MMmm Basmati.... Kinda smells like popcorn when it's cooking.

Alternate and learn to tolerate each other's choices?

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glatt is a genius.

Buy two of these:

http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html...t_adv_XSG10001


They are $20 each and you can cook consistently good rice with around 30 seconds of preparation.

Do they work equally well with long-grain, short-grain, and brown rice?

More importantly, do they work equally well with these kinds of rice:

Wild Rice
Forbidden rice
Prosequisa 4
Prosequisa 5
Prosequisa 10
Juma 57
Juma 58
Juma 66
Juma 67
Idiaf 1
Yocahú CFX-18
Cristal 100
Toño Brea
Inglés Corto
Inglés Largo
Domsiah
Binam
Hasani
Salari
Ambarboo
Sang Tarom
Hasan Sarai
Arborio
Ariete
Baldo
Carnaroli
Lido
Originario
Padano
Ribe
Roma
Sant'Andrea
Thaibonnet
Venere
Vialone Nano
Koshihikari
Hitomebore
Hinohikari
Kinuhikari
Nihonbare
Sasanishiki
Kirara397
Hoshinoyume
Domannaka
Akitakomachi
Haenuki
Hanaechizen
Akebono
Asahi
Pokhareli
Jire Masino
Mansooli
Sticky Rice
Agulha Rice
Carolino Rice
Basmati
Ambemohar
Dubraj rice
Aizon Rice
Champaa Rice
Clearfield Rice
Hasan serai
Gobindo Bhog
Atop
HMT Rice
Thimmasamundaram Mollakolukulu
Jay Shrirama Rice
Joha rice
Rosematta rice
Navara rice
Raja Hansa rice
Molakolukulu
Patna rice
Pusa Rice
Idly Rice -
Sona Masuri
Ranjit Rice
Katta sambar
Hansraj
Jyothi
Annapoornna
Poreiton chakhau
Rajalele
Peta
Temanggung black rice
Dinorado
Ifugao Rice
Maharlika
Milagrosa pino
Segadis Milagrosa
Kalinayan
Sinandomeng
IR-841
IR-64
Angelika
Azucena
Malagkit
Wagwag
Samba
Sri Lankan Red Rice
Keeri Samba
Supiri Samba
Supiri Nadu
Nadu Rice
Badhabath
Bomba Rice.Bahia
Bomba
Calasparra
Senia
Jasmine rice
White rice
White Glutinous rice
Black Glutinous rice
Red Cargo rice
Brown rice
Akitakomachi rice
California New Variety rice
Calmochi rice
Calrose rice
Wehani rice
Pecan rice
Popcorn rice

I think you missed one.

Don't most rice cooking requirements fall into the three categories above?

Probably. I was just messing around with a list of rices. There are so many! Who knew? :)

Or you can just tell Mr Limey to stop whining and eat what he gets served !!! :)

From my personal use, it works well with long-grain, medium-grain, and brown rice. The only difference is the rice to water ratio needed to get the same consistency of rice. I have never tried short-grain but I'm sure it works just fine. My roommate sometimes cooks Cous Cous with it.

I have had one for a few years now and I have no problems with it.

I really want a rice steamer. A purchase I keep forgetting about. I've numerous containers of rice in my cabinet but I never use it except for a few certain recipes.

I knew you guys would have plenty of supremely inventive answers!
For practicality I'm favouring the low-tech, cheesecloth bag approach myself. I'm trying to use fewer utensils, DanaC, glatt and piercehaweye45, I'm afraid, and anyway, I already cook consistently good rice with arould 30 seconds of preparation :).
I've tried Zip's method, but frequently it just isn't worth the hassle. Likewise Pete, sometimes eating white rice is easier than persuading, y'know? And Jim - Quinoa?!?! The very name is wierd, I'll eat it, but I fear it's more persuasion for Mr L!!
Probably my favourite idea is ZenGum's, but arranging them on the plate? Can't we train them to lie down the right way up??
Gouging his eyes out would also probably create more problems than it would solve ...
Thank you all so much for helping me to see this in a different (brown?) light!

Yes, except for the Thimmasamundaram Mollakolukulu. Nothing works well with the Thimmasamundaram Mollakolukulu.

In my house, whoever does the cooking gets to pick the ingredients. So if I cook, we eat brown rice. If he cooks, we eat white.

Simple...don't like what I cook? Make your own.