The Rice Cooker
Last night I made some chicken and rice is really nice. However, the rice was hard as rock. I cooked that rice half an hour longer than it said to cook it and it was still hard as rock. I put it into the microwave to cook it some more, and it was still hard as rock. So I went out and bought a rice cooker.
After throwing out the remains of last night’s rice, tonight I started all over with the handy dandy rice cooker. Guess what? The rice was hard as rock. I ended up adding two more cups of water to my one cup of rice, and after cooking that sucker for an hour, it was a little less hard, but still hard rice, not like real rice.
So WTF is going on? Why can everybody in the world make rice and I can only make Minute Rice? This was the new fibre-filled rice with a mix of wild and brown and something else rice, but why is that stuff not cooking? Is there some secret to rice that nobody’s telling me? I’m following all the instructions. Tonight I have some more rice to throw out.
Now I’ve got to go buy me a bag of brown rice and try that in the cooker. I’m determined to have some rice that’s cooked. And on this diet we can’t eat just white rice, it’s gotta be lots of fibre. Somebody give me the rice secret. I’ll pay you $240 for that secret. Yep, that’s $240 for the secret to cooking rice. Ok, I’m lying. I’ll think about $240 for the secret and I’ll think about how nice it would be if I could afford to give you $240 for a rice secret.
Anyway, I’ll just wait for that. In the meantime I was deciding what to wear tomorrow and I came up with something to go with one of my new necklaces. So I was trying on everything and didn’t the fucking necklace come apart with beads going everywhere. And that was the necklace that was my favourite, you know, the one with the round ring-y things (oh, you mean beads? No, you moron, the ring-y things).
So here I was all ready to wear my new beautiful necklace and then, poof, it was toast. So I remade it. I remade it and I put two closing crimps on each side to prevent it from coming apart. After I was all finished I realized that I had missed a set of beads to match the other side. And you know what? Too bad. I’m wearing it. I’m wearing it anyway. After making that stupid necklace twice, I’m not in any mood to take it apart and make it yet again.
So tomorrow I’ll be the woman at work with an asymetrical necklace on that doesn’t look asymetrical, just like something’s missing. And there’s nothing you can do about it. Except perhaps gaze at the lovely matching earrings.
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Thanks, Lyndon. Now I’m going to look for parboiled rice. But first I’m going to try cooking that other rice with 4 cups of water and for an hour because when I was at the grocery store, I saw rice there that said 50 minutes for cooking. When that fails, I’m going to parboiled.
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Well when it comes to brown rice, look for the kind that says “Par-boiled”. It means that the rice is partially cooked, as brown rice takes a long time to boil.
Usually the rule is one cup rice two cups water, but personally I find that you usually need a bit more water. Other than that, it’s a bit of trial and error. Should take about 20 to 30 minutes tops to cook. Hope I helped!