Breville RC3 Family Rice Cooker and Steamer

One of the things I hate most about cooking is cooking rice. There is a very small margin of error between it being just right, and mushy. So I bought a rice cooker. Got this one because of good revies on other sites, plus it was down to £20 in Argos! It was bigger than I expected, taking up mre of the counter than I wanted, but as long as the rice was good (we eat a lot of it), I would be happy. The instructions are clear. 2 scoops of rice, 2 scoops of water, throw it all in, turn on, 15 minutes later, rice. That works in theory, but reality is a bit different. One of the main issues I had was that the minimum of 2 scoops of rice ...  Read the complete review

When I was a child my Hong Kong-living cousins came to visit for a while and my auntie brought a rice cooker with her. Back in the 70's boil in the bag rice with a sloppy chilli con carne was as exotic as it got in our house - but with the arrival of my cousins there was a whole new world of delicious Cantonese dinners, a mince dish for breakfast and the most memorable fluffy white rice. Now I cook a lot, but over the years even rinsing the rice, letting it stand or using a microwave I have never quite recreated the delicious rice I remember from my childhood. I had long hankered after a rice cooker, but it was one of those things I had ...  Read the complete review