Cooking short grain brown rice in a rice cooker gives you tender, evenly cooked grains without constant checking. The longer cooking time is handled automatically, which makes this one of the easiest ...

Cooking basmati rice in a rice cooker gives you long, separate grains with very little effort. Using the right water ratio keeps the rice light instead of soft or clumped. This method works with most ...

Food & Wine / Photo Illustration by Doan Nguyen / Photo by Robby Lozano / Food Styling by Renu Dhar With that in mind we tasked our test kitchen with identifying the best way to cook basmati rice.

In theory, cooking rice is about as easy as it gets, requiring two ingredients and heat. But without some know-how or at least an awesome rice cooker, what should be a fluffy, soft pile of aromatic ...

We tested six methods for cooking rice and this one was the surprising winner. All six methods started with the same prep — rinsing and soaking the rice for 30 minutes — to remove surface starch and ...