/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>10706805
Side dishes.

>>10706805
Eat it with something else?

>>10706805
The trick is to cook it before eating

>>10706866
this. works everytime

>>10706805
Think of rice as plain white bread. You rarely ever eat bread on its own, right? It's the same thing here.
Asian culture is very communal. You have large dishes of meat and vegetable, you pick from them and you eat them with your bowl of rice. Of course, if you're alone, you can make a simpler rice bowl that just has the meat and vegetable on top of the rice already, like a Japanese donburi.
Typically anything strong in flavour pairs well with rice. Something spicy, something salty, even something sweet. It balances out with the blandness of the rice.
t. asian

>>10706805
Being very hungry makes it quite delicious.

>>10706866
Don't do this, it makes mustard gas.

>>10706871
OK, but how do I make that plain white bread into Hawaiian sweet bread? I know that you have to mix it with things, but I’m trying to figure out what I can do to actually make the rice itself taste good.

>>10706937
Cook it in chicken or beef stock. Make pilaf. Add veggies. Add soy sauce or hot sauce. Make fried rice. Etc.

This is not complicated, friendo.

I had onigiri the other day which I think is just cooked rice and salt and I liked it. Also lots of japanese side dishes are the same thing with chives and shit on top.

>>10706937
Mix it with literally anything. Anything not too offensive to the palate of course. Any kind of meat you can think of, fried fish, stewed beef, grilled pork. Any kind of veg too, steamed broccoli, preserved vegetables, stir fried leafy greens. Rice is versatile as fuck. It's not difficult at all, nor even close to complex.

>>10706805
Cook in broth
Add soy sauce
Add something else to the dish, like meat or veggies.
It's a base, anon. Build on it.

>>10706805
Depending on type plain rice is fine. Basmati for example I eat as a side with nothing on it all the time.

If you buy nice rice, lightly salt it, and cook it well, it is quite delicious imo
I like to use jasmine rice and it clumps up a bit and is chopstickable and goes better with asian food

But if you cook basmati rice for western/ indian food then you could grate some fresh turmeric into it before you cook it, or add some saffron, or toast some star anise & cardomom pods in the pot before you cook the rice, or cook it with stock rather than water, or add some butter or sesame oil to it afterwards, or toast the rice in butter before you add the water, or add some lemon zest to it.

If you want a harder rice dish then make gumbo or paella or biryani or something. It's easier to make a side dish than do those though. If you want to know what lazy asian poorfags do to rice, nips just crack a raw egg on it when it's hot, that cooks somewhat when you mix it, or sprinkle furikaki on top, gooks mix in kimchi they buy and chinks acetylene torch a dog and add that.

>>10707114
I appreciate the correct differentiation between gooks and nips.

Put yourself in a situation where you either just eat the god-damn rice or you fucking starve.

>>10706954
Jelly filled donuts are amazing

>>10707244
Well meme'd my Reddit friendo

How the FUCK do I make rice sticky?
All I ever get is boring american slippy rice no matter what I do.

>>10707251
Use google, search for how to make sticky rice.
It's really that simple.

>>10706805
THE BEST

>>10707251
have you considered being asian?

>>10707266
It never works

>>10707272
Follow the directions.
Use the correct type of rice.

>>10706937
Rice tastes good as fuck with just butter and salt. You can add it during the cooking process even.

>>10707272
>2 cups rice, 3 cups water
>rinse rice a few times first
>lightly salt it
>bring to the boil
>reduce to lowest simmer possible for 15 mins
>leave covered for 15 mins
>fluff with a fork

Use jasmine rice.

>>10706805
Maybe its my autism but I never consider plain rice boring because I picture it as being the fuel of samurai of legends. Samurai of legends enjoyed food you faggot.

child labor

>>10707333
Because they were so fucking poor they couldn't afford meat

>>10707272
Use this

Also add mirin and soy sauce, along with furikake if you can find it. Makes a world of difference.

>>10707346
"Taste the Slavery!"©©©

>>10707365
>sushi rice

>>10706950
>Add soy sauce
I seriously hope none of you are actually dumb enough to fall for this

>>10707368
Hey man he asked for a sticky rice, this is how you get it

>>10706805
Traditionally, they spend most of their lives on the verge of starvation so that any form of sustenance no matter how bland tastes like mana.

