Wolfgang Puck BDRCRS007 manual Helpful Hints, Care & Cleaning

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Helpful Hints

•Using the Keep Warm function for more than 5 hours may cause discoloration or an odor in the rice.

•You can adjust the amount of water and/or rice to your own taste preferences.

•When steaming vegetables please reference the steaming chart in this manual. The charts are merely a guide, you may wish to adjust the times according to your own taste preferences.

Washing Rice

When rice is milled some bran and residues adhere to the surface of the rice. You can remove these residues by first washing the rice with water before cooking. This will remove excess starch & residues, which will provide you with much whiter, fluffier rice.

Remember to always use the measuring cup provided to accurately measure the rice. Add the desired amount of rice to the Steamer/Rice Cooker inner pot. Fill with cold water until all of the rice is submerged. Wash the rice by simply stirring the rice around in the water and rubbing between your hands. You will notice that the color of the water will become cloudy as the rice is cleaned. Without spilling the rice tip the inner pot to remove the cloudy water and repeat several times until the water remains clear.

Cooking other types of rice

Your Wolfgang Puck Steamer/Rice Cooker can handle a wide variety or rice such as long grain rice, wild rice, yellow rice, brown rice, basmati rice, etc. When cooking rice other than short grain white rice it will be necessary to increase the amount of water by 1.5 – 2 times more than the standard short grain white rice recipe. Adjust to suit your own personal taste.

A note about the measuring cup provided with your

Steamer/Rice Cooker

Your Steamer/Rice Cooker is able to cook a maximum of 7 cups of raw rice, which is the equivalent of 12 cups of cooked rice. A rice cooker cup is equivalent to 6 ounces, or approx 3/4 of a cup. This is why it is important to use the measuring cup that comes with your Steamer/Rice Cooker and not a standard 8-ounce cup measure.

Helpful Hints cont.

•If the Steamer/Rice Cooker switches to KEEP WARM before the food is done, you probably need to add more liquid.

•Foods that are overly sweet or oily can cause the Steamer/Rice Cooker to switch to KEEP WARM earlier than desired. If this happens, add some liquid like water, wine, stock, milk or juice.

•When baking in the Steamer/Rice Cooker, it is usually necessary to push COOK more than once. You will need to wait for about 10 minutes after the machine switches to KEEP WARM to be able to press it back to COOK. This is normal.

•The temperature of the KEEP WARM setting is a little over 180 degrees. This is hot enough to very gently cook foods and far too hot for any bacteria to grow or for food to spoil. It is very safe to keep foods at this setting for several hours.

•Do not double recipes in the Steamer/Rice Cooker. The tightly closed lid will force excess liquid out of the steam vent if you do.

•Use only 2 steaming trays during the same cooking cycle with the Rice Cooker function to ensure best cooking results.

Care & Cleaning

1DO NOT immerse the Steamer/Rice Cooker in water.

2Clean the Steamer/Rice Cooker Housing with a damp cloth. DO NOT use abrasive cleaners as this would scratch the surface of the Housing.

3Wash the Steamer/Rice Cooker Pot, Lid, Steaming Trays, Measuring Cup, Scoop and Condensation Collector in warm soapy water.

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