EXPERT SAYS YOU HAVE BEEN COOKING RICE ALL WRONG YOUR WHOLE LIFE

Most cooks use a rule of thumb of two cups of water to one cup of rice - but it’s not quite that simple, an expert has revealed.

Dan Souza, one of the authors of The Science of Good Cooking, says that it’s all to do with evaporation.

In tests, if you put a small amount of rice in a sealed bag, you only need one measure of water to one of rice to cook it perfectly, because none evaporates, Souza said in an interview with Business Insider.

So it’s all down to how much evaporates, Souza says - and that can vary wildly between different pots.

Souza says, ‘Evaporation isn’t a consistent thing, cook to cook, kitchen to kitchen. If you have a pot with not a very good lid, you’re going to get more evaporation. If it’s really tight, you’re going to get less evaporation.“

‘f you have a ration of 1:2 and you double that to 2:4, you’re saying you’re going to get double evaporating because you doubled it and that’s not true.

‘If you’re using the same pot with the same diameter lid and the same heat you’re going to have the same amount of evaporation as you did the first time. so you end up with an extra cup of water in there.’

Souza suggests getting to know a pot, and how much water is required - and using a rule of thumb, rather than a strict ratio.

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