This rice is my fucking baby and it's so fucking perfect and it belongs on a Gerber ad. People told me about measuring the water ratio with my finger but I always thought to myself 'oh, I'll just go with what the rice cooker says, I'm sure it's correct'.
For about 8 years, my rice has come out a gloopy mess and I'd always justify it to myself, like 'oh, my rice sucks because of the altitude' because I live on the 3red fuckin floor lmao.
My message to everyone who's had to wade through the trials and logical contradictions of cooking on their own is that the instructions are fucking bullshit, the finger method is tried and true and IT WORKS! Even if you're nervous about 'what if the rice isn't level and I'm playing myself', if the water goes up to the first knuckle, do not question it. This is correct and the magic ratio and your rice will be happy that you did not pervert it with an exorbitant proportion of water.
Just put 1.5 the amount of water for the amount of rice, it will come out perfect every time.
Also, I had some rice at some restaurant in Arizona that was ... fucking amazing, best rice ever, and I was a line cook for like 5 years.
I got the waitress to ask the kitchen what they put in it. Apparently it's just salt, garlic, lime and parsley. I've tried a dozen times to re-create it and I can never get it right, but it still tastes better than regular rice.