Every time I cook rice it comes out bad. Tips? I'd like to be able to make edible rice without purchasing an appliance. Movies and history tell me this is possible??

[–] gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cooking rice is a notoriously hard problem (and for that reason I recommend noodles instead) but my tip is:

Don't (!) do the 2:1 thing where you mix 2 cups of water with 1 cup of rice. Some of the water will boil off and the ratio will be distorted, except if you close your cooking pot, in which case it begins to foam like crazy and give you something to clean up
Do just fill a large pot with lots of water and make it boil; then when it boils add the rice and cook a certain time with the pot open. I've made the best rice this way.

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

Just turn down the heat when it starts boiling and you won't have any mess at all. Boiling pretty much anything without using a lid is just plain dumb and a waste of energy. The only exception being if the point of boiling is to reduce water content.

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