Brown rice in the MW?

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Ken Knecht writes:

Can someone give me directions for making brown rice in the
microwave? Or does the brand of rice cooker matter? My
experiments did not work very well. The MW rice cooker
works fine for white rice but has no directions for brown.

Brown rice requires about three times as much cooking time
as white rice... I've nuked white rice but not brown...
somehow I don't think brown rice will microwave very well.

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Quoted message said:

Can someone give me directions for making brown rice in
the microwave? Or does the brand of rice cooker matter? My
experiments did not work very well. The MW rice cooker
works fine for white rice but has no directions for brown.

TIA

Ken

If you have a rice cooker, try cooking the brown rice in it,
using the liquid/rice ratio that appears on the rice
package. It's my understanding that the way they work is to
measure the amount of the moisture in the pot and to shut
off automatically when it's been evaporated. As it will take
longer for brown rice to cook, your cooker should factor
that additional cooking time in.

I'm sure someone will be along to correct me if I'm
mistaken.
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Ken Knecht said:

Can someone give me directions for making brown rice in
the microwave? Or does the brand of rice cooker matter? My
experiments did not work very well. The MW rice cooker
works fine for white rice but has no directions for brown.

TIA

Ken

I have a 700 watt MW. 2 cups water, pinch of salt, 1 cup
rice. bring the water and rice to a boil in the MW and then
cook for 32 minutes at half power. Let it sit for 5-10 and
it's great.

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Quoted message said:

Can someone give me directions for making brown rice in
the microwave? Or does the brand of rice cooker matter?
My experiments did not work very well. The MW rice
cooker works fine for white rice but has no directions
for brown.

TIA

Ken

If you have a rice cooker, try cooking the brown rice in
it, using the liquid/rice ratio that appears on the rice
package. It's my understanding that the way they work is
to measure the amount of the moisture in the pot and to
shut off automatically when it's been evaporated. As it
will take longer for brown rice to cook, your cooker
should factor that additional cooking time in.

I'm sure someone will be along to correct me if I'm
mistaken.

I fear that I used the wrong words to describe my rice
cooking device. This is not a fancy electric cooker, just a
plastic dish with two lids that cooks rice in the microwave.

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Quoted message said:

Can someone give me directions for making brown rice in
the microwave? Or does the brand of rice cooker matter?
My experiments did not work very well. The MW rice
cooker works fine for white rice but has no directions
for brown.

TIA

Ken

If you have a rice cooker, try cooking the brown rice in
it, using the liquid/rice ratio that appears on the rice
package. It's my understanding that the way they work is
to measure the amount of the moisture in the pot and to
shut off automatically when it's been evaporated. As it
will take longer for brown rice to cook, your cooker
should factor that additional cooking time in.

I'm sure someone will be along to correct me if I'm
mistaken.

I fear that I used the wrong words to describe my rice
cooking device. This is not a fancy electric cooker, just
a plastic dish with two lids that cooks rice in the
microwave.

Oops! I misunderstood (or, more accurately, didn't read
carefully enough). In the words of Roseanne Roseannadanna,
"Neverrrrrrrrrrrrr mind!"
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Donna Rose said:

Oops! I misunderstood (or, more accurately, didn't read
carefully enough). In the words of Roseanne Roseannadanna,
"Neverrrrrrrrrrrrr mind!"

Emily Litella.

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Donna Rose said:

Oops! I misunderstood (or, more accurately, didn't read
carefully enough). In the words of Roseanne
Roseannadanna, "Neverrrrrrrrrrrrr mind!"

Emily Litella.

Brian Rodenborn

Yeah, Roseanne would have been saying "If it's not one thing
its another!"
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characters.

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Donna Rose said:

Oops! I misunderstood (or, more accurately, didn't read
carefully enough). In the words of Roseanne
Roseannadanna, "Neverrrrrrrrrrrrr mind!"

Emily Litella.

Of course! Thanks for clearing that up.

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Donna Rose said:

Oops! I misunderstood (or, more accurately, didn't
read carefully enough). In the words of Roseanne
Roseannadanna, "Neverrrrrrrrrrrrr mind!"

Emily Litella.

Of course! Thanks for clearing that up.

Shouldn't the appropriate response to this revelation be
"Oh. Never mind"?

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Ken Knecht said:

Can someone give me directions for making brown rice in
the microwave? Or does the brand of rice cooker matter?
My experiments did not work very well. The MW rice
cooker works fine for white rice but has no directions
for brown.

TIA

Ken

I have a 700 watt MW. 2 cups water, pinch of salt, 1 cup
rice. bring the water and rice to a boil in the MW and
then cook for 32 minutes at half power. Let it sit for 5-
10 and it's great.

Ah, exactly what I wanted! I'll try it out this morning on
an excellent black beans and rice recipe my sister emailed
me. Thanks much!

Ken

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Ken Knecht said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Can someone give me directions for making brown rice in
the microwave? Or does the brand of rice cooker matter?
My experiments did not work very well. The MW rice
cooker works fine for white rice but has no directions
for brown.

I fear that I used the wrong words to describe my rice
cooking device. This is not a fancy electric cooker, just
a plastic dish with two lids that cooks rice in the
microwave.

Is it a hard plastic dish that almost looks like a small
pressure cooker without a lid? I had one like that made by
Viking at one point. It built up pressure to the point it
hissed as it steamed the rice. Worked fine but I never saw
another one in the store.

If you have one of those, the usual approach of using more
water and less rice will work just like in a regular pan.

If the dish is flat, maybe just use a thinner layer of brown
rice before adding the water.

