Panasonic SRG06FG 3.3-Cup Automatic Rice Cooker
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Panasonic SRG06FG 3.3-Cup Automatic Rice Cooker
Customer Review: Try a 5.5 rice cooker... 3.3 has limitations.
Summary: 5 Stars
To me, the magic of cooking rice has a lot to do with prep work. Cooking is the final step. That said, a rice cooker is only doing the final step, no more. The final step involves measuring the correct amount of rice with the correct amount of water... some packages of rice tell you their measurements, some do not. After the measurements are made, they are put into the rice cooker, and the rice cooker does it's job. After the rice cooker is done, due to it having no warming function being a 3.3 and Panasonic's lowest priced model. Therefore, you must not touch the lid for at least 10 minutes after the rice is done. 20 minutes wouldn't hurt.
Measurements:
Nishiki white rice - 12 oz Rice to 16 oz H2O
Nishiki brown rice - 8 oz Rice to 24 oz H2O (water will overflow in this 3.3 size.)
Sho-Chiku-Bai - 12 oz Rice to 18 oz H2O (Koda Farms)
Prep work for Rice:
Rinse the rice. Like washing your vegetables, rinsing your rice makes a better tasting rice. Put the rice in a bowl add two or three times as much water, then move your hand around in the water until the water is dirty. Pour the water and rice into a strainer so the rice stays, and the water does not. Repeat until moving your hand in the water does not make the water dirty.
Soak the rice. Leave a container of rinsed rice with two or three times the amount of water over night. Rinse the rice once for anything that loosened. Now it's ready to be cooked.
Try to buy good rice and don't forget to do this rice prep work. This is how to have the better tasting rice.
Once the rice is cooked, you can do several things with it, including creating hamburger buns out of it.
The Manga Cookbook This is a good cookbook... seriously. It tells you how to do simple things many other cookbooks do not.
If you have health issues, you may consider adding True Health 'Ultimate pH Balance' to the water used for soaking, and to the water measured for cooking.
As for the durability of this product... I've cooked easily over 50 lbs of rice in this rice cooker, as well as have moved once. It still performs as on the day I bought it. Of course, remember to clean the rice cooking container the night you make the rice, so the rice doesn't harden. This way, you can use a washcloth to clean it so the non-stick stays around.
Customer Review: Teach an old dog new tricks
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been cooking rice for years but lately my short grain brown rice has been less than stellar. Over the weekend
I was watching a cooking program for the best chef. I noticed that one of the contestants was using an electric rice cooker and was making brown So I thought hmmmmmmmm. I ofcourse my favorite one stop, one click shopping is at Amazon.com. I read the reviews for the above rice cooker and decided it was the best bet.
It came in two days!
Anyway, last night I was reading the directions and thought I was losing my mind as they were less than stellar.
hmmmmmm. So back to the reviews. I read manny of them and took to heart many of the points. I guess everyone has
their own ideal how to use the rice cooker. So I decided to rinse the rice and then go with 2 1/2 cups of water, 1 cup of
brown rice, a splash of olive oil and salt. Amazingly enough the rice was perfect. I also sprayed it with pam. It makes a nice amount of rice.
Now I have moved on to the rice pudding. I am not a big fan of rice pudding but I thought this might be better and I might like it.
I have some of that steel cut Irish oatmeal and am thinking of soaking it over night in the cooker and jump out of bed in the morning and plug it in.......Stay tuned. I might wear out the cooker in a short time.
As a good snack try adding a little peanut butter and soy sauce to a serving of brown rice as a snack. Yummmmmmm.
Back again. Yes I did the oatmeal thing. Soaked steel cut oats overnight in cooker and turned it on first thing.
Excellent! Also made the rice pudding. Took note to half the recipe. Good advice. Excellent. Wondering if I can use evaporated milk instead of the coconut milk. Today I made Quinoa and it came out perfect. I cup of Quinoa to
two cups of water. Plus a little salt. I will probably wear it out. Good thing I am going away for awhile!
