How long to cook quinoa

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

Your time 15:00

Which quinoa?

How do you want it?

How to tell without a timer

Off the heat, lid on, five minutes, then fork it through.

How it goes

Lid on, lowest heat. The little tails uncurl when it is ready.

Every combination, as a table

Which quinoa?	How do you want it?	Time
White / ivory	Fluffy, separate grains	15:00
White / ivory	Soft, for a porridge or bowl	18:45
Red	Fluffy, separate grains	17:15
Red	Soft, for a porridge or bowl	21:30
Black	Fluffy, separate grains	18:45
Black	Soft, for a porridge or bowl	23:30
Tricolour	Fluffy, separate grains	17:15
Tricolour	Soft, for a porridge or bowl	21:30

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.

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