I would be curious to hear from anyone with a rice cooker, I am having a problem with preparing jasmine rice in my cooker, I use 3 cups water to one cup rice, and a shot of some kind of oil, usually olive oil. It has a really great flavor, but the rice is too soft! Am I cooking it for too long? Should I test it before the little lever comes up on my cooker that tells me it's done? Thanks for any advice or thoughts?
@Pawpower@acarson Others have told you to use less water, which is good, and to rinse the rice first to prevent clumping, which is good. However, you should stop using the oil. Oil in water is going to effect how it boils. Oil-coated rice is not going to absorb as much water, either. I know it tastes good, but you are steaming rice, not frying it. You can add salt or powdered seasoning, but avoid oil. Add the oil after it has cooked.
@Pawpower When I do jasmine rice I tend to do one rice cup full, like with the rice cup that came with the cooker, and just fill it to where the water reaches my first knuckle on my finger when my fingertip rests on the rice. Even a 1 to 1 cup of rice to water works fine. Three cups sounds like way too much water, might be right for brown rice, but jasmine doesn't neet that much.
@blindbat84 I used less when I tried the first time and it was incredibly crunchy! That was with 2 cups of water to one cup rice. So I think the sweet spot might be more than two but less than three.
@Pawpower Wow, and I know you have the same cooker that I do, I suppose it coul also be the brand of rice. Also undercooked rice is the worst, well so is mushy overcooked.
@blindbat84 Also, I don't have the cup anymore that came with it because it is plastic and my floor is ceramic tile, so when I drop it and the dog goes to get it for me, things end up getting cracked or punctured because trying to pick up plastic off of a ceramic tile floor when you don't have hands is challenging lol
@Cyrus@MsHearthWitch The reason that I am using this much is because I tried with one cup of rice to 2 cups of water, and it got burnt on the bottom and was very crunchy and I ended up needing to add even more water! But I will definitely try it again with 2 cups and watch, maybe that was just a one off, but I think my sweet spot is somewhere between two and 3 cups. maybe I just have a weird rice cooker.
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