Every Asian restaurant in my city has fried rice. Sometimes it's awesome, but sometimes it's practically inedible. Obviously, there's a way to do it wrong.

One thing seems certain: to properly fry rice, you need white rice, an egg, some finely chopped vegetables, and finely chopped meat of some kind. The only question is logistics.

THe way I tried it tonight was thus: I put 1 cup of rice in the cooker, and when it was done, I put a cup or two of frozen vegetable medley in the cooker, to thaw it out while I chopped up the chicken and heated up my handy 12-inch nonstick frying pan.

In retrospect, I should have picked a bigger pan, maybe invested in a wok. Anyway...

So I put the chicken in the frying pan and browned it as well as I could. I then cracked an egg into the rice cooker, mixed it up a bit, in an effort to get the rice coated with egg, as I heard that's the idea. But I have a small 3-cup rice cooker, so I couldn't mix it so well, And, of course, I could only fit maybe half of the resulting mixture into the pan and still have room to stir at all.

I added soy sauce, shoveled the result into a bowl, and shoveled it into my mouth. It's pretty good, and I imagine my best hope for improvement will be to get a bigger pan, and also get a large bowl to empty the rice cooker into before I add the egg. And to compensate for having to dirty the extra dish, I'll try adding the cooked chicken to that bowl after I've mixed in the egg. THen I can fry it a portion at a time, and get leftovers in the fridge right away.

Does anyone here have any experience making fried rice?

Never put anything that isn't rice into the rice cooker.
When I see them make fried rice, they grease a pan, throw the rice in, throw the vegetables in, add soy sauce, then the egg fries into the rice and then they add the cooked meat and continue to fry.
What you did sounds messy as hell.
Oh. And beat the eggs up in a glass before you put it in.

I'm gonna try and make some fried rice now that I read this thread, sounds good!

>>2
At what point are the eggs introduced to the pan? You imply that it goes at the end, but you're using the passive voice so you might just be describing what happens by itself at some point.

Also, what's wrong with putting anything but rice in the rice cooker? You know how Alton Brown feels about unitaskers.

Make sure the rice is a bit old.
Once you cook it in the rice cooker, just turn it off and let it cool, and sit for a day or two. This make the rice less clumpy and it won't turn into mush when you make it.
I suppose you can put things in the rice cooker, but I wouldn't do it, personally... It's just not what they're made for. Everything will be more evenly cooked if you use a pan instead.

OP you're fucking stupid

Okay noobs

I made fried rice last night because after reading this thread I was craving it.

It can be done, but listen my young padawan, don't take shortcuts!

Step one - Making Rice:

• Use leftover rice if you like.

• You can also make rice in a rice cooker, if you don't own a rice cooker(it escapes me why any self-respecting weeabo wouldn't) you can...

• Get a normal pot and put about two or three cups of rice and then fill it with water until the rice is under about an inch of water. Then place the pot on the stove on MEDIUM heat and cover.

I can't stress this enough kids, DON'T FUCKING TOUCH THE RICE, just leave it alone for 20 to 25 minutes and it should be done(some rice will stick to the pot but if the heat is on medium it won't char.)

After the rice is done simply get a plate and spread as much rice as you're gonna use on the plate for the rice to cool down.

Step Two - Vegetables: One carrot, half a clove of garlic, half an onion, and two green onions.

• Carrot - Start by peeling the carrot and cutting about two or three pieces length-wise, then chopping them into little squares, very fine.

• Garlic - If you have a garlic press then good for you, if not then just peel the garlic and get large kitchen knife and smash them against where you're doing your cutting, after that just mince the garlic.

• Green Onion - Just wash them with cold water and cut quarter-inch pieces from the base to the top. If you fuck this up then there's no hope for you.

• Onion(Optional) Just cut up very fine, again if you can't cut up onion, you're better off spending time playing video games or jacking off or whatever you kids do these days.

Step Three - Eggs and Meat:

• Eggs - Just break one or two in a cup and beat them.

• Meat - As for the meat, use whatever you want, just make sure it's cooked and cut up into little squares.

Okay now that you have everything cut up and shit get ready to start...

Step Four - Cooking:

A 12 inch pan will work fucking PERFECT for all of this, don't worry I'll walk you thru it.

• With the pan on high heat add about two or three table spoons of oil.

Add the regular onion and garlic first, cook until browned.

After that, add the green onion and carrot, cook until you can get a piece of carrot and smoosh it between your thumb and index finger with ease.

After that you're clear to add your meat, cook until whatever leftover meat you're using is hot and or browned, add some soy sauce as well.

Now for the rice, it's not hard, just dump it in there along with all your hopes and dreams.

Mix mix mix!!

Mix until everything is evenly incorporated, add more soy sauce to taste and mix some more.

After about 5 good minutes of mixing some grains of rice should be browned a little.

After that make a bowl in the middle of the pan out of the rice and pour the beaten eggs in there and let them cook for about 1 or 2 minutes and then start mixing again.

There you have it.

Fucking eat it and post about how good it is.

>>7
Wow! Thank you for that insightful post man, now I know how to pros do it!

My dad made fried rice using some recipe on the internet.

It was pretty good, but the steak was tough. Heh.

You can fry pastas too, it's quite good. Cook them beforehand, let them cool down, and fry them.

I'll start a thread asking how to make homemade fried macaroni and cheese. mmm

pres butan, reseev rice!

Can't believe no-one's mentioned the Golden rule of fried rice:

ALWAYS USE LEFTOVER RICE.

Oh, and I wouldn't mix the rice with the egg before you fry it. It leaves it too soggy and clumpy, when ideally you want it fried a bit and loose-ish. Eggs can be either cracked in and cooked with the rice at the very end. This method works best when you are using left-over rice because the eggs add moisture and helps soften the rice a bit. Or, you can cook it separately, in which case you also add it at the very end, but obviously don't leave it on heat for long (egg will tend to shrink). This is where you would be using freshly cooked rice (where you don't want to soften and mush up the rice).

Make sure the heat is up whilst frying rice (especially if you don't use non-stick pans). Makes things a lot easier.

>Never put anything that isn't rice into the rice cooker.

Clearly not Asian. When your rice just clicks to "warm" from "cook", that's when I would put frozen vegies or chinese sausages on top of the rice to steam. Hell, you can even cook bread in a rice cooker.

>>13

Rice cooker meals are a sign of poverty and bad taste. Only pitiful little things like students living abroad and overworked salarymen have to contend with eating this manner of rubbish.

Ha-ha I laugh at your misfortune.

>>14

You are naive to think that using the rice cooker as a steamer produces bad taste. I question your lack of skill rather than the utensil. The fact that you would rather be inefficient and not recognise multi-functionality just shows how impractical you are. Narrow-minded and under skilled people like you should just continue following and caring about social norms. Leave the innovative thinking for the others.

Ha-ha I laugh at your ignorance.

Don't feed the trolls.