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To think rice manufacturers should tell the truth

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Partypoppers · 30/03/2024 19:38

Boiling some rice. Says 10 mins. It's been on a boil for 20 and still not done. FFS this is why I buy microwave rice. Just needed to rant. They lie on the packets

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CheapThrillsMeanNothing · 30/03/2024 23:43

Idontknowwhattodo78 · 30/03/2024 19:44

Well yes, they lie. Have you ever actually cooked a “serving suggestion” portion? It takes way longer to cook than they say and you need way more than they say! Micro rice is the way forward…..but one pack of micro rice does NOT feed two people!

Microwave rice is disgusting.
Rinse your rice, 1.5 cups of water to 1 cup of rice, add salt, bring to boil, cover and cook on lowest heat for 11 minutes, switch off. Fluff up with a fork, put the lid back on and wait 5 minutes and it's ready.
It's not difficult, a lot cheaper and tastes so much better.

RamblingAroundTheInternet · 30/03/2024 23:38

Simplest way to do long grain or basmati rice is put into a large pan, give it a good rub around and rinse a few times until the cloudy water is less cloudy. Soak in clean water for around 30 mins (I prep the rice first and leave it to soak while chopping veg/putting meat on). Pour out cold water from rice (my pot has a lid with a lip that rice doesn’t fall out of), cover with double height of rice with boiling water from kettle. Boil fast until rice has risen up to the top of water. Simmer for 5 mins. Turn heat off. Stir in a few knobs of butter. Put lid on it and leave it to steam for 10-15 mins or until rest of food is ready. Always get perfect rice.

viques · 30/03/2024 23:37

I do the Jamie Oliver way. Twice water to rice (basmati) by volume. Boil water, add rice, stir, lid on, turn heat down to lowest. 10 minutes, no peeping.

OooScotland · 30/03/2024 23:37

SkyBloo · 30/03/2024 19:48

Rice cooker. Sorry but its just a game changer.

This.

Mine’s a Zojirushu 3 cup model and I love it more than my washing machine.

Gnarly · 30/03/2024 23:26

Please recommend a rice cooker.. I'd love to get a good one.

Calliopespa · 30/03/2024 23:24

Testina · 30/03/2024 22:36

Oh please come back OP!
If you’ve actually been boiling it for 20 mins as you say, then for the pan not to have boiled dry, you must have added enough water to sink the Titanic. In which case, you’re going to one sludgy mess in there, and there’s no way it isn’t (over) cooked.

I simmered some for 20 mins recently, just a fuck up on my part, I muddled up 10 mins simmer and 10 mins standing with lid, off the heat. This is why I can guarantee you gave it will be a sludgy inedible mass now.

Rice is like people: they are all different. Jasmine, Basmati, long grain , red rice, wild rice, arborio etc . Some of it stays like metal pellets for a good 20 mins. If you cooked a risotto for less than 20 mins it would be like eating the vomit of someone who swallowed shrapnel.

Snowpatrolling · 30/03/2024 23:22

Boil in the bag rice!! Game changer!!

Calliopespa · 30/03/2024 23:19

Ourshoddyhouse · 30/03/2024 19:41

Add oven chips to that OP

… and “ripe and ready to eat” avocados that you could clobber a rat to death with.

FunnysInLaJardin · 30/03/2024 23:11

I bake my rice. 500gm of rice to litre stock . 25 minutes and its fab

Femme2804 · 30/03/2024 23:09

I’m asian. Eat rice since i was a baby. Always perfect rice. My advice buy a RICE COOKER. No meed to waiting around. Just clean the rice with water. Put water on and press cook. And it will be done and always perfect

pinkmushroom5 · 30/03/2024 23:03

Partypoppers · 30/03/2024 23:01

The bag was in the jar too as I was lazy when putting it away. I'm in bed now but doubting myself. Sure it said 10 mins which is obviously BS. I'll post a photo tomorrow if I'm not going bat shit and read it wrong 😂

I've never heard of a brown rice that cooks in 10 minutes. It always takes ages in my experience. White rice, sure.

