Without the cooker does rice difficult to cook?

Cooking rice is easy even without a rice cooker. :) Sometimes, I do forget about it though and I get our rice a little burnt. :)

As a Puerto Rican rice is our main dish and we never use a rice cooker. We have a Caldero, which is a steel pot. We use 1/2 times the water over the 1 cup of rice, we add corn oil and salt and our rice is perfectly cooked.

Rice is very easy to cook. For long grain and basmati rice, do the following: Rinse the rice in several changes of water until the water runs clear. Drain it and either: use twice to two and a half times the volume of water to rice. Bring the water to the boil add a pinch of salt (optional) and the rice, cover and immediately turn the heat down very low. This method requires that you don't stir the rice (which will be cooked in 20 minutes) and can tolerate a little rice stuck to the pan (nothing that a little soaking won't cure). If using a microwave, follow the same steps but put rice and cold water into a microwaveable pan or bowl and heat on medium for 10 minutes, stir and add a little more water if it looks dry and microwave for another 10 minutes. My own method avoids any burnt or claggy rice at the bottom of the pan and also gives good, fluffy, separate grains. Put a good quantity of water into a pan and bring to the boil. Add the washed rice and cook for 10 minutes. Have a kettle of boiling water ready (saves time). Drain the partly cooked rice in a colander which will fit over the pan you are using. Put a reasonable amount of water from the kettle in the pan and put back on the heat. Place the colander on the pan and cover the rice with the pan lid. Allow to steam for 10 minutes (when the rice will be ready) or turn down the heat to keep it warm until you are ready to serve.

My mom cooks without the rice cooker when we have a lot of guess coming over. It's not really difficult and i have tried it myself. We don't own one before when i was still young and i was taught to cook rice even without the cooker. We actually have a technique here, the water doesn't get over the first line of the middle finger. That will be around one inch water over the rice. It is just cooked perfectly fine just like you were using a cooker.

Hello my wife and daughter in law are using it since long, initially it needed some sort of experiment and efforts though, to make the rice cooked neither hard nor too soft or watery, it depends upon kind of rice we have in stock.. Thank you so much for this post. Professor ‘Bhuwan’. . God bless you. Welcome always.

Easy! Number of rice cup is equivalent to number of cup of water plus additional half cup of water just to be sure it will cooked accordingly.

I have never used a rice cooker and I don´t check it if it´s cooking properly euther. Yet my family and friends love the rice I make. I don´t usually make plain boiled rice (except for sushi and the like) but fry it with garlic first. Then I add the water, place it in high temperature for 8 minutes and thed low covered for 20 more minutes. YUMMY!!!

I don´t have a rice cooker and I have a thousand things I´d buy before with that money.. The thing is, I don´t need a rice cooker. I fry the rice first (with crushed garlic and salt) while the water is kept boiling. When the rice is just as I like it, I pour 1 1/2 cup of water for 1 cup of rice. I leave it for a little under 10 min and stir it a bit, adding less than 1/2 cup more. I cover it, place it on minimum fire and leave it to cook for 20 to 25 minutes.

NOthing is too difficult is one is willing to put in time and effort. We are too pampered by technologies and so whatever is being done in the past, seems like a tedious task to us now. WHen one is used to doing things the hard way, it becomes easy over the time. Proportion of water and rice is a trial and error thing from people of the past, so it's being passed down from generations to generations. All we need to do is, try it.

hi, actually we dont use a rice cooker, we only use copper to cook rice, and we only estimated the water level to the level of the rice.

hi..its weird how I learned it..hahahha.I was forced to.I worked away from home.2.5 hours away from home so I live by myself.I probably won't survived without rice so I need to learned to cook it.and now,I should say I know well how to cook my rice the way I want it.lolz. its easy to proportion rice..others used those measuring cups..so if you put like 3cups of rice your gonna put 3cups of water too. the other way to do it is using fingers..lolz.manual thing..