/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.18968130]

How do I stop messing up rice?

[Anonymous No.18968134]

>>18968130
1 cup rice 1 1/2 cup water
wash your rice first
get good rice

[Anonymous No.18968139]

>>18968134
Does this work for sushi rice and basmati?

[Anonymous No.18968143]

get an instant pot

[Anonymous No.18968144]

>Rinse a cup of rice in sieve until water runs clear
>Add salt and 1 and a half cups of water to pot and bring to a boil
>Add rice and stir
>Place lid on and turn heat to low
>Cook for 15 minutes
>Remove from heat and allow to steam for 10 - 15 minutes
Wala

[Anonymous No.18968164]

>>18968134
>>18968144
you don't need to wash the rice

[Anonymous No.18968173]

>>18968130
Keep stirring it, proper boil at the start. Reduce heat as liquid evaporates. Keep stirring. No, look at me. Pay attention. Keep stirring. And reduce heat.

>>18968134
Proper rice should be cooked for 30 mins and asks for 4 volumes of liquid per volume of rice.

[Anonymous No.18968176]

are risotto and paella time wasting meme dishes?

thinking of trying one of them but only if they taste really good...

[Anonymous No.18968181]

>>18968173
>4 volumes of liquid per volume of rice
Don't tell me you drain your rice.

[Anonymous No.18968219]

>>18968130
If you're making short grain here is a perfect, fool proof, recipe. I don't care how long or whatever it is. It makes the objectively best short grain rice you can make on a stovetop.

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.18968225]

>>18968176
They're both fuggin good.

[Anonymous No.18968243]

>>18968173
>4 to 1 ratio
Dude turning his rice into bland gruel

[Anonymous No.18968251]

How are you missing it up? You have to measure how much rice and how much water you add, if you are going to wash your rice, just try to drain off as much water as possible before adding more water.

Not cooked enough? Add half a cup more water next time, if its still try, add a whole cup extra (i assume you did measure your rice/water before starrting)

Overcooked? Add half a cup less water. Also you should be aware of when its about to catch/burn on the bottom or when its overcooked, you can throw the excess water out.

You should be gently simmering the rice, as long as the water is bubbling its hot enough.

[Anonymous No.18968252]

>>18968130
Here is my technique for delicious fluffy, firm rice with separate grains.

>1 part basmati rice
>1 3/8 part water
>1 1/8 part lemon juice
>oil (preferably butter)
You want 1 1/2 part liquid total, with lemon juice to decrease stickiness. You could increase the lemon ratio for it to have noticeable flavor, which is good but not as versatile.

Rinse rice until water runs clear and soak for 30 minutes
Heat butter in a pot, drain rice, and toast it for a minute
Add lemon juice and water and let come to a boil
Cover and steam for 15 minutes, fluff, then rest for another 10 minutes

You can also add salt and toast whole spices in the oil for more flavor, like bay leaf, cumin seed, cardamom pods, diced chili, etc

[Anonymous No.18968257]

>>18968181
Give one 1 (one) reason why draining rice is bad, unless you are going for extremely sticky rice.

[Anonymous No.18968282]

>>18968257
Loose rice sucks in every aspect imaginable, so exactly that.

[Anonymous No.18968300]

>>18968130
dont add all the needed water at the start, add half and keep pouring it bit by bit as it dries up and trying the rice as it cooks

[Anonymous No.18968303]

>>18968130
I can't give you instructions without knowing what type of rice you are using

[Anonymous No.18968307]

>>18968173
>Keep stirring it
So you want it to get sticky?

[Anonymous No.18968317]

>>18968130

[Anonymous No.18968722]

>>18968130
follow directions

[Anonymous No.18968819]

>>18968722
I've done that with the directions on bags of rice before and it turns out horrible.

[Anonymous No.18969137]

>>18968130
Rice cooker and use a bet of stock or broth.

[Anonymous No.18969258]

How do I stop fucking up when cooking meat on the stovetop? I usually cause too much smoke, and then the meat isn't even fully cooked.

[Anonymous No.18969283]

>>18969258
turn the heat down

[Anonymous No.18969306]

just use a cooker they turn off by themselves

[Anonymous No.18969333]

>>18968130
Don't do it. Leave rice behind.
Mashed potatoes, bread, noodles, cornmeal, beans... plenty of options to go by.

[Anonymous No.18969535]

people who are so incompetent that they can't even figure out how to cook rice in a pot should have live in caretakers to prevent them from injuring themselves

[Anonymous No.18969576]

>>18968143
this. so much this.

[Anonymous No.18969580]

>>18969576
Instant pot makes tremendously terrible rice.

[Anonymous No.18969607]

>>18969333
Return to tradition

[Anonymous No.18969734]

>>18968134
(For already washed/normal/clean rice)
It's 2 cups of water, boil it, pour in 1 cup of rice. Place top cover thing. Set it to simmer. Set timer for 18 minutes.
How in the fuck can anyone here fuck up rice?

