roadfix
Chef Extraordinaire
As mentioned above, Fried Rice. We always end up with plenty of left over rice. We use them plain the next day or use them for fried rice even several days later.
Always making too much rice
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CharlieD
Chef Extraordinaire
I think generaly doctors recomend a regular size cup of a side dish per dinner, rice included. But you are of course correct Frank.
justplainbill
Executive Chef
Don't you have a wood burning cook stove?
CharlieD
Chef Extraordinaire
Hey don't start with me, I cannot stand the standard measuring system, it makes no sense what so ever. The whole world is using Metric; it is time for the States to switch. Even the British who came up with that nonsense are using metric nowadays. 
The US is a metric country... the US is a metric country... the US is a metric country. (If we say it enough it will actually be true).
And don't get me started on the British with their liters of gas they go miles with to get a pint of beer and and grams of peanuts.
And don't get me started on the British with their liters of gas they go miles with to get a pint of beer and and grams of peanuts.
Greg Who Cooks
Executive Chef
I too wish we could switch to the metric system, but I don't see it happening anytime soon. The US had a plan to go metric when I was in college and now I've had my entire career and retired and there's still no progress in going metric. I sometimes wonder if the US is waiting for the world to recognize the error of their ways and go off the metric system. It's embarrassing to be the only significant country in the world not on the metric system. In fact the US may be the only country not on the metric system.
CharlieD
Chef Extraordinaire
I think I read somewhere that there was some other small country still using it.
I say our president should give money to the switch instead of the banks. Imagine how many people will have to be hired to do the job, the paper work, etc. Economy will jump 100%, we will start producing products that Europians will want to buy for a simple reason that the products are in metric. I really think I am onto something here...
I say our president should give money to the switch instead of the banks. Imagine how many people will have to be hired to do the job, the paper work, etc. Economy will jump 100%, we will start producing products that Europians will want to buy for a simple reason that the products are in metric. I really think I am onto something here...
That's cooked rice, correct?
Greg Who Cooks
Executive Chef
Yeppers, pretty certain. Perhaps somebody can back me up on this cooking lore:
one cup of uncooked rice = three cups of cooked rice
Addie
Chef Extraordinaire
You know those signs outside banks and other buildings that give the temps? Well when we were trying to convert to metric, they were showing temp in metric only. So many people were ging inside and asking what the real temp was. They then switched to giving the temp in metric first and farenheight second. That didn't work either. We simply didn't like the change and were not willing to even try. We do not care of recipes that are given in metric. That is why you hear cooks form other countries give their measurements in mectric and decimal. That is if they wish to go global.
Addie
Chef Extraordinaire
I don't see how that can be when it takes two cups of water for that one cup of uncooked rice. Maybe 2.5 cups due to the swelling of the rice.
CWS4322
Chef Extraordinaire
Not yet--researching making an outdoor one--it would not work to cook indoors on a wood burning stove when it is 30C with a humidex of 100!
You know those signs outside banks and other buildings that give the temps? Well when we were trying to convert to metric, they were showing temp in metric only. So many people were ging inside and asking what the real temp was. They then switched to giving the temp in metric first and farenheight second. That didn't work either. We simply didn't like the change and were not willing to even try. We do not care of recipes that are given in metric. That is why you hear cooks form other countries give their measurements in mectric and decimal. That is if they wish to go global.
Metric is decimal (it works by tens). People in the US use US measure. People in the British Commonwealth used to use Imperial measure. The liquid measure wasn't the same in those two systems.
Steve Kroll
Wine Guy
I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but about 10 years or so ago I began making wine as a hobby. Since many of the books I learned from reference metric measurements, I decided to swallow my US pride and learn it. Maybe "re-learn it" is a better phrase, since we had this stuff in grade school. Anyway, I'm glad I did. It really is much easier to use than our antiquated system and I, for one, would welcome the change.
By the way, in response to another post, the British haven't fully converted to metric in practice. They are just as stubborn as we are. Although gas is sold by the liter, everything over there is still measured in miles (just watch "Top Gear" sometime and you'll see what I mean). And I know quite a few Brits, albeit mostly my age or older, who also live by the inch and foot, and prefer Fahrenheit over Celsius.
And just try walking into a pub and asking for 0.57 liters of beer, rather than a pint.
By the way, in response to another post, the British haven't fully converted to metric in practice. They are just as stubborn as we are. Although gas is sold by the liter, everything over there is still measured in miles (just watch "Top Gear" sometime and you'll see what I mean). And I know quite a few Brits, albeit mostly my age or older, who also live by the inch and foot, and prefer Fahrenheit over Celsius.
And just try walking into a pub and asking for 0.57 liters of beer, rather than a pint.
CharlieD
Chef Extraordinaire
And just try walking into a pub and asking for 0.57 liters of beer, rather than a pint.
Ah, that's a funny one.
Greg Who Cooks
Executive Chef
Rice expands as it cooks. It does not solely depend on the volume of rice plus the volume of water.
That's it right there. Most Americans do not wish to go metric. People don't like change. It does not matter that the metric system is easier to use. It's unlikely that more than a few people ever give it any thought at all.
I'd switch in a second if I could, but I've accepted that it won't happen in my lifetime. In the mean time I can think and speak in metric if whenever I have dealings with international people, which isn't very often.
CharlieD
Chef Extraordinaire
As far as rice trippling I think it is a very common acurance.
I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but about 10 years or so ago I began making wine as a hobby. Since many of the books I learned from reference metric measurements, I decided to swallow my US pride and learn it. Maybe "re-learn it" is a better phrase, since we had this stuff in grade school. Anyway, I'm glad I did. It really is much easier to use than our antiquated system and I, for one, would welcome the change.
By the way, in response to another post, the British haven't fully converted to metric in practice. They are just as stubborn as we are. Although gas is sold by the liter, everything over there is still measured in miles (just watch "Top Gear" sometime and you'll see what I mean). And I know quite a few Brits, albeit mostly my age or older, who also live by the inch and foot, and prefer Fahrenheit over Celsius.
And just try walking into a pub and asking for 0.57 liters of beer, rather than a pint.
There are only two things that are difficult about metric.
1) Getting used to Celsius for temperature
2) translating back and forth between metric and some antiquated, bizarre system.
