How to Cook the Perfect Rice Every Time (Rice Cooker) 2020

I used to carefully pour the water out of the pot trying not to dump the rice into the sink .

But the strainer method is way faster .

Even if you take rinsing the strainer into account , it's also way more accurate .

If you leave some of the water in the rice , your rice to water ratio could change from batch to batch .

Not an issue if you are measuring the depth of water and not the volume of water , but I am measuring the volume .

So I have to be accurate .

I added 1.5 cups of water and tried to measure the water depth .

But that turned out to be tricky using my hand didn't feel very productive to me since people have different hand sizes , I tried to use a ruler , but that was very misleading too .

First of all , it wouldn't sit on top of the rice , it would sink and the rice wasn't in a perfectly even layer either .

But I did try to get a good feel for what the water depth looked like .

And that came in very handy later on , I sealed up my instant pot and set it to the rice setting .

That's 12 minutes on low pressure .

I let the pressure drop naturally .

Then I opened the pot and added 1.5 tablespoons of butter and fluffed up the rice .

As you can see , nothing stuck to the pot .

The rice came out perfect .

Not crunchy , not mushy .

Just right .

I repeated the same experiment with three cups of rice .

I knew that three cups of water would be too much .

So I tried two and two thirds , but then I looked at it and it seemed way deeper to me than the first batch .

So I strained the rice again and tried 2.5 cups of water .

It still looked a bit deeper than 1.5 cups , but I was afraid to go any lower .

Well , lucky for me , I guessed correctly .

The rice turned out absolutely perfect .

Nothing stuck to the bottom of the pot .

And the texture was great .

Encouraged by my success with aggressive water reduction .

For the three cup batch .

I decided to go with only three cups of water for four cups of rice .

Nothing stuck to the bottom of the pot but the texture was a tiny bit too firm .

Almost perfect .

In a recent class , I needed four cups of sushi rice and armed with this experiment , I tried three cups of water plus two tablespoons and this time the rice turned out perfectly .

So now I know how much water four cups of rice need here are the ratios that worked well for me .

For any rinsed and thoroughly drained white rice cooked in a six quart instant pot .

You can try these measurements with your equipment and make any necessary adjustments .

And for here and for me , I love a Shelly kind of rice , not too sticky .

Um And if you wanna make it sticky , you can always add more broth and let it cook some more .

But for this , that basically concludes the cooking of the rice .

When you use a rice cooker , once it's complete , it marks it as warm and step six is where you go ahead and just serve your rice .

But that is it .

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