>>10707114
underrated post

>>10707383
ikr
anything with soy should be consume ALONE after gym

furikake from any asian store, umeboshi for that tart pickled taste, or tuna/meat centers for nigiri balls.

>>10707788
onigiri sorry

>>10706805
For me, it's just salt, sesame seeds, soy sauce, and maybe a dash of turmeric or ginger?

do what the white man does, butter & sugar on it. that's how you eat everything else right? just stick to pizza and hamburger whitey

>>10706805
Boil with a bullion cube
Season with random spices
Add some mild vinegar to it
Chili flakes and soy sauce
Sweet chili sauce
Butter or olive oil
Pork/fish floss
Jerky
SHRIMP FUCKING PASTE (add a tablespoon to a bowl of rice and mix. It smells like month old cunt on it's own but is really savory and delicious when mixed with rice)
Can of tuna/dolphin
Hot sauce or pepper sauce

Tons of things you can do, easier if you're not dependent on not actually adding anything. Nearly no food is best unseasoned, but a bowl of plain rice every now and then can be good for the rice flavor alone. Monk food.

>>10706805
>tastelet
>saged

Tamago kake gohan

>>10706805
>plain rice

its the perfect thing for any side dish because it doesnt have a taste of its own

>>10707251
you need short grain rice

or dont rinse your rice so much, excess loose starch is washed away and thats the thing that makes it sticky

>>10707251
Short grain, don't rinse, get the water ratio perfect so you don't have to strain it, then stir in a small amount of rice vinegar after it's cooked.

>>10707244
go away brock

>>10708005
>rice
>no taste
smokers aren't welcome on this board.

>>10708065
unironically this

I usually make thai jasmine rice, with some butter, and salt if I'm eating rice as it's own dish. As a side I have it with chicken, soups, really just about anything that has a little bit of moisture.
It depends on the rice you're making though, really.
Also make sure to WASH THE FUCKING STARCH OFF.

>>10706937
Put some deep fried omelette on top of it.

>>10706805
What do people on here do to make sure there are at least three of these threads a day here?

ffs, just stay online for a week and read the dailies and if you guys still don't know, no one will be able to tell you.

please, for the love of marinara, stop making these threads.

On topic of rice, how acceptable is eating rice with fried fries? This asian guy I know insisted that it's the best way but I'm remaining skeptical.

He proceed to eat 2 plates of that combo.

>>10708154
>WASH THE FUCKING STARCH OFF.
I washed the starch off of my rice, anon. Now what?

>>10707251
Brown the rice and then add water

>>10707298
My fav

>>10706805
Cook it in a rice cooker. Pressure cooking is vital for the flavor and texture of short-grain rice.

After that, the Chinese tend toward dishes with fairly fluid sauces and a bed of rice on your dinner plate (bowl) that sops them up, while the Japanese sometimes do this, sometimes apply a sugar and vinegar dressing when it's used as a packed bread replacement, and if having a side bowl often use a variety of shake-ons including things like sea salt, seaweed, fish flakes, and sesame.

>>10706805
bukakke

>>10708483
Oh, and get better rice. You can really taste a good russet potato, and probably tell the difference between Idaho and Maine ones of those, but the nasty-ass things in the 10 pounds for $2 bags at Walmart are just starchy nothings, right?
Rice is the same, your generic-ass Uncle Ben's slammed together from ten different varietals , five different states, and three different growing seasons is gonna be pointlessly indistinct. Japan's system of rating by age, countless varietals, and county-sized area of origin is mainly autism meant to prop up the rural small farmers in exchange for votes, but at the very least you should be able to find a reputable Calrose or two at most American grocery stores. Try that, or even better a koshihikari if you can find it.

>>10706805
>Uncooked Rice (1 cup)
>Salt & Pepper
>Star Anise (2 units) + Cardamom (3 pierced pods)
>Cook

Thank me later. That'll taste great plain or with food.

>>10708500
>Oh, and get better rice.
fucking this.

I don't know why so many people simply talk about "rice"--that implies it's all the same thing. Fucking no. Just as how there is a huge difference between a pink slime burger patty and dry-aged filet mignon, there's also a massive difference between different types of rice.

>>10708500
Oh, and as a final addition for now, get some kombu and put a piece in the pot every time you cook. It's almost like the rice equivalent of using lard while baking in terms of adding that savory touch.

