Dave Smith wrote:
> Sheldon wrote:
>
> > > Approximately 1 cup if boiled in 2 parts water. That means
> > > 2 cups of water - 16 oz., about 450 grams. The rice weighs
> > > a lot less than the water. There will be a little bit of
> > > evaporation but most of the water is absorbed by the rice.
> >
> > You are truly a mental midget... the fact that rice absorbs water
in no
> > way negates the weight of the rice.... what a jerk... Dave, go jump
in
> > a lake, acccording to you the world would be rid of 200lbs of shit.
> >
> > Rice does NOT weigh a lot less than water... a cup of raw white
rice
> > weighs 7 ounces, one ounce less than a cup of water (1 cup of water
> > happens to weigh 8 ozs). Cooking 1 cup of rice in 2 cups of water
does
> > NOT cancel out any of the weight of the rice (7 ozs is constant)...
> > only that water which evaporates is lost. But there are so many
> > variables, type of rice, type of pot/lid, temperature and time
> > cooked... the only way to know with any degree of acuracy is to
weigh
> > AFTER cooking... cook a little extra and weigh after cooking. But
then
> > we need to know if that rice is weighed immediately or after it
cools.
> > I'm still waiting for this recipe that calls for weighing cooked
> > rice... must be for the birds.
>
> Holy cow NancyBoy, you are such a ****ing genius. Did you miss the
word
> "approximately"? One cup of rice with 2 cups water makes
approximately 3
> cups cooked rice. Using your 7 oz. constant for rice, that would
mean
> that you are starting off with 23 oz. total. The OP needs 400 grams,
a
> little less than a pound. That 1 cup of rice I suggested would
provide him
> with the 400 grams that he needs and he will have a few oz. leftover,
as I
> suggested. No one said anything about the weight of the rice
disappearing.
>
> Being such a professional cook, I am sure that you realize that the
amount
> of rice in a recipe is not required to be exact, and if the OP
thought that
> it looked like a little too much for the recipe he could leave a
little
> out. But what he wanted to know was how much rice he needed to cook,
and
> it looks like 1 cup is going to give him enough.

You're a functionally illiterate *******. WTF is a "NancyBoy"?

Sheldon