MJS,
I understand your problem competely because I had the same problem, as I lived in electric cooking environs for almost 15 years.
First let me say that the nervousness and lack of balance that the electric brings is reason enough to either get a place that has gas cooking, on invest in a portable butane stove
http://dvorsons.com/Iwatani/Propane/IwataniPropane.html or two and just keep buying those little canisters (good for two to three hours each and costing between less than one American dollar [in Chinatown and five dollars (sporting goods stores), depending where you shop).
If you have good venhilation, you can use a propane stove which is much cheaper and more convenient but also more dangerous to use.
So the best energy target is to live in a house that has a gas cooking stove.
Now if you are cooking on an electric stove, the best insert to use is ceramic and since none of the pressure cookers come with ceramic, or any cooking bowls, either, I recommend the
Ohsawa Pot http://www.cybermacro.com/forums/for...frames/read/56.
The cooked grain will taste excellent and keep well either in a dark cool place or refridgerated for a short time, but what I have been learning is that grains that are cooked properly and with the right amount of water come out best without any insert (and you can keep it on the counter just covered with a sushi mat until all the grain has been consumed!).
For instance if you cook a cup of rice with double the amount of water and a pinch of sea salt, for forty minutes (adding the salt just as the first bubbles appear on the water surface, and then covering, locking and putting the rocker on the lid),and then letting the pot cool down (and the valve drops), before gently stirring the rice to loosen it up, that you will be gently energized by that grain.
But until you can cook on gas, I strongly recommend using an Ohsawa Pot.
On the electric or gas, without the Ohsawa Pot, use a flame deflector or tamer, but once you have a Ohsawa Pot, you won't have to worry about burning your rice.
Also, when you are ready, get a lighter and less expensive
Aeternum pressure cooker
http://www.aeternum.com/html_ing/pressione.htm.
It's much easier to use
Please enjoy!
Thank you, very much.
Bruce Paine