Sticky Rice Steamer Pot and Basket

This is not a complicated product. Using it is fairly easy. I'm giving it five stars. The basket is large and that is very good because you can pick it up and not get burned by the steam.Put two inches of water in the pot and boil the water. When steaming put the basket on it with your sticky rice in it. Cover with any lid about the size of the top of the pot not critical. It will make about three cups of steamed rice at a time. About four to six servings? Cooking time is less than twenty minutes maybe more at high elevations.Soak rice over night or for about six hours. Drain and rinse once. Drain well. Put in basket. Steam about eight minutes. Turn the sticky rice over in the basket. Use a soft plastic bowl scraper to ease the rice mass into a ball you can flip in the basket. Continue steaming another eight minutes. There is a great demo here [...] in case you need help.Cleaning the basket. Allow basket to cool and dry. Brush or gently scrape any rice off the inside. If you use it every day add any left over rice to the new batch of rice you are making it can be resteamed.For a fast and hearty meal maybe even healty too, let the pot continue to steam, and in a regular metal steamer basket add chicken pieces and assorted veggie pieces you cut up previously. When cooked add flavorings of your choice and make or buy a dipping sauce.

My daughter-in-law's mother is from Thailand and she grew up on Thai sticky rice made with this type of steamer. I also ordered a bag of Thai sticky rice ,specifically, and it turned out great. I haven't tried it with any other type of rice, it might be nice to experiment but this was the first time I had truly sticky rice from many previous attempts with my regular cookware. It's much bigger than I expected but it does the job nicely. You'll need a nice big piece of cheese cloth to go with it. After the rice has been rinsed and soaked for a few hours you spread the cloth over the basket and dump in the drained rice. loosely fold the cheese cloth back over the rice and set a lid from one of your pots on top of it. With the water level in the pot that doesn't reach the bottom of the basket just steam the rice for 20 minutes and you've got lovely sticky rice.

SO thin, you can see the stamp THROUGH the bottom of the pan. Also comes with a sticker on the bottom saying the pan contains chemicals that cause cancer, they do not tell you THAT in the description. I bought this to replace one I already had for years, and it is much lighter and a lot thinner than the one I already have. I am not happy. It did arrive fast. But I am scared to use it, especially with a gas stove. I feel like it will melt over the flame. I want my money back.Update: I returned this item, and I guess it is so cheap, it really only costs $7.99 and the rest of the $27.77 I paid was for shipping ands a shipping label that I printed off on my OWN printer according to the seller. This is why I only got $7.99 refunded to me of the $27.77 I paid. It said free shipping when I bought it, butt they said that's because the shipping cost was actually included in the $27.77 and so when I return the item, they deduct the shipping cost AND the cost of the shipping label, (because it cost them money to email it to me I guess, even though I printed it off from the email, on MY printer). So, not really free shipping i guess, they just lie AND include it in the price then send you cheap product thay causes cancer. At least they didn't lie about THAT fact, (that the product contained materials that cause cancer, but not until you receive the product, that's when you see the sticker on the bottom of the pan, but they do not tell you that BEFORE you order).

This product works really well. There was some metal dust I assumed was from manufacturing but that washed off pretty easily. To get going all you really need is a cheese cloth to hold the rice inside while you're steaming it and some kind of lid to put on top to seal in the steam. I used a lightweight lid from one of my pots. I used the directions from a couple of Thai cookbooks and googled cooking videos to figure out how to cook the sticky rice. It's pretty simple. Most rice you boil. This rice you steam. Just get the correct rice. It will be labeled sweet rice or gluten rice. The hardest part is probably remembering to soak rice overnight. After a couple of tries I think I've mastered it. This is a good product and inexpensive. Recommended.

First off I should say I never give anything 5 stars, nothing is perfect. And lets face it , their isn't a whole lot to these 2 items, but without one or the other it wouldn't really be possible to cook that awesome sticky rice. As long as you keep the items clean and don't abuse them(espeacially the bamboo basket) it will last a long, long time. And for all those novice sticky rice cookers... Soak the rice in Hot water for 1 hour. Put it in the basket after water is boiling and cover with any standard pot lid. Let cook for 10 min, flip the rice to the other side and cook for 10 more min. ENJOY !

Great steaming basket and boiler.

This thing is Family Urn sized! But we love it.I believe there are smaller ones so if this is just for you or one other I would go for that. However, we usually make 4 to 5 cups or rice so that we have left overs. NOTE: Left over sticky rice is a little more work than other rice. Becomes more hard.We soak the rice for 6-24 hours in advance. Put about 2" of water in the pot and place pot on high to boil. Once boiling we put the basked in the sink, pour out rice/water into basked, level out, place on pot for 20 min, take basked to sink and flip rice over (takes time and skill), and then place on pot for another 20 min. Covered in both cases with a lit from another pot works just fine.Excellent sticky rice ~40 minutes later (once water is boiling).