3 tips you should know before cooking soups and stir-fries in your rice cooker

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1 YOUR RICE COOKER.

Basic rice cookers (the kind that can only be either turned on or off) heat up and cook faster than their more advanced counterparts that come with various functions for cooking different types of rice. So adjust the timings of recipes accordingly based on your rice cooker. 

2 PREHEAT FOR 3 TO 5 MINUTES.

The rice cooker is ready when you feel a mild heat coming from the inner pot – place your palm just above the base to check.

3 PICK THE RIGHT INGREDIENTS.

When creating your own rice-cooker dishes, use ingredients that take roughly the same time to cook so you don’t have to keep opening the appliance to add them, which affects the heat in the rice cooker.

This article was originally published in Simply Her January 2015.