How Hard Could it Be to Write a 'Cooking the Perfect Pan of Rice' Post?
I may not be able to write the perfect Steemit post, but I can cook rice perfectly, every time.
I'm never quite sure how to write a post.
Some people are good at writing. Good writers seem to be able to naturally construct a post that is both entertaining and informative, but such talent and ability doesn't come that easily for all of us.
In order to make a post readable and enjoyable, there are certain formulas and tricks that writers use, but here we will not cover all of those formulas, because I don't know them.
Instead, I intend to show the formula for making a batch of rice, and how that rice can be cooked to perfection every single time, but this introduction has proven to be quite troublesome to write.
Here, so early in the post-- I should probably be showing some confidence in my rice-cooking skills, but again, I don't know how to write right. It may be time to move along into the cooking section, because I suspect that this part has gone on for long enough now.
There is a certain formula for writing these things, just as there is a recipe for making rice.
A properly made post will perhaps begin with an introduction paragraph, which includes a sentence, called a thesis sentence, explaining what the post will be about.
Similarly, in the cooking of rice, some uncooked rice will be needed to begin with.
The introduction of a written post might be followed by the body of the writing itself, then finally an ending, called a 'conclusion', which basically just rephrases the introduction and thesis sentence.
Likewise, when making a batch of rice, the procured rice is cooked, while the conclusion of that body of work is often called 'food'.
The Body of the Post
Just to clarify; if you have clicked here to learn how to make a perfect Steemit post, I apologize, because I don't know how that is done, even after practicing for a year and a half. I'm still new at this.
However...
If you have clicked on this post in order to learn how to cook a batch of rice perfectly every time, then please read on, and I can forget about trying to write this post properly for a moment.
How to Cook Rice Perfectly Every Time
Compared to writing about it, cooking rice is quite easy. There are only a few tools needed, and the whole operation will take about 30 minutes to complete, while I've been writing for nearly an hour already, just working on that complicated introduction above. That's enough about that though, right?
Ingredients
Rice
Water
Rice-Cooking Tools
Usually called utensils, the kitchen tools needed for cooking rice are as follows:One saucepan with a tight-fitting lid
Measuring cups
A heat source like a stove, range, or open fire.
The ratio is two to one. Two waters to every one rice. One half cup of rice will require a full cup of water, while to double that recipe, a full cup of rice will require two full cups of water. [edit; that ratio is for white rice--for brown rice, use a little bit more water]
Put Water and Rice in the Saucepan
Like the headline suggests, put rice and water in pan.
Turn on the heat to a medium setting, and bring to a boil. There is no need to stir the mixture.
Wait For the Geysers of Bubbles
After about 15 minutes of boiling, the water level will begin to recede in the pan, until soon the only water that can be seen is the bubbles that may occasionally pop out of the surface of cooking rice.
Watch and Listen
When no more water can be seen bubbling out of the surface of the rice, the sound coming from the pan will slowly begin to change, from a bubbly sound into a more steady hissy bubble.
The More Steady Hissy Bubble
The sound of the steady hiss means that most of the water has evaporated away, and at this point the saucepan should be removed from the heat.
Put on the tight-fitting lid, set the pan to the side, and leave covered tightly for 10 minutes.
During the ten minutes under the lid, off of the fire, the remaining steam and water finishes cooking the rice in the pan.
After 10 minutes, remove lid and fluff up the rice with a spoon of fork, and it is ready to eat.
Conclusion
While I have only been writing articles and stories for a couple of years, I've been cooking and eating rice for decades. The result is that I have figured out how to make a batch of rice perfectly every time, while writing about rice or any other topic is still a guessing game for me.
I can make rice in 30 minutes, while this post is going on 3 hours. The rice turned out perfectly, while the post itself is struggling to end before the thing gets too long and cluttered, if it hasn't already become that way.
Using the cooking steps that are written above, a perfect pan of rice can be made with ease, but making a post about it could take up half of the day and still not be quite right. Enjoy!
well, thanks for reading this rice recipe, and may it be helpful in some way. The photos above are mine, 2018. There is more variety to be seen, simply by clicking below these birds:
After reading this, I think I would write rice post everytime I write. The rice post is good...to write a rice post one has to be good writer.
Thanks for the enlightment @therealpaul and @nonameslefttouse
Well, you do have a good writing like how you stated the process of cooking a batch of rice. And also, I will have then my oqn perfection in cooking something. #fingerscrossed 😊
I think I got lucky then, if the writing is readable this time, I have succeeded here. :)
oh, you sure did! 😊
I totally enjoyed this post :-) What I learned was, that you think you might not know how to write a perfect post. But what is perfection? You say it;s your perfect rice, and I believe you correct, but what I found out is, that the way I cook MY perfect rice is not how you cook YOUR perfect rice, which is to say that you say you don't know how to write a perfect post, but I'm thinking, this was a perfect post!
