/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.17680373]

feels like no matter what i do my rice comes out mushy
wash it, clean it, time it perfectly, whatever, still a mushy mess at the end of it all
should i just take the rice cooker pill?

[Anonymous No.17680389]

>>17680373
are you using the retarded swedish rice cooking method where they cook it like pasta and just drain the water at the end? Because then that's your problem.

[Anonymous No.17680399]

>>17680389
nah i just let all the water cook into the rice
maybe im using too much water
i always do a 2:1 water to rice ratio

[Anonymous No.17680401]

>>17680399
what kind of rice?
I only use 2:1 for brown rice

[Anonymous No.17680405]

>>17680401
white rice usually
sometimes yellow if im having fried fish

[Anonymous No.17680422]

>>17680373
120g rice and 650 ml water. Boil 6 minutes. Drain, back in pot with lid on, let steam for 10 min. Perfect rice.

You’re welcome you fat pedo.

[Anonymous No.17680434]

>>17680422
interesting, will try, but as you stated im a fat fuck
ill need way more rice than that

[Anonymous No.17680468]

>>17680373
The guy posted this link a few weeks ago and I tried it. Works perfectly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjvN-bqg0FE

[Anonymous No.17680734]

>>17680373
Rice cooker will change your life if you eat rice a lot

[Anonymous No.17681832]

>>17680373
My mother always used to make the most horrible rice; it was like P.V.A. glue with granules in it. All throughout my childhood I had to eat it.
To this day I can't eat rice, even if it's good rice prepared by a professional chef in a restaurant because it reminds me of the awful rice my mother made.

[Anonymous No.17681844]

>>17680373
3/4 cup rice 1 1/4 cup water big pinch of salt, small drizzle oil.
>wash rice in pot 2-3 times until mostly clear
>rice and water in pot, and salt and oil
>heat on high, give it one big stir then don't touch it
>once its boiling turn heat to low like 1-2 and put lid on
>12-15 minutes don't lift the lid
>around that time peek inside, it'll either look like there is no water left or there might be little bubbles coming up over the rice, there should be little to no water left.
>take it off the heat, leave the lid on and let it sit about 10 minutes while you cook the rest of your food
>once that time is up I personally like to add about 1 1/2 tbsp butter and pepper, fluff it around with a fork, taste, and then season more if desired
comes out perfect for me every time. or just get a cheap rice cooker. walmart probably has one for like $15 and it will cook you perfect rice every time with basically no effort. the one I had came with a measuring up that had rice and water lines on it so you didn't even have to think, just measure put it in and turn it on and wait. I prefer using a cooker but mine broke after like 5 years and I haven't bought a new one yet.

[Anonymous No.17681902]

>>17680373
If you want to try the highly autistic way to actually make perfect rice everytime here is the recipe. Works best for shortgrain, but works perfectly fine with any kind if rice. There's literally no recipe that could ever be better than this if you only want perfectly cooked rice.

PERFECT RICE

1. Weigh rice on scale note weight.
2. Rinse rice with copious amounts of room temp to cold water until water runs semi clear to clear. The more the better
3. Place rice in bowl and cover with 2-3 inches of filtered water. Wait 30 minutes or until rice appears opaque and crumbles easily when pressed between fingers.
4. Drain rice by placing in a strainer and let stand in strainer for 25 minutes.
5. Place equal parts rice and filtered water in a high walled pot. Cover rice.
6. Put heat on max temp and start a timer.
7. Once steam starts coming out of pot or water starts boiling turn heat to 2-3 or very low and cook for how long it took to reach boil.
8. Once time is up turn off heat and let sit for 15 minutes without touching.
9. Fluff rice with plastic or wooden rice scoop. Serve.

[Anonymous No.17681908]

>>17680399
>i always do a 2:1 water to rice ratio
That might be why. Try 1.5:1, or even 1.25:1. Your rice can also end up mushy if the heat is too high, it just needs to be at a bare simmer but if it's boiling the entire time it's going to break down the rice too much.

[Anonymous No.17681920]

>>17680373
Mushy rice means too much water. Keep the lid on, use just over a 1:1 ratio with a little extra water, cook it at the lowest heat you can to where it's lightly simmering, and when the water is all absorbed into the rice, take it off the heat and let the residual steam in the pot cook the rice the rest of the way through for ~10 minutes

[Anonymous No.17681970]

>falling for the ratio meme
It's always 1:1 water to rice, plus an extra fixed amount to account for evaporation. As long as you use the same size pot, that extra doesn't change. Stop shilling this "1.5:1", "2:1" bs.

[Anonymous No.17681971]

>>17680422
My new favorite thing is seeing a retard call someone a fat pedo BECAUSE THEY DONT DRAIN THEIR RICE.

Jesus. I swear to god draining rice has to be an actual symptom of retardation.

[Anonymous No.17681991]

>>17681970
That didn't seem to work when I only wanted to make a single serving of rice. It worked okay for the bigger batches I had been making.

[Anonymous No.17682034]

>>17681991
The evaporation thing is just physics, if you used the same diameter pot, the extra amount should be the same. At extremes you might evaporate less since the water heats faster before you cover it, maybe?
At any rate extremes are hard, if you need 20g rice/water and 50g for evaporation it's a lot easier to mess things up. For small portions of rice I use a small pot and it seems easier to get right.

[Anonymous No.17682052]

I eat rice everyday and don't use a rice cooker. I use a regular pot. What's the secret? It's called reading the instructions and following them. Mind-blowing I know. It's almost like if you aren't a retard you could figure out how to make the most basic and consumed food on Earth. I think you should just stick to microwave dinners and fastfood.

[Anonymous No.17682221]

adding olive oil solved my rice problems