Recipe: Reuben Sandwich (rice cooker)

Reuben Sandwich (rice cooker)
rec.food.cooking/RoboCheese (2002)

If I can't get to a real deli, this is how I prepare it at home The end result is excellent.

I take the bread and Thousand Island, the piles of good corned beef, sauerkraut and Swiss cheese, and assemble. Roll it in aluminum foil and seal it.

Put about a cup of water in bottom of Rice Cooker. Add the steamer basket (place the wrapped sandwich in the steamer basket) and simply push the button as if I were steaming rice. Soon as the chime goes off, it is done.

The bread is crisp and firm. (Don't ask me how.) Meat is hot and cheese is melted. Sauerkraut is lovely and incorporated with the cheese and meat just so. Modify this method according to size and brand of cooker.

The amount of water has to be played with too perhaps. Before you laugh, try this, just once. It is the quickest way to a good Reuben. Perhaps not great, but it is very very good.