It’s because they’re massive rice idiots, we’ve established this.
99% of people who say this cook rice really badly in my experience
We have a rice cooker. It’s this one:
With a plastic stand up shamoji, like this one:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Paddle-Shamoji-K-386BK-natcha-fon/dp/B003B66YRS
It was a christmas present. Every chinese (or part-chinese) house should have one, apparently.
I agree with @japes: it’s a game changer.
I’m not a rice idiot, I just don’t like having to tend to my rice like it’s some sort of fragile China plate being moved by laurel and hardy
That’s it: I challenge you to a rice-off
GET IT BOILING. LEAVE IT ALONE FOR 8 MINUTES. PUT A LID ON IT. LEAVE IT ALONE FOR ANOTHER 8 MINUTES.
@rich-t help me out here, they’re not getting it
rice is really hard to get right. Most people cook it badly in my experience.
If you’ve got a technique that works, great (I have, but it took me a good 5 years or so to get there). But I can see the appeal of a rice cooker.
Right, you too. You, me, japes and a hob.
Whoa whoa whoa, let me assure you my rice is right nice. I do loads of types too, basmati, long grain, brown, risotto, sushi, all nice. Coming in here besmirching my rice game, seriously
Don’t be a hobnob
no salt?
Someone left a poo sitting in the leftmost gents toilet yesterday that looked exactly like a rolled up ball of hobnobs.
I’m not the boss of you.
“Someone”
Leftmost eh? Classic Corbyn.
Yeah I used to be really rubbish at rice, but then I studied the way of the dragon (Ken homs method) and that works for everything: basmati, Thai, sticky, whatever.
Brown rice is the best rice. Fight me.
run a fork through your rice to ensure fluffiness!
yo’u need salt bro