Accurately Measuring Rice
I had half a chilli con carne last night for supper last night and I needed to cook some rice. My rice method needs 65 ml. of long grain rice for each person, together with 130 ml. of water
I have a standard Pyrex measure, but I generally measure things by weight using a letter balance. It is easy to convert water from ml. to grams, by just changing the units as the specific gravity of of water is unity. So I searched the Internet to find out what is the value of the specific gravity of long grain rice. I couldn’t find anything, so in the end I measured it using my letter balance. Surprisingly the specific gravity is nearly unity.
So I then weighed 65 grams of rice on the scale, after zeroing it to account for the tumbler and then carefully added 130 grams of water.
Accurately Measuring Rice
The rice certainly tasted as good as packet rice in the microwave.
The Anonymous Widower 
James just use 1 measure rice to 2 measures water!
Comment by Jenny | April 2, 2014 |
My eyesight means that accurately measuring by volume in a measure is difficult. But if I read a display, I get it right, as I probably just use the right eye.
As rice has the same specific gravity as water, it is two to one, by volume or weight.
I suspect the eyesight is the reason too, that when typing, I have to do a lot of corrections.
Comment by AnonW | April 2, 2014 |