Rant: My rice cooker was sabotaging my grocery budget for 2 years

I kept buying those $2.50 microwave rice pouches because my stovetop rice always came out mushy or burnt. Last week I finally read the manual for my $15 rice cooker from Target and found a little line about rinsing the rice until the water runs clear. Tried it with a 5 pound bag of jasmine rice that cost me $6, and suddenly every batch is fluffy and perfect. Now I'm making 2 cups of rice for about 30 cents instead of dropping $5 a week on pouches. Anyone else got a kitchen gadget they were using wrong the whole time?

1 comments

Log in to join the discussion

Log In

1 Comment

skyler_robinson21mo ago

Wait, you mean to tell me there was an entire secret to rice this whole time and it was just... washing it? I've been out here eating sad, sticky lumps for years thinking I was just cursed in the kitchen. My rice cooker's manual is probably still in the box, collecting dust like evidence of my ignorance. I once made a batch so bad my dog looked at me with pity, and I just blamed the rice brand instead of myself. Now I'm lowkey mad at every YouTube video I watched that never mentioned the clear water thing.

4