cameron_craig•10d agoProlific Poster

Ran into an older guy at the grocery store who taught me his 30 cent rice trick

I was standing in the rice aisle last Saturday debating between the $2 bag and the $5 box. This older fella maybe 70 years old walks up and grabs the cheap bag. He sees me staring and just goes "you know you can stretch that bag into 12 meals if you cook it proper." He spent 5 minutes showing me how he rinses it three times then uses a 2 to 1 water ratio with a pinch of salt. Said he learned it in the navy back in the 70s. I tried it that night and honestly the texture was way better than the expensive stuff I usually buy. Anybody else run into random strangers who drop surprisingly useful cooking knowledge on you?

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the_diana10d ago

Not sure I'd call that a life changing rice trick, it's just boiling rice the way it says on the bag. Rinsing it is common sense and so is the water ratio, the navy probably just taught him the basics that anyone could Google in 10 seconds. People love acting like a simple cooking tip is some secret wisdom just because it came from a stranger in a grocery store.

phoenix84510d ago

Man oh man, I get where you're coming from @the_diana but I think you're missing the bigger picture here. It's not just about rice, it's about how we're all so disconnected from the simple stuff nowadays. Like, yeah, you can Google anything in ten seconds, but when was the last time someone actually showed you how to do something in person? That whole grocery store moment thing is just people craving real human connection (and maybe a little validation that they're not messing up basic adulting). We've gotten so used to learning everything from screens that when someone shares a tip face to face, it feels like this big deal even if it's common knowledge. I'd argue that's more about how lonely and digital our lives have gotten than about the rice itself.