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Cook Grain with a slow cooker - PEP BB food.sand.grain.rice

BB Food Prep and Preservation - sand badge
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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum.  Completing this BB is part of getting the sand badge in Food Prep and Preservation

To complete this badge bit, you must cook at least 2 cups of grain in a rice cooker, crock pot or instapot.  (Note that this BB is part of a 4 part adventure in cooking grain in four different ways. Pseudograins are also allowed, but all four ways of cooking must be the same food prepared with 4 different cooking contraptions.)



This is a rice cooker

This is one of many types of rice cookers, and an article on the differences:



and how to use it:



To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
  - you must produce at least two cups of grain
  - you must use a rice cooker, crock pot or Instant Pot (other brands of pressure cookers are fine)

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must provide:
   - a picture of the uncooked grain in your cooker
   - a picture of your cooked grain in your cooker (clearly at least 2 cups of cooked grain - if it isn't clear, make it clear with an extra picture)

Clarifications:
- All food prep and preservation BBs strictly prohibit plastic, teflon or aluminum touching the food at any point
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I used one cup of brown rice, two cups of water, a small spoonful of salt and a slice of onion.
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3 cups of rice and a little over 6 cups of water for taco tuesday with the boots
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water and rice
water and rice
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rice cooked
rice cooked
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2 cups brown rice, 2 and a half cups water and a squirt of lemon juice. Let sit for 8 hours and then cook.
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uncooked and soaking
uncooked and soaking
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cooked rice
cooked rice
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I cooked rice with a rice cooker today! I coated the inside of the rice cooker with coconut oil, so that the rice does not stick to the inside of the rice cooker. I used three cups rice and six cups of water.

This is the rice in the rice cooker before cooking.



This is the rice in the rice cooker after cooking.

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I made wild rice again tonight!  This time with the Instapot.  We hadn't used it for rice before and I think we're sold on it.  
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2 cups of uncooked rice plus 2.5 cups of chicken broth
2 cups of uncooked rice plus 2.5 cups of chicken broth
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4 cups of finished rice - Yum!
4 cups of finished rice - Yum!
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I had to do this in 2 batches as we only eat 1 cup of porridge at a time (I've convinced my husband that he does actually like porridge).

I've never cooked oats in a rice cooker before, so this was an interesting experiment. My favourite so far is to cook them on the fireplace, it seems to be a nice low and slow cook bringing out a much creamier flavour.

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Rice cooker
Rice cooker
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1 cup of oats
1 cup of oats
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Oats in rice cooker ready to be cooked
Oats in rice cooker ready to be cooked
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Finished oats in rice cooker, ready for eating
Finished oats in rice cooker, ready for eating
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Nom time!
Nom time!
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Second 1 cup batch of oats in rice cooker, ready to be cooked
Second 1 cup batch of oats in rice cooker, ready to be cooked
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Second 1 cup batch of oats in rice cooker, ready for serving and drizzled with honey
Second 1 cup batch of oats in rice cooker, ready for serving and drizzled with honey
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Rice cooker manual (because the front of the machine doesn't state 'rice' as one of the functions)
Rice cooker manual (because the front of the machine doesn't state 'rice' as one of the functions)
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My adventure is cooking quinoa. The crocks at Wheaton Labs are big:
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Uncooked in crock pot
Uncooked in crock pot
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Cooked
Cooked
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More than 2c dry
More than 2c dry
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Hello, I cooked rice!



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Hello internet, I've decided to document my ability to cook rice.  Enjoy.
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rinse the rice
rinse the rice
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put it in the pot, add water
put it in the pot, add water
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press the button, wait a bit
press the button, wait a bit
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fluff the rice
fluff the rice
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