Most People Reheat Rice Wrong, Try These Tricks to Make It Taste Freshly Cooked

This is how to reheat rice so it tastes the way it did the hour it was cooked, the way a Japanese friend of mine has always done it. Most of us put leftover rice in the refrigerator and then wonder why it comes back hard. The answer is to freeze cooked rice, warm and flat and one bowl at a time, and then give it its steam back. These Japanese rice tricks also cover the one time cold rice is exactly what you want, which is fried rice with leftover rice from the night before. Everything here is sized for cooking for one or two, which is how I cook now, and nothing gets thrown away. 0:00 The bowl from the refrigerator 1:40 Safety first 2:15 Why rice goes hard 3:30 Habit one: Freeze it, do not refrigerate it 4:43 Habit two: Freeze it while it is still warm 5:57 Habit three: Portion it flat 7:04 Habit four: Portion it by the bowl 7:52 Habit five: Label it and date it 8:59 Habit six: Reheat it from frozen, wrapping on 10:16 Habit seven: Give refrigerated rice its moisture back 11:04 Habit eight: Steam it, if you have the time 12:16 Habit nine: Keep warm is not storage 13:34 Habit ten: Reheat it once 14:31 Habit eleven: Use cold rice for the dishes that want it 16:04 Habit twelve: Cook the extra on purpose 17:52 Alongside the twelve 20:10 Packed lunches and takeout rice 21:46 The safety points together 24:41 One habit to start with Rice safety: get cooked rice cold within an hour, eat refrigerated rice within a day, reheat once until steaming hot, and throw it out if you are not sure. Vivian