Michelin-trained chef's hack to cooking perfect fluffy rice every single time

TikToker Poppy O'Toole has handed her followers the holy grail of rice cooking with instructions on how to make fluffy rice perfectly every time.

On her TikTok account @poppycooks, the chef reveals how she avoids soggy, dry or unseasoned rice, with the fruits of her labour so good it could be a main dish.

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In a video viewed more than 265,000 times, O'Toole reveals the secret to perfect fluffy rice is "the golden ratio," which uses volume to measure rice and water.

"This is the way I like to cook rice - there are loads of different methods but this is the way an old colleague of mine, Evelyn, showed me," she said in the video.

The golden ration is one cup of rice to one and a half cups of water, says the chef.

O'Toole begins her process by washing her rice and then letting it boil for three minutes.

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After the three minutes have passed, take the saucepan off the heat before covering it with a lid. Leave it covered, off the heat, for 12 minutes.

According to O'Toole, it's after this "you have beautifully cooked fluffy rice."

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The video has almost 30,000 likes, with O'Toole's viewers praising her in the comments.

"This might actually help me because I cannot cook rice for the life of me," one commenter said.

O'Toole, a Michelin-trained chef, has 1.5 million followers on TikTok, and often shares quick cooking hacks to her account, such as how to brown butter, chop shallots or peel ginger 'like a pro.'

O'Toole is said to be working on a cookbook, to be released in September 2021.

Disclaimer: this hack works best with jasmine or basmati rice. For brown rice or other short-grain rices, the timing required is longer.

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