I like steamed jasmine rice. I acquired a taste for it when I was stationed in the far east. Everywhere I went, from Japan to the Philippines had rice unlike I ever had as a kid. If we had rice, which was not very often, it was the boiled kind.

I learned that the best way to cook rice is in a steamer. And if you want consistency and convenience, an electric steamer is the way to go.

The story of how I acquired my first electric steamer is kind of funny. My sister, 12 years my junior, received one as a wedding gift at her wedding. She didn’t want it, commenting we will never use that. I will take it! My wife gave me a funny look but we wound up with my sister’s steamer.

It took a little coaxing, and probably the fact that I brought home a 20 pound bag of Jasmine rice from the Asian market, but my wife grew to enjoy the steamer and it’s rice almost as much as I do.

One thing we did have when I was a kid was a television. And on that television we had commercials, one of which was about the deluxe bamboo steamer. We never purchased anything off of mail order television commercials so we never got a bamboo steamer. Until now. I ordered one on Amazon but I haven’t cooked anything in it yet. So now I’m doing research on cooking rice in it.

Here’s an article that looks promising. https://thewoksoflife.com/how-to-steam-rice/