Cooking Rice 101

  1. Run cold tap water until it covers the rice. Swish the rice with your hands a couple of times and change the water quickly. (To avoid rice bran odor getting into the rice.)


  2. Repeat the “step 1″ 3-5 times until the water clears out. However, you do not need to rinse it until the water is crystal clear. This only means you have lost more nutrition.

Things To Remember:

  • Do not scrub the rice too hard. Otherwise it can lose its nutrition and it can possibly break the grains.
  • If some rice floats on the water, pick it out and throw it away. It has been eaten by rice weevil – bugs.

First we need to add an adequate amount of water to the rice.

“Knuckle method” – Add the water until it covers near the knuckles when your hand is flat on the rice.