How to Cook Noodles in a Rice Cooker!

Your rice cooker can be used to cook noodles! Here's a deep dive into how and why it works, when you might want to do it, and when it does not work.
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00:00 Introduction
00:35 How do rice cookers work?
01:43 Do all rice cookers work with noodles?
03:23 What kind of noodles work best?
04:10 Recipe demo: Glass noodles with shrimp and ginger
07:03 The Reveal
09:22 What about other kinds of noodles?
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About Pai:
Pailin “Pai” Chongchitnant is the author of the Hot Thai Kitchen cookbook, co-host of a Canadian TV series One World Kitchen on Gusto TV, and creator and host of the KZbin channel Pailin's Kitchen.
Pai was born and raised in southern Thailand where she spent much of her "playtime" in the kitchen. She traveled to Canada to study Nutritional Sciences at the University of British Columbia, and was later trained as a chef at Le Cordon Bleu culinary school in San Francisco.
After working in both Western and Thai professional kitchens, she decided that her passion really lies in educating and empowering others to cook at home via KZbin videos, her cookbook, and cooking classes. She currently lives in Vancouver, and goes to Thailand every year to visit her family. Visit her at hot-thai-kitchen.com

[@ploytatchi]

Rice cooker is so versatile! Lots of Thai college students cook many types of food with it, rice, noodle, stir-fry, soup and even cake! ;D Great option for those that their accommodations don't allow using gas stove.

[@Lampshadx]

Amazing! Similar to how many students in the west will use an electric pressure cooker like an instant pot (can sauté, pressure cook, and slow cook)

[@libro9864]

Not only Thai but also Filipinos 👍🏽

[@miketan7222]

And Malaysians. And if you have a small one, you can also take it on overseas trips

[@bababasri3]

I have a gas stove but still use a rice cooker because it is so convenient

[@robinford4037]

If you have to cook this way in Thailand small kitchen apartments, have the rice cookers sold there, different to western rice cookers. By Which i mean, have they been made differently in the knowledge people will cook longer and in ways not designed just for rice (tougher rice cookers)

[@Vishal2001Tech]

Pailins never disappoints us, she's an incredible Content Creator and always creates masterpieces. Her content is amazing.

[@varoonnone7159]

She's so intelligent with how well she thinks things out

[@ricksamericana749]

Hard, soft boiled and poached eggs cook wonderfully in my rice cooker. A rice cooker works as steamer, too

[@nicoledenniss8897]

I have an Autistic son that loves curry, so when he went away to Uni last year he took our rice cooker, And was constantly getting swarmed by kids wanting to buy some curry from him. He would cook the rice first, dish it out into meal prep containers, then make the curry and have pre-made healthy curries all cooked in his rice cooker, because they where not allowed cooking items with an element in the rooms. Lucky he had a fridge in his room or food go walking. His favourites are Coconut curry chicken, And a Beef curry with a gravy base. Heaven cooks Spaghetti in it using normal wheat pasta dry

[@tavitlertritsumpun7160]

Hi Pai and Adam, What a great idea! Made me think back to the student days having to survive with limited appliances. Once we cooked a whole duck in just a frying pan.

[@AdamHotThaiKitchen]

Brilliant! .. and yes I could have used this idea back in university ... never thought of it :) Cheers!

[@airreaper1]

I have actually been traveling for work full time lately and often find myself in a hotel room with only a rice cooker 😅. Will definitely give this a try!

[@QiaraIris]

Love this! Thanks auntie Pai for also including the fancy smart rice cooker one in your blog as that's the one we have at home.

[@scubadudefrommaine]

Thank you for demystifying gourmet recipes. Listening to you helps take the intimidation out of cooking.

[@v.y.1335]

Thank you! Great alternative for students. Please do more of such recipes!

[@liamtaylor4955]

That National rice cooker... my mom and dad bought me one of those, that same model, for college, back in the 1980s. I made so much rice in that! It had a perforated, removable plate for the bottom, I suppose to keep the rice from sticking. This memory has brought back so many more, my college days, and my mom and dad... both gone now. Thank you again, mom and dad, I miss you two!

[@happycook6737]

Perforated plate was for steaming veggies, meats.

[@liamtaylor4955]

@@happycook6737 No room under it for water, though. It rested right on the bottom.

[@brokenglassshimmerlikestar3407]

More rice cooker recipes plz? I do have a kitchen but I love using the rice cooker because I can leave things in there to cook on their own, and it also consumes less electricity than my stove and oven.

[@spacepope69]

May I make a suggestion? If you are going to use wheat based noodles, try using an instantpot or equivalent to cook your noodles. Just barley cover your noodles and cook on high pressure for about 1/2 the time of your preferred doneness (you might have to drain the noodles a bit) then leave on keep warm and add your sauce or cheese or whatever you are putting in there

[@guitrich]

I'm definitely going to try this. Thank you Pailin.

