Rice cooker timer fritzed out and I got crunchy soup for dinner

My Aroma 6-cup rice cooker decided to stop counting down halfway through its keep-warm cycle last Tuesday. I ended up with a layer of burnt rice on the bottom and mushy liquid on top, totally useless for the stir fry I planned. Had to scramble and boil a bag of frozen jasmine rice in a pot instead, which took forever. Anyone else have a rice cooker fail on them mid-meal prep and have to improvise fast?

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rubys805d ago

Idk, maybe it's just me but @daniel474 your congee idea reminds me that the real issue here is those rice cookers don't have a proper timed keep-warm setting, just a constant low heat that kills the rice. I'd add that a cheap thrift store rice cooker with a simple on/off switch has never failed me compared to the digital ones with all the bells and whistles. Crunchy soup beats burnt charcoal any day I guess.

daniel4745d ago

oh man that sucks, i've been there. my old zojirushi did the same thing last year during a huge batch of chili, left it on warm way too long and the whole bottom turned into a charcoal brick. what worked for me was actually salvaging the top part that wasn't burnt and dumping it into a frying pan with some extra broth and veggies, basically turned it into a weird congee situation. added soy sauce and a scrambled egg and it actually tasted decent enough for dinner. now i always set a phone timer as a backup when i use the keep warm function, learned that lesson the hard way.