The United States Merchant Marine refers to either United States civilian mariners, or to U.S. civilian and federally owned merchant vessels.
Transfer the rice to your rice cooker and let it soak for about 45 minutes in 2 2/3 cups (580 ml) warm water. 1  Soaking is beneficial because it reduces the stickiness of the rice. 2  It also helps the rice expand into long, thin grains. 3  You can soak the rice up to 3 hours, if desired, but 45 minutes will often be enough.f your rice cooker has a brown rice setting, use that. If it only has a timer, set the timer for 30 minutes. 1  Cover the rice cooker before starting it and leave that cover on for the duration of the cooking process. 2  The rice and quinoa may need a total of 40 minutes to finish cooking inside the rice cooker.
To cook brown rice, simply fill water to the corresponding water measure line for brown rice, or use 1.5 times the amount of water to rice if your rice cooker does not have a brown rice setting. (If cooking in a rice cooker without a Brown Rice setting, please limit the amount of brown rice to 2/3 of the rice cooker's capacity to prevent it from overflowing.) To cook long grain rice, rinse the rice once, and use 1-1/4 times the amount of water to rice, and cook using the mixed rice setting.