The laziest way to cook perfect rice is to use a rice cooker! Put rice, water and salt in a rice cooker, press the button and walk away :) Rice cooker will do all the work in cooking the perfect rice for you.
The Ratio Of Rice And Water In A Rice Cooker
For white rice in a rice cooker, I always use the ratio of 1 cup of rice to 1.5 cups of water.
The rice cooker manual has different ratios depending on the rice type, but I hate reading manuals and just remember the ratio that always worked for me :)
How Much Salt In Rice?
I use 1/4 tsp of salt per 1 cup of uncooked rice.
How To Cook Rice In A Rice Cooker – Pictures
I usually cook 2 cups of dry rice at a time:
Using my ratio of rice to water in a rice cooker, I add 3 cups of water:
Then I add 1/2 tsp of salt to a rice cooker, and press the “Cook” button:
When the rice cooker beeps, the rice is ready! You don’t even have to take it out right away – the rice cooker will keep your rice warm for you for hours!
the lid of the rice cooker is opened to reveal perfectly cooked rice!
Here’s a closeup of perfectly cooked white rice:
And here is cooked white rice in a bowl:
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I wanted to tell you what my husband taught me about making rice in rice makers. We measure with our fingers. We just pour the rice in and then for white rice you want the water to be above the rice halfway up to your first knuckle. For brown rice you want it at least to if not a little past your first knuckle.
Perfect rice everytime!
Oh my goodness, thank you! I googled “how to make perfect rice in a rice cooker” this evening and this page was the first thing that popped up. I have been struggling with ratios and following the manual and filling it up to the proper water line marked on my rice cooker and could not for the life of me produce good rice. It was always to sticky or to crunchy. I followed your instructions to a T and the result… PERFECT RICE! Thank you again. I will never make rice another way!