/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Nothing, rice tastes good on your own, dumping grease and spices into it is for poos.

If you're eating brown rice get brown rice that's fresh and has been stored properly. Most fatfuck stores are selling stuff that's been on the shelf for years. You need to eat the stuff within 6 months or it gets gross.

use broth in place of water

A tsp of bullion

furikake

>>11427356
>>11427363
can I just dump in one of these knorr cube things with the water

>>11427341
Wash the rice, a little salt, a star anise, some cardamom seeds.

>>11427840
You can but if it doesn't come apart as it cooks, you're in for a really nasty surprise one random spoon in.

>>11427341
If you're buying the rice cooker in your pic brown rice will actually come out tasting good on it's own (I know, it's kind of mind blowing). I personally add soy sauce and furikake at the table, along with any number of other condiments depending on how I'm feeling.

>>11427341
>brown rice.

thats healthy but it'll never be as nice as fluffy soft white rice

toast your spices in butter/oil in a pot first, then dump in your rice and toast the rice a few minutes after tossing in the oil. It will absorb the oil soluble flavors better than just dumping it in with the water later.

>>11427861
I don't understand the appeal of white rice tbqh.

Brown rice is awful. Throw it in the trash. Throw your rice cooker away and buy Uncle Ben's microwavable instant packets. Idiot-proof perfectly firm rice every time.
>but no, I won't look like an epic le hipster if I do that
your loss

>>11428435
quite possibly the most offensive post on all of /ck/

>>11428430
it just complements chinese sides really well

soft fluffy steaming hot rice that you eat with your kungpao chicken or whatever

>>11427341
I do a generous amount of olive oil

>>11427861
>>11428430
White rice has less flavor, is quicker to cook, and easier to digest. Brown rice has lots of its own benefits but white rice also has merits. White rice can be good for people with sensitive digestive systems and is preferred by most athletes since lots of fiber can also have drawbacks, and in certain situations a lower GI index is desirable. Although not well understood, some aspects of high fiber foods may have anti-nutrient effects by reducing absorption. Just something to keep in mind. I still think brown rice is healthier but just trying to point out why informed people might still choose to eat it.You can get enriched rice which adds back some of the lost nutrients, if the rice is enriched you do not wash or rince it before cooking

>>11427341
>brown rice
makes sense, it tastes nasty on its own
>>11427356
this, braise the rice with chicken stock or something

>>11427356
High iq

>>11427341
A few drops of sesame oil is pretty nice. It adds flavor and aromatics. It's strong so a few drops is all it takes.

Use broth or half water half broth. Also melt some butter in and mix around. It's important that you don't add things that will "unmix" as the rice cooker will not circulate what's inside. Stuff like herbs will float to the top and cook on the rice at the top.

Stock, butter, hot sauce is all you need. You can always cook the rice in a sauce afterwards if you wanted. For traditional Japanese rice put in some rice wine, vinegar, sugar, and dashni kombu (or bull kelp)

>>11427341
Oh, if adding sesame oil, it's best to add that after cooking, it's a finishing oil not a cooking oil.

>>11427341
Make sure to wash it properly, meaning like 4-6 times through running water and you'll have good tasting rice every time.

>>11429774
this. cooks off

WEEBS

>yummy rice
nigga what

just wash it and let it soak, then cook.

THE FUCK IS YUMMY RICE

Don't use a pressure cooker, and buy white rice instead. Brown rice isn't really much healthier or anything, and it has a worse texture.

Plain white rice is delicious, it doesn't need much. I make it a few different ways, but my favorite is:
>Saute a whole clove or two of garlic in a little bit of olive oil until it starts to brown
>Add in 2 cups of rice and stir until it's all covered in oil, don't let the rice start browning
>Add 3 cups of water and turn heat to high
>Once it starts boiling, turn down to medium and let the water level drop until there's craters forming on the surface of the rice
>Add a pinch of salt, turn heat down to the lowest setting, stir and cover the pot
>Let it simmer for 20 minutes covered, absolutely do not uncover for any reason during that time
Wa la, no excessive seasoning and no rice cooker.

>>11429802
a fag thing that fags say.

>>11427341
We often put in a little barley for texture.
Also look up Furikake which is basically seasoning mix used to give white rice character.

