Rice Poll

we weren't much of a casserole family but i have good memories of my mom making things like baked mac & cheese in that corning dish.

It's my go to dish for mac and cheese, too.

the answer is fried

Next time I visit my parents I am going to steal the olive-green casserole dish which was exclusively devoted to tuna noodle casserole. Never saw anything else cooked in there. I'm sure it is somewhere in that house.

I'm a white rice guy but Mrs. Shasta is a brown rice gal...

We found a compromise with something I can find at our local korean deli called Ogokbap:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogokbap

http://www.google.com/search?q=오곡밥&tbm=isch

It's got a little something for everyone (including black rice, dayo).

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can we have this poll every week? I really enjoy talking about rice.

in yr heart you know these are the options, take that japonica back where you bought it man

― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 6 November 2011 20:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

really disagreeing with this these days

otm. been huffing the japonica recently and basmati feels thin & weedy by comparison.

you guys <3

I'm really into soaking the rice for a few hours before cooking it these days, it's been coming out super nice

rice is nice imo

my friends into the soaking idea i never have enough time. i rinse it tho

it's pretty easy with a rice cooker - prepare the pot in the morning, set it when you get back

the fuck is this risotto hating

you people should be sterlised

ilised even

so furious i cant even type right now

risotto more like piss-otto

the answer is fried

― blank, Monday, November 7, 2011 2:38 AM (1 year ago)

My relationship with rice dramatically improved when I started using Gourmet magazine's microwave method for cooking Basmati.

No rinsing. Just put 2 parts basmati and 3 parts water in a microwave safe dish, nuke uncovered for 10 minutes, and covered for 5 (your microwave times may vary). Comes out fluffy/pilaf textured every time.

Keep the rice cooker for short-grain/sticky rice.

Oops. I've posted that here before.

rice cooker is one of the smartest purchases i've ever made

made brown rice for the first time in a while recently, feel like the prelude of optimistically eating small mouthfuls of uncooked brown rice every ten minutes for an hour before serving really compromises the enjoyment of cooking it.

risotto is rad, yr all hi

brown rice is gr8

i'm going to have to go look up japonica now bc I only knew that it was some kind of potted plant and not a type of rice
brb

Find myself wanting to get into brown lately as it happens..xp

i am not particularly a food snob but really don't know if i could enjoy eating a meal knowing it was arrived at via a microwave shortcut. i think i'd rather eat something else.

woulda voted basmati, eat brown more often

xpost - why?

brown is really great & satisfying & is sorta a whole different - more salady, grain-y - thing from white, imo, i'd just forgotten all of the mindgames & cooking conditions necessary to making it without the process seeming punishing, i think

ha idk! it's stupid, & maybe has something to do with just the weirdness of microwaved food, like it is hot in a weird way, it makes a fizzing noise. really it is more about the "i'd rather have something else" thing though; like I like cooking rice, it's a nice easy thing to zone out & make & it's fast &c, so it isn't a food making process that i'm dying to make more efficient. if microwaves made peeling squash quicker i'd probably be all over it.

niceness of rice-cooking typified by & at its apex w risotto making, btw

the endorphin-release elicited by watering plants, constantly, for an hour

i laziest on planet but vacuum pack individual rice packs? c'mooooon.

schlump otm re risotto making -- it's my favorite kind of cooking

What the microwave provides is uniform temperature water/steam, vs the gradients in a stovetop pan. But if like me you've struggled to get the pilaf like constency of Indian restaurant basmati (they use pressure steamers where the rice vessel doesn't directly contact the heat source), then the microwave is a godsend. That it saves a burner/pot for the accompanying dal or whatever is a bonus.

all I eat is brown rice from our rice cooker

hi
a question for ilx
could you / do you eat rice on its own
no accompaniments at all
regards

Yah, short or medium grain japonica

Has to be really good quality tho

I could for survival but I would not by choice, but I don't even know what "japonica" is, so.

i think in japan this would not be uncommon but i imagine they would have a drink with it
rice with no drink or just water would be too minimal but good rice with a drink is fine
if i had to spend £2 a week on food i would probably just eat rice though

Yes. Not for an entire meal, but yes, sometimes as a plain dish of its own, with perhaps a side veg + some fish. Must be good quality rice, as noted above. I find that a brown rice works better as an unvarnished plain dish than polished, white rice. More tooth & a nutty flavor of its own.

lol you bring in fish you are disqualified, might as well have a rib of beef and a crate of champagne with it

i do this sometimes

why is "brown" its own option? brown rice does rule though

man, aero really doing some important work in this thread

i think brown is its own option, even if it also identifies as basmati
i can't imagine voting brown other than as an act of aspirational self-improvement but it's nice to feel like it's in reach, nice to see it presented as viably everyday by the internet

&: yeah slyly complementing your rice with anything is not answering the question 'do you eat rice on its own', but, if any concession can be made - like, adding uncooked red or green onion, adding sumac or spices, &c - then i have probably had some pretty bare rice plates

On its own with Maggi liquid seasoning

dash of cumin or something

brown rice is tasty, don't see the ish with it. wdn't eat it by itself for jollies, tins of e.g. kidney beans can be had for pennies too if you're doing the austerity diet

I eat bowls of plain white rice as a snack sometimes.

As noted above, beans & rice is tastier and more nutritious than plain rice.

It does sound as if nakh is not in funds atm. Ben Jonson, in Drummond of Hawthornden's book of table talk, said he 'did often eat his library', meaning selling his books to afford food. If it was good enough for Ben...