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Brand: Salton
Category: Kitchen

List Price: ~~$29.99~~
Buy New: $17.77
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Avg. Customer Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars

144 reviews
Sales Rank: 16327

Color: White
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 8.7 x 7.4
Warranty: 1

MPN: RA3A
Model: RA3A
UPC: 082846021111
EAN: 0082846021111
ASIN: B00005B6Z4

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:

•	Cooks up to 3 cups of dry rice; use also to steam seafood and vegetables
•	Measuring cup and serving spatula included
•	Uses 300 watts of power
•	8 inches high to knob of see-through glass lid
•	9-1/2 inches in diameter, including stay-cool handles

Accessories:

•	Oxo SteeL 8-Inch Strainer

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Small enough for the counter, but large enough for a full meal, this 3-cup Rice Cooker from Salton takes the guess-work out of making rice and cooks perfectly every time. Comes with a removable tray for steaming seafood and vegetables, a measuring cup and rice paddle.Features Include:Cooks up to 3 cups of dry rice; use also to steam seafood and vegetables Measuring cup and serving spatula included Uses 300 watts of power 8-in. high to knob of see-through glass lid 9.5-in. in diameter, including stay-cool handles

Amazon.com Review
With a 3-cup capacity for dry rice (white or brown), this 300-watt electric rice cooker automatically produces up to 6 cups of cooked rice without sticking or scorching. Accompanying the cooker is a separate tray for steaming seafood and vegetables, a measuring cup for rice, and a plastic serving spatula. The cooker's glass lid permits monitoring of the cooking process, and the handles stay cool so you can easily move the cooker to the table for serving. The cooker is 8 inches high to the lid's knob and 9-1/2 inches in diameter, including handles. --Fred Brack

Customer Reviews: Read 139 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

GREAT PRODUCT FOR THE PRICE!! October 27, 2008
If you're using pre-cooked rice (and most of it is these days) use only 1 cup of rice to 1-1/4 cup of water or it will stick, get gummy, burn on the bottom etc as other reviews state. Also I recommend you only cook two cups dry rice per cycle to avoid the boil over that other's complain about here on amazon. And if you keep taking the cover off to stir as some others write about here on amazon, you'll ruin the rice. You need the steam to fluff the rice properly. If you remove the lid to stir you let steam/water go out each time thus changing the ratio you first measured. Unless you have managed to locate raw uncooked rice (which as I stated above is extremely rare these days), you will not want to use the old ratio of one cup of rice to two cups of water. I recommend you try any new purchase of rice with the 1:1-1/4 ratio and if you have managed to obtain raw rice you can always add more water to complete the steam. With rice it's a matter of common sense. It's an art form. Steaming rice is delicate work and this steamer will help to get it done. I've cooked rice on the stove top for many years with great success as well. But this little bugger makes my job easier than ever before. Unfortunately much of the rice you're buying today in those big plastic bags off the supermarket shelf is pre-cooked these days. And as such requires experimentation to perfect. It's become more like minute rice than raw rice. I can't tell you more than to just try until you get it right. It's not the cooker, though if you are experiencing sticky, burned or gummy rice. It's the rice. Each batch is different and requires your discretion.

1 out of 5 stars

Poor design. North worth even a 10 dollars August 1, 2008
I bought it on a Friday Sale for around 10 dollars, and then found it's nearly garbage. The Amazon "List Price" is obviously too high for this little thing. Don't believe it.

3 out of 5 stars

Ready Rice! February 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I bought the Salton 3-cup rice cooker over the negative reviews of several people. However, with a little tweaking, it does what I want it to do perfectly! The criticism that rice sticks to the bottom happened only one time. After that,I started to add a bit (a TBS or 2) more water than the book recommends, and sometimes I put a tiny drop of oil on the bottom & spread it around w. paper towel or fingertip. No more sticking! The criticism that it boils over? ONCE that happened to me, & that was when I tried to cook Trader Joe's Harvest Blend multi-grains & pasta in it. This cooker does brown rice and quinoa for me with no problems. We're just 2 people & the bigger, fancier ones were not for me.

1 out of 5 stars

Harder to cook rice in this than in a pot. January 21, 2008
I was hoping for an easy way to cook rice. It certainly doesn't work well for that. I tried several times in this and have given up. Will go back to a put for now.

4 out of 5 stars

Cheap, effective, makes good rice January 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

For the price, it does what it does admirably. A one-trick pony, it makes rice. It makes rice well. What else could I ask for? Simple, effective. Worth the price for sure.

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