I cook rice everyday. Basically put brown rice and water in it and it cooks and usually take 30 minutes or so. The thing is im a very lazy person and well the area around it in the kitchen… im very sloppy and there is usually a lot of water in that area so many times… it would touch the rice cooker around the bottom of it. Basically imagine the area around the sink where you put stuff on the table and there is water there.
However even though this happens quite a lot, my rice cooker never had a problem b/c when i see lot of water near it, i would take some bounty and immediately wipe the area.
Well today when i was cooking brown rice… suddenly i checked and the power went off. The cord was plugged in when cooking of course and i clicked on the cook button so it started cooking but i have no idea why it stopped working. The thing is there wasn’t any water or anything like that near it. However a thing i noticed about this rice cooker was everytime that im done cooking and i lift up the lid… water would drop on the rice… like hot water. So each time that happens, i would take the big spoon and take the rice where the hot water lands on and throw that away. Other thing is the bottom of the rice is usually burned as well almost everytime. Rice cooker cost me 65 dollars or so.
Is there a thing i can do to repair it? The thing is it just suddenly powered off when it was cooking. Do you think it was more an internal problem or it could have been the water that touched it repeatedly? And yes i know im not suppose to have any water touch it but the area around it where i put the rice cooker is always wet. Basically the sink table is usually wet.
Also… when i take out the rice bucket… the area in the rice cooker is pretty burned around the lining. Srry i dont know what is the name of that area but i assume many know what it means.
Anyone know if i could try something with it to see if it woudl work?
Basically the power button won’t turn on anymore and i dont know what caused this.
Have you verified the outlet works? If it’s the kitchen, it’s GFCI, and that may have tripped. Can you plug something else into the outlet, to see if it has power?
If it’s the outlet, there’s one outlet in the kitchen somewhere with a couple buttons. Push the one that says “reset”.
Hi. Its not the outlet. Have outlets in kitchen and doesn’t work but when i used my blender, blender works. Also brought the rice cooker to another outlet somewhere else and still doesn’t power on at all.
It probably died a natural death. I used to have a basic cooker with two mechanical buttons for warming or cooking, and one day, it just wouldn’t work. Pressed the button, and it didn’t click on.
I got a Zojirushi fuzzy logic “micom” cooker eight years ago and have been completely happy with it.
Basic rice cookers are built fairly cheaply in China. It is not unusual for them to just quit on you one day. I had one quit in the middle of a batch. You have probably gotten your use out of it. Junk it and get a new one. It’s the cost of doing business these days when we get manufactured products that cost so little that there is no point in repairing them.
$65 is on the higher end but that doesn’t mean that it didn’t just start to malfunction and probably isn’t worth fixing.
You need one of these bad boys. You will never have to buy another rice cooker again. My wife practically had a stroke when she found out how much I paid for a rice cooker, but I use a rice cooker literally every day, and often multiple times in one day. I wanted a rice cooker that I was still going to have when I’m an old man, so that’s exactly what I got. It’s not just a Japanese design; these units are manufactured and assembled in Japan.
That’s about what I paid for my Cuisinart, and I only got a couple of years’ use out of it before it up and died.
I cook rice in a saucepan. 15 to 20 minutes on a low heat, strain and fluff. Works every time.
For $8 you can buy a Microwave rice cooker. You can be just as lazy (if not lazier) as you were with your $65 rice cooker and you never have to worry about the thing breaking down because there are no mechanical parts to break down.
Also, the quality of the cooked rice is just as good as rice cooked in a rice cooker.
Okay so i bought another rice cooker. This is the one
However few things about it that has gotten me very confused. With the previous rice cooker, it took 25-30 minutes for the rice to cook. This is white or brown rice. This rice cooker… it cooks very very fast… like 12-15 minutes max.
The other thing is the brown rice that i cook… theres basically ZERO TASTE AT ALL with this rice cooker. This is the same brown rice that i used with the previous ricecooker. Does this mean this rice cooker isn’t good or something or it could be faulty? When i cook white rice, the taste is normal but the brown rice i cooked with the previous rice cooker… the taste was very good. This rice cooker seemed to not give any taste at all. I used a few rice cookers before and this rice cooker… zero taste at all for the brown rice.
The reason why i bought this one was b/c it was 35 dollars or so online compared to the others and i figure it would cook the rice just fine. So not only does the brown rice has no taste, but it takes 12 minutes to cook only. Does anyone have any insight on why?
Also how much rice/water ratio should it be for white rice, brown rice, jasmine rice?
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Didn’t you ask about tasteless brown rice from a rice cooker purchased from Walmart Canada in February?
Yes this is the same rice cooker im talking about. I bought this rice cooker from walmart canada in december not february…
In other words, both of the posts you made yesterday repeat questions you’ve already asked.
This happened to my Hitachi rice cooker last week (we got it as a wedding present in 1983). I prepped it for cooking rice, and turned it on. The rocker switch in that provides power to the warming coil at all times has a small neon light that lets you know power is applied. The neon light didn’t go on. I hoped that maybe it was just the lamp inside, and started it up, but after fifteen minutes everything was still cold.
I unplugged the device, set the rice pot aside, and disassembled the whole thing to see if there was a loose connector somewhere, but I couldn’t find anything, so I reassembled it, plugged it in without the rice pot, and exercised the power switch a few times. Thankfully, it turned on, and I finished preparing dinner without incident.
I haven’t tried it since, but if the problem recurs, I see a trip to the electronics supply store for a new switch in my future.
Anyway, Pauly01, you might try cycling the power switch vigorously a few times to see if that helps anything. I really think the issue about water and moisture is a distraction. You’d probably have noticed a smell of burning wires or something, if you had flooded it out.
QTF. These things rawk.