Amazon.com description: Product Description: The rice cooker is extremely popular because it is so versatile—it is a perfect steamer and all-purpose cooking pot. This newly revised title shows you how to steam vegetables, fish and chicken, make desserts, prepare dim sum, boil eggs, and cook a variety of grains – as well as many recipes that use cooked rice as a base and a variety of one-dish meals. Because the rice cooker steams to cook, it is both healthy and easy to clean up – perfect for the home, dorm room, ski cabin, or studio apartment.