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.
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.
This is the funniest amateur cook-iest take and I adore it
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.
Put the rice in the pot/cooker and put your finger on top and measure the water to the first knuckle (I think)
The finger method is absolutely the way. My wife is from an East Asian country and that's the way she taught me to do it, and it has never failed.
FYI if you're using a rice cooker it's better to underestimate than overestimate the water. At least for mine if it turns out I added a bit too little water and the rice is crunchy, I can just add like another few tbsp, put it back on "cook" and it goes for just a few minutes more and it'll work out. Those things are magic. I'm impressed with anyone who can cook rice in a pot because I feel like I've completely lost that ability since getting a rice cooker
Also congrats. I love rice
It's where if you have your rice in whatever pot and you put water on top, stick your middle finger into the pot untill it's touching the rice and if your water comes up to the first knuckle/line on your finger, that's how much water you need for perfect rice. Never believe the instructions on your rice cooker or measurements you find online, your finger is the most accurate of accurate cooking instruments!!!!!!!!!! Believe in yourself!!!! Believe in the FINGER!!!!!!
How does this work for different sized pots or amounts of rice? I feel like it should be a ratio like "have the surface 50% higher than the rice"
Nice one comrade. Make yourself some curry to go with it, and enjoy yourself as much as you can !
I'm about to cry lmao, for fuckin years I've been wondering why my rice comes out like congee. Love yall, I've officially christened chapo.chat with my first drunk post <333
the only rice we ate growing up was minute rice and it tasted like shit. I thought I didn't like rice until I learned to cook
I’m south Asian, eat rice everyday. Finger method never works for me.
What kinda rice? Basmati? Sushi rice? Long/short grain? Brown rice? Wild rice?
Haha, I’ve only recently finally learned to cook rice correctly after years of using the microwave pouches due to fucking it up. I always use brown rice and could never cook it perfectly. The finger method is legit!
