Back to Basics: How to Cook Rice – Japanese Cooking 101


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Steamed rice is an essential part of Japanese cuisine. We go back to basics and refresh our memories so that we will be able to have the most important …

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  1. Maroulio
    Maroulio says:

    Very helpful! Thank you so much. I am also interested in cooking sushi rice, as I just ordered some. I have always used regular white rice for my sushi rolls, but I desire to be authentic. I love Japanese recipes.

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  2. Rider of the North
    Rider of the North says:

    I live a happy life together with my small Zojirushi rice cooker. I had some difficulties finding one that is small and takes the correct voltage but they are out there. I live in Sweden where the boiled potato is the norm but since i can´t eat that due to health reasons the rice cooker is a true lifesaver. Thank You Ladies for yet another nice and informative video, keep up the good work!

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  3. Dannie Garrett
    Dannie Garrett says:

    I'm sure many found the very helpful. While I can and have made my rice on the stove top, I confess to being spoiled now I have the same rice cooker shown and love it. The odd part is when I hit start button and it sings its little song I still smile.

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  4. Fiddling while Rome burns
    Fiddling while Rome burns says:

    I lived in Thailand and knew Thai a chef who had lived in Japan and trained as a Japanese chef in top restaurants, he then returned to Thailand and ran a Japanese restaurant in Bangkok. He told me the secret of turning Thai rice into Japanese. Basically take 4 parts Khao Hom (Thai rice) and mix it with one part sticky rice. The 20% glutinous rice adds the equivelent stickiness to the rice to Japanese rice. In addition the basis of 80% Khao Hom the best rice in the world, gives you an end product that is superior quality to Japanese rice.

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  5. Majin
    Majin says:

    I couldn't love without my Zojirushi cooker 🥰. I mostly buy Botan rice here in the USA! Only bc I dont really have a asian market near me unless I order it.

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  6. Lynn daSilva
    Lynn daSilva says:

    Great video…
    I think Hawaii people can cook rice with eyes closed..lol Rice is used for breakfast lunch n dinner. Calrose type .. Even McDonald's serves steamed rice here for breakfast..
    Think that's first thing kids learn to make here ( mostly via rice cooker with finger method but hurricane times you gotta learn how to cook on stove top hibachi if necessary lol).. Before days there was a saying " Ah, Go home cook rice!" Like to tell someone to get lost – beat it lol
    When You said what to put on rice I was like now you are talking my language.. Furikake on rice oh big juicy ume n daikon ..when sick we get broth n shove rice inside..
    When I went to continental U.S. I was lost in the store, they didn't have rice only had what was that? uncle Ben's rice..they said we have rice n hand me a box of uncle Ben's ..yeah not da kind of rice I was talking about. Then some kind soul intervened n said there was an asian store.. I went straight there n I was like a child in a toy store.. The owners were laughing.. Cuz I was shoving all sorts of things in my cart n got big " bags " of rice.. 50 lb bag x2 N long rice ( bean thread) and shoyu ,nori , ume , hondashi.. Mochiko …N chop sticks!
    I had the biggest smile exiting store ..real food !! Felt like I won a lottery at 23 ..They did ask inside, where are you from ? I said Hawaii and thank you for saving me !! haha first thing I did was cook rice when i got home ( the shoyu was different than what I was used to but it worked)..n made teriyaki beef sticks for next day.. Here our hurricane supplies are Rice , Spam , nori ,
    Furikake , ramen packets , water n toilet paper .
    As long as you got those items you are good..
    Now a days with online feature you can buy but back then the struggle was real..

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  7. Larry Chan
    Larry Chan says:

    Will try it at home next time. I didn’t know about the soaking. Thanks. For measurements, instead of remembering things in cups, I have made the following calculations.

    White rice: Use 10% more water than rice in volume
    Brown rice: Use 30% more water than rice in volume

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