How to Steam Rice Perfectly Every Time!Tired of burnt rice? Mushy rice? Undercooked rice? Cooking rice seems simple enough, but a lot can go wrong! That may sound like the prelude to an infomercial, but it’s true! While Sarah’s already published her method for cooking rice without a rice cooker, I’ll teach you what I think is an even more foolproof method…how to steam rice! Steaming Rice: A Lesson Learned EarlyBelieve it or not, I grew up on undercooked and burnt rice.I’d almost forgotten about such childhood details, but thanks to this blog, all these little pieces of memory are re-surfacing. We cooked our rice on an old-fashioned Chinese brick stove, fueled from below with dried cotton plants or loose sticks I picked up on the way home.It was very difficult to regulate heat––the knobs on my stove now work much better! I learned to cook rice by steaming when I was in middle school in Shanghai.

During the winter months, kids were allowed to stay at school for lunch.We didn’t have PB&J or bologna sandwiches.Instead, we would bring metal lunch boxes with rice and leftovers.Like many kids, I would bring uncooked rice to school, in a rectangular aluminum lunch box with a lid.

We’d wash the rice, add in the right amount of water, cover, and place it in a huge bamboo steamer together with everyone else’s lunch boxes, stacked high. After cooking, the lunchboxes were piled high on a huge table.At lunchtime, everyone would rush to the cafeteria to clai

Read More