8 Cup Rice Cooker

- How do you cook sushi rice in a rice cooker?
I just bought a Cuisinart 8-cup rice cooker and tried to cook sushi rice in it for the first time. It was a disaster! Waaay to sticky & mushy. I cooked Japanese sweet rice and used the ratio recommended on the package (not for rice cookers) which was 1 1/c cups of rice to 3 cups of water. My instruction booklet did not give a ratio for this type of rice but it has another one for "sushi rice" which is 3 cups of rice, using the rice cooker measuring cup, and 2 1/4 cups of water plus 2 tablespoons of sake. Perhaps I should have used that? When I added 3 cups of water to the rice in the cooker, it came to the "2" line. What did I do wrong??? I have made nearly perfect sushi rice on the stove before but wanted the cooker for convenience. Help!!

A I find that regardless of the type of rice (except wild, which isn't actually rice) go with the cooker instructions not the instructions on the package of rice. If you put in a cup of rice, fill with water to the "1" line on the cooker and so forth. On that scale, it looks like you added almost twice as much water as you should of (1 cup of rice, but filled liquid to the "2" line). That being said, when I try a new brand or type of rice that I have not cooked before, I normally err on the side of a little less liquid just to be safe - you can always add more, but you can't get too much out of the rice once it is in there. Fill to just a little below the appropriate line and if the results come out too dry and firm, pour some additional liquid over the rice and restart the machine.

- How do I use my rice cooker?
I have an Aroma cool touch 8 cup rice cooker. How many cups of water do I need to mix with the rice to cook it. I always use it for veggies and have never cooked rice.. ;)

A 1 cup of rice to 2 cups of water