice would burn or scorch. A good rice cooker is able to have your selected amount of rice cooked in twenty to twenty five minutes. That is only about fifteen minutes more than it would take to cook instant rice that requires you to boil the water and then let the rice sit for five minutes.