On Apr 5, 9:49*am, werwiniskp > wrote:
> This is an old Chinese method of cooking rice and it works regardless
> of the amount
> of rice used. *Just remember the "first knuckle rule" and things
> should work well. *I
> don't add salt to mine, but I don't imagine that it would cause any
> problems. *I've never
> cooked brown rice this way, but I imagine it would work if you doubled
> the steaming
> time. Another easy way to get perfect rice is to buy one of those
> Japanese rice cookers.
> They run around forty bucks and are really quite good at what they do.
> I'm using onea
> made by Hitachi that works very well.

Just discovered that throwing in a chopped hot pepper or 2 gives it
just the zing I like.