>>11427356
Turkey broth is best

>>11427341
Buy a rice steamer and long grain sweet rice
Look up jolloff rice and shito spice blends to step your rice game up to actually flavorful levels. Asian style of rice is bland on purpose it's a complimentary side like a western bread basket it can be this fantastic thing but most of the time it isn't it's just carbs to fill you up. Afrikaans style of rices are dishes in their own right or Spanish/Latin rices as they are components of a dish (arroz con pollo) and are flavorful. Americans got their rice knowledge from natives (wild rice) or the Chinese when they came over to build the railways neither is that impressive which is why rice isn't a massive staple of food here just something we keep around to sometimes have if we aren't in the mood for potatoes or pastas

>>11427341
Jasmine Rice is pretty great, it should still work with brown rice.

>Tbsp soy sauce
>Tsp rice wine vinegar (or regular white vinegar if not available)
>Half tsp grated ginger
>Dash of brown sugar
>Few drops of sesame oil
That's what I use for half a cup of uncooked rice. You can use more or less, only the ratios are important. You can top it off with thinly sliced green onions if you like.

>>11427341
Adding a knob of butter at the end of cooking and mixing it through the rice is nice. Especially with basmati.

>>11427859
Holy shit getting the Zojirushi was the best 200$ I've ever spent. It's paid for itself in less then a year by cutting my food budget ing half because I actually enjoy the rice it makes. I personally enjoy adding a bit of mushroom soy and furikake. If I'm up for it some kimchi too.

>>11428435
wh*tes were a mistake

>>11428435
apart from being completely wrong, do you know how much more expensive microwave rice is?

>>11431407
Niggers were the mistake, whites are more evolved.

>>11427341
>yummy
girls aren't allowed on 4chan

>>11430181
You can also add hot sauce (sriracha or cholula are usually my go to) and a tablespoon of flour and marinate chicken in this sauce making sure its completely covered. Cook rice, cook the meat and some veggies and serve. Takes like 20 minutes and is absolutely delicious

>>11431426
>but at least I'm better than that guy over there!
what would you ''''people'''' do without the blacks?

>>11431428
Lea & Perrins is also good as a marinade. That stuff smells so good I wish I could shower in it.

>>11431432
I guess we might have to hollar at walls and eachother.

>>11427341
Good fresh rice needs no seasoning desu. Jasmine rice loses its aroma after 6 months. If you wanna go deep in the rice meme try wild/mountain/red/black rice varieties. Discovering all the varieties of rice in South East Asia was as mind blowing as discovering all the potato varieties in Peru.

Else you could just follow the suggestions itt
>toast rice in oil infused with spices/aromatics
>cook in broth
>add finishing seasonings like sesame oil /butter, rice vinegar or furikake

>>11427341
Nothing really. You could add a pinch of saffron, maybe a preserved lime. You can also do this >>11427356 .
Often times I just wash the rice. I do that every time I do anything with rice anyway. Makes the rice taste much, much better. So good in fact, that with proper quality rice, properly washed and cooked, I can easily eat a bowl of plain rice.

Is buying a rice cooker worth it? Or am I falling for a meme?

Add an entire tomato in with the rice. Cut into 1/4's. Watch it for to much water.

>>11431478
If you didn't grow up with one, it's pointless
People who use them eat rice 2-3x daily
You eat rice once a week at best, or you're "thinking about maybe cooking more to save money"
You don't need one, and you can't afford a good one, move along now

>>11431486
Oh right.. thanks anon

>>11427356
Broth is good but if you're using the one you find in stores it'll slowly kill you due to the intense amount of salt it contains. Don't do it too often.

>>11428435
You're essentially thinking the same way as my dad and he's a massive child when it comes to food. This board isn't for you.

>>11427341
Nothing. Use white rice and make strong-flavoured sides to go with the rice instead.

Lay a strip of kombu over the top before you start cooking. (After, pull it out and freeze it, when you accumulate a bunch you can make tsukudani.)

>>11431432
We might enjoy a more civilized nation without as much crime as we do now?

>>11427341
I live in Japan and cook rice daily. Don't add anything, wash the rice and keep the rice to water ratio 1:1

>>11431643
Do you use a rice cooker? I always read the ratio should be 2:1 water to rice, it works for me but I don't do it daily.

>>11431641
But you're the same as them. Feel free to leave this country. Maybe go to Africa, you seem to share their values.

>>11431653
What the fuck are you on about you nigger? I just asked a question about some rice.

>>11431657
>I just barged into an asian thread raving about muh fragile white fee-fees
Fixed for you. Again, feel free to leave.

>>11431643
Wow your so cool.

>>11427341
tumuric rice

>>11431663
Go for broke, use saffron.

