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The secret to having a delicious Japanese rice cooker is not only in choosing quality rice but also in a very special way of cooking.

After cleaning the rice, people pour enough water and put 2-3 cold ice cubes in the pot for about 15 minutes before starting to plug in the electricity, press the cook button. This is the secret to cooking fragrant and flexible rice of Japanese people.

Explaining how to do this in the scientific perspective is that the stone will delay the time of water absorption of rice, making the rice after being more flexible. In addition, putting ice in rice will increase the amount of amino acids, preventing enzymes from decomposing sweetness in rice grains, making rice more delicious.

Also, when cooking rice, Japanese people often add some spices to make rice taste better. For example, people like to add one teaspoon of honey. They believe that honey works to retain water, making rice more delicious and flexible.

Some people also put a little salt with a few drops of sesame oil or olive oil, peanut oil in a rice cooker with the purpose of making it fragrant and soft.

More specifically, Japanese people also put some beer in the pot to cook rice. The purpose of this is to help soft rice and increase flavor. Others use tea to cook rice. This is a way to help fragrant rice, rice has eye-catching colors and benefits the digestive system.

To cook rice with tea, you need to prepare 0.5-0.7g of tea leaves, soak in 1kg of boiling water for 5-8 minutes, use a cloth to filter all the residue. Pour this tea into clean rice and cook like normal, wait until the rice is cooked.

Another good Japanese cooking secret is roasting rice before cooking. This is often used when cooking for feasts or for offerings on major holidays. The roasting of rice before cooking will help the rice grain not be soaked with water that makes it difficult to eat. Roasted rice is also more attractive. When roasting rice you can also add a few tablespoons of alcohol to the rice will be fragrant, softer.

One of the secrets to keeping the rice smelled, the longer it is, put a few drops of Japanese white vinegar into the rice cooker. If you don't have this kind of vinegar, you can use regular white vinegar.

Some other notes to have a good rice cooker:

- Note when washing rice: It is recommended to gently wash rice over the bed to remove rice husk and grit. Many Japanese have a habit of soaking rice 20-30 minutes before cooking. This method helps the rice to bloom and ripen evenly. However, this only applies to Japanese rice, brown rice or sticky rice. For the type of rice eaten by Vietnamese people, the soaking of the rice will make the rice ragged and light.

- When the rice cooker has finished cooking and switches to keep-warm mode, it is usually possible to eat rice. However, you should keep the rice cooker in warm mode for another 10-15 minutes and then eat. This helps to keep rice cooked and cooked evenly.