When it's done, you can pull it out, freeze it, and use it to make a really good braised salad when you have enough too.

>>10706805
They add the desire of being starving.

>>10707272

use Thai sticky rice. I get mine branded as sticky rice not just normal jasmine rice. type of rice is super important.

I've been making this really simple recipe where I take a cup worth of rice and add an egg with soy sauce and mix that shit together. Textures kinda slimy but the taste is alright.

I like really simple and easy recipes, any suggestions?

>>10709783
Best suggestion is to start with better rice. Good rice tastes damn good with nothing at all added to it.

For a simple thing to add, check out furikake. You can but it in small shaker jars at any asian market, or you can make your own. It's a seasoing that you sprinkle on top of the rice. Adds flavor and texture.

Cook your rice with stock instead of plain water, or add a small amount of aromatic veggies (chopped up) as the rice cooks.

>>10708548
lolno

>>10707251
This is the rice brand my family has used since forever. No idea if it makes a difference.
Rinse it a bit to wash it, when it's in the rice pot, make sure the water is up to your index finger's first knuckle closest to your fingertip from the top of the rice.
Let that shit do it's thing in the pot

There ya go.
Also play with whatever settings your ricepot has, but mine has a sticky rice option, so I just always use that.

>>10708065
This.

You fuckers over season everything. Which is why you can't just enjoy the taste of rice. You have no fucking taste buds left.

>>10708483
>>10708500
ALL OF THIS. LITERALLY. ALL OF IT.

fucking hell amerimutts really dont know how to make rice? lmao

>>10708397
Is he a Filipino by any chance?

>>10710122
LOL
benis

>>10707818
Look like you're mixing white man and white american.

>>10706866
Sous vide at 100.5F for eight hours for perfect deconstructed white rice.

>>10706936
Not if you don’t put mustard on it, dumbass.

Is it weird for a beaner like myself to prefer Asian style rice over Hispanic style? Like arroz con gandules is alright, but I prefer a nice white sticky rice

>>10710222
-have to
-go back
pick 2

>>10706805
Put egg, chicken and onion in it. Oyakudon 4 lyfe.

>>10710227
Family's been here since the 50's nigger. I'm good.

>>10707114
>and chinks acetylene torch a dog and add that.
KEKD

>>10710170
>deconstructed white rice
CONGEE?

ITS LIKE THEY OVERCOOK RICE THEN HIT IT WITH A BLENDSTICK

>>10710248
Unironically, most beaners in TX, the SW and CA have roots far longer than the wh*tetrash who immigrated far later.

>>10710310
Yes, but good said (white)man has Dominion over the animals.

>>10706937
add a good bit of salt to the water you will being boiling your rice in. If you can afford Jasmine rice it is even better.

>>10710334
So you're a jew, not christian, 'k.

>>10710294
That's not how you make congee...

>>10710054
Botan's decent, and it or Nishiki are probably what you'll get if you have to buy east Asian-style rice from a Walmart in Omaha or a Shaw's in Concord.

To further rice nerd here, and goddammit if /g/ can have Maki we should get Hanayo: Calrose is, really -are-, a family of rice varieties developed by the state of California that are really, really incredibly versatile. It's a medium-grain japonica rather than indica, which helps keep it and its descendants easily isolated in storage and also means that it's good for cooking across all of east Asian tradition since Chinese rice tended toward relatively longer grains than Japanese/Korean. It's also really good at absorbing flavors of other things cooked with it or served over it, it's decently sticky because it's still a japonica, if you want to have one rice in your kitchen and cook every local meal from Sapporo to Busan to Shanghai to Chengdu, it's your pick.

Other things you should look for are jasmine rice, which is the very starchiest/stickiest of long-grain indica options. It's also very intensely flavored (they named it after a spice!) when fresh-picked but fades quickly. Great for Thai/Flip/etc, also was picked up by American Chinese restaurants because it's not as far away from Cantonese rice as from Japanese/Korean and they could go through it while it was still fresh.

