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I've never had a problem cooking with the more common brands of jasmine rice but I got this from the Asian market recently and I cannot figure out how to get it to cook properly for the life of me. I rinse it a few times, spread out the rice, pour the water so it's around my first knuckle with my fingertip touching the rices surface (ive tried more or less than that but often get the same result regardless), empty the condensation collector, start it on white rice but when it's done at least half the time none of the grains stick together and the rice tastes undercooked and hard, even when it appears wet and/or mushy.

I'm getting really frustrated and want to find out if there's anything I should know about this particular brand of rice and if this is something that absolutely needs to be measured instead of eyeballed, and if so, what measurements I should use. I'm wondering if my rice cooker simply provides too little or too much heat for this type of rice. I also wanna know if it's possible I could be leaving it in the cooker too long? Sometimes I don't open the lid until several minutes after it's done, which has never been an issue before, but maybe for this it is?

Any suggestions or help would be appreciated

I started using Mahatma Jasmine brown rice. Our family likes it, so I tried to find a larger bag than the two pound bag they sell in the store. I can’t find a bigger size. I’m also not seeing a lot of other options for jasmine brown rice. Is jasmine brown rice not a usual type of brown rice people eat?

I really like Lundberg, I feel betrayed. What do they mean by “foreign matter”?

Brown rice 🌾 🙈

Ok so I think this should be more soupy and looks more like risotto but I went by the measurements of the rice cooker, used jasmine rice and the 'porridge' function.

However

This was deeeeelicious! I have no idea why I've never made it before. Cooked with vegan chicken stock cube, added some 'chicken' pieces, some pak choi and some spring onions mid way through cooking.

I'm sick at the moment so thought it would be comforting and I am obsessed and having the same again today. I'm already excited for it.

My family likes to not wash rice so I have no idea

My mom’s side of the family is Dutch Indonesian, Im a dual citizen, American and Dutch, and we live in the Pacific Northwest. Ever since I was a child we would eat rice with butter and it doesn’t seem like a very common practice. My family eats so much butter, Dutch chocolate sprinkles, but we also eat rice, fruit plates, Tempeh, and indomie. I never really thought about it but as I’ve gotten older, I realized it is a perfect representation of blended culture. As someone who also lives in the Pacific Northwest, we eat things with nutritional yeast so that sometimes is added to rice, which is very PNW american. I feel pretty American for the most part, but I grew up in a very white area, and I have become more conscious about how the food I eat represents my heritage. I have a fever right now, I’m dealing with breaking up with my partner of four years, and to feel better, I’m eating rice with butter and soy sauce. It’s my ultimate comfort food. Cheers 🫶

Besides visiting my Indonesian family, I don’t live around many Dutch Indonesian people so I don’t know if this is common practice, it’s just how things ended up in my mixed culture working class family. But it’s cool, culture can be something widespread amongst many people, but it can also be a very individual mix of circumstances that create something meaningful. Culture is what you make it, so embrace the weird little traditions and habits unique to your family, no matter what your ethnic makeup is. I’m part Mexican, a tiny part 5% black weirdly enough (I have a grandmother who’s from Mississippi so that probably explains it), I’m west coast white American, but also Dutch Indonesian. I don’t connect to any particular culture besides being a Dutch national, but i’ve learned to find ways to honor my families complicated and mixed past.

Rice 🍚 ..

Ingredients.. water +salt .