/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I add it to the water before I set it to cook and it comes out pretty amazing. Butter, soy sauce, and some salt makes some really flavorful rice.

Forgot to mention, the opposing opinions go as follow:
-The rice can no longer absorb flavor after it's cooked. This would support adding butter/oil while cooking.
-Adding butter/oil after coats the surface and more butter/oil gets on your tongue for more flavor.

>>4547774

[citation needed]

>>4547769
>soy sauce AND salt
Enjoy your heart disease.

>>4547815
salt is good for you.

>>4547831
oh yeah?

name one good thing salt does for the human body

>>4547842
it's essential for keeping the human body alive, for one.

>>4547870
Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man

>>4547815
>>4547842
>>4547876
Just ignore the troll.

>>4547883
That was some other guy.
There is no need to use salt and soy sauce at the same time. soy sauce already has an incredible amount of sodium

>>4547766
when people add butter or oil to the rice before adding the water, its to burn off the excess starch mostly, its similar to soaking and draining but the texture comes out better in my opinion. it also adds flavor but not as much as finishing the rice with butter or a drizzle of olive oil or something. if you finish it with the butter it tastes fresher and more buttery, cooking with it before adding the water dilutes the flavor during cooking i think. im not too sure, it just seems like a fresh finish of butter is better than cooking with it.

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>>4547774
Those opinion do not conflict. They are both correct. If you want rice to absorb anything, you have to dessicate it first. That's why fried rice recipes always call for day-old refrigerated rice. It doesn't ferment or metamorphize... It just sheds moisture and becomes absorbant.

I wish you geniuses would have told me that salt was not important before I got laid up in the hospital for 4 days with hyponatremia

>>4548286
Blame the AHA for promoting a low salt diet which at best helps no one and at worst is unhealthy for the general population.

>>4547769
>soy sauce, and some salt
but isn't soy sauce salty enough?

>>4548310
> Blame the AHA for promoting a low salt diet

Nah it's not like that. I have stomach flu that left me dehydrated. To get rehydrated I drank a about 3 gallons/12L of plain water over a 3 day period. I didn't feel like eating and only had some toast during that time and no salt. Turns out I had "water poisoned" myself like the girl that died after the "hold you wee for a wii" contest.

Very, very uncomfortable experience that I would not wish to repeat. The electolyte imbalance cascades into all sorts of problems and you become quite confident that you are dying (which you are). Cellular osmosis stops and every cell in your body swells and bloats with water that it can't excreet, so they are basically drowning and starving while swimming in their own waste products. Brain cells too. By the time I got to the ER I was hallucinating, forgot my wife's name, couldn't read/write/speak or focus my eyes, and I forgot why I was there.

>>4547766
>adding butter
Amerifat detected

>>4549796

Not as bad as pasty disgusting whites who add soy sauce to rice because it's "too bland"

>>4549796
those pics always make me lol

>>4547766

After, unless pilaf.

>>4547769
>soy sauce and salt

You just whent fully retarded.

>>4549796
i add it when cooking a risotto you dumb fuck

There's nothing wrong with adding Soy sauce AND salt. I've seen many cooks do it to prevent Soy sauce from dominating the taste of food.

You're just overreacting from thinking he adds lots of Soy sauce and lots of salt.

There's nothing wrong with adding Soy sauce AND salt. I've seen many cooks do it to prevent the Soy from dominating how food tastes.
It's also good if you want a better presentation, i.e., don't want your rice to be all brown from adding too much Soy.

You're just overreacting from thinking he adds lots of Soy sauce and lots of salt.

>>4549263

Doesn't it depend on the amont of the sauce you use...?

When I'm making rice I always like to put things in the water. For me, the best is salt, laurel, lemon zest and the outer layer of an onion. The rice comes out great, I eat it without anything else but a drizzle of olive oil

I add the butter before the cooking starts. And salt.

>adding oil/fat to rice
It's rice, why would I do that? I'm not some poorfag who makes rice into a meal. Rice is a side dish or component, the main dish should be fatty enough.

>>4547876
Ahaha, what? Salt is not good for you? How do yuo suppose osmosis works if there's no salt in the bloodstream?

>>4549789
Shit man. Glad you made it through ok. How did they treat it? Giving you salt?

>>4552190
ever heard of a risotto?

>>4552243
I don't butter my risotto, but maybe i should.

>>4552190
fats have flavor. so you add fat to plain rice to add flavor...

>>4552277
Rice has flavour, and plain rice sucks up the flavour of whatever your serving it with.

>>4552303
Alright, but you seem to have missed a key phrase in OP:
>do you MAXIMIZE the flavor