Cooking rice can be finicky. Even if we portion out the right ratio of rice to liquid, it can still become a wet and gloppy mess. A quick trick can salvage overcooked wet rice, and its solution is as easy as sliced bread.
Literally, a slice or two of bread is the answer to overcooked rice. TikTok user itzaliciaaa showed off one of the social media platform’s gems, a kitchen hack must.
Depending on the volume of rice being made, you may need two slices of bread. While the rice is still on the burner with the heat turned off, add one or two slices of bread on top of the rice.
Cover the pot with a lid and let the bread sit with the rice for several minutes. The residual heat from the turned-off burner will continue to heat the rice without overcooking it, and the bread will soak up all of the excess moisture like a sponge.
The result? Perfectly cooked rice with no gloppy or wet texture. The excess liquid is sucked up like a vacuum cleaner by the bread, leaving only the rice and no soup-like liquid. If there’s a lot of liquid, you may have to do this two times, swapping out the first slice of bread with a second slice of bread.
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