For the Brits eating rice itself is a special dish.

Ummmmmm my mum give me that ride everyday -

But basmati ismpretty common in my household

I agree with the OP that Basmati is in fact the luxury rice, eaten mostly only on special occasions. But I come from a humble family, so maybe it is not the same for all...

Same in Hungary.

Jam-ie Olive-oil

@@thestarwarsmusiccomposer3491 i see what you did there :'D

Wait Jamie is a chef?

@@potato_rotten Always hasn't been

@@verygeneric7065 he is one, cope

No middle class household cooks basmati for every day consumption

maybe there's varieties to even basmati as where i live there is a hella difference between the price of basmati and normal rice. or maybe bengal has good supply as i think rice is grown there domestically.

@@garvitdhamija1611 Correct. There is different varities of Basmati available here. 😊

Is it just me or your definition of middle-class seems to differ quite a bit from everyone else in the country. Just saying

@@notsostablegoku4227 Well, there is definitely three types of middle-class in India (if you're Indian, that is). Lower, middle, and upper. I fall in the middle category, if that's what you're asking/implying. Again, there are many different varieties of Basmati available in Bengal. Some are as cheap as the local cheap rice.

I'm guessing your guy's diet staple is bread

same here in saudi arabia

@@1Bricked that's probably the case in the entire middle east

my mom is from chile and this is how she always cooks rice

here in southern Philippines, people actually try to burn some parts of the rice so they dont use rice cooker since it wont do that 😅😅

FUIYOO

Also Uncle Roger: "...Fot a British Person." Still manages to insert an insult out of his impression LOL.

At least he is not draining the rice with a colander

He did not fk it up. Very suprising mhm

Even got a "Fuiyoooooo" out of him

Exactly!

I don't know about anywhere else but in Japan there was quite an involved process of soaking the rice, using a specific pot (heavy ceramic with a tightly-sealed lid) and listening very carefully to the sounds the rice makes while cooking to know when all of the water has been absorbed. Nancy Singleton Hachisu explains it very thoroughly in one of her cookbooks but tbh I bought a cheap rice cooker a while ago and never looked back-- I am too anxious to carefully listen for the very beginning sizzling noises that mean the water is gone without ever taking the lid off my pot

We cook rice everyday without a rice cooker. It just needs a high pan or a pressure cooker.

@@GSMachinist Just buy a pot with a clear lid. I make rice on the stovetop all the time in a normal pot. I follow the package instructions for water to rice ratio and then use the cooking time as a rough estimation. Then I just check on it like every 5 minutes by looking through the lid and stop when I can see the water has all absorbed. I get nice, fluffy rice every time. Nothing stressful about it. I do notice with Japanese rice (short grain) you CAN hear the difference in how long it's been cooking, but you don't need to rely on that when you have a see through lid.

We Bengalis used earthen pots with earthen lids. When the rice was cooked, We hold tightly the pot with the lid and tilt it over the sink so that the excess water drains between the pot and the lid.

Don't buy a rice cooker. Rice tastes horrible when made by rice cooker 🥲

You really don't need one

Yeah my mom makes it all in a pan. It always comes out good. If we’re talking about the red rice😭 but the regular white rice always comes out so mushy when she makes it. Idk if its the difference in the process but it would make any asian cry seeing it

@@howdidigethere9061 well Mexican rice isn't the same with East Asian rice, rice is supposed to sticky and soft there and rice cooker is the most effective tool for that

@@larshofler8298 no you don’t understand how terrible it actually is. Its literally a blob, to the point you can’t even see the individual rice pieces. I understand the two rice is different but my god idk how my family gets it so wrong, its just white rice 😭

I loooooooove Mexican rice!!!! Especially when the chef is generous with the veggies. Yummmmm!

@howdidigethere not sure if yall rinse it but mine used to come out like a gelatinous blob before I learned its supposed to be thoroughly rinsed first.

my housemate,a girl(not really matter), didnt even know how to cook rice with a rice cooker, and blame the rice cooker when the rice is too wet(mine is just ok). I told her how to do it with measuring cup but all she does was to go by her way (I dont know how, she dont let me watch). I dont even use measuring cup but only finger method

I don't blame those that living in the past for not knowing how to cook rice. But now we already have internet and KZfaq showing us how to cook a simple rice. If you still don't know how to cook rice, I'm speechless.

