Ten minute rice

Sorry, you will HAVE lovely rice.
Oh, dear.

I have a microwave rice steamer (Lakeland, long ago) which does it to perfection in 11 minutes.

Anno -you were obviously very lucky to survive my cooking for a week!

Nothing wrong with your cooking, Greatnan.

johanna that's what I do, only with the easy cook rice, as you don't have to rinse it. Brilliant.

Still pondering on the problem that greatnan has with cooking rice...!! I wonder if you boil it in enough water, it does absorb such a lot and that may be the reason that it stays hard?

Perhaps boiling temperature is lower in Switzerland!

I kept adding boiling water from the kettle. I am quite good at following the instructions on packets!

I think Ana has the answer

The boiling point of water decreases by 1 degree Celsius for every 1000 metres in altitude - think that's right anyway. Tea was never quite right when I lived at 7000 feet in East Africa.

I might have got that wrong. Might be 1000 feet?

Could be right, but this house is only at about 900 metres. Tea tastes fine - must do, I am having about ten cups a day.

i think we should all get invited to greatnans place in france and all take a bag of rice,,,and some wine and choccies,,,,,,and have a fun weekend,,,what do you think greatnan, lol we can all bring a sleeping bag, so no exscuse,,,

Now there's a thought, angie!

Me too.....

We'd be sleeping on the balcony - if 'sleeping' is the right word...

How many grans is greatnan's balcony dressed for ?

I typed stressed!

About three!

Bog off, you drunken lot. It is strictly personal invitation only at my place. I can't have people hurling bottles into the ground-floor gardens.