"sarah bennett" > wrote in message
news:Yvuyf.4820>

I find that cooking the rice as if it were a pilaf (i.e. cooking the
> rice and oil together and then adding hot water/stock) helps
> tremedously with cooking white rice (esp. aromatic ones)

I am rubbish at cooking rice so much so that I bought myself an
electric rice cooker

O awaiting the shouts of dirision