Cant cook rice

[Catlady]

I'm just going to buy the Pillsbury dough for pies.

I do that when I'm too lazy to make my own dough. The first time I took it out of the ref and started unrolling it and it started breaking apart. Then I read you have to bring it to room temp (one half hour) to soften it and it was fine after that. It's not bad.

I would like to know why you have to add salt. What if you are on a salt free diet?

I wondered about that too, here's what I just googled =

Salt assists in oven browning by controlling the fermentation and therefore lessening the destruction of sugar. Salt checks the development of any undesirable or excessive acidity in the dough.

 

[Camper6]

Thanks. I'm going to make a pie.

 

[Camper6]

I have never cooked rice. My wife has been feeding me for 60 years and making a good job of it, I am 40 pounds heavier than when we married.

Learn to cook. You will lose weight.

 

[Mike]

I am one of the lucky ones then, the school that I went
to insisted that the boys got "Domestic Science" lessons too.

Mike.

 

[Camper6]

I cannot bake either. For some reason pancakes are a challenge for me. Rick used to make great ones. He tried to teach me, did not go well. I may buy a mix and try again.
I do make good French Toast, though.

A good waffle iron and waffles are much easier than pancakes.

And with strawberries and whipped cream? Heaven on Earth.

Oh wait. Canadian maple syrup is a must.

 

[Camper6]

A good waffle iron and waffles are much easier than pancakes.

And with strawberries and whipped cream? Heaven on Earth.

Oh wait. Canadian maple syrup is a must.

 

[grahamg]

Update on rice cooking.

I'm being told, "cooking rice is difficult" by some fellow workers, but I think they mean, "Cooking rice properly is/may be difficult", and yes I've had enough off days on my own rice cooking to acknowledge you can make it lumpy, or stuck to the saucepan/burnt etc.

However, this weekend my young fellow agency friend is going to have a go, be it ready to boil in a bag, or using the huge range of recipes or techniques the other workers have tried to fill his head with already, (trial and error not the worst teacher in my view ).

 

[IrisSenior]

Yes you can learn to cook after you make about 15 mistakes. Then it's easy.

When I had to learn how to cook everyone lost weight.

Cook books.? You have to learn the weird words. Like fold in the white of an egg. Or dot the apples with butter. O.K. Why do I have to dot the apples with butter?

Well Camper 6 you know how to fold a towel; just do the same with the egg and you wouldn't want to just add slabs of butter to the apples?

 

[Camper6]

Well Camper 6 you know how to fold a towel; just do the same with the egg and you wouldn't want to just add slabs of butter to the apples?

Well I think you dot the apples before you put the top crust on. So I think the reason is that the crust doesn't stick to the apples. These kind of things they never tell you why. Folding a towel is a lot different than folding in the white of an egg.

 

[Myquest55]

Yeah, I have one recipe for pie crust and its not always the best But, I still use it all the time!
Our son gave us a RICE-COOKER for Christmas, a few years back. BEST THING EVER!!! It will cook the rice, unaided, while I do the rest. It can also be used as a slow cooker and twice we've made JAPANESE PANCAKES (see Pinterest) in it - SOOOO easy!!!

 

[Camper6]

I wondered about those rice cookers. I like stuff that cooks stuff without having to watch it. I have a toaster oven that has a timer on it so I cook a frozen pizza. Darn thing doesn't turn off all the time so still have to watch it.