Cooking a Perfect Pot of Rice

I’m going to let you in on a little secret: white rice needs to be washed before you steam it. This has been a life-altering discovery for some of my friends. When you wash your rice, you eliminate the excess starch that gets released into the water and reabsorbed during cooking, resulting in mushy rice. Once you get rid of that excess starch you will enjoy the lightest, fluffiest rice ever. (You can thank me later.) In many Chinese families, it’s the job of the youngest child to wash the rice. Being the youngest in my family, I’m a bona-fide rice-washing expert!