Steaming Sticky Rice Bangkok Thailand dailyfoodphotography

Here is the set up for steaming a massive amount of sticky rice over at my Thai friends’ house. If you had asked me to guess how sticky rice was cooked, this would not have been my answer. I did not even know it was steamed at all.

At the bottom is a charcoal fire that is very hot and fanned often during the process to make it even hotter. Anyone passing buy will fan the fire a few times.

Next comes a cauldron of water and finally that is topped by a basket with a lot of rice in it. This is a cooking basket. When the rice is ready to eat it will be transferred into several other rice baskets we eat from.

It takes very little time to cook this rice – maybe about 20 minutes. It is stirred a lot at the beginning of the cooking time and infrequently near the end. I already showed you the large bucket the rice had soaked in for most of the day, so it is really an all day project.

This delicious rice is worth every bit of the effort even though all I did was take pictures.

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I use a Canon ELPH160 point and shoot camera for my photos.

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