>>11431660
I'll get right on that one mr bossman

>>11431648
Yes rice cooker. 1:1 ratio 57 minutes . Iris oyahama is the brand I have

>>11431662
You sound like a gimp m8

>>11431666
Thanks and nice satan trips

>>11427341
Good stock is more important than individual spices. Save all the bones and veg scraps you use for a few months and then boil that down. People lose their shit over my boring old rice and it's just because of stock made with chicken bones and fat, and scraps from onion, garlic, celery, carrot, peppers, and a few mushrooms for depth.

>>11431511
>it will slowly kill you
Good thing I'm already slowly dying

>>11431716
>Good stock is more important than individual spices
This.

And good rice is more important still. Most people have only ever eaten cheap industrial rice and wonder why it doesn't taste of much without adding flavor. fuck that. Get good rice and it's amazing even if you only cook it with plain water.

>>11431653
We're worse than asians but better than niggers.

>>11431511
It's pretty easy to find low/no sodium broth now.

>>11431756
Yeah, but it tastes of fucking nothing.
What's wrong with making your own stock? It's cheap, tasty, healthy, and easy.

>>11431760
It's okay if you supplement it with some flavorful ingredients. I only buy it because I don't ever really have chicken bones or anything to make that kind of stock anymore and don't think any stores near me sell it.

>>11431764
I have no idea what prices are like in your area, but where I live chicken drumsticks or leg quarters are often on sale for well under a dollar a pound. I just wait until I see that on sale then buy a bunch for the sole purpose of making stock.

>>11427341
Sesame oil

>>11431637
I don't suppose I can use nori sheets as kombu, can I? I'm having no luck finding any near me.

>>11431884
No, they taste totally different.

You can mail-order kombu tho.

>>11431753
Maybe you should stop comparing yourself to the worst student in class and saying you're doing ok in school.

>>11431432
Celebrate

>>11431716
>People lose their shit over my boring old rice

Yeah, it's called diarrhea.

>>11427341
Black rice is better

>>11432102
Fair.

>>11431716
How do you prep your bones and especially veg "scraps" so that you can keep them around for months ?
If I can't use my chicken/pork bones immediately I feel like I have to throw them away.

>>11432933
Not him, but I freeze them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx9h65E433M
Why need a rice cooker? This works every time.
I suggest a bit less water though.

>>11432962
So no cleaning necessarily ?
Too bad my freezing space is just one compartment in my fridge.

Cinnamon/cumin/saffron

>>11432147
i sprinkle a little of that with my white rice to make purple rice

>>11431515
Bro have you even bothered to browse this board? More than half of these threads are manchildren arguing about which fast food item is better or which sugary processed brand-name kids' snack to buy with their current savings of Good Boy Points.

>>11432147
didn't even know this was a thing. I guess I've seen darker rice seeds mixed in here and there with lighter seeds now that I think about it.

i cook my basmati rinsed with a bay leaf fresh out the cooker with a bit of soy sauce and garlic powder.

Replacing all of or part of the water with coconut milk or cream makes it delicious. Add a pinch of sugar too to make the coconut flavour pop.

>>11430065
Rice is now the most eaten carb in the USA though

>>11427373
underrated 100% true post

>>11427341
Well seasoned minced meat and broth

>>11429810
why dont you just make risotto?
youre forgetting that you need arobrio rice and fresh grated parmigiano reggiano
make sure you have some shallots and mushrooms in there before the rice.
add a light chicken stock instead of just water

so close

>>11431478
it really depends. i use mine multiple times every day, but I lift and cook all foods

>>11431485
just used canned

>>11431511
>salt kills people
One cup of normal sodium chicken broth contains only 24% (570mg) of your daily sodium intake. One cup of broth makes one and a half cups of rice. In order to even meet your daily salt limit eating rice made with broth, you'd have to eat six cups of rice in a day. No one does this. Now leave and take your ignorant nutrition boogeymans with you.

Try Jasmine rice. It's great alone.
Otherwise star anise or curry powder work well. Saffron if you're a baller.

>>11431478
I bought one for $30 and have used it once a week for a few years now. It's worth it. Perfect rice without supervision every time.
Only it's obviously a POS machine that offers some very poor suggestions on how much rice / water to use. My dad, brother and sister have it boil over every time. It is consistent though, so measure stuff to find your own ratio and be sure to leave it on "warm" for a while after it is done.
Also get a small one. Even a family of 7 doesn't need a 10 cup cooker.

Beer rice is unironically god-tier

>>11428435
What a fucking pig

For Brown rice the gaba setting really does make it taste better.

>>11431662
Mmmm... wonder if it taste as good as it look.

