Could a regular non-chef could ever learn to cook rice as neat as Ainsley’s?

[tombow]

I’ve wondered this for years ever since I first saw RD night, I’m ok at cooking rice, but could I learn to get his level of perfection if I approached it like focused training or is it only attainable to pro chefs.

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[Moonlight]

We broke down and bought an automatic rice cooker a few years ago and it pretty consistently makes rice very well as long as you don’t fuck up how much water to add. And unlike cooking it on the stove you didn’t get a bunch of dried out rice stuck to the pot.

Also, basmati rice clears. Accept no substitutes.

[Warbodog]

We broke down and bought an automatic rice cooker a few years ago and it pretty consistently makes rice very well as long as you don’t fuck up how much water to add.

Yeah, I haven’t had to manually boil rice for a decade. I don’t know about presentation, but you can adjust it to your preferred dryness/stickiness with the water ratio and it just gets on with it.

[Jenuall]

Rice really isn’t that hard to make. 

Soak and sieve beforehand if you want it fluffy rather than sticky, 2:1 ratio of water to rice in a pan, lid on, bring it to the boil and then simmer on a low heat for 10 minutes, heat off and leave in the pan until you’re ready to eat, quick fluff up with a fork before serving

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

A chef? A white-hatted ponce?!

[Podey]

I thought the trick was just to nick his when he wasn’t looking?

[Spaceworm Jim]

Jenuall, thank you so much for the soak and sieve beforehand tip, I have been making shit rice all my life and now I know why. Worried that this is coming across as sarcastic, I’m being 100% genuine. Of course, if my rice still comes out as sticky shit I’ll retract this, but if I don’t come back seeking vengeance, assume that I’m still grateful.

[Dave]

This is the most heartwarming forum exchange ever.

[Moonlight]

Basmati isn’t sticky even if you don’t sieve it, which only further proves my point that it’s the best rice.

[Ridley]

Dave genuinely doesn’t know that G&T has exchanged the niceties.

[Moonlight]

I love you guys.

Is what I’d say if you weren’t a bunch of pedantic cunts.

[Dave]

Dave genuinely doesn’t know that G&T has exchanged the niceties.

It’s not so much the niceties as the ja,danketies.

[Jenuall]

[Dave]

[Jenuall]

[Dave]

[Ridley]

 It’s not so much the niceties as the ja,danketies.

In apologise in… conjuction.

[Ian Symes]

Utterly superb.

[Author]

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