Curious: Nagging Questions With Unimportant Answers

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Originally Posted by DapperButch

Assumptions: The love of the rice cooker is motivated by its ability to make rice sticky. Is this correct? If so, my question is if it will make brown rice sticky?

While rice cookers are often used to make sticky rice, they won't make non-sticky rice sticky. Rice's stickiness is determined by the variety not by the cooking method.

I only know the brand of white rice I use for sticky rice, not the variety, so I'm not much help, but try a variety of short to medium grain brown rices and one of them is bound to be sticky. If you succeed in finding out the variety of white rice commonly used to make sticky rice, you will then know the best brown sticky rice, too, as the difference between white and brown is just how the rice is milled/how much of the bran is left intact.