How To Cook Rice?
in the kampung we plant rice, harvest rice and prepare rice in a good old “periuk nasi”, over a fire or if available, over a gas fire. When I buy rice it comes with ‘cooking instructions’: wash rice, put in ELECTRIC RICE COOKER, switch on cooker and let cook. Does it mean I cannot cook the rice I buy from the shop in a regular pot, over a ‘normal’ fire???
Just buy the pre-cooked one, put it in the microwave for 2 minutes and enjoy….no dishes, no sticky rice, no hard rice – as easy as it gets!
Ask mother, sister, auntie, grandmother, girlfriend, wife…..lol.
—there, I am not so serious, right? hahaha—
Hehehe – just remember this. In USA, you cook rice with 2 cups water to 1 cup rice. In Taiwan you cook 1 1/2 cups water to 1 cup rice. In Philippines it’s 1 to 1, and then it’s hard enough so they eat it with their hands. ☺
By normal fire do you mean Charcoal, or gas? Hehe
No, not at all. You can cook rice the normal way. Rice cookers do basically the same thing, only they do it for people who don’t know how to make rice the normal way. Just do as you have always done, and you should be fine.
you can.. but be cautious over the heat you put on the pot.. when the water start to boils, turn down the heat to minimal.. and check the rice every 3-4 minutes, just to make sure u dont burn them..
Yes you can cook rice on normal pot with normal fire. The instructions are just to tell you the efficient way of cooking it.
1 cup of rice with 11/2 cup of water. The rest the cooker will do.
There are several varity of rice grown in different part of the globe.
YOu know exactly how to cook the rice you grow in your native, but are you sure you buy the same rice from a store? if it is not, it’s better to follow the instruction.
You can always cook it in a regular pot with normal fire, but you need to optemise the time of cooking by several trials.
The instructions are mainly for people like us who never grow rice but only eat it.
Agreed with matt7722.
But different type of rice will need different portion of water.
Hmmm….cokking rice using normal pot…well, just measure 1 cup rice to 1 cup water. But be sure you rinse the rice first.
try its raw , so you ‘d cooking-free rice.