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couscous/steeped

How long to cook couscous

Two things decide it, and none of them is on the clock. Answer them and the time below is yours.

Your time 5:00

Which couscous?

Fine couscous is steeped in a bowl. Pearl couscous is boiled like pasta. Different things entirely.

How do you want it?

How to tell without a timer

Fork it through to separate the grains.

How it goes

  1. Boiling water over it, cover, and leave it alone off the heat.
Every combination, as a table
Which couscous?How do you want it?Time
Fine / Moroccan Light and separate 5:00
Fine / Moroccan Soft 6:00
Pearl / Israeli / giant Light and separate 9:00
Pearl / Israeli / giant Soft 10:45

The app does this, then learns

The timer above is the same arithmetic Kitchen Sense runs. The part a web page cannot do is the next bit: you say whether it came out right, and the next one is closer. Free, 68 dishes, no account.

Cooked the same way

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