Normally, my go to white rice is any cheap stuff I can find. I am trying to
stay out of stores right now so no more bulk stuff from Winco. Other than
that, I generally buy the store brand. I use the proportions of 1 cup rice
to one cup water or broth. Might add a little salt, butter or olive oil,
depending on what I make. Bring to a boil, cook on low. covered, for 20 min.
Perfect!

But I only recently was able to get the Walmart brand. I'm trying to use up
the older rice. It's Blue Ribbon brand. Looks like any other rice when raw.
I failed to read the package directions. For some reason, it uses 2 cups of
water for each cup of rice. Cook time still 20 min.

I will add that I had another rice fail recently for the same reason, but
that was minor. It was a small bag and I added it to some chicken broth. I
was having stomach issues then and didn't pay a lick of attention to the
texture, which was mush by the time it finally cooked.

This time it was worse! I used 3 cups of rice. At 20 minutes, it was dry and
raw. I kept adding more water, cooking more. Nope. At 2.5 hours of cooking,
I had some soupy, gummy, rice that was still hard in the middle. Argh! I
give up. I transferred it to my big pasta pot and after it cools, I'll toss
it.

I'm trying again now using the correct proportions of rice and water, but if
this is another fail, I'm going to toss the rest of it which unfortunately
is several large bags. We have had such a long grain rice shortage here that
when I did find it, I bought several bags.

I do know that not all rices cook the same way. Such as brown rice, light
brown rice, Basmati, Jasmine, short grain, medium grain, instant,
converted,etc. But from the way the front of the package looks, it's an
ordinary long grain white rice. Why the big difference?

Update on next batch. Followed directions to a tee. It did say to cook for
20 min. or until water was absorbed. At 20 min. Very little water was
absorbed and the rice was hard. At 38 min., the rice was slightly gummy but
cooked through. Certainly not worth the price I paid for it. Grr..