Rice Cooker - Essential Celiac Kitchen Appliance

As I have complained in previous posts about the dangers of dining out, I'm sure many of you do as we do and just cook at home. This way you can control gluten contamination and ensure a celiac safe meal.

One of the tools we've found to be essential for gluten free cooking is a rice cooker. We rely heavily on rice not only because it's tasty and healthy, but also because many rice dishes can be made without gluten. Minus the [wheat containing] soy sauce there are terrific Thai, Indian and Japanese dishes out there waiting to be consumed!

We have a Zojirushi NS-JCC18 with Neuro Fuzzy logic. You simply fill the included measuring cup with dry rice, add water to the indicated line and press start. Depending on how much rice you are making you'll have perfect rice in about an hour. The rice really does come out perfectly- not too sticky or too dry every time. Just be sure not to add any additional salt or butter as you might with stove cooking. The salt has a dehydrating effect on the rice.

Often I'll make a batch and put it in the fridge in single serve bowls. Rob will even eat this for breakfast. We do try and use brown rice as much as possible just because it has more fiber and is generally higher nutritionally.

Happy Cooking!

PS - I've included some links below to Amazon for rice cookers