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Ok, so there's something pretty daggy about this, but does anyone have and use a Tupperware stack cooker? How useful are they really??
I remember they were all the rage in the early 90s, my gf had one and looooooved it.
I'm wondering whether it would be handy when I'm cooking just for my DDs and me (when DH is away) - you know, doing rice and veggies at the same time?? Or steaming several different veggies all at once?
I got given one as a wedding gift 6 years ago and have never used it for stack cooking :redface:.
I really should pull out the recipe book and try it one of these days!!
I used to have one - I sold it on eBay a while ago! I never really used it! I only used it as a microwave cooking container, not for actual stack cooking IYKWIM. Sorry that doesn't help you much!!
They still sell them - I think they come in a transparent red colour now (mine was white, much nicer I think!) and I think the set is around $140!
I have one and 2 cookbooks to go with it and have never used it as a stack! I got it years and years ago and I really should use it but never seem to. Maybe we can motivate each other?
You could get a rice cooker with a steamer tray and do veges and rice in that. It's probably a heap cheaper than tupperware. I just bought a new one for about $40.
I couldn't live without a rice cooker - the thought of going back to stovetop rice makes me shudder.
I was given one years ago. I never found the need to use it.
ok, Im biased cos I sell tupperware, but I love my stack cooker.
The plastic its made from now is a different type of plastic to the older, white stack cooker, and it actually enables the food to cook better. I love it for doing rice int he microwave, and for things like curries where I can do the rice and the meal at the same time, and the smells dont permeate (prob more handy if you are doing a savoury and a dessert at the same time)
i have the new red one, however i only the the 1.5l one and no idea what to make with it. The recipes i was given are mainly for the actual stackcooker.
Any ideas for the 1.5l cooker?
I only use mine for the bowls aswell :redface:
So you only have to top component on the stack cooker and the lid? Did you get it as a special, or did you have the bottom part before but dont have it now?:
You can still do desserts, mains, rice etc in it, but as you only have the one compartment you cant do 2 meals at the same time.
You can also use the lid sepeately to cook bacon etc in the microwave..
i have the stack cooker and use it alot ... but i need more recipes .... the only thing i find is it takes ages to cook brown rice in , but it takes ages on the stove top too ....
i would use it alot better if i got more info about it , i just knew i wanted one and now not really sure what to do with it , i think the yellow book that came with it confused me to much , i need simple instructions , like rice : 15 mins , pasta :9mins ... etc instead of recipes
i love it and use it , but i could be usuing it better kwim !!!
i bought the 1.5l cooker on its own. It was a host special.
oh I see. You could use it just as a regular mocrovace cooking container, or you could get your demonstrator to order you the 1.5L top section of the regular SC. This will fit on top of the one you got as a host special and give you a stak cooker of 2 1.5L compartments with a lid, if you wanted to.
Lea, I will see what I can find for you recipe/instruction wise. How many watts is your microwave?
can some one tell me how to do rice in it please.
Like RayRay I am a demonstrator too andi use mine every day! I do my veggies in the big compartment and then one of those side dishes (pasta or rice) in the top part at the same time! It is so quick and easy to clean too
Iactually sell heaps of them and all my customers rave about them! I dont know what i did before i had it!
With cooking rice
This is out of the tupperware cookbook for perfect rice
2 cups rice
2.5 cups water
rinse the rice untill the water runs clear,
place in the microwave cooker - smaller one or larger base if cookign larger amounts
add the water (cold)
cover and cook on medium high for 6 mins (60% power)
uncover and cook another 6 mins on medium high
Cover it and let it stand for 5-10 mins to finish itself off - it will stay hot when covered for about 30 mins
Hope that helps
I have 3 layers to my stacker. Do the new ones have this??
thanks Cindy :) will try it tonight
Good luck with it! My girlfriend swares by cooking it that way
The new ctack cookers have 2 layers, one thats just over 2ltrs and the top one which is about 1.5l
mrsmac - have you got the white one? they changed the plastic for the new one. It only has 2 levels, but you could always buy a second 1.5L tray and make it 3 levels. I think the issue with 3 levels was that lots of microwaves were not large enough to fit it inside.
re rice, for just 1 cup you can do this:
1 cup rice, 1 1/2 cups water for 6mins, give a stir then another 3 mins. Done.
Regardless of what you use to cook it, the type of rice will make a difference. Even within long grain white rice I hav found that different brands give different results. I always use riviana basmati rice now.
With brown rice, the grains can have differing water content which means you will not always get the same results even with the same brand, cooked the same way, you can get variation each time.
my microwave is 900 watts ...
dh cooked veges in the small one and potatoes in the large part tonight !!! its so much easier to do it in the SC less pots and pans with my ds hooning about !!
Hey!
In the little book the lady gave us, I wanted to make the coconut rice - but I'm confused... (I can confuse the simplest things):doh: Total mind blank today
1.Place rice, water and coconut milk into 1.5l container. cook uncovered on high/100% for 5mins. Fork through. ( I understand this bit)
2.Cover and stand while you prepare the rest of the stack... (huh? what rest of?)
3.Stack, cover and cook as directed on the stack cover microwave times.
4.Remove from stack and fork through. Add lime zest, restack. Allow to stand for 5mins before serving.
I just want to cook the rice. With only a 1.5l cooker anyway, how do I do it?
Do I just follow steps 1, 3 & 4?? (that is : step 1, cover and cook for 5mins, fork through cover and stand for another 5mins?) For the cover and stand (the last part) can I take it out of the cooker and cover and stand it in something else, so I can cook the rest of the meal??
This is for tonights dinner :wall:
Lea, how'd you do the vegies?
Now I'm getting confused!
I would put the rice etc in the small one - and at the same time I would have whatever else yo uare cooking - in the larger one - put them in small on top of large and cook away! You would probably add a min cooking time though so cook it ALL for 6mins -take out rice (small one) and stand it on your bench for 5-10 mins while it finishes cooking (put a plate or glad wrap over it)and put the lid on the the large one and contunue cooking whatever it is you are cooking in it.
OMG - does that make sense?
AT ALL???
lol no. :) Well, yes, but..... I only have the middle section ie: I have a lid and a 1.5l bit.
OK, so the small one I am talking about IS the 1.5! So I'm thinking you probably need another 1.5 with the lid or to get the base of the stack cooker (it is possible to order just that piece- I can help with that if you like - or go back to who sold you the 1.5)
thanks heaps tho, ill go back to the girl, coz i was thinking of being a demonstrator anyway!
Can you tell me why it explodes? I was trying to cook rice and it exploded through the microwave.
just out of curiosity, how much is another 1.5l stack?
At the moment they are going for 75.95
Did you stop the cooking process and stir it at all?:
How much water and how much rice was in there, for how long?