/Rice General Thread/
Hey guys. Relatively new cook here. I've only been 'really' cooking the last year or so, and was looking for some advice when it comes to rice. Recently I started meal prep, and rice is the core to a lot of my meals right now, and I'm looking for ways to make it more interesting. So I guess I'll just ask upfront:
1.) Best type of rice? Healthiest? Minute vs. Bagged?
2.) Is cooking stovetop as effective of a way as a rice cooker? If I want it to be looser or stickier, what tips do you have?
3.) Interesting ways to season it, or good protein pairings? I've always kept it plain or used a very basic seasoning, and never tried any sort of sauces or anything to go with it.
Like I said, sorry for the pleb level questions, but just looking to improve.
Best obviously depends on how you're using it.
Healthiest, as in, most healthful, is parboiled white rice. The parboiling and cooling converts the starch to resistant starch, reducing insulin spiking, and this process also increases bioavailability of other nutrients above and beyond brown rice.
I usually keep it plain, but will occasionally cook with bouillon. A bay leaf makes for nice fragrance. A little lemon zest can work too.
>>8779347
1. Preference, as far as best goes, obviously. Healthiest would probably be a wild rice. The reality is, brown vs white comes down to literally less than 1% nutritional difference per 100 grams. Wild rices are more significant in this regard.
Minute vs bagged isn't even a discussion. Minute will almost always be mushy porridgey shit, bagged takes 20 minutes and you can do more with it, for a better result in the end (and cheaper than minute rice buying from the right places).
2. There's a lot of different opinions on stove vs rice cooker, and you'll find most people here tend to prefer the stove.
The stove is very easy to not fuck up, regardless of how much people (and you) will fuck it up. The way I see it, is that unless you're getting a REAL FUCKING GOOD rice cooker ($500+ at least) the stove will be better. There's a lot of science and reason behind rice cookers, but the jist of it is that it's believed the hotter rice is cooked without being burned, the better it tastes. And you have to shell out a pretty penny for rice cookers that can go into the hundreds of degrees without burning the rice (note: I don't know exactly how this works by far)
3. A big thing I do to season rice/sauces/etc in an 'interesting' method would be to put seeds/spices you don't actually want to get INTO the rice (like caraway seeds or celery seeds) but you want the flavour of. Toss the tea bag in the pot and wait.
Protein pairings depend on how the protein is prepared, but that being said, plain rice goes with just about fucking anything in the protein department.
If you're using, cheap rice from, say, walmart, (i.e. generic "long grain" rice), don't rinse it, put 1:2 rice:water, toss slightly above medium heat on the stove, once it boils, cover for 20 minutes (if you're doing a massive amount consider the oven, it can be done in a large pot on the stove but I've seen many people without experience making rice fuck up pots this way. More an annoyance than anything)
>>8779413
How do I cook basmati rice?
Everyone and his mother has their own different method and none of them seem to work for me.
Free bbq for good suggestions. Eternal damnation of overcooked brisket for meme name suggestions.
>>8779239
Are bad puns OK? How about "Wholly smoked"
How about a riff on old fashioned band names?
>Pitmaster Slim & the Meat Boys
>>8779239
oinkers and then a logo with a pig winking and smiling and it goes down to his body and his torso is cut open with cooked, glazed racks of ribs popping out
i thought more about the picture than the name
The Pig Lebowski.
Make this can of pasta sauce a 10/10 marinara.
OP this thread sucks and you are a degenerate roody-poo
>>8779223
marie would never use hunts.
Is it really that bad?
>>8779000
I think it is one of the top 5 pizza chains in the world.
It can't be that bad.
>>8779000
the promotional still looks like a decent pizza, even given that what they sell won't look as good, you can't really go wrong with a thin crust pizza with a nice char and not too much sauce
>>8779000
It's just cheese, oil, and tomatoes. With the occasional meat topping. It's pretty standard like most other macro pizza chains.
ITT: good foodtube
> herro eberyban
>>8778798
i lrn mak kimchi from her cute chubby old korea lady
mmm~~ So dericious!
>>8778798
Honeykki
Brothers Green
French Guy
Almazan Kitchen
>>8779072
can someone explain to me how almazan ktitchen fermented fucking raw minced beef 30 days in a drawer during the summer without getting sick?
