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Dish at 1:20PM on 02/21/07
Yes! I wrote a post about this on my now-idle foodblog Bite by Byte: Rice Cookery
The jist:
Roger Ebert makes non-rice things in his rice cooker: "You can live your entire life never cooking with anything but a rice cooker. In fact, I’ve been threatening to write the rice-cooker cookbook. There’s a warning on my machine that says, 'Do not cook anything in this but rice.' But there’s no reason for that warning. You can make stews, soups and pasta in it."
So does chef David Bouley [behind TimesSelect pay wall; sorry!]: "The Japanese chefs also showed him how to make tiny one-dish meals inside the cooker. To illustrate, he seasoned rice with a bit of soy sauce, rice vinegar, mirin and tomato water and put it in a ceramic crock small enough to fit inside the pot. After about 20 minutes, he stirred in morsels of half-cooked lobster, diced raw asparagus, minced chervil and tarragon and a splash of sake. Then he steamed the dish for another five minutes. 'High-end crock cooking,' Mr. Bouley said dryly."
Adam Kuban at 2:11PM on 02/21/07
Wow, this is great! Thanks, Adam and Dish.
My mom gave me a rice cooker about 10 years ago and I have never used it. I'll check out some of these tips and report back.
Myszka at 3:13PM on 02/21/07
Apparently you can make bread, too (check out the food manga "Yakitate Japan", vol. 2 I believe).
msmla at 3:51PM on 02/21/07
There are even cookbooks devoted to rice cooker recipes.
I also found this page documenting how to make bread in your rice cooker.
Alaina Browne at 5:16PM on 02/21/07
My mom used to use the rice cooker to not only make rice, but to steam side dishes as well. IIRC, she made ground pork w/ salted eggs, ground pork with shittake mushrooms dried scallops and dried shrimps, small thin fish topped with ginger and scallion, etc. I guess anything that you would steam can go in the rice cooker.
JadedOne at 5:48PM on 02/21/07
oh, yes! my aunt gave me an incredible char-siu (bbq pork) recipe that's made in the rice cooker - you marinate pork butt or shoulder with soy, garlic, shallots, hoisin, hou chee sauce etc. overnight, then plunk the whole mess into the cooker and wait for the button to pop up. sometimes i push it down a couple times just to get the pork all caramelized and the sauce nice and syrupy. delish with a bowl of steaming white rice.
sugartoast at 10:01PM on 02/21/07
@Alaina, @msmla: After reading your posts, I was really into idea of making the bread with the rice cooker (not that I've ever made bread at all)...but that link didn't work. I'll have to search around on the site. Wait, my rice cooker only has two settings: cook and keep warm. I can really make bread in that thing?
@Slice: I saw in that Bouley piece that the rice cooker cooks all around (not just at the bottom) and that's what makes cooking in it better. But, how does it cook differently from, say, a "Presto Kitchen Kettle Electric Multi-Cooker?" I ask because the person who was subleasing my apartment from me left one of these cookers behind and I can't wait to deep fry something in it! (I'm scared, too!)
Myszka at 1:47AM on 02/22/07
I usually pop in a couple eggs, vegetable, and sometimes some marinated meat when the water starts to fall in the rice cooker. It comes out perfect.
Recipe4Living at 2:13PM on 02/22/07