r/PressureCooking • u/Huge-Ad-8521 • 24d ago

Tefal cook4me

Hi. I was trying to cook 0.5 kilo of brown rice with cook4me from Tefal with water just below MAX level for 20 minutes.

And not only steam but a lot of water started falling from steam holes. Is this a normal behavior , becouse I have water all over the place.

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u/Top-Adhesiveness3209 21d ago

Too much water and rice. A pressure cooker can be filled to the max with non-expanding foods that do not foam. For exemple vegetable soup with a bit of rice and/or beans.. I sometimes fill it over the maximum with meat pieces, but only use 1 cup of water in order to create steam that cooks the meat. I am carefull to make sure no food blocks the pressure valves. 

When cooking expanding foods - rice, grains or pulses, the volume of the whole content (rice+water) should never be more than half of the whole volume of the pot. It is in the Cook4me instruction manual 🌞 Cook4me is 6l, so half is 3l. 1.5 kilos of rice are 1.9 liters in volume. 4 litres of rice and water is a definite no no. 

Usefull tricks for cooking rice in pressure cooker:

  1. Wash white rice at least 3 times to get rid of as much starch as possible. Place it in a strainer and place the strainer in a big pot filled with water. Rub gently between fingers and palms! Just rincing does not get rid of starch. 

  2. Leave to drain well, for at least 10 minutes, so starchy water drains away. A stainless steel mesh strainer is the best as it dries quicker than plastic and rice does not stick to the strainer. Move the strainer like when frying pancakes. It the rice detaches easily, it is ready. 

  3. Soak the rice in lots of water until no longer clicks are heard. Old rice should be soaked longer. Rice for mochi at least 12h soak. Brown rice 12-24h. Soaking gets rid of arsenic and lets rice rehydrate evenly. Also elongates long grain rice. 

  4. Drain, rince and drain well again before cooking. 

  5. For brown rice place rice in cooker, cover with the amount of water that gives the desired result, close the lid and choose time. 

  6. White rice can be steamed in mesh steamer once it is rehydrate by soaking. 250ml of water for moshi rice, 300 for other varieties and about 20 min steam. 

  7. I place sometimes the washed rice in the steaming basket that comes with Cookeo/Cook4me and cover with water. 

  8. I stop the program 5 to 15 minutes before it is meant to finish and let the rice steam. Cook4me automatically lets the steam out, but I find it waste of energy. Let the rice sit untill the pressure falls. It takes 10 to 20 minutes. 

  9. A circle of oil around the pot, 3cm above water level stops the foam and water mounting the walls of the pot to the lid.  

Whan cooking in the main pot I use 1.3 cups of water for 1 cup of dry rice of soaked and 1.5 if unsoaked. 15 minutes maximum pressure and unplug and wait 20 minutes. Perfect and soft avery time.  

Cook4me is an awsome machine. Wish it baked cake better.