Are there really people on here who don't drink soda?
>>8778776
Yes, there are people who aren't fat
>>8778776
If it's not diluting my bourbon so I don't drink it all within an hour I don't go near it.
I don't but i drink a lot of beer & wine which is even worse than soda.
Is it coming back?
Don't you have anything better to do than making dumb ass meme threads on a cantonese gold-plating forums?
You need to go back
>>8778735
Oh man what a coincidence that America's favorite sauce is making a comeback just in time for Walt Disney Studios'™ new live action Mulan © coming Fall 2018! Hopefully McDonalds™ gets the message that us CONSUMERS would love to get our hands on that sauce ;)
Hi /ck/,
My grinder shit the bed. I figure you're all so helpful about food and equipment I better solicit suggestions. What grinder do you have? Do you like it?
>>8778411
I don't have one or any experience selecting them, sorry.
I really do wish I could help, maybe next time.
>>8778411
Just get the encore already everyone knows that's the one you're gonna pick anyway why did you even start a thread
I bought the higher end capresso model a couple months back. Its cheaper than the encore, and also grinds at a slower rpm and its quieter.
I did quite a bit of research at the time, and this seemed like the best option.
I mostly used it for drip, and cold brew, so unfortunately I can't make any claims about my personal experience with ultra fine espresso grinds.
How does a company fuck up water?
Can you name a brand of bottled water that is nastier than this shit?
>>8778156
Didn't they find out it's just basically bottled Georgia tap water? That shit is awful.
>>8778188
they sell this shit in canada. not sure its worth the trouble of trucking it in from georgia.
owned by coke a cola so im sure its from georgia in the us.
>>8778197
>it's bottled tap water from whatever the local area is, reverse osmosised and filtered and so on, and then minerals added.
yet they somehow manage to fuck that up and make it taste like shit. how is this possible?
My old lady has a birthday on Sunday and I want to make her a 'monster shake.' She likes chocolate and caramel, but I am considering coffee and peanut butter too, maybe even a little Baileys.
What desserts will make this really over the top, huge, and delicious? I will be serving it in a mason jar with a plate. Tips on ice cream for the milkshake proper would be welcome.
>>8778132
Just go to pintrest for stupid meme shit like this
>>8778159
Thanks for the bump, cock monger.
>>8778132
Why not just replicate the one in your pic?
These always look good but must be a chore to eat, why not just make her an old fashioned banana split and then you can fuck her asshole with the banana stuffed in a condor afterwards.
/ck/, I know nothing about Pinto beans. But I saw some at the grocery store the other day, and it seems like a good deal.
I am addicted to chilli, so I usually spend a fair amount on cans of kidney beans. But pinto. These giant bags are cheap as shit. And easier to carry than cans. (I am a lowly poorfag pedestrian)
I have some questions about them:
>How similar are they in texture and taste to Kidney Beans when cooked?
Said something about soaking them overnight...
>Can you soak them in tomato juice/sauce and have them absorb a tomato flavour?
>Will the sauce you soak them in become starchy and gross/unusable in later chilli cooking?
I don't have anything nice to say to you.
>>8778108
They are similar to kidney beans.
Soak them in water, discard the water.
Are these just called "muffins" in England, or do you call them English Muffins as well?
They would be packaged as simply 'muffins', but they're not really that prevalent.
Why are those muffins so damn thick? Won't fit them in a toaster.
>>8778142
To match customers' girths.
Hey /ck/
I got 3 doughnuts here,
chocolate
Vanilla
Sugar
Which one should I eat first?
Dough nut, its a funny name.
sugar > vanilla > chocolate
Sandwich the sugar between the chocolate and vanilla and eat it all at once.
Fucking Disgusting
Chocolate milk and Dr pepper is delicious.
Iced milk + ginger ale master race reporting in. There literally isn't a more comfy drink in the morning.
>>8778037
Add an egg yolk to that and serve it warm and you basically have STMJ (susu telor madu jahe, literally 'milk, egg, honey and ginger'), a popular drink from Surabaya. It's kinda like Indonesian egg nog, now that I think of it.
Tell me what's really wrong about this?
for starters, the picture is too small
>>8777733
well for starters you destroyed it
>>8777733
What the fuck is it?