If you have celiac disease, you can’t eat many common grains. You might also have a very grouchy tummy. One of the best tips we have to offer is that “Rice is your friend”.
At our house rice is a part of a majority of our evening meals. We buy all sorts and varieties of rice. A few years into our experience with the gluten free diet, we decided to buy a rice cooker. We are now on our third rice cooker, and this one is clearly the best of the three. First we tried a Zojirushi rice cooker, and it cooked the rice very well, but it had no on-off switch (DUH!) so we had it plugged in to an AC strip that did have an on-off switch. Eventually the non-stick coating on the Zojirushi began to fail so we decided to shop around.
Our second rice cooker was a Sanyo model, it was OK except that it took 2 hours to cook whole grain brown rice – our favorite variety. The Sanyo lasted about 2 weeks, then we got our current rice cooker and it is the best of the lot. The Aroma looks like cheap Chinese junk, but it cooks brown rice in one hour instead of two, and the removable metal rice basket is very easy to clean.
It is also much less expensive than most other similar sized rice cookers.
If you are considering the purchase of a rice cooker, we recommend the Aroma shown here.
