If you’ve ever tried to make rice on the stovetop, you know it can take a bit of babysitting for things to come out just ...

You might not think a rice cooker belongs in the same class of essential cooking tools as, say, a chef’s knife or cutting ...

Rice is the main thing that multi-cookers will be good for, but steaming, sautéing and even making things like yoghurt are tasks that you can trust a good multi-cooker with. You may even be ...

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Hetty Lui McKinnon is a food writer and cookbook author with a passion for vegetables. She's the author of five vegetarian cookbooks, and won the James Beard Award for Vegetable-Focused cooking in ...

The best Instant Pots are versatile multi-cookers that combine slow cooking, pressure cooking, rice cooking, sautéeing, steaming, and more in one handy appliance. The original Instant Pot was an ...

A Hyderabad man allegedly killed his wife and attempted to cover up the crime by chopping up the body and boiling the parts in a pressure cooker. Guru Murthy, 45, a former soldier who works as a ...

Remedies include cassia seeds, goji berries and chrysanthemum for eye health; ginger and millet congee with Chinese yam for digestive health; black sesame, fo-ti (Polygonum multiflorum ...

Now I keep a dedicated rice cooker in my kitchen ... and more), as well as preparations like congee, porridge, and even pressure-cooking (which is, yes, one way in which all those electric ...

It seems like such a waste to throw it out after it’s been boiling all your proteins. But strain it and you’ll have a base to make flavourful congee. Just add rice and stir as the whole pot comes to a ...