10 Mistakes when cooking rice with a rice cooker

1. Wash rice directly inside the rice cooker

Many users have a habit of voicing rice directly in the rice cooker. But do you know that to be safe with users, the manufacturer has created a layer of pot protection. Direct rice washing in the pot makes the protective surface scratched, not only reducing the aesthetics of the rice cooker, but also making it unsafe, especially with non-stick cookware.

The best advice is to rinse the rice with a basket / basket or a small brass then pour the rice into a rice cooker and add water before cooking.

2. Soak rice before cooking

To save time, people often soak rice before cooking rice before cooking. The soaking of rice in the water will cause the rice grain to be inflated, making the nutrients dissolved in the water. At this time, rice seeds will no longer have nutritional value. Therefore, avoid soaking rice in water before cooking.

3. Open the pan as soon as the rice cooker jumps to the keep-warm mode

Normally when cooking with a rice cooker it automatically jumps to the reheat button when the rice is cooked. If you open the lid of the rice cooker right now, you will see that the rice layer on the surface is puffy and the lower floor is too tight, making it difficult to clean the pot.

For good rice, do not stick to the pot, you should add about 5 - 10 minutes after the pot jumps to warming mode and then turn over, stir the rice.

4. Eat moldy rice

Many housewives for reasons of regret and use of moldy rice by carefully voicing. However, this has just lost the nutrients in rice, and is extremely harmful to health. Because when the rice shows mold, it is not in the shell itself, but the fungi are already in the stem of the rice so you cannot remove it by voicing many times. The fungi that cause mold are capable of producing extremely high cancer.

5. Use milled rice too white

Consumers often prefer to buy milled rice because they look beautiful and taste better. In fact, the type of rice that is milled too much makes the outer bran layer - which contains the best nutritional ingredients of rice - also taken away.

The other thing you eat is just the sugar powder of rice, which is the reason why you have the risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, edema . if you eat too much.

6. Use cold water to cook rice

According to statistics, up to 9/10 housewives often use cold water to cook rice. This way of cooking causes rice to swell, nutrients are dissolved in water.

Cooking rice with boiling water will make the rice cooking time shorter, the rice ripe faster and ripen evenly and more flexible.

If rice is cooked with hot water, the outer layer of the rice grain will quickly shrink to form a protective film that helps the rice not be broken, cracked, thereby the nutrients will not be dissolved in water or evaporated.

7. Do not wash your hands before washing rice

This is one of the most common mistakes and is less interested in housewives. However, every day our hands come in contact with lots of bacteria and dirt. Even according to a study in the US, an average of 1,500 bacteria live on the palm. Therefore, not washing your hands completely can be the way you pass bacteria into your body through a rice cooker.

8. Let the cooked rice take too long to use

Many people are busy with rice from early morning for lunch. However, this will reduce the quality of your rice, no longer porous and sweet as fresh rice. According to some advice, cooked rice is about 10-15 minutes in use.

9. Do not dry the pot before plugging

Many people often have the habit of after the rice is finished, always insert the pot to plug. This is really harmful if the outside of the pot with water will wet the heat tray, causing the risk of fire, electric leakage, unsafe for the user.

10. Press the 'Cook' button multiple times

When you want to reheat rice continuously, create a burning rice or when simmering / stewing / making a cake with an electric rice cooker, you need to press the 'Cook' button several times to reach the heat level as expected . This makes it easy to loosen the rice cooker. making it jump too early (raw rice) or too late (making rice).

Should minimize the need to press the 'Cook' button multiple times when using the rice cooker.

Every rice cooker has a protective layer or a non-stick layer, so if you use metal pickers, it will scratch, peel and peel off the protective layer / non-stick layer of the rice cooker. Therefore, to protect your rice cooker, pay attention to using a spoon, chopsticks to get rice or wood.