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Partypoppers · 30/03/2024 23:01

The bag was in the jar too as I was lazy when putting it away. I'm in bed now but doubting myself. Sure it said 10 mins which is obviously BS. I'll post a photo tomorrow if I'm not going bat shit and read it wrong 😂

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Frogpole · 30/03/2024 23:00

Gordon Ramsey has a brilliant rice cooking tutorial on YouTube, only method I've ever found that I can actually pull off. Don't use it enough to have memorised it yet (on account of Mrs Frogpole not liking rice) but it's along the lines of:

Measure out this much rice and that much water, dump it in a saucepan, put in x many cardimon pods and y many star anises - or whatever those things are called - get it up to a simmer, then turn the gas off, and that's it. Wait however many minutes it is, put it on a plate, job done - and it's honestly some of the best rice I've ever tasted.

Don't try to eat the star thingy's though. Just.. just don't. Seriously.

Testina · 30/03/2024 22:58

It would have been worth mentioning it was brown long grain in your OP 🤣
If it has been in a jar for a while, were you actually using the manufacturer’s instructions?
Long grain brown takes much longer than Basmati brown for example - so if you were reading that back of a packet for something you hadn’t emptied into a jar, you’d be wrong.
I’ve never had a packet of brown rice say boil for 10 mins and that’s you done.

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Partypoppers · 30/03/2024 22:50

Well it was still a little el dente after 30 mins! It was brown long grain and it had been in the jar a while. Does dry rice go off? I will not buy that again. Awful to cook. I did put quite a lot of water in but it was on a rolling boil all the time and bloody hell it took so long!

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AntonFeckoff · 30/03/2024 22:43

DiscoBeat · 30/03/2024 22:30

Eh? Bring to the boil, lid on and simmer for 12 mins. Perfect every time!

Perfect if you like arsenic

ThinWomansBrain · 30/03/2024 22:41

wholegrain microwave rice - two or three servings in a pack
too much of a faff cooking a single portion.

Testina · 30/03/2024 22:36

Oh please come back OP!
If you’ve actually been boiling it for 20 mins as you say, then for the pan not to have boiled dry, you must have added enough water to sink the Titanic. In which case, you’re going to one sludgy mess in there, and there’s no way it isn’t (over) cooked.

I simmered some for 20 mins recently, just a fuck up on my part, I muddled up 10 mins simmer and 10 mins standing with lid, off the heat. This is why I can guarantee you gave it will be a sludgy inedible mass now.

DiscoBeat · 30/03/2024 22:35

PonyPatter44 · 30/03/2024 21:02

I've now read the word arsenic so many times it has lost all meaning. How have India and China got to billion+ populations if they're all dying from arsenic poisoning?

I buy rice in the big 5kg or 10kg bags because we eat a LOT of rice. The bag just goes in the cupboard. I cook it in the steamer because it's easy and I never mess it up. If I cook too much, what we don't eat just goes in the freezer and gets used for fried rice.

Thank you for that 😊 I always throw away leftover rice but I hate to. Such a good idea to use it for fried rice.

Trooi · 30/03/2024 22:33

My rice cooker is my favourite kitchen item, I have a one with a timer function so it starts cooking it for when I get up in the morning.

DiscoBeat · 30/03/2024 22:31

Vegetus · 30/03/2024 19:55

1.5 parts water to 1 part rice.

Bring it to the boil, lid on and turn it down to a gentle simmer. Leave for 12 minutes, take off the heat and let it stand for 10.

Exactly what I do. It's more of a challenge for it not to work with this!

DiscoBeat · 30/03/2024 22:30

Eh? Bring to the boil, lid on and simmer for 12 mins. Perfect every time!

WelshWannabe · 30/03/2024 22:29

If you have to drain rice after cooking, it's not cooked properly.

Rinse rice until the water runs clear

Put 1 part rice with 1.5 parts cold water in a pan

Bring to the boil

Once boiling, put lid on pan, turn heat right down and cook for 12 minutes

Turn heat off and leave rice in pan with lid on for another 5 minutes

Fluff with a folk and serve.

I've never managed to cook brown rice properly though.

kiwiane · 30/03/2024 22:28

Use a saucepan lid?

CatLevelCare · 30/03/2024 22:22

Has it cooked yet, op? Just throw away the rice and eat the arsenic 😂