leafing through

I love this rice cooker! When I first moved, my parents gave me a rice cooker which they got as a gift from a newspaper subscription. It was one of those traditional rice cookers with the nonstick inner pot. The kind that can only cook rice, although it did have an inner steamer basket. Overlooking the fact that it was made in the P.R. of China, seeing as how it was free, I tried using it a few times. The first batch of rice came out dry and kinda’ hard. The second batch burned the bottom and patches of it were undercooked. It had no on and off button either. If you plugged it in, it was at least on “warm” mode. And the warm mode burned already cooked rice. To make up for the dryness and burnt bottoms, I added more water, which resulted in mushy rice on top, with still that layer of burnt. To be sure it wasn’t some other reason besides the fact that it was just a crappy rice cooker, I even tried Asian rice purchased from the Asian market! To no avail. So after a batch of mushy rice which was terribly hard to turn into fried rice, I finally gave in and purchased this rice cooker yesterday night (Incidentally, it was my first time out since last Friday afternoon.). This thing can steam eggs, buns, make soup or rice porridge, reheat foods. It is a multifunctional rice cooker, made of stainless steel (no Teflon)! AND, get this: it has an on/off switch.