You might not think a rice cooker belongs in the same class of essential cooking tools as, say, a chef’s knife or cutting ...

Each time, it has yielded fluffy, perfectly cooked grains, no matter if I’m making long-grain white, short-grain white, or brown rice. And the keep-warm setting works well. Once, I let a batch ...

There are tens of thousands of varieties of rice. Sticky (or glutinous ... If cooked properly, long-grain rices will stay separate and fluffy, as in a good pilau. Because wholegrain rices retain ...

Image caption, Long-grain rice, like basmati, whether brown or refined, cooks to fluffy separate grains, while short-grain rices are starchier. The stock is the base of the risotto, the foundation ...