Hamilton Beach Digital Programmable Rice Cooker Review

Hamilton Beach rice cooker, alright. Well, here we go, went ahead and grabbed everything out of the box here and, as you can see, there are a few parts first thing I'd like to note: I went ahead on Amazon to check some of these out one on one for some of the stuff.

Hamilton Beach Digital Programmable Rice Cooker & Food Steamer

I was doing I boiling the rice and everything has been a little bit hit or miss, sometimes for me, so I wanted something that would do it right. They had to top once in this price range. This is around the $ 30 mark. The Hamilton Beach rice cooker here and then there was another one, the other one did have quite a few other purchases compared to this one. This one still had hundreds of purchases, though, and they were both ranked relatively close to each other within a few points of each other and the star rating.

But this one, I like the fact that some of the things that it came with part of it being some of these pieces versus what the other one came with, so the variation on them was just a little bit and this one I think it gave me Some more versatility than the other one did now. Of course, we've got the main unit here and, as you can see, it's just around steamer on the front here you can see we have a little LCD screen. We have five buttons here. One of them is basically the on button, and it does say warm so that basically keeps it warmed as you want to serve it. If you want to keep it warm while you're serving and everything, then there is one for white rice there's one for whole-grain.

There'S one for hot cereal and then there's one that just says steamed and then it does say hour and minutes here on the side with a couple of little LEDs that light up, and that will, of course, tell you how long everything is going to be cooking right. Now, if you press the button right here, that does open it up and you can see there is just a very basic kind of thing, it's very similar to a basically a crock-pot or a slow cooker. You do have a steam vent right here and on the back, it has a little drip catcher and it's just a little tiny kind of formed cup type thing and it will help to catch the steam, especially like when you go to open it. It wants to pour off the lid and down the back, I'm sure. That'S probably what that's there for is to kind of help, eliminate the water runoff on the machine itself and now, of course, the few things that it comes with here.

It comes with, of course, the main cooking dish or whatever you want to call it here. It does have some measurements. You can see it here on the outside, but it's meant to be read from the inside here and it goes up to 0.8 liters. It'S set for 4 cups.

Now the 4 cups will equal out to 8 cups of cooked rice when it's done so why there's basically the size there? It does say max on the opposite side, which is basically the maxvill. You have your rice spatula and it's just a simple plastic one. It'S you know reasonable and usable. I would, I would say you know it's not a nice bamboo one or anything like that, but I'm sure it would definitely do in terms of serving and whatever else and then you've got your little kind of steamer tray right here.

That'S the kind of thing that really put it to me buying this one so anyhow yeah we put the main piece in and then we take and we can put the little steamer tray or the rinse tray in on top. So first use for this could be for steaming and you can sit there. You could have your rice steaming in the bottom, and then you can take your rinse tray or your steamer tray and put it in here and you throw in some vegetables or whatever, and this should hold like this looks like it would easily hold a Full like 16-ounce so that that made it really nice. I like the fact that you could do that. The other thing is, this does have obviously very small holes.

It has slats in the side are slits, I should say in the side, and it has very small holes on the bottom and the reason I like that is that generally, you rinse rice before you cook it, and so you can take and put your rice in Here you can rinse it all out, then you can dump it into your main pan put whatever it is that you might want to cook on top there, and you have. The whole thing closes up put your time in and kind of a set it and forget it kind of thing. Alright, everybody so we're here. I've got some rice in the cooker here, then I'm gonna be making it's plugged in. So all we're gonna do is put the power button here and then we've got all these little selections.

We'Ve got white rice, whole-grain, hot cereal and steamed, we're cooking white rice right now, so we'll click on that says that it's gonna be 45 minutes and then picture our lids closed there and then, once that 45 minutes is done, it will actually keep it warm For up to an hour, okay, so we're back it just finished.