Product Description

The rice cooker is extremely popular because it is so versatile—it is a perfect steamer and all-purpose cooking pot. This newly revised title shows you how to steam vegetables, fish and chicken, make desserts, prepare dim sum, boil eggs, and cook a variety of grains – as well as many recipes that use cooked rice as a base and a variety of one-dish meals. Because the rice cooker steams to cook, it is both healthy and easy to clean up – perfect for the home, dorm room, ski cabin, or studio apartment.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #869128 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

About the Author
Coleen and Bob Simmons are the talented authors of many best-selling Bristol titles. Their other nitty gritty® books include Quick and Easy Pasta Recipes, From Your Ice Cream Maker, Beer and Good Food, Cooking With Chile Peppers and Cooking With Grains. They teach, give demonstrations, write food-related articles, and are avid collectors of books on food and wine.

Customer Reviews

OK
This book is nothing compared to Beth Hensperger and Julie Kaufmann book. This one leans more towards convenience but most of the recipes in here you can find in other variations online. There is nothing inventive about it. Beware, this book is a barely updated version of Simmon's other book "Versatile Rice Cooker". I bought both thinking they were different, but they are almost exactly the same.

Regret spending money on it
The description of this book should have said something about what size rice cooker all the recipes are for. Once I started reading the book, I discovered all the recipes are made for an 8-10 cup cooker. I would not have purchased the book if I had known this. I bought a 3-cup cooker when I bought this book, and I can't figure out how to scale down the recipes to fit in my cooker. So, the book is basically useless to me.

Does a rice cooker cook only rice?
The answer is, of course not! But, if I hadn't gotten this book, I would not have known. There's a recipe for rice cooker apple juice oatmeal, which my family just loves. Tastes like dessert. There's all kinds of steamed vegetables, with times and how to cook. Other grains recipes. Delicious rice recipes. If you're getting a rice cooker, I'd suggest you get this book.