Sorta OT - Adventures in brown rice cooking

Botch

Today I fry-steamed some Gyoza/pot-stickers from Trader Joe's, and put a batch of brown rice in the Aroma rice cooker.  It wouldn't turn on (I dislike membrane switches).  So dumped the water/rice into a pot, brought to a boil, covered and set to low for 20 minutes, then turned off the heat and let it set for 10 more minutes.  Fried/steamed the potstickers to be ready then, but the rice was still hard.  So, I just had pot-stickers for lunch.
 
Hit EweTube and watched 8 different videos on how to cook brown rice; I now know 10 uniquely different ways to cook brown rice.    (the last video featured 3: stovetop, microwave, and pressure cooker).  
 
Jon Kung showed how to do it in a rice cooker, he said to use the brown rice fill-lines in the pot, but not the brown rice setting, hit the white rice button instead.  I checked my own pot, it doesn't feature separate fill-lines for white and brown rice, but it cooks cooked brown rice perfectly (before it broke).  He uses a fahncy Zojirushi, I used a cheap Aroma.  
 
Some said to soak the brown rice for 15-20 minutes first; some for 2-4 hours, one said overnight.  
 
All of the videos said to rinse the rice until the water runs clear (makes sense), but then to "thoroughly" drain the rice... Why?  You just dump the wet rice into a pot and cover it with water again.    

Checked amazoid and I'd purchased that rice cooker ten years ago, was still only $35 (I will be buying a new one locally).  Use my rice cooker maybe 3 times a week (Dad would be pissed, he was a part-time potato farmer).  
 
 
Almost forgot: the Trader Joe's Gyozas are excellent.  Cabbage isn't soggy, whole peas, and little chopped shrimp in the filling, it wasn't just a paste filling like they make McNuggets out of.  And they cost less than what I normally buy; recommended.  
 

 

fishlessman

havent made rice in a while but when i did i used a simple korean stone pot. korean grocery store near me sold them cheap as well as big home made bags of potstickers, they have since closed and i miss not having those potstickers handy.

rice was pretty simple in it, no buttons to break

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i might clean out that pot and try this soon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8CD283Xu6o

Botch

Ooh!  When I was still working there was a Korean restaurant just south of the base (with the misleading name "Seoul Food") that I'd hit once a week, for either Hot-n-Spicy Chicken, or their Bibimbap.  
Think I know what I'm doing for lunch today!  

fishlessman

Botch said:

Ooh!  When I was still working there was a Korean restaurant just south of the base (with the misleading name "Seoul Food") that I'd hit once a week, for either Hot-n-Spicy Chicken, or their Bibimbap.  
Think I know what I'm doing for lunch today!  

the thing thats nice with those inexpensive stone pots is that you can get some rice to crisp

MaskedMarvel

My rice game is super solid, developed after years and years of screwing it up. Doesn’t change much, based on which rice I use. Can’t eat it as often now (A1-C), but those who’ve had it still request the “Damien Rice” when I bring food around …