How do you cook perfect rice?
Tell me the details like what makes yours perfect, why, and your cultural influence if any. I mean, rice is totally different with Mexican, Chinese, Indian, Japanese, and Persian food just to name a few. It is not just the spices or sauces I'm mostly interested in. These matter too. I am really interested in the grain variety and specifically how you prep, cook, and absolutely anything you do after. Don't skip the cultural details that you might otherwise presume everyone does. Do you know why some brand or region produces better ingredients, say so. I know it seems simple and mundane but it really is not. I want to master your rice as you make it in your culture. Please tell me how.
So, how do you do rice?
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First rinse the rice, then put 1:2 rice to water plus a little extra water to account for steam in a pot. After you figure out how much the water comes up it's easy to do the knuckle thing. Wait till it comes to a boil then cover and cook for 20 mins. Proceed to fluff with a fork, spoon, or other object.
What's the knuckle thing?
Depending on the pot you can do rice to the first knuckle and water to the second and it's the right proportions, but most pots it's not. Measure it, stuck your finger in, and see where the water and rice come up to. After that you can just add rice and water and use your finger to quickly measure.
Yes please explain, desperately need to learn how to cook rice in 5 hours I'mma cook for Dad's kids. My rice always comes out sticky and mushy. Am I using too much water?
You probably don't rinse it well enough. There is a LOT of starch on rice that you can wash off. Put rice in pot, fill pot with water, slosh rice around with your hand, discard water. Repeat a few times, you'll see when the water starts to clear up.
Hey this might sound stupid but I hate rinsing the rice because I can never manage to drain the water without losing a significant amount of the rice in the process, so I just kind of half ass it with two rinses, that's probably where the problem lies. I should probably be okay with some of the water remaning in the pot instead of trying to drain it completely, thanks!
You can also just put the rice in a strainer and the strainer in the pot, then fill it up and do the rinsing, then just lift the rice out and discard water. Or rinse through the strainer but I feel like that uses a lot of water.