rice. As opposed to boil in the pan, and strain.
What you suggest gets on my goat – people who add too much water to rice and then strain it. You end up with horrible wet rice. Yuck. It’s a throwback from the olden days when rice was something new and exciting and they cooked it just like they’d cook their horrible overcooked mushy carrots or whatever, because they hadn’t met anyone who knew how to cook rice properly.
It is. You’ve got the hang of it, bully for you. It is a fickle substance to cook though, can’t argue with that.
Unless you are using easy-cook rice which is horrible.
Rice is easy if you are methodical about cooking it. Here you go:
Rice for 2 people:
2/3 of a mug of rice
1 mug water
1)Put rice and water in pan.
2)turn on heat, cover.
3)if the water in the pan boils right up to the top, turn heat down.
4)Wait until all the water has been absorbed into the rice.
5)Turn off heat, serve.
Adjust quantities depending on how much rice your family eats and how big your mugs are, but as long as you use the same thing to measure out the rice and the water, and use 1 and a half times as much water as rice, you should be fine.
Once you get used to cooking it, you can smell the rice is done from the rice cooking smell in the kitchen, so you don’t even have to check the rice.
As a bonus, as well as getting nicer rice, it’s more environmentally friendly (no wasted water, less heat wasted bringing water to the boil).