>>10711050
Koshihikari is the option you're likely to find in US supermarkets for Japanese/Korean style rice. It's short grain, clumps very well for rolls and balls and as a bowl filler which stays intact rather than diluting down into a soup, has a nice flavor. Especially if you want to do rice balls, aim for this! But it's not as good as a plate liner for Chinese sauces.
Sometimes it's sold as "sushi rice", but that's simultaneously too specific and too vague to care about as a term on its own; a good sushi place will used aged short-grain japonica that may or may not be koshihikari (sasanishiki is honestly better, stays more flavorful after cooling) while various US brands will call unaged short-grain, or aged Calrose, or whatever random shit they can find because honestly Americans can't tell "sushi rice".

I won't say "avoid anything long-grain that isn't jasmine" because Indian and Spanish rice are good too, but they absolutely shouldn't be used with east Asian recipes unless you know what you're doing and actively want to fusion. It'd be like substituting western worcestershire sauce, ie garum with vinegar, for Japanese worcestershire sauce, ie apple ketchup, just because they share a name. And "wild rice" is an entirely different species.

>>10706805
rice seasoning. also buy a non shit rice and wash it correctly. i could probably eat a pound of plain jasmine rice if it were high enough quality

how is their rice so sticky?

>>10711095
It's a different type of rice. Sort grain aka "glutinous" rice.

>>10711066
>>10711050

Another badass variety is Carolina Gold. Expensive, but well worth it. Even just smelling the uncooked rice is a goddamn ephiphany. I've never seen it in a supermarket but it's easy enough to mail-order.

>>10711109
THIS SHIT? ITS 8BUCKS FOR 20LBS

IT SAYS ITS RICH DOES THAT MEAN ITS GOOD

>>10711095
>>10711106
Japonica varieties have more amylopectin, which gels during cooling in a way that the amylose in indicas doesn't.

Glutinous rice is its own other thing, a separate type of japonica with almost no amylose that's a lot more sticky than even "sticky rice". Japanese and Chinese cooking use it mostly to make doughs, it's more versatile in Korean cooking but still not something you'd expect a bowl of with every meal.

>>10711109
Ooh, I haven't tried that but I've heard good things. I've been wanting sumac salmon for a while, I bet it'd go great with it if I can find some.

>>10707788
I lived off this for weeks on end.
OP just mix up a can of tuna with mayo and green onions in a bowl, fill bowl with rice, and top with furikake.

>>10711139
>Carolina brand
Grown where the dirt is loaded with the sweat and blood of 300 years of slavery.

Tastes great.

>>10707234
when you're poor and starving a bowl of hot plain rice is fucking orgasmic

whats the best way to cook rice? i know its something like
>boil water
>put rice in
>???
>cover for 20 min
>rice

>>10710122
He's Singaporean.

>>10711522
A rice cooker. A pressure cooker if you don't have one. Something like pic related if you have neither is the traditional option that's been around for centuries, but they're more expensive than same-size pressure cookers now and should only be used if you like the crust they produce.

There's a lot of published research, some even in English, showing that the starches in rice don't completely cook at the boiling point of water/1 atmosphere, which leaves you with rice that's less porous for a satisfying meld with any seasoning you use, has more of its trace volatiles trapped in glue rather than floating up to your palate and making it taste good, and is in general a chalky mess. Using a kitchen pot for rice is like microwaving a hamburger patty, to even consider doing it you have to be either very poor and desperate or very American and convinced you can't possibly have been doing anything wrong.

Start at https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/20001419365 if you don't believe me.

>>10708019
>Straining rice
What?

>>10706871
tomato sauce > you ninjitsu

>>10706937
stir fry it a little on low heat before you boil it with salted water with the lid on, on low heat

>>10709783
Oyakodon without chicken.
That's basically what you made.

>>10706954
they use vinegar too

>>10713077
Some people boil rice in a fuckload of water, then strain the rice out when it is done cooking.

>>10711139
>THIS SHIT?
No.

Carolina Gold, sold by Anson Mills. Last I bought it a 10lb sack cost about $70.

am I crazy for liking the taste of plain white rice? i could eat steamed white rice with no other additives as a side dish and not even bat an eye.

i can't do this with any other rice. i'm not even asian

>>10708397
That's carbs + carbs anon, i could already tell your friend is a student since this a very college thing to do

>>10706805
putting salt on white rice is like putting salt on white bread.

you eat white rice with other things, fool. a fried egg, kimchi, mackerel, bacon, whatever. or you make porridge out of it. congee. fried rice. etc.

