Cooking Rice

When Susan and I got married, we bought a rice cooker which steamed the rice nicely. It was easy for me to do so it was my job. (I'm not a very good cook.) Susan is the real cook in our house, and a very good cook at that, especially when she's creating something new.

One day Susan's Mom told me how to cook rice on the stove top (I think I was complaining how long it took to make rice in the steamer). "It's really quite easy," she said, "just put some rice in the pot and then cover with cold water until it's this deep."


She held up her hand with her index finger pointing down and her thumb nestled in the bend of the first joint of that finger. The tip of the finger should be just touching the rice and the thumb just resting on the top of the water. Boil, then turn down the heat and in twenty minutes, it's done.

To my surprise this makes perfect rice. Now I am the rice cooker without a steamer. It also doesn't matter how much rice I make, this method has always worked for me.

It's very interesting to me how people have different methods for doing things which quite often work better than conventional instructions.

We should listen to our elders, they have things to teach us!