BBC: "How you've been cooking rice WRONG your entire life" also BBC: "egg fried rice video"

duh, making rice is the passive skill of being an asian.

The chef is the best kind of teacher. No ridicule just teaching with understanding and patience.

As a Brazilian I missed some seasonings. The way the chef did it is very similar to how we do it in Brazil, but before putting it in the pan, we put oil, or olive oil, then add onion and garlic and let it brown. Only then do we add the rice and sauté for a few seconds to get the flavor and add water. Then we finished as the chef showed in the video

English woman: tapping rice, "it's starting to get soft now." Indian woman and probably all other asians: look of disgust..

The indian chef is probably holding herself from throwing the pan at her face

"HAIYAA WOMAN YOU KILLING ME" - Uncle Roger

Note that 1:2 method for rice and water depends on the rice type as well. For jasmine rice i recommend 1:1.75 For brown rice: 1:2.5 For japanese rice: 1:2 I can see the chef was using indian basmati rice so maybe that is why the ratio is 1:2 Also we dont normally use a strainer when washing rice but no problem with using it. It looks fancy but you are adding more utensils to wash later. You should also wash rice at least twice. Unless you are using a “no wash rice” (musenmai) which is something i only saw in japan. Depends if you are using a rice cooker or a pan with lid as well. In both cases ensure your lid is TRANSPARENT so you can see the rice without opening the lid. (This will help cook your rice perfectly) If you are using pan, you might also wonder when to remove the lid. wait for the rice to boil and spill A BIT of water out. Don’t panic. As soon as it does, remove the lid, put the fire on the lowest setting, and cover again. (Do this as quick as you can). Once lid is on do not touch and wait for the rice to cook. When do you know your rice is cooked? Your lid is transparent. You should be able to see how the rice looks. If it is no longer soggy and looks perfect then it is good to serve. If you are clueless white man then wait for soggyness to be gone, open the lid try it out. If it tastes perfect like your nearby asian restaurant turn off the heat and serve.

Who is here after Uncle Roger DISGUSTED by BBC Egg Fried Rice? *Edit* holy mo.. 2.4k likes in 48hours?🙀..Hayyaaa (thick accent)

Foolproof rule for cooking rice: Get a rice cooker Sincerely, Asians

My rice was always coming out mushy and soggy. I followed your instructions today and I'm so happy. Thank you, this is the first time my rice came out this good.

This is how every Indian household been cooking rice since ages.

alternate title: how to get kick out of the house by Asian parents

The title should be "How english people have been cooking rice wrong their entire life". Rest of the world knows how to cook rice.

My Indonesian stepfather taught me cooking rice when I was 11 years old. It works perfectly and it is just done like this chef shows.

If uncle roger was here, he would just say: "HAIYAH JUST USE FINGER, USE FINGER!"

That lady’s horrified face when the blondie straining her rice.

"How is it raw and mushy at the same time?" My Gordon Ramsay's voice: BECAUSE YOU COOKED IT WRONG

“World war 2 over, use technology” - uncle roger

Because I am from India, I could not think its difficult for some people to get the rice perfectly cooked. Also the water measure depends on the type of the rice specially the red boiled rice that is used in South India, requires a lot of water.

"how you've been cooking rice wrong your entire life" every asian: you're kidding, right?

“how Asian are you.” “I’m a rice scientist”

Try it the way my navy chef brother taught me. It never fails. Thoroughly wash the rice. Put rice in large pan with just enough cold water to cover it. Turn heat full on. Have a kettle of boiling water ready. When water in pan is boiling put ample water in pan from kettle. From first turning heat on it takes 7 to 8 minutes to cook. Taste rice and it will be almost but not quite cooked. Drain it and allow most of steam to escape, put rice back in pan and cover with lid. Cooking process will continue but with no water the rice can't turn mushy. You can leave it for minutes or hours and it will be light and fluffy when you go back it. I will just need to be fluffed up with a fork. Never fails.

My mother can cook this blind folded. I am blessed as she is a great cook and I am a grateful foodie 😂.

I don't know how this woman sleeps at night after wasting all that rice. As an Asian, this offends me BIG TIME

who else is here after watching Uncle Roger be disgusted by BBC Food? edit: looks like my Chinese brother below beat me to it lol. (his comment did not exist when I posted this!)

I always toast my basmati in oil before adding stock, bringing to a boil then reducing to a simmer. Works every time!

This video has helped me so much. All these years avoiding to cook rice due to thinking its extremely difficult 😫 I didn't even know what simmer meant? Finally full of knowledge 😌🙌🙏☺👌👏😌

BBC: *made this video and the egg fried rice video* Asians: So you have chosen... death

I've been making rice like that my entire life. That blonde lady is a noob for using a strainer to cook rice.