Customer Review: works great
Summary: 5 Stars
Fast easy no fuss way to make rice in a snap. The directions are a little Engrish-y. But in a nutshell:
Scoop out your desired rice amount say 2 cups(using the enclosed scoop).
Rinse the rice a few times in a strainer to get some of the starch out--help it from making a bubbly mess and I find it makes better sticky rice.
1.Dump rice in cooker.
2.Add water to the proper line. Two cups of rice means you add water up to the fill line 2. And yes you put in the water after the rice is already in there.
3.Turn on, wait 15 minutes for the cooker to shut off and let the rice sit unmolested for 15 minutes before eating. = perfect rice.
The directions also recommend soaking the rice for 30 minutes before turning the cooker on, I never do and the rice turns out perfect...let the steam do the work and don't stir or take the lid off while cooking.
Super easy clean up since the unit is non-stick. Can't ask for more at the price. I love mine.
Update: It's June 2008 and mine is still working great. I now don't even bother to rinse the rice first and I've never had my cooker bubble over. For making brown rice, I add a little more water than normal, say 1/4 cup.
Update: 2010, still works great and after running it (the cooker base insert) through the dishwasher all these years it has not yet chipped or scratched or flaked. Also found out the cooker works great with Vigo brands pre-packed Red Beans and Rice or Black Beans and Rice 8oz bags. (1 packet = fill line #2 of water)
Customer Review: Pretty good stuff (even after one year!)
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a really nice hassle-free basic rice cooker. I got it about a month back and have been using it everyday. Somethings about the cooker:
1. Ease of use: very easy to use. Calibrations for water measures inside the rice cooker are spot on. No need for any improvisation.
2. Cleaning: very easy to clean as its non stick and rice doesnt stick to the bottom, unlike other cheaper cookers.
3. versatility: have cooked two very different types of rice in this and it manages both with panache.
4. quality of rice output: very good, fluffy rice. Manages to cook even the starchiest ones properly (though you would need to clean those a little more than others)
5. wish list: wish this had a steam basket.
I highly recommend this one as its value for money at $20.
UPDATE (11/04/09):
1. Everything that I said above still holds true.
2. Apart from small scratches, no damage to the product yet.
3. Surprisingly resilient (I once dumped rice and water into it, only to realize that the plastic container wasn't there...)
4. Still cooks any type of rice with ease.
Seems like its in for the long haul. $20 well spent (pat on my back...)
UPDATE (01/24/11):
1. Still works the same as the first day I got it.
2. No damage to electricals yet.
3. Have learnt that a little extra water doesn't hurt and would lead to less scratching due to scraping with spatula.
4. Cooks all kinds of rice (brown, basmati, starchy) and we cook pilaf in this all the time.
Customer Review: A Really Good Rice Cooker For Smaller Quantities of Rice
Summary: 5 Stars
Works just fine. It's simple and basic, and good for cooking small quantities of rice. Just right for 2, or maybe up to 4, people. The non-stick coating makes for easy cleanup. And since it doesn't have a "warm" feature, there's even less chance of rice sticking to the bottom. The warm feature isn't really needed, since one is likely to use up what's been cooked during one's meal, before the rice gets cold.
Sometimes, while cooking, the rice water will foam up and sputter out the side.
Well, some varieties of rice DO create more foam than others.
I don't think foaming is the fault of the rice cooker; rice just tends to foam while cooking. Try rinsing the rice several times before cooking. That usually reduces the amount of foam. Some people even soak the rice for a while before cooking, but this can be a nuisance if time is an issue.
This IS a rather small cooker, so cooking 2 or more cups of uncooked rice will be more likely to cause some sputtering, although, once again, the variety of rice that you cook and whether you rinse the uncooked rice a few times first makes the difference between sputtering out or not. But really, it's not a big deal if it does!
I paid just $21.85 for it from Amazon, and since the total was over $25(I ordered another item along with this cooker), I had it sent via Super Saver, which meant no shipping charge.
A really good rice cooker at a really good price!