How to cook decent brown rice ??

[Kittycat43]

How the heck do I cook it (without using absorption method ideally ? ) Any tried and tested methods? I need to do more brown rice but cooking it really puts me off. I had a method once that was great and promptly lost the search page and haven't found it since so am deferring to the collective MN wisdom please 🙏

Pressure cooker.

Boil in the bag from Tesco, perfect every time

Zojorushi rice cooker, it's the only kitchen gadget I would never be without. There's a 4 hour gaba brown rice setting, it's so good you'll never go back. All other rice cookers are rubbish in comparison.

Boil in the bag everytime 👍🏻

Rice cooker and wash it really well. Rice in, water up to the first knuckle of your finger when you touch the top of the rice. Turn rice cooker on and forget about it until it beeps.

Even if I have really small hands ?

Rinse well, boil in as much boiling water as you like for 25 mins, put into a sieve, and then rinse with a kettle of hot water. Job done.

I always use brown basmati rice as I think it has a nice flavour. Wash well, one cup of rice to two cups of water, into the rice cooker (ours has a setting for brown rice - think it's about an hour). Absolutely perfect every time. Never bother with white rice anymore (unless I'm doing sushi).

Agree change to brown basmati rice.

Whatever I do with ordinary brown rice, I don't like it. But brown basmati rice is lovely.

It’s easy. Put lots of boiling water into a pan with some salt. Tip in the rice and stir. Boil for 25 minutes, taste to check it’s done. If not quite, leave it boiling for 5 more mins. Drain and serve.

Jacob and Jacob rice cooker - goes in the microwave and has all the info you need for different types of rice, without having to get an actual rice cooker, unless you already have one

When I say Jacob I mean Joseph...

I use easy cook brown rice - and I say that as someone who would never use easy cook other types of rice! The brown one works well. Needs 20 mins cooking time.

Soak it in cold water for 15 minutes before cooking. Strain through a fine sieve and rinse well. That deals with most of the scum but you can also scoop any off while cooking. Simmer very gently - it does take longer to cook than white rice, but so worth it.

Brown basmati rice. One handful per person.
Boil for 30 mins (can't remember the ratio of water to rice but it doesn't matter).
Turn off heat and put the lid on. Leave for 10 minutes.
Tip into a sieve and rinse with boiling water.
Serve.

I just cook it the same way as white rice, just takes a bit longer.

1 cup brown basmati rice
1 cup water
set pressure cooker for 22 minutes.

Job done

Brown basmati

Boil for c 15-20 min in plenty of water, bit of salt. (Taste around 15 min mark for doneness, you want it nearly done)

Drain, rinse well with hot water, tip drained rice back into the pot with lid on to steam for 5 min

The 5 min steam really seems to help make it fluff

Rice cooker, use marker for quantities of brown rice and water press button for brown rice(long or shortgrain), walk away until the beeps, sorted.

Hello Panda might not be as posh as Zojorushi, but it's still far better than guessing it.

I've got one of those plastic Sistema microwave rice cookers. It's amazing for white rice but can't seem to work out how long to do it for brown, anyone got one and know?

This. Although I reckon it's more like 20 mins.
We use wholegrain brown rice (not basmati). I think it would be hard to go wrong really.

I simply soak my brown rice in cold water for a couple of hours - tip the water away and refill and it cooks fine IME.

Sainsbury's brown basmati microwave rice. Costs 50p, takes 2 minutes, feeds two, perfect every time, and doesn't steam up the kitchen.

I'm never boiling brown rice again.

Yum Asia rice cooker. Makes perfect rice every time

This is how you do it - the secret is DO NOT STIR at any point!