/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Some backstory : I don't make rice often, and when i do it, it's not on its own but part of another dish or something. Rice, some vegetables (onion carrot peas corn green-pepper green-beans) for example.

Each time I've tried cooking rice the "correct" way, according to what seems like the entirety of the internet - Washed until the water runs clear, then boiled in an *exact* amount of water until it's all absorbed - It ends up like shit. The texture is either mushy or dry, the rice clumps up together in huge chunks, and the pot always develops this really really thin starch.. film around the outside..

I tried washing the rice even more, i tried using less water, using more water, using a lower flame, using a higher flame (though i don't know if that does anything since water cant go above 100c). It always ends up like shit. And trust me i've tried, i tried going in 50ml increments of water based on my rice amount.

Yet when I just dump some rice in a metric shit ton of water, boil it until it's cooked, then strain it and wash it with cold water to get rid of the starch on the outside, it ends up PERFECT. There's individual grains of rice, which is what i need for what i usually cook with rice ; the texture is amazing ; it's not mushy, it's not dry...

Why do people on the internet advocate that cooking rice this way is a cardinal sin and that you should be punished by death for doign it... ? (Obviously exaggerating)