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On 2/24/2010 12:38 PM, sf wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:24:47 -0500, > wrote:
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>> It wasn't done cooking yet in the pic and was moist but not desert dry.
>> My wife ripped me a new A-hole for having wet rice! It sure is difficult
>> but I'm working on it. I challenged her to make the same recipe and
>> show me it can be done, she can do plain rice, dry as a desert but there
>> is horrible black burn on pan bottom and then it tastes smoky so that
>> isn't good either. But then the electric burner is total sh-t as far as
>> I'm concerned. It's her stove but I'm going to install my gas range once
>> I dig the friggin trench myself to run new gas lines (damn house on slab!)

>
> I have nothing against using converted rice. Have you tried that? It
> won't get wet or mushy on you.
>

she ate what I made a tiny bit of seconds, so I'm not going to start
with converted. I did forget one of her tricks which is after the water
is gone, mound the rice, then cover, I didn't mound it.

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