Anyone got a good rice cooker that y'all can recommend?

>>10714371
Pic related (Tiger brand) if you want a basic model.

Zojirushi if you are willing to spend more.

>>10714378
Thanks mate.

>>10714371
Koreafag here. People in the motherland go crazy and sometimes go for +700USD models that can pressure cook, self clean, whistle dixie and suck your dick. and also make rice.

After colleg'ing in the US, I've tried cheaper models. The rice cookers that only have the cook/warm function that you need to unplug to stop heating aren't the best but get the job done. They can also be used to slow-cook/make soup if you get creative. I use a Aroma pro 20-cup cooked rice cooker. Had it for about a year and it hasn't fucked me over yet.

>>10714404
COOKING CLEANING AND SUCKING DICK ALL FOR JUST 700?

HOW CAN GIRLS EVEN COMPETE

>>10714371
Other anons are on the money. Be careful with Aroma, the key point is that you want the ones which latch at the top and do pressure cook it, not the ones with the glass lid which don't, and they make both.

Personally I have a midrange Zojirushi that cost me around $125, the heat is a bit more even (especially in weird weather) than the basic Tiger or Aroma models and it does things like timed cooking to be ready when I get home while also adjusting the cook cycle for how long it's been soaking.

The $500+ range has some amazing stuff like ultrasonic cavitation (makes incredible french fries, basically only available as lab equipment otherwise) and in-cycle carbon filtering. But in my opinion that's almost the point where because you care so much about your rice you should go back to the earthenware pressure pots.

No matter what you go with, if you don't have a pressure cooker consider a larger model than the amount of rice you'll need, as they can also be used to steam and low-pressure cook. (If you do have a pressure cooker, consider trying that and just keeping a table of cook times by variety and volume!)

>>10714378
god bless this rice cooker no nonsense shit i use it everyday.

>>10711050
>>10711066
Very informative, thank you

>>10713077
>>10708019
americans are disgusting

>>10707400
just use any short graiend rice retard sushi rice is a western meme designed to 10x the price of price

>>10707114
>>10707423

>jasmine rice
>salt

This isn't right at all.

>>10706990
this, very important. DON'T buy shitty ghetto rice like Uncle Ben's Bullshit™, buy basmati rice from an asian or indian market. It's much better, you can get it for cheap in large quantities. Cook it with a few pieces of star anise on top. Buy a rice cooker if you plan on eating a lot, it makes it at the perfect consistency. Store extra rice in a ziploc bag with the air squeezed out.

I spent so long eating shit rice that I didn't even want to touch, I don't want other people to do it too.

>>10707866
Also this.

>>10715184
>>10715187
and always wash the starch off before cooking it.

>>10715163
Lmao big fucking deal who cares

>>10706937
Rice, lentils, garlic, season with some garam masala or ras el hanout. Cook it in beef broth. Bacon fried rice is also delicious.

Rice + Tomato = Meal

>>10715197
WHY I ENJOY EATING GLUE

What is it with the rice confusion, do you sit down to a heaping bowl of bread slices fresh from the bag and wonder why it's boring?

Rice and beans is something almost every single brazillian eat at least once a day

>>10707114
tl;dr

1) RINSE YOUR FUCKING RICE BEFORE YOU COOK IT

2) add a dash of sesame oil and salt

3) enjoy

>>10706805
I've been told "bonito flakes" can pick up rice.

>>10708065
Hey, he may not be a smoker. Just some faggot that has killed his tastebuds by drinking soda and eating candy everyday

>>10706937
Cook it with half water/half coconut cream and a pinch of salt. Great with thai food.

>>10710310
>CA
Don't lump those fags with the rest of us.

>>10708397
>>10711590
I'm Singaporean and I sometimes do this at restaurants but I don't think it's the best way

Cooking it in broth makes a big difference compared to just water.

>>10708397
there are some stew+rice combinations that also get fries, but it's closer to a garnish

>>10706805

If you use chicken broth instead of plain water, it will make a huge difference. If you also add butter, it will exponentially improve the taste.

>>10706805
ADD CURRY

what is a good rice to water ratio

>>10718225
Worked in a Chinese restaurant for two years, it ruined me for butter on rice. It just tastes... wrong. I can still eat rice pilaf though.

green curry. egg fried rice.

