How long to cook white rice

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

Your time 12:00

Which rice?

Soaked first?

Soaking basmati is traditional and does shorten the cook.

How to tell without a timer

Off the heat, lid still on, ten minutes before you touch it. That rest is part of the cook.

How it goes

Lid on, lowest heat. Do not lift it — every peek costs steam.

Every combination, as a table

Which rice?	Soaked first?	Time
Long grain / American	Straight from the packet	12:00
Long grain / American	Soaked 30 minutes	9:30
Basmati	Straight from the packet	10:45
Basmati	Soaked 30 minutes	8:45
Jasmine	Straight from the packet	10:45
Jasmine	Soaked 30 minutes	8:45
Short grain / sushi	Straight from the packet	13:15
Short grain / sushi	Soaked 30 minutes	10:30

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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