[@sstillwell]

Thanks for pointing out the lower glycemic index on glass noodles! As a type-2 diabetic anything that helps keep blood glucose stable is a win, and I LOVE noodles.

[@anthonywestjr1063]

Always something yummy cooking in Pailin's kitchen! 💯🥂👍🏾

[@claudetteleblanc5273]

Love that you explain things. ❤

[@ExitiumNL]

Thank you for your amazing timing! My induction stove broke and I have to wait for a part to arrive before they can fix it, so I'm stuck with an oven, airfryer, microwave and rice cooker for a while. This looks really amazing!

[@enlacocinaconmarco]

Great! ❤ I will try to cook my next noodles in the rice cooker

[@Becausing]

Those shrimp are GORGEOUS!

[@cmar601]

Love the detail. Great video.

[@cheftimclowers]

Love it.. What a great way Pai...

[@easyanddeliciouswitheufrasia]

Great Idea..thank you for sharing.

[@betruthful]

ha ha ha Pailin you are very helpful not only for our youngsters in the dorms or small apts.but also for our seniors too. After we'recd your book, we recommended to our friends around the world. They said, it's very helpful .... ha ha ha...they only read English....ha ha ha but love Thai food.

[@melodicprogressivehousemph6429]

Oh my gosh. I was in awe of your beauty and your great presentational voice. Cheers for sharing.

[@HoHosKitchen]

amazingly technique❤❤

[@pennapalivingandfoodchanne1367]

Thank you for recipe

[@stacyhackney6100]

Thank you

[@VicBattlefield]

So brilliant!!! This was a very interesting and informative video! It shows what a creative and innovative chef you are. I´m going to try this glass noodle recipe this weekend with the vintage cooker I brought with me from BKK when I first came to Europe to study. Kob Khun Krub, Khun Pai! 🙏

[@andreeaburdui6834]

would you say that the rice cooker from this video has a capacity of 1l? or more like 3?

[@VicBattlefield]

@@andreeaburdui6834: Hi! I have a vintage cooker just like the one with the alumium pot in the demonstration. Mine can hold up to 1 and a half liter of water (just measured it). I reckon that the cooker Pai used is bigger but not quite 3 liter. Hope that helped!

[@Jentalks380]

Thank you so much. I would Iove a video on a noode dish made in an instapot!

[@AngieExploresFood]

good information thank you for posting this video

[@Oughut88]

I have the traditional National Rice Cooker bought in Hong Kong in the early 1970’s. Still going strong.

[@johnr1348]

Always fun videos to watch.....ALWAYS! Love It!

[@MLLL1234]

Looks delicious!!!

[@AlissaSss23]

This is mind blowing! ❤❤❤❤

[@barrystroud4056]

Your brilliant. Thanks from Powell River BC

[@rgarlinyc]

That's why I like you Pailin, you're always using your noodle! 😉OK, I'll try this way later in the week - thanks a lot!

[@MrRKWRIGHT]

Good Wednesday morning Pailin. Those rice noodles look absolutely delicious - especially with the shrimp and ginger. .Thanks for sharing a great recipe. 😉😉

[@ntq1ty]

I love the cat's expression on the mug! 🐈

[@michaelsouther7308]

My aroma rice cooker has steam, white rice, and brown rice. I use it to steam eggs and tamales as well. I have to try this for noodles . Steaming eggs makes them so much easier to peel. Thank you for your recipe.

[@angelica_mannielet]

So delicious ❤ and it is easy to cook

[@rcarioca]

Great idea

[@marissadeguzman1209]

Yum yum.😋 So interesting to know that my rice cooker can do something else besides cooking my rice. 😀Thank you for sharing such an awesome recipe!

[@nicholasbrus8628]

Thanks for all the interesting tips and insights ... no wonder you have 1.8M subs ... really excellent content!

[@d.y.e3803]

Great to know although I don't have a rice cooler. By the way, I bought your cookbook and it's great. Greetings from Los Angeles

[@olivier2553]

Kung op woon sean is one of my favourite Thai dish. I learned how to make it at a Moo Kata restaurant that has a station to make it yourself.

[@StewNWT]

well this is interesting - I'd def be keen to explore this as I am lousy at cooking noodles to the right al dente done-ness without them getting too sticky for stir fry

[@scottbrown321]

Great job. So hard to watch while on a diet. But love to watch anyway!

