Tips For Cooking Tasty Rice - Toshiba RC-DS10K Instruction Manual

Tips for cooking tasty rice

Measure rice while leveling off
Do not shake the measuring cup.
If you shake the measuring cup,
Measuring cup an excessive amount of rice will
be put in the cup.
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Do not wash rice in hot water
Do not wash rice too long
Washing it in hot water or taking too long will
make it smell of bran.
Wash rice gently so as not to break it
To wash the rice, gently rub the rice grains against
one another with your hands. (Broken rice grains
can cause mushy rice.)
Adjust the amount of water as necessary
For harder rice
For softer rice
For freshly-harvested
rice
For whole rice
For old rice
During the rainy
season and in summer
Adjust the amount of water according to cases, as
it varies depending on the type and area where the
rice was harvested, and how it was stored.
Loosen rice immediately after it has
been cooked
While holding the inner pot with a
dry cloth or mitten, cut the whole
rice into four equal portions and
turn them over one by one to
loosen them.
By doing so, coagulation and
stickiness of the rice can be avoided.
Do not keep the rice warm too long
Instead of keeping rice warm for a long time or
keeping small volume of rice or mixed rice warm, it
is recoomended to wrap the rice in plastic wrap
and store it in the freezer.
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Put less water against the
scale.
Put more water against
the scale.
Put less water against the
scale.
Put the amount of water
on the scale.
Put more water against
the scale.
About rice
• It is recommended to purchase rice which has been
polished as recently as possible in such volume
that you can eat up within two weeks to a month.
• Store rice in a sealed container in a dark, cold place.
Do not leave rice in a sieve basket after
washing it
Avoid leaving rice
in a sieve basket
after washing it.
Water that is not appropriate for cooking
Hard mineral
water
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It causes drying out It causes a yellow
or hardening of rice. discoloration or mushy rice.
Water temperature of 30°C or less
It is recommended to use cold
water when you cook rice by
setting the timer in hot weather.
（
A high water temperature
causes poorly-cooked rice
and/or bad odors.
Please clean the rice cooker as soon as it
has cooled after use
After washing the inner lid
and steam vent, wipe them
with a clean dishcloth to
remove water.
）
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If the rice cooker is
Remove and
left dirty, it can cause
wash the filter.
bad odors.
Do not leave rice in
the pot after turning
off Keep Warm mode.
( It may cause a bad
odor.)
The rice grains
crack and
become mushy
when cooked.
Ionized water
over pH 9
）
Use cold water
in summer.
）
Wash the inner lid
and steam vent and
keep them clean.
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