So, summing it all up....hmmmm....I think that there are just many faces of perfection.
:0)
I used to make rice differently, the other way, but this method became my way at some point. The old way, I used to hope that the rice was done well, but now I always know it will be right, no more hoping.
But I see what you mean, this may be the most perfect post I've written yet, and everything is perfect today!
That was very helpful as i am useless at cooking rice and writing a post. Thank you :)
Now soon you'll be writing rice-cooking posts with no effort, and maybe then you can teach me how to write these well every time. ;)
Your post was good, you dont need help. Going to try and cook rice over the weekend, mine is always to starchy, i have to rinse it with boiling water :(
Hello therealpaul,
You have the rice cooking by science. That rice in the pan looks so delicious and fluffy and apprealing.
I really not have thought about the science behind cooking the rice but now i know a better way to cook rice as an oriental man.
I have a friend who is from Laos, and he somehow cooks rice in a wicker basket, with steam rising from below. He calls it sticky rice, and we rolled it into balls, and then dipped those into sauces.
Another way Koreans cook rice by measuring the water level on their hand. The water needs to cover just above the knuckles when pressing one whole hand against the rice beneath the water.
One would either put in more rice or water to adjust so that water is comes to just above the knuckles.
This the way I measure to cook white rice....brown rice most likely put in little bit more water.
That sounds like a good way to do it, and rice could be made without the need for measuring cups.
Yes, I use a bit more water for brown rice too, that is important to know, and I may go edit that in somehow.
Funniest rice cooking post ever.
Too bad you never did forget, not even momentarily 😜
And your writing is awesome by the way, you know that, we know that.😁
I tried to stray away, but the topic was 'writing about cooking rice' the whole time, there was no escape!
😁 No there wasn't...
This was actually a fantastic analogy. I really laughed hard when I read the beginning and you are so right. You get a lot of creative points on this one lol
Maybe some rice will get cooked after all, then! Thanks
You know you have a gift when you can write a post about cooking the perfect pot of rice and still keep my attention, haha, (I totally hear you on the analogy, so true)
haha I'm happy that I got your attention, I guess it was more a post about writing posts than about rice, so the post itself became the topic, not so much the rice business.
It's actually a good rice recipe for me because I'm usually in the kitchen nearby anyway while rice is cooking, so I can monitor it and get it just right. Oh that analogy, I was trying to add some comic relief, and didn't really expect it to work like that. Then when it sort of fit together, it was even funnier to me, but of course I'm easily amused. :)
Sometimes when I write comments about rice articles, I like to first explain a few things about what I want to say.
Let's Begin
Rice is good and since this post was about rice, I found this post to be good. When posts are good and they include rice, I feel like saying something. Saying something about this rice post is what I'm doing now. I enjoy saying something about rice posts if they are good.
Secondly
What makes a rice post good is the good rice. I won't just start talking about good rice posts just because I found a rice post. It has to be a good rice post or I won't say a word and since I'm saying words, that's a clear indication that this particular rice post was good.
Third
It's not always easy to say good things about good rice posts when the good rice post was so good. I feel it's best to sit down, get up, grab the coffee, sit back down, get up, put milk in because I forgot, sit down, think, then write about the good rice post.
Now It's Time to Comment on the Rice post.
Nice rice post.
Some Things I Would Do
Fix the typo. I won't say where is though because a good rice writer knows.
I like to add a bit of cooking oil in my rice. I was told it won't stick so I listened. I'm not really sure if it's helping but I do it anyway.
This concludes my comment.
I think I saw the typo, but just because I know where is doesn't mean I'm a good rice writer, I think I just got lucky-- it's my first time.
I can tell that you are a good post writer, your sections of words are arranged with the first ones at the start, and that's always a good sign. I also noticed that you wrote the last part at the end there, that gives it that quality feel, like a professional job.
Professional Job
I don't know, I just thought that would look good in bigger letters, but looking at it in the preview, it's a little bit pretentious, or garish.
Still, the oil sounds like the right thing to do, I put a little oil in the car's engine once in a while, so why not the rice too? Oil's ok, but antifreeze, don't use that in rice, the water will never boil properly.
My auntie freeze her rice.
That's one joke!
Maybe I should have wrote the joke in big letters?
I didn't know antifreeze was antiboil too!
Does that make the joke funnier or obnoxious?
Yeah it's a cool aunt.
OH MY GOD! So you don't wash the rice before to cook it?
Yes it really should be rinsed before cooking, but to make up for such negligence here, I used an organic basmati, and also filtered water to boil it in. So yes, I should have rinsed first, and then proceeded to make an actually perfect batch of rice.