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Hello Everyone! Today, I am going to show you how to cook excellent rice. Rice is important to many Asian cultures, including Chinese. One of my Canadian friends was invited to my house for dinner, and she showed great interest in how I make rice. For example, she saw me not using any measurement for how much raw rice I should be using for dinner of 6 people. She also asked me how I am able to figure out how much water to add depending on the portion of rice. Therefore, I think it would be a good idea to do a tutorial on how to make rice. Make sure you have a bowl, one bag of rice, a rice cooker or a pot, and water. This is the big reveal of the mystery of rice, let’s begin!

Let’s say we are serving two people for dinner. Now how much rice do we need? The correct answer is just one. This is because a 100g of rice will double its size and become 200g after fully cooked. I did not make this up, I checked with other Chinese! This tells us that the size of rice will always double. So if only two people is having dinner, and each of them is having one bowl of rice, then the raw rice should only be one bowl. 

The next step is to wash the rice. You can see how the water becomes white when we wash the rice for the first time. We need to do this three times or even more. When we see the water becomes clear, it is ready. The purpose of washing rice is to make sure the rice won’t stick together when it is cooked. 

Then, we could finally add the water that is actually used in cooking. No measuring cup, no bowl, no anything. Here’s the genius way of figuring out how much water we should add, which is to put your index finger in the rice and then see if the water reaches to the first line of your index finger. No matter how much rice you want to cook, your index finger is your measuring cup. We always stop at the first line of our index finger. 

Now we need to let the rice rest for 20 minutes in the refrigerator. The reason for this step is to let rice absorb as much water as it can, so that we won’t be having dry rice. 

The final step is to cook the rice. If you have a rice cooker, just put the rice in and start the timer for one hour. If you don’t have rice cooker, you can still repeat the above step in a cooking pot. Then boil the water with rice in it, when the rice is boiled, turn down the heat to medium heat. Cook for another 15 minutes, use a fork or any other objects to stir the rice every once in a while. I would say probably every 5 minutes! This is to avoid cooked rice to stick in the bottom of the pot. I hope you guys like this tutorial and is ready to make rice! Thank you very much.