>>10706954
An asian market store near me makes and sells three different flavor fillings. pork, plum, and misu. Plum sucks but the other two are bretty gud.

>>10714713
>timed cooking to be ready when I get home

fuck, I didn't know how much I want that until you said it.

It will change your rice life.

Always use this

>veggie fried rice
Delicious

>>10715218
>bacon fried rice
mein nigger. This with a fried/scrambled egg is absolute tastekino

>ctrl+f ‘shichimi togarashi’
>no results

Step your shit up, /ck/.

Can no one actually stand eating rice straight? I would expect some people to not like it, but it seems like no one actually does enjoy it.

>>10720920
What do you mean by straight? Like raw uncooked rice or just eating a bowl of plain white rice?
I can eat plain rice for days.

>>10720920
A plain cooked jasmine or most japonicas are fine. Doesn't mean a few small additions don't make them even better; compare with, say, wheat flour, which is nearly inedible cooked alone but which comes alive with a pinch of yeast, a pinch of salt, and maybe a pat of butter after cooking.

>>10706805
Uh....
No?

ill make a fried rice if i got time
most the time i just add a bit of soy sauce and a scoop of coconut oil
t. guy who eats 2k calories of rice every day

>>10706805
Asians tend to season it with salt & sugar mixed in rice vinegar. Try it sometime.

>>10706937
One of my favorite poverty meals is rice cooked in chicken broth.

Rice + Fried Egg + Spam is pretty kino desu

i'm gonna try cold rice + bananas (green, pureed).

>>10707356
keep telling yourself that mongrel cuck

>>10706805
Rice is delicious plain. One of the best foods ever invented.

I just cooked 12 cups of parboiled rice using a stock pot. Now I'm cooling it in aluminum trays. Once cool, they go into the freezer. The idea is that freezing rice reduces their glycemic index and cuts their calories in half.

>>10720866
I forgot what this was called, but I always pick up a thing of it when I go to my local Asian market. Labels are entirely in Japanese but I tried it at a ramen place and they buy shit from the same store so I knew what to look for.

On another note, even if you're not gonna cook a full Asian dish all the time, it's worth dedicating a trip to your local Asian market to stock up on spices, sauces, etc. Experiment with using them in whatever you have, you won't be sorry.

Rice + Ragu = what I survived on as a child
My parents never cooked for me, so I learned how to make rice

>>10724153
Anyone know if this is legit? I'm trying to lose weight rn, cut out p much all carbs except for rice. Would be great to find a way to cut calories there too

>>10724153
>>10726528
The idea behind the process is to create less-digestible starch. In order to match what the researchers did, you should boil it with coconut oil and then refrigerate for 12+ hours.

What this guy didn't mention is that the study is 3+ years old, from Sri Lanka, and there's yet to be any follow up nor have any studies been conducted on humans to compare the consumption of traditionally cooked rice vs. the rice cooked via this way to determine its impact on weight.

Just eat less.

rice is good no matter what including when it's plain and i'll kill you for suggesting otherwise.

>>10726611
>>10726528
Resistant Starch is a real thing, don't be retarded. It can be tricky though since cooling some starch too much turns it into sugar (you wouldn't want to refrigerate potatoes for example)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistant_starch

>>10726650
Learn to read, you stupid puddle of shit.

>>10726680
It's not just some no-bodies in Sri Lanka is the point, my stupid friend.

>>10726688
>pretending to have a point
>or, you know, any sort of reading comprehension

>>10719849

+1 chicken rice.

+10 coconut rice - throw in a can of coconut milk or cream.

>>10718314
>wanting babyshit powder on anything
no thanks pajeet

>>10707114
>chinks acetylene torch a dog and add that.
Kek

>>10708397
Behold! The pinnacle of Filipino-American fastfood!

>>10711512
KEK UNDERRATED

>>10706805

Spices and meat.

>>10724153
>when youre so rich that youre trying to sabotage your fucking food to make it less nutritious instead of just eating like a normal person
You westeners are so wasteful and undisciplined in everything...

>>10706805
Eat rice with butter. It's how I do it. The contents of this thread basically give all the answers you're looking for

>>10706937

What meme is this? As an ethnic Pineapple I use "Hawaiian sweetbread" as something to guilt mainlanders.

I mean, the Portuguese made the goddamned sweetbread.

