Sticky Rice SOS
2012 October 26
A while back I bought a traditional Thai sticky rice steamer. While I abhor most single-use kitchen gadgets, I have an unending addiction to traditional cooking tools from across the globe, and thus found myself leaving my local Asian grocery with aforementioned steamer last month. I bought what I thought was the correct rice (Calrose brand) and followed the directions I’d found on the internet, but after two tries I’ve ended up with hard, undercooked rice, no matter how long I soak and steam it. I use a flour sack cloth instead of cheesecloth, could that be it? D I have the wrong type of rice? Help! What am I doing wrong?
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The flour sack cloth may be a tighter weave than the specified cheesecloth. If so, it’d be letting through less steam. Less steam, less cooking. Just a theory.
Artie – that was my suspicion too, thanks! I just have such an aversion to regular cheesecloth because its so flimsy and wasteful, but I think I’m going to have to cave in and give it a try.