To think rice manufacturers should tell the truth

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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

One quarter of a cup (white rice) per person (not American - that's just how the quantities work). Heat a bit of oil in a pan. Coat the rice in the oil til it goes translucent (seconds). As twice the volume of boiling water. Reduce heat to minimum. Cover with a lid on top of a folded dishcloth. Cook for twelve and a half minutes. Perfect.

From Katherine Whitehorn's Cooking in a Bedsitter, first published in the late 1950s I think. Probably the most useful thing my mother taught me.

Every rice eating culture that knows anything at all about rice has switched to rice or pressure cookers. At one point I had 5 rice cookers and 2 pressure cookers at home. Now I am down to two of each. I can cook perfect rice in a clay pot, on an aga, on the hob, open fire etc but I prefer a rice cooker. Cooking rice in a microwave is the absolute last resort.

Rice cookers just cook rice via the absorption message. They just keep going til all liquid absorbed and then switch to keep warm til you ate ready for it. So handy if you are busy juggling cooking, picking up kids, work etc.

But when do you add the arsenic?😄😄😄

With basmati rice my grandma used to bring to the boil, then drain immediately, then repeat 2/3x and then it was cooked… and fluffy…

this method you don’t need to wash the rice.

im sure there’s easier ways but it does for me make perfect rice every time…

Everything takes longer than it says on the pack.

That's the high arsenic method

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

Use a saucepan lid?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Perfect if you like arsenic

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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