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Quoted message said:

Can someone give me directions for making brown rice in
the microwave? Or does the brand of rice cooker matter?
My experiments did not work very well. The MW rice
cooker works fine for white rice but has no directions
for brown.

TIA

Ken

If you have a rice cooker, try cooking the brown rice in
it, using the liquid/rice ratio that appears on the rice
package. It's my understanding that the way they work is to
measure the amount of the moisture in the pot and to shut
off automatically when it's been evaporated. As it will
take longer for brown rice to cook, your cooker should
factor that additional cooking time in.

I'm sure someone will be along to correct me if I'm
mistaken.

That reminds me. Has anyone ever found a way to make brown
rice any quicker? What about pre-soaking or something. I
much prefer the brown over the white, but I am just not
willing to wait for it to cook, and I wont leave any cooking
apparatus turned on when someone is not in the house, not
even a crock pot. It's just too risky. I sure wish they'd
make Minute Brown Rice.

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That reminds me. Has anyone ever found a way to make brown
rice any quicker? What about pre-soaking or something. I
much prefer the brown over the white, but I am just not
willing to wait for it to cook, and I wont leave any
cooking apparatus turned on when someone is not in the
house, not even a crock pot. It's just too risky. I sure
wish they'd make Minute Brown Rice.

Have you tried a pressure cooker? It's probably not worth
purchasing one if that's the only thing you'll do with it,
but I find mine invaluable for a host of things. I haven't
tried it with rice, however, as I rarely eat rice.
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Ken Knecht said:

Quoted message said:

> Can someone give me directions for making brown rice
> in the microwave? Or does the brand of rice cooker
> matter? My experiments did not work very well. The MW
> rice cooker works fine for white rice but has no
> directions for brown.

I fear that I used the wrong words to describe my rice
cooking device. This is not a fancy electric cooker, just
a plastic dish with two lids that cooks rice in the
microwave.

Is it a hard plastic dish that almost looks like a small
pressure cooker without a lid? I had one like that made by
Viking at one point. It built up pressure to the point it
hissed as it steamed the rice. Worked fine but I never saw
another one in the store.

If you have one of those, the usual approach of using more
water and less rice will work just like in a regular pan.

If the dish is flat, maybe just use a thinner layer of
brown rice before adding the water.

I think ours are different. Mine has a lid with a hole in
the middle, and over that a solid lid that is clamped down
by the main pot's handles. I have no idea why two lids.

I tried it at 1:2 rice:water, boil first, and 32 min. at 50%
power. The rice was a bit underdone to my taste. But I like
soft rice and perhaps the brown doesn't get as soft as I
think it should. I noticed yesterday that the rice package
says 1:2, boil first, and 45 min at 30% power. I may try
that next.

Ken

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That reminds me. Has anyone ever found a way to make
brown rice any quicker? What about pre-soaking or
something. I much prefer the brown over the white, but I
am just not willing to wait for it to cook, and I wont
leave any cooking apparatus turned on when someone is not
in the house, not even a crock pot. It's just too risky.
I sure wish they'd make Minute Brown Rice.

Have you tried a pressure cooker? It's probably not worth
purchasing one if that's the only thing you'll do with it,
but I find mine invaluable for a host of things. I haven't
tried it with rice, however, as I rarely eat rice.

Actually i do have one and never used it. Its missing the
little pressure thing that sits on top. I suppose they can
be bought. How long would it take, and how do i know how
much heat to use so it sont blowup. My mother had one of
them blowup once. I was a little kid and i still remember
the food all over the ceiling. I got put in bed in the
middle of the afternoon. i think mom was real angry. She did
use the pressure cooker after that though.

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Quoted message said:

That reminds me. Has anyone ever found a way to make
brown rice any quicker? What about pre-soaking or
something. I much prefer the brown over the white, but I
am just not willing to wait for it to cook, and I wont
leave any cooking apparatus turned on when someone is
not in the house, not even a crock pot. It's just too
risky. I sure wish they'd make Minute Brown Rice.

Have you tried a pressure cooker? It's probably not worth
purchasing one if that's the only thing you'll do with it,
but I find mine invaluable for a host of things. I haven't
tried it with rice, however, as I rarely eat rice.

Actually i do have one and never used it. Its missing the
little pressure thing that sits on top. I suppose they can
be bought. How long would it take, and how do i know how
much heat to use so it sont blowup. My mother had one of
them blowup once. I was a little kid and i still remember
the food all over the ceiling. I got put in bed in the
middle of the afternoon. i think mom was real angry. She
did use the pressure cooker after that though.

A quick search with Google will yield thousands of
references for "brown rice" "pressure cooker"

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Actually i do have one and never used it. Its missing the
little pressure thing that sits on top. I suppose they can
be bought. How long would it take, and how do i know how
much heat to use so it sont blowup. My mother had one of
them blowup once. I was a little kid and i still remember
the food all over the ceiling. I got put in bed in the
middle of the afternoon. i think mom was real angry. She
did use the pressure cooker after that though.

Yes, you can buy spare parts. If you no longer have a manual
you might try contacting the manufacturer and see if they
have a copy. Many manufacturers today have .pdf files of
instruction booklets on their websites.

Each pressure cooker comes with its own set of instructions
- that's why most recipes for pressure cooking will tell you
to check the owner's manual for specific cooking directions.
Having said that, my booklet says to cook brown rice at high
power for 15 to 20 minutes, and long grain rice on high
power for 5 to 7 minutes.

Today's pressure cookers are much safer than those our
mothers and grandmothers used, although they should still be
used with care.
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