[@jim.pearsall]

Genius! ขอบคุณครับ 😃🙏🏻

[@-RONNIE]

I hope a lot of people use this method that needs to or just for fun thanks

[@ardemisaguirre8088]

Great idea thank you 🥰🥰🥰👍👍🌹

[@robertsteiner3796]

ขอบคุณค่ะ จะลองทำค่ะ

[@natto2581]

Fun fact: you have 2 rice cookers. You can sell noodle soup in thailand.

[@michaellee2731]

The torched rice at the bottom of the pot is so yummy

[@thaopak]

My family and I take our 4 cup rice cooker with us on trips. I can’t do just restaurant meals. I have breakfast and dinner in the hotel. I cook rice first then I cook one dish in it. Example: boiled vegetable with a meat (precooked crisp pork belly cause it’s easy to transport). Egg drop soup. Noodles.

[@PradeepRaajkumar1981]

Well done Darling Pai...

[@beep_boop]

7:27 I've never felt more seen - thank you Pailin

[@oreogiri]

Greetings from Bangalore, India. Rice cooker is a very common household gadget here. It is used to cook many more dishes than just rice though. As young couple we used rice cookers cook rice, all kinds of biriyani, boil eggs, upma (kind of a savoury semolina pudding), lentils etc. Very versatile and affordable. As you say it is very forgiving. A favourite among students, bachelors and newly married.

[@azamarabear]

Great

[@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana]

Considering both a microwave and kettle can boil water on their own (though you need special containers and be cautious of superheated water), the rice cooker/microwave combo really brings it home 🏡. That allows you to cook things like egg noodles. They compliment each other's weaknesses. Fancy microwaves or air fryers would be a slightly more expensive, but no more space taking up combo. And at that point you can basically cook anything, except by baking.

[@S1L3NTG4M3R]

thanks again!! :)

[@saulfernandez8876]

nice vid, practical... you know stick a fork in shrimp,, peel easy..good voice too, easy listening!

[@Apollo440]

You can do this with pasta. I have learned a method to soak the past 2 hours in cold water. But my method is more simple: Put the pasta into boiled water, stir to soften and leave for the amount of time indicated on the package (6-8 minutes, etc.). Then you can put it into the rice cooker, adding your sauce of choice (soy or tomato, or whatever). According to Pai's instructions - the rice cooker will turn off when the sauce is evaporated.

[@mortenhansen2578]

I cook rice in the microwave, and it works surpricingly well :)

[@micheltibon6552]

Lol...after watching your rice cooker video I was asking myself what more can I cook other than rice in the cooker. I will google for more Thai recipes which can be cooked in the rice cooker.

[@varoonnone7159]

I am so sharing this with my Indo-Mauritian mother

[@themadmanwithapen]

This is revolutionary. Rice cooker saves the day once again!

[@justscrollthru84]

HEY PAILIN! I think for your next videos I suggest that you can do recipes for “Desktop Cooker”. I think this will be the next “Air Fryer”. You can even partner with hello fresh to create your own recipes.

[@mattymattffs]

A simple thing I do in rice cookers all the time is steamed veggies. So easy, so good, and then you can pan fry for some colour

[@LormzWorldCanada]

Yummy ❤

[@thanyawadeekongtimbalogh3122]

That reminded me about the life in the campus dorm in Hatyai.

[@sophiacarrafa4147]

Hi from far north Australia tropical cairns I love your videos ease cooking 🐊🐊🐊🦎🦎🦎

[@user-oc3xe8vk5c]

Hello Pailin, i totally love your channel. Have tried many of your recipes. My question is.. can you do a few videos on the uses of Galangal. I have been given some healthy growing plants but i really dont know how to use it or what it tastes like especially when freshly dug up. I would really love to see how you use it. Look forward to your videos.. :)

[@AdamHotThaiKitchen]

Hi David! hot-thai-kitchen.com/galangal-101/ and hot-thai-kitchen.com/#search/q=galangal Have fun! Adam

[@user-oc3xe8vk5c]

@@AdamHotThaiKitchen Thank you so much for replying. Your links have been very helpfull. :)

[@IAMElsLife]

Nice video. ❤🙏🏽

[@thesushifiend]

I don't know if I'm the only one, but I don't have a rice cooker so I just cook rice in a pot with 1.5x volume of water to rice volume. And if the rice at the bottom does burn, I actually love that! Caramelised rice at the bottom of the pot is delicious!

[@Keesmom2]

That was my favorite part growing up in a Chinese family. So yummy and wonderful childhood memories.