[Anonymous No.18969746]

>>18968164
>take measures to get starch out
>eat starch

[Anonymous No.18969750]

1.7:1 water to rice ratio. 2:1
1 is for fucking rice pudding.

Short of that, I'll never stop shilling some European autist named Bruno Masfer, who had the GOAT method of rice cooking in a video on 'brewtube

[Anonymous No.18969752]

>>18969750
2:1 is for rice pudding*

[Anonymous No.18969886]

>>18969734
>2:1 ricelet
holy fuck go to a decent restaurant sometime and compare your mush to their rice.

[Anonymous No.18969908]

>>18969734
Lmao. The problem with posts like this and >>18969535 is that you must have different standards of what is acceptable rice. Of course anyone can boil rice until its edible. It's not that simple to make rice with an actually good consistency.

[Anonymous No.18970118]

>>18968317
Enriched rice fucks this thing hard.

[Anonymous No.18970929]

>>18969333
Mashed potatoes boil over easier than rice but they're both piss easy

[Anonymous No.18970946]

This board is fuckin useless. All these fuckin meme suggestions.

[Anonymous No.18970953]

>>18968139
some need more water some need less

[Anonymous No.18970960]

>>18968134
This is the way. I tried the other methods mentioned here, this is the best one.

[Anonymous No.18970961]

>>18970946
are you still fucking it up?

[Anonymous No.18971963]

>>18968317
this
literally just 2 cups of rice and 2 cups of water and it's done in like 30 minutes without even needing a brain

[Anonymous No.18972028]

>>18968130
1 cup rice
2 cups water
little bit of butter
lid on
set burner to max
as soon as it starts boiling turn burner down to lowest
10 mins
turn off heat and take rice off burner (leave lid on)
2 minutes later fluff the rice -done

[Anonymous No.18972051]

>>18968173
>stirring rice continuously
>4 to 1 water ratio
>cooking it for 30 minutes
What the fuck

[Anonymous No.18973029]

>>18970946
Have you tried asking /v/ or /tv?

[Anonymous No.18973089]

I fucking LOVE this rice cooker or hot pot or whatever you call it, its just a pot with perfect scale inside, you put a cup of rice and a cup of water, maybe a tad more, until you see the water reach 1 cup sign inside

you can easily put brocolli or carrots or whatever to steam above the rice

the rice always comes out fucking perfect and delicious, only thing it can affect is the type of rice and what you prefer

if I had to ride or die with 1 appliance it would be this, I also use it for reheating soups or whatever

sure you could maybe cook rice manually but this thing is perfect as a fire and forget appliance, the rice will be ready it will keep it warm when it is cooked, you can focus on cooking the meat or whatever knowing steamed veggies and perfect rice are gonna be there when done

[Anonymous No.18973092]

>>18968257

[Anonymous No.18973121]

Try the method of my people, which /ck/ always shit all over despite it being literally fool proof for all rice types and requiring no measuring:

Boil water.
Add rice.
Boil rice.
Check rice grains every now and then for doneness.
When almost, but not quite, approaching done, drain the rice through a fine mesh sieve.
Rinse rice under cold water until cooled and water is clear, using a rice paddle to fold it about in the sieve as you do.
Shake the rice of excess water.*
Place back in the pot and put a lid on.
Put the pot back to high heat with your hand on the lid.
When the lid is too hot to keep your hand there comfortably, off the flame and let the rice finish in the heat of its own steam.
That's it.

>*if you stop here, you can use the partially cooked rice to make various pilaf-like rice dishes instead; my favourite is to fry the rice in lamb's tallow with thinly sliced onion, shredded carrot and shredded parsnip or turnip then add freshly powdered cumin and caraway, top off with a small small small bit of strong vegetable stock and finish the rice, uncovered, that way. when done, stir in fresh dill and a bit of strained yoghurt and serve with a tzatziki-like cucumber-and-yoghurt side dish and lamb sausages** or skewered lamb.
>** not really a sausage, per se, since there's no casing; it's spiced and seasoned lamb mince formed into a sausage-shape and cooked. the spice mix is kind of weird to western palates as it includes cinnamon, rose petals and dried lime among other ingredients

[Anonymous No.18973223]

>>18968130

watch THIS:

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

[Anonymous No.18973226]

>>18973121
This recipe will not make good sushi rice, liar.

[Anonymous No.18973253]

>>18973226
I have done sushi rice and Lao sticky rice that way and they both work fine, although the rice will be fluffy rather than sticky so it kind of misses the point.

[Anonymous No.18973429]

>>18968130
If you do it with a rice cooker
>Wash rice so starch is gone
>Point finger at 90 angle into rice, like an obelisk, and prepare to fill it up until it hits the first finger joint
>Cook

[Anonymous No.18974352]

>>18968219
>just drain your rice 15 times lmao