00:00 Intro
00:30 Chapter 1: Choose Right Rice
01:16 Chapter 2: Choose Right Water
01:45 Chapter 3: Rice Water Ratio
04:14 Chapter 4: Stovetop Method
08:53 Chapter 5: Rice Cooker Method

To cook a pot of rice that can rival a professional sushi restaurant, follow these steps. Regardless of whether you use a rice cooker or a regular pot, with our accurate guide, you can achieve very satisfactory results.

First, let's talk about the rice. Rice varieties can be easily distinguished by grain shape: short-grain rice is soft and sticky with a glutinous texture, produced in North China, South China, Japan, and South Korea. Long-grain rice has a harder texture, produced in South China, Southeast Asia, with jasmine rice being a typical example.

Nearly 60% of the weight of a bowl of rice is water, so the quality of water used to cook rice is also very important. Most tap water has a high hardness and contains too many minerals. Unless the local tap water is of excellent quality, try to use filtered water when cooking rice.

The next question is, what should be the proportion of rice to water when cooking? When you look it up online, the answers can be diverse. The most authoritative answer comes from Toshiba, the origin of the rice cooker. Why? Because Toshiba introduced the first fully automatic rice cooker in 1955.

We added 3 cups of rice in the rice cooker, a total weight of about 450 grams. We zeroed out the kitchen scale, then added water to the designated scale, and the kitchen scale reading was 675 grams. That is to say, the origin of the rice cooker believes that the perfect rice-to-water weight ratio should be 1:1.5. Let's try another rice cooker brand, Tiger. 3 cups of rice, add water to the scale, it's still 675 grams.

So, this 1:1.5 weight ratio is a consensus in the rice cooker industry. Of course, rice varieties and production areas are different, and everyone has different preferences for the taste of rice. If you feel the taste is too dry, you can add a little more water, but the water should not be too much, otherwise, the rice will be too soft.