@@manalittlesis exactly, tons of video about cooking in diferent language, but all she(housemate) want is food delivery but she couldnt afford to live that way

@@gumpsin7387 I guess she's being lazy and sorry to say she got pampered too much. I love food and I tried to cook a lot dishes around the world like fish and chips, burgers, pasta, vietnamese noodle soup, Indian curry, Thai curry and so on. KZfaq helps alot not only I get to know the recipes. There's pro cook or chefs teaching each steps. So to me it's impossible to say I don't know or I bad in cooking something simple.

@@gumpsin7387 As a fellow asian, I will tell you the secret of cooking rice. The probable reason of why your rice is too wet is either you put too much water or it's undercooked. Sometimes the finger method don't work on smaller batches, so my best way too cook rice is a 2:3 ratio of rice:water. If you have 1 cup of rice, you put 1.5 cups of water, so on so forth. If you don't trust your rice cooker, don't worry, just use a pot. You can easily use the method in the video. My preferred way is to have 2 different pots, one for sort of sautee and other for steaming. Put your rice and water to the first pot on medium heat. On your second pot, bring 2-3 cups of water to a boil. Stir the rice gently using a spoon/spatula, preferably a ladle, for roughly 10-15 mins until it thickens and bubbles like a thick stew. After you're done with that, take it off the stove. Next you want a base to steam the half-cooked rice on the second pot with the boiling water. Preferably, you should use a strain or a steel mesh as the base. Put your half-cooked rice onto the strain and have it hover the boiling water. Put the lid on and wait 30-40 minutes over medium heat. You can finish early or late depending on your preferred rice texture. Usually when the rice is wet, it's undercooked.

Same. I think rice cooker maybe more common in Korea or china maybe. Pakistani here and we still cook rice in our cooking pots. Nothing else

Me too. My parents are african so they cook many varieties if rice such as pilau. We mostly use basmati rice

@@rubayaafzal2658 It's more of an East Asian's invention. So Korea, China, Japan, etc...

Is her cooking method a bit different? I'm Dominican and we put salt and oil in our rice and let the water come to boil first. Then we add the rice, let most of the water evaporate, give it a stir, and THEN we cover it and let it finish cooking.

@@rubayaafzal2658 it's common in South East Asia too

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Rice is a quick easy thing. Why yall act like it's something hard or time consuming 🤣🤣

@@Menace2Society9 probably because if you do it wrong in a pot, you either get congee or a pot that will take forever to clean. Boil potatoes the wrong way and you either get some good candidates for fried potatoes or mashed potatoes (unless you do it horribly wrong).

​@@BenjaminVestergaard the food should be cooked on medium low heat and checked on it. You don't add something to the pot and go to take a nap. You nurture it.

Ya gotta be timey on when to change to low heat cause you get burn is equals to beating.

But not when people step even a hair out of tradition...

I see this as a complete W being a British person

Unless you’re Jamie Oliver 😂, that guy is never getting a W 😂😂

It won’t since it’s basmati. If it was jasmine rice yes it will be too wet

@@zulucruz664 Well considering he specifically said Basmati, I'm confident he has the knowledge of how different types should be prepared. Even if he doesn't know how, I'm pretty sure he'd know that they should be.

@@zulucruz664 Exactly what I was thinking. Basmati is very forgiving.

