Is rice vinegar bad for my non-stick rice cooker?
I have a rice cooker with a detachable bowl with non-stick (I presume teflon) coating on the inside. It looks something like this:
When cooking sticky ("sushi") rice, after the cooking is done, you are supposed to add rice vinegar to finish the rice. Is it safe to add the vinegar in the same non-stick bowl that I cooked the rice in? If possible I'd like to avoid having to do extra dishes.
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It should be fine. The acidity of the vinegar would be an issue if it were to come into contact and react with bare metal. Non-stick cookware is fine for, say, making tomato sauces, etc, which means the coating in not especially reactive to acidity, which makes rice vinegar okay.
As a confirming point, when I was walking through Costco yesterday, I saw the latest generation of automated rice cooker/food steamer, and it had a sushi rice setting on the new ones, so they are clearly okay for that purpose.
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It should be fine. The acidity of the vinegar would be an issue if it were to come into contact and react with bare metal. Non-stick cookware is fine for, say, making tomato sauces, etc, which means the coating in not especially reactive to acidity, which makes rice vinegar okay.Can you cook with vinegar on a rice cooker?
Place the rice and water into a rice cooker. Cook the rice according to the \u201cwhite rice\u201d setting on the rice cooker. When the rice has finished cooking, evenly pour the seasoned rice vinegar all over the rice.How do you keep rice from sticking to the bottom of an electric rice cooker?
Spraying the cooking pot with pan spray, or rubbing it lightly with butter, can also help keep the rice from sticking to your rice cooker. It's especially helpful if your cooker doesn't have a nonstick lining, or if the lining is scratched and worn.Does vinegar help rice stick?
As mentioned before, you should add half a cup of rice vinegar for every three cups of sushi rice. Any more than that will make your sushi rice too sticky.Does rice vinegar go in rice before or after cooking the rice?
Sushi rice is usually seasoned with rice vinegar, sugar, and salt, mixed together and added once the rice is cooked.How to Make Sushi Rice - The Quickest and EASY Sushi Rice!
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