When I was 7 years old my mom told me to cook rice and we didn't have rice cooker cause we were at the country side and that was my first time cooking and it was super easy the only thing that wasn't easy is making the fire I'm Asian by the way

My friends taught me how to cook rice when I was in class 8th standard when we went out to forest trekking. If rice is new you need 1:1.75 rice to water ratio. If rice is older then 3 months ratio is 1:2 If rice much older than 12 months and above ratio need to be 1:2.25 More 12 months older rice will digest well and give better energy and good health.

After colonizing India for more than 200 years, brits never learned how to cook simple rice. Bruh 😑

They're both wrong... They didn't use their F I N G E R

I didn’t learn how to cook rice by watching this video. So proud to know how to measure water by finger in rice cooker from grandma when I was 10 years old =))) No chef needed.

Thank you for this. People always look at me as if I’m crazy when I rinse the starch off the rice. Mother does know best...

Use your finger to measure the water Sincerely, Asians

Asian people : *can't relate*

I'm Asian, but some crazy punk was washing rice. But here, I didn't wash my rice and my rice was bubbling. When you make fried rice at a restaurant run by bbc, wash the rice and give it to them. There will be magic that will eliminate customers.

As a Colombian guy I feel so proud to know how to cook rice correctly just learning from my aunt.

"How is it raw and mushy at the same time?" BECAUSE YOU COOKED IT WRONG

Blonde girl: strained the rice after boil Whole Asian: You monster

I never even knew people used Colander to make rice until I saw BBC.... through Uncle Roger.

2:44 "Its a bit nutty" Austin powers quote

Change the title.... She just didn't know how to cook rice, dragging everyone in with her...

British lady: "It's very low maintainance, this method." Rice cooker: Let me introduce myself

Thank you. You saved me twice from spoiling my rice!

YES. This is how you cook rice!!! You don’t drain it after it’s cooked! Let the water evaporate!

U can see the terrified in her eyes when the blonde lady starts tapping the rice hahahahah

“Haiiya! You drain rice with colinder, you’re killing me woman.”

The brit rinsed the rice after it's cooked too. What madness is this? What demons that have been teaching them to cook rice that way?

the 1:2 ratio only works with 1 cup of rice, the more rice you cook the closer the ratio is 1:1

Damn she's so happy after eating plain boiled rice imagine what would happen to her after eating biryani

Asians: We don't need measuring cups.. We just need our finger.

For all the times I cooked rice in a pot and it turned out mushy. Thank you for showing the correct technique of cooking rice. Take note people. This is how you now should cook your rice. Cheers

Also a quick tip: if you somehow mess up the rice like the presenter did at the start, & you don't want to throw it out, 1) add a little bit of water 2) put some butter/margarine/oil 3) stir well 4) microwave (take out time to time to see. Time for this depends on what you initially put in) 5) once you have lightly sticky rice, take it out. Let it rest for 5-10 mins (lid open) Your rice bowl is officially saved! PS. : consider adding Rampe/Pandan + a bit of salt for a much nicer earthier flavour. Source : self - eats rice 3x a day. 😂

The horror in the chef's eyes when she said she taps it..🤣🤣🤣🤣

BBC: doesn’t clean the rice first Asians : S C R E A M

Uncle Roger is gonna be Pissed

I had already learned this technique when I was 10. Mama always told me “don’t open the lid”. One purpose of washing the rice is to remove or at least reduce arsenic found in rice.

HOW FAR ARE OTHER CONTINENTS FROM MODERN TECH ON MAKING RICE ASIANS JUST USE RICE COOKERS NO NEED FOR MEASURING CUPS JUST USE YOUR FINGERS

What a waste of rice. Farmers did not suffer cultivating the land, making sure the weather is right, patiently waiting for the time of harvest, and suffer through harvest, despite being underpaid, and have had most of their land taken from them only for you to butcher their work like that. Growing rice is not a joke kids. Every grain counts. Cook it properly and finish your plate.

