When boiling rice like pasta actually works—and why it can give you better texture. Boiling rice like pasta—then draining it—is a long-used cooking technique, especially for dishes that require ...

Don't have a rice cooker and don't want to deal with making it on the stovetop? Here's how to prepare it in a slow cooker so ...

Food & Wine / Photo Illustration by Doan Nguyen / Photo by Robby Lozano / Food Styling by Renu Dhar With that in mind we tasked our test kitchen with identifying the best way to cook basmati rice.

Boiling rice like pasta—then draining it—is a long-used cooking technique, especially for dishes that require precise control over texture. To understand what this method actually changes, I cooked ...

Is there a secret to cooking rice perfectly? We understand how frustrating it is to cook a meal only to find that the rice is mushy, clumpy, or tasteless. Our editors set out to find the best way to ...

Many home cooks swear that the “knuckle method” yields the perfect ratio of water to rice, regardless of batch size or size of pot. But how does the technique actually work? And…does it work? I grew ...