My favorite rice cooker! An older Zojirushi. Thankfully the brand still offers some old parts for it. I’d inherited it from a relative who’d scratched up the steel bowl that goes inside it. I was able to buy a new replacement for a fair price. I often cook rice, lentils and quinoa in it. Does a brilliant job. Easy to clean.
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Alright! A proper rice cooker 
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Does yours play “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” when it starts to cook?
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Jesus, I’ll tell you how to cook rice
cover the base of the pan with olive oil, turn it on mid power (5)
cut half an onion, slice it, throw it in, let it fry for 1 minute
throw in a cup of rice, let it fry and absorb all the olive oil
when there’s no olive oil left, add 2 2/3 cups of hot water
a bit of salt. use a wooden spoon to mix and keep the lid open (don’t close the lid!)
let it cook 5/7 mins low power to desired moist.
that’s it!
fried rice a la ulfesharpe.
options:
when you add the rice you can add green onion slices (best for a light meal) slices of pepper (best with pork meat or eggs) or even tomato (best with fish)
If you add tomato remember to add 1 tea spoon of sugar (cut flat) to cut the acid that boiling tomato will generate and add 1/2 or 1 extra cup of water because the tomato/sugar combo will eat that extra cup right away. A full cup or even 1 1/2 of water will give you a wet tomato rice; half a cup will still render a loose rice but there will be no moist, which might be okay for meat or vegetables. But to go along with fried fish e.g. you need the rice to be very moist and tomato-y. Trust me.
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Yes, it does! 
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Automotive event yesterday near a mini airstrip. Three sponsors of the event were displaying either the current lineup or the future style.
Gm advance design were showcasing their Corvette UK concept. Mahindra Uk brought the concept suv. Lotus got a few production models including the new sedan.
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Looks like the collie did some up close inspections. 
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That Corvette is amazing, and I like to hate Corvettes.
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I will trust any rice recipe from the Iberian peninsula.
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Fun fact: The “cups” on your Zojirushi aren’t American cups. Rice cookers like this one are based on the Japanese unit of measure called a gō, which is 180 mL, not the 240 mL of a standard U.S. measuring cup.
So when the bowl says “2 cups max,” it really means 2 scoops using the included rice cooker cup, not 2 U.S. cups. If you use regular kitchen measuring cups and fill water to the “2” line, your rice will end up dry and sad.
Moral of the story: use the scoop that came with the rice cooker. It’s speaking Japanese, not American.
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Curious. I had no idea about that. I usually do just 1 cup of rice, quinoa, or lentils and then add either 1.5 or 2 cups of water depending upon what I’m cooking… and the “2 cups” water line is usually reached. And now that I think about it, when finished cooking, it does look like I’d not get away with 2 full cups of the grain to be cooked. More like 1.5 cups.
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