>>11427341
Curry powder, Jerk Seasoning, Sazón Goya.
Coriander, Smashed Garlic Cloves, Rice Vinegar
Salt (always salt)
I like to saute some onion, garlic, leeks in a bit of butter and mix that up with it in the end

>>11427341
Fish sauce

>>11431478
Yeah it's good, get a $25-40 one, that's enough. See if the local Japanese market has one, that's usually a sign it's a good brand

>>11434926
but only a teaspoon or two, that shit is magic but unforgiving magic

>>11434927
Everything about this post is absurdly wrong, aside from recommending buying a rice cooker. You want fuzzy logic, which begins in the mid 3 figure range, but buying from an Asian grocery store will add another 50% markup compared to ordering online.

Cuckoo > Cuchen >> Zojirushi >>> Tiger

Japanese rice tastes amazing by itself. Superior quality. If you disagree then your palate must be too fucked to taste anything not covered in salt and sugar,

>>11431432
Pay an ethically justifiable tax

>>11427341
>brown rice
Not even a /pol/lock, but ew. White rice world wide.
Also to answer your question, tear up a leaf of basil, make a few dried tomatoes in the oven covered in olive oil, mix it in with a dash of garlic salt, and presto. That's a good rice bowl.

>>11427341
In my family we add a clove of garlic, a slice of any available bell pepper and a bay leaf.
It's really fucking good

>>11431478
Changed my life.

>>11427341
just putting salsa in there also works. homemade or from a jar like a peasant. wasnt there also some viral meme shit that was "just throw a fucking tomato in it you're done fucker" that apparently tasted good also? i think that was white rice but fuck if i know

>>11433129
You might be thinking of wild rice. It's a bit different. Chinese black rice is smaller, rounder and a lot more chewy

>>11428435
NEVER GONNA MAKE IT

>>11427341
Get that rice cooker right there. Only thing brown rice takes over 1 hr to make. very basic rice will be 5 whole garlic cloves throw em in there you should be good.

>>11427341
Just use salt and maybe a small piece of butter once it's cooked.

>>11431666
>57 minutes
What the fuck? I thought this was faster than cooking in a pot.

>>11435539
It's actually 54 mins. It's not about speed it's about fluffy white rice cooked to perfection

I rinse the rice first to remove excess starch, then add stock in place of water (usually from bullion cubes). I prefer adding carrots and celery cut into chunks of using chicken stock, but a whole tomato with the skin cut in intervals gives it a nice savory flavor.

>>11435539
>he thinks it's to make rice as fast as possible

if you want that just buy the bagged microwave stuff. the point is it automates it to the point where it's set and forget. rinse the rise, set the timer, and it's done when you get home from work. there is a quick cook mode on my zoji which shaves about 20 minutes off the total time, but it's noticeably worse compared to the normal cook mode.

>>11428435

Uncle Ben's is garbage but I HATE BROWN RICE. Fuck it tastes so gross and gives me indigestion. White rice is the food of my people but brown rice, jesus god it's so gay

Pan cook the white rice a bit before you let it boil in a tiny knob of butter, it enhanced the taste and texture

>>11435664
See >>11427351

Korean grocery stores are a good place to buy brown rice because Koreans have taken a liking to whole grains of late, the inventory is going to be fresher and higher quality, because they're eating it every day, unlike wh*teoids who consider health to be a kind of punishment to be endured (leaving aside the question of whether brown rice really is healthier, which is a contentious issue not worth getting into here)

>>11427341
tamago gohan is top tier

Beat an egg with some soy sauce and stir it into fresh, hot rice. It'll get slightly cooked to a nice silky texture.

If you're feeling lazy you can just crack a whole egg directly into the rice.

>>11435539

rice cookers usually cook white rice in 15 min, brown rice 30ish. so idk what kind of candy ass cooker anon has

>>11428435
nice b8

>>11435698
>rice cookers usually cook white rice in 15 min
More like 40 minutes with the built in warm-up and cool-down periods of a fuzzy logic cooker

>brown rice 30ish
Modern cookers are all about that GABA meme so cooking time is extended to two hours (plus a manual 7 hour soaking period)

>>11431511

Hate to burst your bubble anon but being alive in general is slowly killing you

>>11427341
Chicken stock.

>>11431653

These are always skewed and meaningless because when they say white they don't mean Anglo-Saxon they mean literally anything that isn't asian or black, so the white statistics gets ALL the latin american / gang and cartel crime associated with it as well, which isn't remotely "white".

They would probably still be higher than asian in some categories but you'll never know because an actual survey has yet to be done that's accurate.

