Cooking pasta & rice in an EasiYo container

Primrose

I recently saw advertised in one of those gadget magazines something which looked like a glass tube with a lid and an insulated jacket into which you put pasta etc, covered it with boiling water and the lid and it cooked your pasta in ten minutes.
It seemed to operate on the same principle as the EasyYo produces yoghurt and I wonder whether small quantities or pasta or rice could be cooked in the EasyYo yoghurt container inside the main flask in the same way. Has anybody tried it?
Could anything else be cooked in the yoghurt container? It wouldn't obviously produce the same consistent heat as a slow cooker but I wonder if small quantities of food could be cooked by this method?

TheMousie

I've heard of people slow cooking rice/porridge etc in the residual heat from the boiling water in vacuum flakes so can't think why the same thing woulnd't work in the easi-yo.
Its essentially a vacuum flask isn't it? (not used one before)

retiredlady

I cook pasta in my easiyo quite often! I just pour in the pasta, cover with boiling water and put on the lid. 15 minutes later = cooked pasta! Not tried it with rice though, I always use my Remoska for rice.

Caterina

I don't even bother with using a gadget, I bring the water to the boil, put the pasta in, bring back to the boil and then put a lid on and switch off the fire. After a few minutes (depending on the type of pasta) it is cooked. Of course my fellow Italians think I am a renegade, but who cares, it is not them who got to pay the energy bills here! hehee

Could not do this with rice because I use brown mostly, but have successfully cooked porridge by this methodby leaving it in boiling hot water overnight. Same with red lentils but they definitely need an extra source of heat to cook properly, such as the wood stove.

laurel7172

Maybe pasta-why not have a go?

I'd be EXTREMELY wary of cooking rice that way, because of the risk of food poisoning. Keeping rice at breeding temperature for a long time strikes me as a rather risky thing to do. I wouldn't do it.