Cooking basmati rice in a rice cooker gives you long, separate grains with very little effort. Using the right water ratio keeps the rice light instead of soft or clumped. This method works with most ...

Cooking short grain brown rice in a rice cooker gives you tender, evenly cooked grains without constant checking. The longer cooking time is handled automatically, which makes this one of the easiest ...

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.

Cooking rice should be easy. Humans have been eating it for millennia; our ancestors first started cultivating the seeds of wild grass an estimated 12,000 years ago, and today, it’s a staple for ...