How to cook rice in a rice cooker.

[Locut0s]

Ok since there have been like 3 rice cooker posts here this is how you cook rice in one of these machines. Of course the real method is to RTFM as these directions might be different for your machine, this is just how we do it using our centuries old rice cooker.

(1) wash rice until water almost runs clear. Don't over do it though or you will wash away some of the good stuff.

(2) place washed rice in rice cooker.

(3) Pour water into rice cooker. Here is how you know if you have enough water or not. Place your index finger into the pot until the finder is just touching the top of the rice. If the water comes up to your FIRST "ridge" on the index finger then you have enough water. By first ridge I mean the first flexible part of the finger behind the finger nail.

(4) Turn on rice cooker.

(5) Profit?

 

[Ika]

I dont wash rice before I cook it. Do I fail?

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: Aflac
I dont wash rice before I cook it. Do I fail?

Depends on where you get your rice. We buy them in those several KG woven rice sacks. Rice like this tends not to be all that clean out of the bag so you want to wash it. But if you buy rice in smaller quantities it's possible it has already been cleaned.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Wash it once. that's really enough. Twice maybe, but once adn rinse it well.

As for amount of water, it depends. In general 1:1 works well. Sometimes the rice bag will say how much to put. Kohuko Rose from Costco says 1.5:1, but I still did 1:1. This worked for my roommate's crappy $20 cooker, my old Tatung steamer, and my old roomate's $60 Zojirushi.

If you have the fancy rice cookers like I do ($100+ Zojirushi), just follow the lines on the pot. Use their cups too. Remember, rice cups are never real standard cups in the English measurement, so don't use a freaking measuring cup to scoop rice. You'll screw up, unless you operate on ratios. For my rice cooker, if I put in 2 of the default cups, I just put water until the 2 cup line. Different types of rice require different amounts of water. 1:1 works well for Jasmine and Sushi rice, but in my rice cooker, there's different sets of lines for brown rice, porridge, sushi rice and regular rice.

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: DLeRium
Wash it once. that's really enough. Twice maybe, but once adn rinse it well.

As for amount of water, it depends. In general 1:1 works well. Sometimes the rice bag will say how much to put. Kohuko Rose from Costco says 1.5:1, but I still did 1:1. This worked for my roommate's crappy $20 cooker, my old Tatung steamer, and my old roomate's $60 Zojirushi.

The index finger method I talked about was how my mother taught me. I wonder if it's a rule of thumb used a lot or unique to my household? Seems to make great rice though.

 

[Descartes]

The wife does the index finger method. I just do 1:1.5 or so, rice to water.

 

[JC86]

My mom always taught me to put my hand palm down on the rice and the water should go about 2/3 the way up but not completely submerge your hand. It worked for me but my new rice cooker has increment markings on the bowl for how many cups of rice, which are different depending on the kind of rice your cooking and its been perfect every time.