The Best Way to Cook Rice is All About the Right Ratio | Rice | What's Eating Dan?
For more great Instant Pot recipes, please visit InstantPotEasy.com
Why do most of us struggle to make perfect rice on the stovetop at home? The answer, Dan claims, is the standard ratio is working against us. It’s not our fault!
Dan is so sexy…
I have an odd problem when I cook rice without a rice cooker. I could understand if my rice came out either overcooked, or undercooked, but when I make rice I end up with grains that are still hard, and right next to them are grains that have exploded. It seems like the rice gods are mad at me lol. In all seriousness, do you have any suggestions on what I may be doing wrong and how I can fix this issue?
Or buy a rice cooker and enjoy great rice every time with little fuss
No need to stick your finger in there 😉 just make mark on your wooden spoon – should be just under an inch.
But if you do use your knuckle, the line on the back of your finger is more clearly visualized.
Been doing the first knuckle thing ever since the first and only time I was told. Never knew or cared to measure for the rest of my life but quaint to understand the units to the science. No wonder Malaysians cook with the "agak-agak" (estimate) method. And do so until you get it right! Also proudly a rice lover! 🙂
But I use boiling water…. How can I do it?
My ex a Filipino taught me thatits cover rice up to first knuckle and leavt it alone til ready to serve.
What about brown rice? It cooks for longer, so does more water evaporate (i.e. therefore needing more water to begin with)?
Do people just boil rice? I first stir fry them a bit in butter or oil then add boiling water to cook.
Waste of time on how to cooking rice…
what's with the emphasis on completely avoiding math? are people really scared of thinking about "equal amount of water plus a half cup"?
I object strongly to rice cookers. You won’t get the crunchy rice bottom which as all Hispanics will certify is the best part. 😋
Omg you're so cute..lol😂😍🙃
I followed my Japanese sister-in-law's advice, bought a good
Japanese rice cooker and followed the instructions.
Just do it in a microwave, same amount of water, first knuckle etc. No lid, nuke on high for 12 minutes. Perfect separated rice every time. Want a more Chinese stickier version, exactly the same but use a lid..*I put some salt in the water too, and if I am making it to accompany one of my Indian curries, I will drop a teaspoon and a half of sugar for every 2 to 3 cups of rice, and about 5 cloves. (just break out the flowers of the cloves as they are bitter), once it is done, the cloves are normally at or very close to the top, remove them and you rice is now fragrant like clove!
To cook brown rice in Denver (1 mile up) I use 1 washed rice and 2 waters and it comes out just fine – in about an hour!
3:10 that's not how math works. That's 200%mlre for evaporation
Please make a video about the types of rice!
7 and a half minutes just to explain I need 1:1 +1/2 cups of water for good rice. Also because the duch oven has a way bigger surface area for evaporation to occur, the knuckle trick was probably still right.
Knuckle measurement works in a saucepan every time! Guaranteed perfect.
Some of us like over cooked, super soft; rice porridge soup! – especially when we are very tired or sick!
Dan. Can you make 60 gallons of rice in a steam kettle? Thats a talent.
everyone knows the perfect ratio is 2 cups water for 1 cup rice
Cooking for nerds with Dan
My South Asian mom's no-measure fool-proof way to cook any amount of basmati rice:
Wash rice, add to pot with lots of water, boil until al dente, drain, return rice to the pot, cover and steam in the residual moisture. This has never failed me.
How TF do i always get perfect rice if i apparently do it completely wrong? I do 1 rice to 2 water bring it to a boil then i turn the burner off, leave the pot on the burner and put the lid on simultaneously. Then i just come back 20-30 minutes later or a few hours later and the rice is perfect, not over cooked.
Oh, so THIS is why the "two fingers" (or one knuckle) trick works (usually).