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Helpful Hints
• Using the Keep Warm function for more than 5 hours may cause
discoloration or an odor in the rice.
• You can adjust the amount of water and/or rice to your own
taste preferences.
• When steaming vegetables please reference the steaming chart in
this manual. The charts are merely a guide, you may wish to adjust
the times according to your own taste preferences.
Washing Rice
When rice is milled some bran and residues adhere to the surface of
the rice. You can remove these residues by first washing the rice with
water before cooking. This will remove excess starch & residues,
which will provide you with much whiter, fluffier rice.
Remember to always use the measuring cup provided to
accurately measure the rice. Add the desired amount of rice to the
Steamer/Rice Cooker inner pot. Fill with cold water until all of the
rice is submerged. Wash the rice by simply stirring the rice around in
the water and rubbing between your hands. You will notice that the
color of the water will become cloudy as the rice is cleaned. Without
spilling the rice tip the inner pot to remove the cloudy water and
repeat several times until the water remains clear.
Cooking other types of rice
Your Wolfgang Puck Steamer/Rice Cooker can handle a wide variety
or rice such as long grain rice, wild rice, yellow rice, brown rice,
basmati rice, etc. When cooking rice other than short grain white
rice it will be necessary to increase the amount of water by 1.5 – 2
times more than the standard short grain white rice recipe. Adjust to
suit your own personal taste.
A note about the measuring cup provided with your
Steamer/Rice Cooker
Your Steamer/Rice Cooker is able to cook a maximum of 7 cups of
raw rice, which is the equivalent of 12 cups of cooked rice. A rice
cooker cup is equivalent to 6 ounces, or approx 3/4 of a cup. This is
why it is important to use the measuring cup that comes with your
Steamer/Rice Cooker and not a standard 8-ounce cup measure.
Helpful Hints cont.
• If the Steamer/Rice Cooker switches to KEEP WARM before the food
is done, you probably need to add more liquid.
• Foods that are overly sweet or oily can cause the Steamer/Rice
Cooker to switch to KEEP WARM earlier than desired. If this
happens, add some liquid like water, wine, stock, milk or juice.
• When baking in the Steamer/Rice Cooker, it is usually necessary to
push COOK more than once. You will need to wait for about 10
minutes after the machine switches to KEEP WARM to be able to
press it back to COOK. This is normal.
• The temperature of the KEEP WARM setting is a little over 180
degrees. This is hot enough to very gently cook foods and far too
hot for any bacteria to grow or for food to spoil. It is very safe to
keep foods at this setting for several hours.
• Do not double recipes in the Steamer/Rice Cooker. The tightly
closed lid will force excess liquid out of the steam vent if you do.
• Use only 2 steaming trays during the same cooking cycle with the
Rice Cooker function to ensure best cooking results.
Care & Cleaning
1 DO NOT immerse the Steamer/Rice Cooker in water.
2 Clean the Steamer/Rice Cooker Housing with a damp cloth. DO
NOT use abrasive cleaners as this would scratch the surface of
the Housing.
3 Wash the Steamer/Rice Cooker Pot, Lid, Steaming Trays, Measuring
Cup, Scoop and Condensation Collector in warm soapy water.
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