>>10706805
I like it how wh*teoids think rice tastes "boring" or "bland" and in the next sentence they say that if you don't dump shitty bottled hot sauce over everything you eat, you "can't handle flavor"

Maybe if you grew up eating real food instead of getting all your nutrition from a no-expiration-date bottle, can, or microwave box, you might be able to have it both ways

>>10706805
A bit of cinnamon, sugar, and milk makes a nice dessert.

>>10724153
You're fundamentally flawed from wanting a magic fix. Reduce your junk food, soda, and stop snacking every forty minutes. Learn how to count calories and pay attention to portion sizes especially in the evening.. If you're a cum guzzling retard, get smaller dinnerware so your fat fucker autism doesn't demand you erect Mount Fatticus Retardicus on a huge ass dinner plate/bowl big enough to be a swimmin' pool. Build muscle and generally be active and you'll be fine.

>>10719748

Umeboshi is delicious, opinion discarded.

>>10731205
It tastes like cough syrup, I'm sorry about your broken mouth

>>10731142
>A bit of cinnamon, sugar, and milk makes a nice dessert.
we call that "rice pudding"

>>10715171
Where in the fuck do you think sushi rice is more expensive than any other short grain? That's not the case anywhere I've seen rice on sale.

>>10732490
Not the guy you're angry at for no reason (seriously, wtf) but everywhere I've been, koshihikari costs somewhat more than other japonica cultivars such as calrose, let alone indica cultivars popular with viets and flips

Are you even asian?

>>10731210
I suddenly want to try it now. I've always been a bit scared of it. Thanks anon

>>10732490
ideally sushi rice should be aged, and a bit more expensive from that
sasanishiki is also better for it than koshihikari is better for it than calrose, and again that's rarer so more expensive

i don't want to blow up at you because koshihikari shouldn't be more than other common short grains (remember, >>10732530 , Calrose is medium-grain) and a lot of American distributors call it "sushi rice" even if it's unaged. but a sasanishiki that's been in the granary for a while is where you want to be, and that will be more.

>>10706805
You eat it with side dishes or you do shit with it, and even those have sides: fried rice, biryani, nasi uduk, nasi kuning, etc

Dont fall for the anime rice bowl chugging meme; anyone would rather eat plain bread than plain rice.

>>10706853
Asian spotted

>>10732969
I don't think that's true, especially actually plain bread. A lot of people in thread want to 1 to 1 rice with absolutely nothing added to wheat flour with yeast, salt, milk, honey, salted butter, and maybe some cheese added and then because they're frogposters looking for a ~win for western civilization~ call that a victory.
And like, of course, I'm a rice guy but even I'd take a good baguette over an untouched bowl. But on the flip side I'd take plain rice over flour gruel 10 of 10 times, a bowl cooked with kombu and with a good shake maybe 9/10, and a bowl with all the sauces of a good dinner menu over a loaf with cheese also maybe 9/10. Rice can be satisfying with a lot less effort than wheat, but they should still be compared 1:1, and rice almost always wins there. (Wheat is really good for cooking and THEN storing.)

>>10706805
As the sole white man in my group of asian friends the one thing they absolutely despise is how I can eat so much plain white rice.
I'l put seasoning on it if I got it or if there's meat but when I was at my heaviest I could boil up a couple cups of rice and eat the whole thing in an afternoon.

Rice is love, Rice is life.

>>10706937
Right, look into what certain cultures do with rice and how it tends to be prepared. Latin Americans brown onion and garlic before adding 2 parts of water or stock to the pot alongside black pepper and salt for 1 part of rice, then tend to serve alongside beans. Italians use less liquid, and tend to add that liquid slowly, after making a soffritto - which is just onion and parsley on lard, olive oil, or butter. Then you can add a shit ton of stuff. Rice is incredibly versatile, because it absorbs the taste of whatever liquid you put in when you cook it, and how much liquid defines how "creamy" it will be. And, of course, it's rarely served on its own.

>>10708397
Brazilians love that, it's also served with steak and beans.

>>10710310
You may have lived on the dirt longer but we made it an actual country.

>>10711050
Great posts, Asian?

