I know that cooking sticky rice uses a steamer setup. But do you need a rice cooker to cook sticky rice property, or can it be done using regular kitchen tools, e.g. pots and pans?
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I've heard that adding a little olive oil (any kind) can help with bubbling over.
Otherwise if you don't get any answers, consider that your rice cooker might be broken. If you get that far, try to borrow someone else's and repeat your method.
I surveyed many recipes available by googling "Loation sticky rice", "Thai sticky rice" and "Viet sticky rice".
None of them mentioned kneading anything in after 30 or 40 recipes, although many mention fluffing, folding, or stirring the rice after cooking or steaming to manage the texture.
Several did mention that it is appropriate for eating with one's hands. The key may be the variety of rice that is used. Short grained glutinous rice will have the sticky texture desired.
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Rice cookers are not magic. They do not do anything, for any type of rice, that cannot be done with a more traditional pot and heat source.
What makes a rice cooker effective at what it does is that it has a thermometer measuring the temperature of the pot, at least at the edge. This allows it to detect when all of the water has been absorbed, because only then can the temperature rise above the boiling point of water. The logic or circuitry built into the cooker than shut off, or change the heat level to warming.
So of course, with experience and good technique you can cook anything in a regular pot that can be cooked in a rice cooker, including sticky rice.
Did you mean to ask how to properly cook sticky rice with traditional equipment? You can google a myriad of recipes. The common theme appears to be soaking and steaming (as you mentioned), for best results. For example, this one from Food Network requires no rice cooker.