To be fair in some southeast asian countries especially in the provinces they don't even have rice cookers or gas heck some are too poor to even afford a basic one when rice in of itself is a luxury as staple foods there would probably consist of fish or meat which they portioned for selling and consuming, wild root vegetables, bananas, or corn, also they just use pots of steel or clay that's probably been in the family for like several generations, and still they manage to cook rice perfectly and the benefit of not cooking it in a rice cooker is sometimes you get crispy bits that stick to the surface of said cooking vessel which are like the best part of rice, nonetheless rice is rice and as long as its cooked perfectly and done right that our ancestors nod in approval then who cares what you used to cook rice, plus it is literally cheaper to just use a pot, rice cooker just make cooking rice more convenient since you don't have to watch over it if it burns since it automatically stops the cooking process and switches it to the warm setting to keep it hot, plus its best for the environment to just use what you have on hand rather than buy a new rice cooker and increase your already large carbon footprint, unless of course its surplus or second hand then I suggest doing so if you are capable of

@@traphimawari7760 yo wtf. Stop talking like you know everything about us. We southeast asians are not living in 1980s anymore. Most of households here can afford at least a $10 small ice cooker (even less for some cheap models) except in some really traditional or isolated villages.

Not really, once you do it a few times, you would just know when to turn off the induction/stove. If you are using a pressure cooker, it’s even easier - 6 whistles and it’s done.

@@its_argho still there's a chance u could miss

We do have rice cookers bro but yeah we can use pressure cooker too and pros don't even use any cookers they just use aluminium or copper utensils either of square shaped or pot shaped with a lid .. my mom sometimes cook using a square cylindrical shaped utensil with a lid, and the rice tasts better than when we use rice cooker.

It's the same thing

It's true that pot rice is less sticky but as I live alone and am a lazy person, cooker rice cooks faster soooooo

In India you have nothing. Not even toilets.

Same here in italy-

finger method, is the superior measurement method.

@@mirage2847 I never used the finger method lol, the amount of water I pour is usually just enough to submerge all the rice in the water with around 1cm of water above the rice. But when I feel the rice is still not cooked thoroughly, I just add a bit more water while it’s simmering (though, I feel that if I use the finger method, maybe I wouldn’t have to always make that adjustment).

A cooking video with "wife", "finger", and "wet" in its keyword list. Hmmm...

@@indocookingvids Finger is an absolute measure for pleasure.

@@indocookingvids 🌚

Basmathi is very easy to get right; adding extra water usually means your rice grains literally get bigger since it's very absorbent, but it still stays flully

@@MoonAirN ahh, I never cooked basmati so I don't know much about it. Looks like I still have many things to learn about the art of rice cooking

@@what_to_use2062 slightly more fool proof way to go about it is to basically boil your basmati rice in water, something like 5 cups of water to 1 cup of rice (basically covering the rice to a good extent), and straining the water out with a pot lid, then letting the remaining water evaporate from the rice, boiling it gets rid of any starch surrounding the rice making it not clump up (there was quite abit of that in the video since so little water was used) while still being fluffy

@@ezgolf1764 I think I will stick to my beautiful rice cooker, this sounds complicated

@@what_to_use2062 yea thats ok too, give the basmati rice boiling method a try tho, it’s basically like cooking pasta, just add rice and water and leave to cook

in my house we use pressure cooker

@@ArchitGamingAG yeah we also use that sometimes to makes pulao

Man uncle roger is Malaysian

@@danieldante320 oh, he is? Thank you for confirming it. As a Malaysian myself, I wondered why he isn't using much more Malaysian slangs that a usual Malaysian would. If he turns out to be Singaporean or San Francisco-based Chinese American, this conversation would turned out different. Anyhow, thanks again for confirming 👍

@@rebeccaliew2247 if you search on his channel,he also have a video where he make fun of Singapore,truly Malaysian can do that hahahah

@@danieldante320 Hahaha, not surprised he did so. We, Malaysians have Singaporean friends, but we do make fun of our Singaporean neighbour now & then. Mainly, we lament Singapore's famous attitude of "must do 300% my best because I scared to die" response to almost everything. Also, we can't help but smirk when Singaporeans come over to Johor Bahru (southernmost part of Malaysia) for 2 things - our (petrol) oil & food, which is cheaper than Singapore's. Plus, Malaysian food has better taste.

as an indonesian, i can confirm this. also if the rice cooker failed to cook the rice, like when you mistakenly put not enough water in it, you can recook the failed rice in a steamer for a while & then the failed rice would be fully cook perfectly👍

yes you are right just boiling rice without steaming it makes me insecure about its quality

Hmm, thats too long though. Here in Latin America rice takes 20 minute to make and we put a plastic bag over the casserole lid.