>>10706866
>putting rice into boiling hot dihydrogen monoxide solution thus changing it's chemical structure
>not being poisoned
Choose one

>>10732530
Not angry or Asian but everywhere I've been sushi rice goes for about the same as other types of shortgrain, I prefer basmati desu.
>>10732798

And that might explain why. Wouldn't that fall under false advertising though?

>boil rice in stock/gravy

>>10715917
If you eat rice and beans, do you use canned beans, or make them from scratch?

>>10706805
Just get brown rice instead. It has more texture and flavor and is much more enjoyable to eat. I hate white rice but love brown rice.

>>10734557
>brown rice instead of white rice

>>10734581

>>10733632
why would you eat so much carbs?

>>10706805
Do you eat bland mash by itself too you absolute nigger. Like just chow down on a raw boiled potato with nothing on the side?
Fucking whitoid holy shit, stop eating rice please

>>10706805
Soy sauce + an egg and maybe some sausage or canned luncheon meat for the poorest, or meat patty + salted fish + steamed vegetables if you have a little bit more money, or if you have a normal budget then just grab any of those main disk from Chinese restaurants or copy them

>cook asian rice
>make tuna mayo
>make little patties with the steamed rice
>put tuna mayo on the middle
>shape it as an onigiri
>put that algae black thing or whatever
>eat one for your delight and fell full for the next 6 hours

thats what they do.

>>10706937
Curry rice is the simplest thing that you can try. You can even use precooked packages if you don't have confidence

>>10735152
>1 onigiri
>Full for 6 hours
That's one hella huge onigiri

>>10735183

mine comes out huge as fuck, i can't do it properly, it's one full hand
as big as a snowball.

but thats unironically one of the things i've eaten almost every day in tokyo, every 7/11 sells a shitload of those.

I love eating rice on its own its delicious and has a really nice and fun texture. Sometimes I eat with my hands and pretend I'm a hungry giant that hasn't eaten for days. I crush rice and make rice patties and stuff then eat it up

>>10735314
I'll take the rice scooper and take a big scoop of freshly cooked rice out of the rice cooker and then eat from the scooper directly while pretending I'm a hungry giant then put it in a plate and use my hands to eat it then go "Ow! Too hot! Too hot!" then when it finally cools down I'll crush the rice with my hands and make rice patties and rice balls then eat them all up like a hungry giant that hasn't eaten for days.

>>10735312
Like this size?

>>10708019
Nishiki costs like a dollar more than other Japanese short grain brands.

Short grain is twice the price of medium grain so I usually buy medium. Medium is still sticky enough, honestly. You can get 15 lb for $10 as opposed to $20+ for short grain. Long grains are garbage though.
t. flip

this is the dumbest goddamn thread

>What do Asians do to make rice edible?
they fucking season it. Add literally any flavor you want, rice is filler

>>10736676
I wished they would bring back the hot pork flakes

>>10711066
>And "wild rice" is an entirely different species.
Man I miss the Philippines for the rice.

>>10736857
Yeah even the most basic grocery store there has a pretty great selection

>>10734249
It's not false advertising because there isn't -a specific- sushi rice, just attributes of rice (short grain, relatively dryer so harder after cooking, various varieties that are tasty cold) that make better sushi.

It's like the ripoff $2 potatoes labeled "microwaveable!" next to the identical 25-cent potatoes that are just as microwaveable but don't have a label saying so. Or the canned tomatoes that are sold as "for sauce" even though they're not San Marzanos.

>>10734249
>I prefer basmati desu.
Basmati is ideal for briyani and that sort of thing but only wh*teoids and poos prefer it as a default rice

>>10736895
Glutinous black rice is amazing especially if you get it from where they farm it. Mountain red rice is ridiculously tasty on it's own too.

>>10736918
>but only wh*teoids and poos prefer it as a default rice

Makes sense. It's the default rice for pajeets, and it's probably the first named rice that whiteboys have heard of.

My experience has been that most whiteys (myself included, until a couple years ago) have no idea that different kinds of rice exist. They only know "rice" and think that its all the same bland filler.

>>10733746
Ex-weeb who grew up and refocused my interest from junk food and cartoons to street/soul food and midcentury novelists. Couchsurfed and dated enough to start to get an appreciation for things that just going into a restaurant and thinking "this place's rice is good" won't give, now I just want to share what I've learned so people understand more.

>>10706871
>You rarely ever eat bread on its own, right?


Dumbmericans everyone LOL