>>11435770

>>11435697
I sorta kinda do this but I fry the egg in butter first just long enough to solidify the white and leave the yolk runny. I also throw a little bacon in it because I am indeed a breakfast boy.

I'm unironically trying to research and decide between buying a rice cooker or an instant pot. Seems like a quality rice cooker will do rice stuff better than the instant pot, but the instant pot can probably be satisfactory if you're not too picky. Plus it does a lot more things than just rice.

Does anyone have personal experience using an instant pot for rice?
Or a rice cooker for non-rice things?

mother FUCK captcha what is you're fucking problem? Several attempts and mistyped? There's no typing FUCK GO POST

>>11435971
I have both.
Several times I have tried to follow non-rice rice cooker recipes, even ones that came in a booklet with the cooker itself, and basically if it's not just steaming food over rice it's not going to work.
(side note: steaming a fillet of salmon over rice is ace)

Conversely, the instant pot is excellent for soups, stews, roasts, ribs, desserts, just about anything you could think to throw at it... except rice. Cooking rice by the directions included with the pot just leaves you with a pot full of uncooked rice and warm water.

>>11427341
why would you buy a rice cooker? it's the most useless thing to have in the kitchen.

>>11436030
Simple.
1) It frees-up much needed space on the rangetop. That might not be a big deal if one has a large range, but I only have 4 hobs and they're often all occupied.

2) it does an objectively superior job cooking rice compared to a normal pot (assuming we're talking about a good rice cooker with a pressure mode).

>>11436043
3) The convenience of "set it and forget it" with an offset timer cannot be overstated.

>>11436030
I own a rice cooker and I use it all the time. If you're cooking rice weekly then it makes it much easier since you can just set it up and leave it to do its thing. When it's cooked it will just switch to 'keep warm' mode. The rice is always perfectly cooked as well.

>>11436043
>when i make rice i have 4 burners going at once
well aren't you the important one, mr. gucci loafers

>>11434926
Tastes fucking good but smells like my dogs ass

>>11434926
Same brand I use. Love that shit.

>>11427341
dump some coconut milk in jasmine rice.

>>11433083
That would be a bit too "spiced" for me. If I'm already eating food that spiced then I prefer white rice to be neutral, a bit of saffron is nice, but anything more to me isn't necessary or wanted.

>>11436705
could always put in smaller amounts desu

>>11436053
Truth in that but I don't have the space in a small kitchen for a rice cooker. I'm great at improvising but a rice cooker takes some space.

>>11436177
So you often smell your dog's ass? Kinky!

>>11436719
I know, I just like white rice to be neutral compared to other food which is already spiced.

>>11436721
>I don't have the space in a small kitchen for a rice cooker.
But that's literally what they're designed for

>>11427351
>>11435687
>brown rice

enjoy your phytates and lectins, retards

>>11437034
In fairness, the Asian kitchen is a little different from the Western kitchen. Even small apartments in the US will have four burners and an oven. In Japan you might have one burner that uses bottled gas, so appliances for water, rice, etc are a lot more practical than throwing another pot on the stove.

I'm a pround American and still use a Japanese Zojirushi cooker though.

>>11435697
wanna try this but with chicken stock and some garlic.

>>11437718
I mean, at some point you might as well throw some chicken strips and easy-cooked omelette on top for oyakodon

>>11427341
If you really wanna know, reply to this. I wont waste 20 minutes and my secret recipe (or rather my girlfriends) if you don't actually care or read it. In fact, just add me on Steam. Much easier. Search 404killer, look for HeavenHammer (Yes, 404 killer...I was really pissed at those 404 errors back in the day).

>>11427341
>yummy

>buying short grain when you are not making sushi or risotto

why? short grain sucks for general eating

>>11439152
You suck in general.

>>11439152
Short grain is the only rice that tastes good and has a pleasant texture, at least to me.

Call me a wh*toid if you will, but for whatever reason I love adding soba tsuyu sauce to my rice. I like that bit of sweetness it has and much less saltiness over soy sauce. Although it's pretty liquidy so you have to add a lot, which I guess defeats the purpose of using something less salty than soy sauce, since you could just use less soy sauce if you don't want your rice to be too salty... still, it tastes pretty dang good. I get at least two bottles any time I go to H mart since I go through it so fast. Again, part of the reason for that is that it is so liquidy. Pic related is my favorite brand (marutomo)

raisu raisu baibee

>>11431511
not making your own broth..
wut

>>11431432
hate the Irish instead, as god intended.

>>11427341
My semen.