Hitachi RZ-PMA10Y, Instruction Manual

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Measure rice correctly
• Please use the attached measuring cup to measure rice.
• Measuring rice bins may measure differently from the attached measuring cup in some cases.
To cook rice with good taste
• Stir the rice at the bottom of inner pot without pressuring it. This
will evaporate extra water and make it tasty.
• You should stir rice even if you want keep it warm after cooked.
Stir rice after cooking
• Rice absorbs the first water quickly. Drain the
first rinse water immediately so that the rice
doesn’t smell like rice-bran.
• After cleaning, rinse the rice until water
becomes clear.
Clean rice quickly and adequately
Warming up the rice with good taste
Avoid the followings in order to
warm up the rice with good taste
• When only small amount of rice is left, pile it at the center of
inner pot. (This will prevent the rice from being dry or wet)
Small amount of rice
• When you keep rice cook warm over 12 hours, or for other kinds
of rice, you can keep the rice tasty by wrapping it with plastic
wrap and warm it with microwave oven every time.
• Stirring the rice occasionally during keeping warm can keep it
tasty.
• When warming the rice cooked by other appliances, push Warm
button to warm the inner pot before putting the rice in.
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Note
• Warm the cooked rice over 12 hours
• Re-warm cold rice again or add rice
• Warm up rice with a rice scoop inside
• Warm up other rice than rice cook (including
sticky rice, brown rice, porridge (thick, thin))
• Warm up the cooked rice without cleaning well
• Fill water to suit each kind of rice and the way you like
Water amount and different kinds of rice
• Rapid is the menu to cook in shorter time, within
30 minutes and up to 4 cups of rice for model RZ-PMA18Y,
RZ-ZMA18Y, up to 3 cups of rice for model RZ-PMA10Y.
Heating and steaming time is set shorter than regular
cooking time; the rice may be slightly harder or less tasty.
We recommend using Cook Program unless you are in a
hurry.
Ripen rice should be pour water off for good scent and taste. If you prefer not to have burn, clean the rice very well so that it
does not have any rice-bran left on the surface. White rice and other kinds of rice (not Fragrant (Jasmine) rice) tend to have
burnt part more often.
Why cooked rice is burned?
Knowledge for Rice
Hints and tips for tasty rice
KIND OF RICE WATER LEVEL MENU
Fragrant (Jasmine) rice According to the scale of Fragrant FRAGRANT/
Japanese rice (Jasmine) rice JASMINE RICE
Tahaeng rice
Saohai rice
According to the scale of white rice WHITE RICE
Chaowang rice