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anyone got a good sushi rice recepie?

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Morgia:

--- Quote from: kenshin-dono on January 06, 2010, 08:07:11 PM ---ah shoulda been a bit clearer. I wasn't asking for ratios for water to rice. As morgia pointed out, I was asking for ratio of sugar to vinegar/salt for seasoning the rice once its out of the cooker. Hell, the cooker itself plainly says not to throw seasoning in it while its cooking =) One thing odd about my cooker though is that the cup it came with and tells you to use is not actually a full cup. its about 6 OZ. It specifically tells you to only use the cup provided so i always assumed you use one of their full cup for all the ratios listed. i wonder if ive been using too little rice by 2oz's this entire time?

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nah I don't think so...actually that thing about only using that rice-cooker cup for it is plain bullshit. As long as you keep the overall ratio it's fine. I think that they just wanted to make sure they couldn't be sued by people if the rice didn't come out of the cooker the way people wanted it because they are too stupid to cook rice. If you just use another cup that will be bigger it won't really make a difference. 3 oz rice and 6 oz water or 5 oz rice and 10 oz water still make the same ratio of 1:2 >_> (maybe you need a bit smaller ratio for the cooker as less moisture escapes there than in a normal cooking pot, but you should get my point). If your rice is sticky enough when it comes out of the cooker - fine. You're doing everything right in that case. If it's not sticky enough - use more water.. even if your rice cooker sais something different, because different kinds of rice need different ratios of water to rice. p.ex. basmati rice or longkorn rice in general uses only a ratio of 1:1.5 while roundkorn rice that is wanted to be sticky needs 1:2 . I suspect your rice cooker is customed to prepare rice in a more western style - which means unsticky rice.
About the seasoning afterwards - just don't overdo it with the vinegar, since a lot of added moisture in already sticky rice tends to make it mushy and stick less than originally intended. The amount of salt and sugar is just dependent on your personal taste. I'd just recommend to not overdo that either, since it messes with the taste of the endproduct, if the rice has a strong taste of its own already.

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