Ed Warren > wrote:

> I cook a fair amount of Indonesian food. For the fried rice, I need nice
> separate kernels that are not gummy or sticky. For years I have used
> basmati rice which I suspect is fairly old when I get it. Recently I
> purchased some NEW Jasmine rice. By NEW I mean recently harvested. The
> conventional wisdom is that new rice needs less water, but even when I
> halved the water and the rice did not fully cook, it was still gummy. I
> rinsed it well before hand.
>
> Is it possible to have nice separate kernels from new Jasmine rice?
>
> Is there a type of rice that would be better than the basmati that I always
> buy in a zippered burlap bag?

Why not just cook it according to directions? You're trying way to
hard to cook rice.

-sw