"well i cook it brilliantly" asian chef: *stares menacingly*

That's good, but there's an even better method (Iranian): 1. Use long grain Basmati rice. Rinse it until the water runs clear (like in the video). 2. Add it to a very large pan of boiling water and boil hard, stirring very frequently. 3. After about 3-4 minutes, extract some with a fork and taste it. If it cracks under your teeth, continue cooking. 4. AS SOON as it no longer cracks (also, it turns much whiter) drain it thoroughly. (This step is critical.) 5. Put it into a hot pan or dish, with a thin layer of molten butter at the bottom. 6. Add a little butter on top and make a few deep holes for the steam to escape. 7. Wrap the lid in a tea towel, put it tightly on the pan or dish and keep it hot. (A pan warmer is ideal.) 8. Leave it alone for at least 15 minutes. You can leave it longer - even an hour or two. It takes a bit of practice to get it right, but the result should be perfectly fluffy rice that doesn't stick together at all (unlike in the video). Another advantage is that it can be prepared in advance, which is ideal for entertaining. (The Iranians like the brown crust that forms at the bottom with the butter, but I'm not a fan.)

Being an Asian and a Rice farmer myself...i never thought i would watch a rice cooking tutorial video from start to end 😂😂

*A tutorial that no Asian asked for but still got recommended by KZfaq.*

After watching this, I thought for a moment that I could mesmerize those people with my rice cooking skills.

Dude how can you eat an plane rice and feel so happy at the same time 😂

No one : BBC : "Use the right pan." Rice cooker : Am I a joke to you?

Westerner to Asian: You wanna come to my house for dinner? Asian: Sure, what are you gonna cook? Westerner: Rice Asian: I just remembered I have something else to do.

She’s so good at explaining love this

Us Filipinos measure water to rice ratio using the first line in our middle finger.. works everytime 😅

It's ironic how bbc actually covered this topic and a "chef" completely ignores this when making that disgusting egg fried rice.

"How is it raw and mushy at the same time?" "That's when you know you f cked up." -Uncle Roger

good rice will only need 1.5 cups of water for every cup of rice. add 1/3 tea spoon salt and one table spoon butter for each cup of rice (RIGHT BEFORE YOU LOWER THE TEMPERATURE DOWN) and close the lid, mix it then close the lid.

If a grown ass adult cant make rice then I suggest there's a case for not letting them out of the house.

“Indian lady instructing English woman on Asian culinary, free after British rule” - circa 1947 (colorized)

Meanwhile actual Asians: *scoop out rice into rice cooker pot, rinse it, pour water in with a finger as measurement, close the lid, switch it on and leave it.

I used to cook rice the way the Indian cook described (and my wife still does) but when I cooked at an Indian restaurant, the old Indian grannies taught me to cook it like pasta. You can pinch it to know when it is done, then strain off the water. The bottom never burns, the rice never clumps.

I never wash my rice. Instead, I cook off the loose starch by roasting or frying the rice in the pot before I add water: until the rice grains become opaque and some of them brown a little. It adds a nice roasted flavor to the rice.

All asians such as myself facepalming rn

"How is is raw and mushy at the same time" THAT'S BECAUSE YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG

The rice that chef cooked can be improved as per my standards

Just what I needed, simple fast & to the point ... ready to cook rice for the first time.

Im indian..i know how to cook perfect rice everytime but why I'm still watching this😅😅..every Indian knows how to cook rice properly

*YOU DONTT NEED A STRAINER😭 WHO TF USE A STRAINER? YOU ONLY NEED:* 1: Your fingers 2: rice cooker THAT’S ALL

the most elegant and graceful way of cooking rice, indeed. you are wonderful. thank you.

The Indian chef is composing herself

The first skill Asian ppl have to learn to survive from a very young age.

uncle roger: "the collander!! Uncle Roger's biggest nightmare"

for healthier rice with less arsenic, boil the rice in 2 cups of water for every cup of rice, dump the water after boil, then 1.5 cup of water for every cup of rice, boil and follow the receipt.

Wash the rice, measure the water with your finger, put in the rice cooker, and then done. How hard can it be.

oh god people who strain their rice exist in this world. hate it here edit: i meant straining the rice after it has been "cooked." if it still has water after it has been "cooked" it means its very much undercooked or u added too much water.

Traditional style of cooking rice in pot is on another level

Who made her the goddess of rice?

Someone: cooks rice improperly Farmers who’ve taken long painful months just to grow rice: *years of farming and growing wasted!*

I bet the Indian chef uses the rice cooker and using finger to measure at home.

I add a pat of butter and some salt plus some saffron to my basmati rice, but otherwise, this recipe almost exactly. Definitely careful measuring required. Next time I will try taking the rice off the heat at 10mins and then just letting it sit - as in this video. Always room for improvement! And in cooking, there’re always people from whom one can learn so much…

there is an invention called Rice Cooker. wash rice in pot->measure water with index finger -> put pot inside rice cooker -> turn on and let it cook automatically.

Need to marry a girl like that blonde, so impressed that you can cook rice. It’s gonna blow her mind when I show her my rice cooker that makes perfect rice every time.