How to make GABA brown rice in the Bamboo UMAI induction heating (IH) rice cooker by Yum Asia

This product demonstration video explains how you cook GABA brown rice in the the Bamboo UMAI Induction Heating (IH) Rice Cooker by Yum Asia

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Anne Davies says:
December 5, 2020 at 5:26 pm
Hi
I know red rice is cooked similar to brown rice, both as to rice cooker setting and water even though it’s not the same grain (I have read!) … can I cook red rice on the GABA setting, or should I stick to the ordinary brown rice setting? In other words, can you ‘GABA’ cook red rice??
Thanks
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- Hungry Panda says:
  December 5, 2020 at 5:39 pm
  Hi Anne, you can cook red rice on the GABA setting. Use the same water levels for brown rice and see how it turns out. If it’s too soft, then next time just reduce the water a little.
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Gerry says:
November 11, 2022 at 6:17 pm
I have two questions about GABA:
1. Can you pre-sear the rice (say with some oil and onions) before you put in the pot to cook or will that kill whatever life is in the rice and hence it will not germinate? I was wondering about it while making brown rice with onion, garlic, mushroom and thyme.
2. How long does the Gaba program last?
Thank you!
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- Hungry Panda says:
  November 14, 2022 at 7:45 am
  Hi, pre-searing raw rice changes how it absorbs water, so we wouldn’t advise you do this if you want to use the GABA setting. The GABA setting on Bamboo is 2.5 hours.
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Cristian says:
October 30, 2024 at 9:36 am
Hi. I just bought a Bamboo rice cooker and testing various features. I’m experimenting my first GABA recipe. After preparing the cooker, I wanted it to delay the start time so that the rice would be ready in 3 hours. I used preset as in the user manual, but the earliest the rice ca be ready for is 3h and 30min. The user manual says that GABA lasts for 150 minutes, so I don’t understand why it doesn’t allow me to set a delayed start setting preset at 3h…
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- Hungry Panda says:
  October 30, 2024 at 9:38 am
  Hi Cristian, the delayed timer isn’t for immediate start cooking (like your example would be classed as, you should just cook and then leave it on keep warm), it’s really for setting far in advance, eg setting it at 7am for the food to be ready for 6pm. If you want the rice ready in 3 hours, the Bamboo will start cooking immediately. As the GABA setting takes approximately 2.5 hours to complete, you would just cook the rice as normal and leave it on keep warm for 30 minutes.
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