[@brokenglassshimmerlikestar3407]

Pour some oil around the sides before the rice is completely cooked. That's how I get a good crispy bottom. Also some fancy rice cookers have a crispy bottom setting. The crispy is appreciated by a lot of people

[@thesushifiend]

@@brokenglassshimmerlikestar3407 I didn’t know that some rice cookers could make crispy rice. I doubt I’ll get one though, as I already have far too many kitchen gadgets and not enough space! Plus, after 4 decades of cooking rice manually, I can pretty much get it just how I’d like it by adjusting the water volume, salting, cooking time and breathing time as my mother taught me, and now all by intuition. But it does mean that I can only cook rice when I’m physically present to start it and stop it!

[@lillianlouie4284]

For burned rice, you can put a slice of bread 🍞 on top of the rice, put the lid back on and let sit a few minutes. This will absorb some of the burned rice smell. My dad’s tip.

[@Gator1699]

Cut a wedge shape with cardboard place it in the switch cook on setting becomes sauté setting works no drama I have cooked with these beam pots since the 90's ozzie cook. Cheers

[@j4joanne]

Hello Pai! Thank you for this video! Where can I get Pine Brand noodles in Vancouver?

[@Kevin-xb8ex]

Bussin’!

[@lendouma3224]

I love all your videos. You are so pretty and very articulate.

[@karenhackney9920]

I have the Zojurushi that you showed. I never thought about noodles in it. However, i’m thinking it’s not really convenient in it. As you said, it’s a little too smart.

[@Ashraful_Islam_Rifat]

I subscribed! So well detailed, no babbling, no exaggerating just awesome!

[@petrinadesilva4283]

Genius

[@conquer791]

THANK YOU FOR A BETTER TECHNIQUE. BY THE WAY, I'VE RECOMMENDED YOUR BOOK TO ALL MY FRIENDS AROUND THE WORLD. SURE, THEY ARE ENGLISH R EADERS. GOOD LUCK. AMAZON DID A GOOD JOB SENT TO US AS PROMISED, NO DELAYS.

[@betruthful]

ha ha ha some of our friends said that you took pictures of some pages & sent them....very smart ides.

[@JoeBurby]

Reminds me of pancit!

[@limesrus1818]

Hi Pai. Can you please share your thoughts about dry galangal ( powdered ) versus fresh. Thanks.

[@AdamHotThaiKitchen]

Hi! She generally suggests not using dried or powdered ingredients like this if you can help it, as they lose their flavour and aroma over time - but if you have to, (and sometimes there is no other option), then you'll have to experiment with the amount as each batch will be different. Cheers! Adam

[@Zeithri]

But what about the more cheaper alternative noodles? Stuff like Samyang Ramen? Would that work? Update: I gave it a test. It works! \o/

[@wendyshoowaiching4161]

You can basically cook almost everything in there. Try cooking porridge, claypot rice with marinated chicken meat, Heating cold fridge dishes, whole chicken braised

[@rudysittig2343]

Pleas do more video on cooking things in a rice cooker.

[@user-yq2vg3dz1w]

I guess I have a *vintage* rice cooker, I never knew. Been using it for over 20 years, it's a real trooper. I was really fascinated by the concept of using it for noodles, and I'll have to try this recipe. But I was curious, wouldn't this work well for Ants Climbing Trees? Just interested in what you would think about this technique with that recipe.

[@JennySimon206]

Instant pot and rice cooker and u can boil and saute in it. Air fry too if u have the air fryer lid. I love my instant pot duo

[@tbo92]

I wonder if the shrimp might be overcooked in the rice cooker this way? 🤔Maybe put the shrimp in midway through cooking?

[@VillageCookingWithParnik]

Bayıldım❤️❤️❤️

[@brewbarb]

I bought one of those white old school rice cookers when I got out of college in the early 70's.I still use it all the time. What a bargain that appliance was. I only worry that I will wear a hole in the pot.

[@victoriaryan1509]

What about fresh egg noodles as opposed to dried?

[@jaredcolahan759]

I started doing pasta and after it's cooked add a gravy packet of some kind

[@gigio8989]

Those shrimps need to be deveined as shown at 5:12. Good recipe for noodles.

[@Shane-zl9ry]

I prefer my glass top rice cooker. I also have the stainless steel pot. 😬👍🏼

[@Apollo440]

I wonder if rice noodles would work better if you'd put them right on the bottom? Maybe the water would evaporate quicker around them (than it did with the bacon on the bottom) and the rice cooker would turn off quicker.

[@AccessDEANied]

wow, that national rice cooker takes me back to childhood LOL

[@jepolch]

Looks great, but why not leave the heads on the shrimp for more flavor?

[@cyber0198]

Would you mind making Sai Krok? The sausage. I think in the north it's called Sai Ua. I've always wished I could make it myself rather than relying on the Thai grandmas in my area lol

[@PailinsKitchen]

hot-thai-kitchen.com/sai-ua/ Cheers! Adam