/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>14444107
Follow the directions that came with your rice cooker.

>>14444129
im doing it in a pot

>>14444139
Throw out the pot, get a rice cooker.

Otherwise 2:1 water:rice
Clean your rice
Start with warm water in pot
Dash of salt
Add rice
Do not open pot or stir
Bring to boil then Drop to medium-low

Your stove heat and pot material is up to you to finesse around

>>14444276
Add 1/2Tbsp of butter for Americano

>>14444276
Can't cook well in this pot?

>>14444842
Pretty much any pot with a good lid, yeh.
That looks like you can hit the heat to low.

>>14444107
Buy a bloody rice cooker.

>>14444276
>>14444129
Rice cookers are a waste of money unless you're cooking some giant fucking feast that consumes every burner on your stove
>>14444107
Are you rinsing your rice 5x with water prior to putting into the boiling water? If not, then do that. Does the lid of your pot fit tightly over the pot? If not, replace it. Are you following the water/rice ratios and cook times listed on the package? If not, do that.

>>14444107
What kind of rice are you trying to cook?
White, brown, basmati?

>>14444107
>What's the trick to perfect steamed rice every time, I keep fucking it up.
You'll get a better feel with it if you use like the same measuring cup, even a coffee mug, something specific to measure in you often use for both the rice and the water. the 2:1 ratio is correct, but a tight lid and thick pan looses less steam so you can reduce it slightly. A thin cheap pan, ill fitting lid, and a cold kitchen might mean a lot of steam loss, so you might want to do the full 2 cups of water to the 1 cup of rice and maybe burner on 23 mins. So once you have your formula down for your specific setup and pan and "cooking for 3 people" or whatever you do, you'll get more confident.
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Start the water and rice together, turn on to high, and the moment it comes to a boil, open lid, drag a spoon through it to lift grains across the surface of the bottom of the pan, sprinkle some salt if desired or oil for hispanic uses, replace lid and reduce to simmer.
Then, 20 mins, burner on simmer, set timer and don't lift lid even once again, not once!
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*buzz* Turn off burner and leave pan there untouched,
10 mins without the burner on, and without lifting the lid even once. The residual steam will be absorbed. You can even leave it 20 minutes, while you do other things. It'll stay hot. Fluff with fork.

>>14445039
You don't throw out the cooker when you're done

>>14444107
zojirushi

you cannot make highest tier rice without a micom rice cooker

>microwave proof container
>soak for at least 30 minutes in enough water to cover by about 3/4ths an inch
>microwave for 8-10 minutes
>leave with the lid on for 10-15 minutes

>>14445097
>microwaving rice

get the fuck out

>>14445088
And it's still a waste of money. Imagine paying money for a specialty tool for boiling water instead of just using a pot and the 3 brain cells it takes to check on the rice in 20 minutes to see if it's done.

>>14445129
>durr boiling water

It's so amazing how every time a stupid person tells you not to buy something or do something, it's because they have no fucking earthly clue how it works or what it is.

>>14444107

20 minutes

>>14444107
Let it rest for about 5-10 minutes after turning off the heat.

>>14445139

my room mates have rice cookers.

i never understood it.
i just use a pot on the stove

there's three fucking rice cookers on the kitchen counter.

>>14445151
okay? doesn't change the fact that rice cookers indisputably cook far better rice than any other method, and 50% of their use is as rice *holders* not rice cookers.

you cannot cook fluffy, japanese-restaurant rice in a pot of boiling water. you simply can't. it requires fuzzy logic and containment.

>>14445139
>Buying a unitasker to clutter your kitchen
Fucking idiot

>>14445139
Bitch the only thing it fucking does is premeasure the water for you and turn off it's own heat. Are you telling me you need a computer to measure out water and rice in a 2:1 ratio?

>>14445158
>you cannot cook fluffy, japanese-restaurant rice in a pot of boiling water.

it's been working for me.lol

i'm a cook and i've literally been learning the art of sushi since i first got laid off in March.

>>14445123
>has never tried this but will still shit talk it
Fuck off retard

>>14445158
Making restaurant style fluffy rice is not fucking hard. You're probably just not rinsing it enough prior to cooking. Which, by the way, your average machine won't do for you.

>>14445159
>iT'S a UnItASkEr!

lol fucking faggot

>>14445165
no, it hasn't, because you don't know the difference in what comes out

>>14445129
I was going to leave a non-funny joke response but this thread got good.

>>14445162

i'm with this fucker.

the pot on the stove works just fine for me. to each their own

but, i also Sous vide my spaghettios so i don't have to wash a pot.

>>14445172

you seem mad.
everything is going to be ok.

>>14445180
nobody cares what poor people think. your support weakens his argument (which is wrong anyway)

has no idea what hes talking about

>>14445192
>nobody cares what poor people think.

i got like 10k in the bank.

better than nothin'

i admit that's some poverty ass savings, however

>>14445192
People can not want rice cookers and understand them

>>14444107
Microwave rice cooker, perfect rice every time.

It's different amount of water depending on the type of rice.