@@justiny2215 then you cook it in oven or on stove?

@@justiny2215 a plastic bag? I’ve never heard of that, I’m Chilean btw. Also 20 minutes here, fry the raw rice a bit, put garlic, and shreds carrot... salt, then put 2 cups of water per cup of rice, put the lid on and wait for it on low heat. I only use 1 and a half cups of water per cup of rice tho. I think uncle roger would get Heart Attack 😂😂😂😂

We do love our rice. But we prepare it in a caldero, not rice cookers.

washing a rice is not needed in case of basmati rice in the Europe. too much regulation in my humble opinion, but in this case, you can cook without washin it due to those regulations. paraboiled rice of unkown quality that I bought ... it took me 7 washes (15-20 min stand for each wash) to get it sufficiently clean and it was horrible to get the water:rice ratio right. it was more expensive tha the basmati as well.

I understood your frustation fellow austronesian, i'm from indonesia and i always wash my rice at least 3x times. But the thing is european and american rice are already cleaned and enriched with nutrients, so if you wash them you're just wasting those nutrients and your money away. Kinda strange conceot for us but sometimes i wish that was the case here too lol cleaning rice often feels like a chore to me

Wait, Im from the Philippines and I don't wash my rice. And yes, I buy it from the local rice supplier. The ones that display it in the front of their stores. I mean, germs die from all that boiling anyways.

@@Raphael-gd4ht does it hab the bugs?

@@Raphael-gd4ht if it's not washed, won't it be starchy and has some fleas?

Damn i love seeing umcle roger react to gay wolverine cooking rice without a rice cooker

I think he looks more like old Harry Potter. I'm not talking about the stereotype, but he kinda looks like Harry

@@zidanarfanazizy2433 Hairy Potter

He washed it actually, watch his entire video and you will see he washed it so good till the water was clear

lots of water works for basmati, but really only for basmati, you still have to drain the water when the rice is done, but it should result in rice that doesn’t clump and is fluffy

That's me and my mom 😁... We never used finger method in india

I do enjoy some good rice pudding.

What's the recipe you use for rice pudding? Please tell me 🙏

too much rice to qualify as a silly American 😮

You have exited the American category and entered the Asian category with that much rice consumption. As a fellow asian, I approve this.

Yeah, white people tend not to do that. For risotto and paella, they depend on not cleaning the rice. Hispanic people don't clean rice either, and you can't say they don't know rice.

@@rayelgatubelo yah well Uncle Roger is known for, among many other things, objecting to people not washing their rice: you're supposed to cook rice the right way-not the white way

He’s not making fried rice so I think uncle roger lets it slide. Washing it will remove dust and any other (soluble) crap it might have picked up along the way, as well as removing some of the starch. Fried rice the separate grains are really important, it’s a crucial part. You might not need to worry about it as much for other dishes, especially if it’s something like rice + random protein/veg on the side.

@@TechWiz717 no, if rice needs to be washed, you can tell the difference even if you don't fry it

Can you tell me the recipe for the bread? Saw so many people ruining their rice cooker by trying to cook bread in it 😱

@@quirogatnonerrat3214 there's no particular recipe for rice cooker bread... Normal white bread recipe works fine but a few points which essential to make one: 1. Avoid using rice cooker with no timer. Old design rice cooker which only have a single cooking mode (heat-cook) generate heat much more than modern digital rice cooker. Kinda tricky to make a bread with that... 2. Do not putting bread dough more than a third of rice cooker's cooking capacity. 3. Gently coat your rice cooker's bowl with a few sprays of oil before put in the dough. 4. Properly set the timer...

Yakitate japan?

how dare u (true about rice tho)

potato feels like rock, Bruh what the fuck are u even consuming

@@clopxnap wait is he eating them raw😭

Eh potato with salt tastes better than just white rice with salt

@@excalibro8365 You can put MSG on rice, and it’s plenty.