3 Gal Jambalaya

I use 10 cups of water for 3 pounds rice. Cover and cook for 20-30 minutes depending on your recipe.

The calculator is A.I. !!!!! Rat was ahead of the game.

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I use 10 cups of water for 3 pounds rice. Cover and cook for 20-30 minutes depending on your recipe.

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this is definitely not enough liquid.. cooking a 3lb batch this weekend and pulled my rig out last night to clean it and just cook a batch of rice (havent cooked in it in like 4 years). remembered reading this here so tried that since i haven't cooked a bigger batch in a long time.

rice wasn't crunchy but needed at least 2 more cups of liquid. i checked the calculator this morning and it said 14

Works every time for me and I cook routinely, never a crunchy rice grain. 1-gallon of water for 5-pounds of rice every single time for a jambalaya.

You may not believe me, but if I was cooking rice only like you did, I would have used 7 cups of water and it would have been fine. I do it all the time for when I cook stews and whatnot for large gatherings.

It works, but to each their own.

I would use 10 cups too for 3 lbs of rice, which is just a little over the 1 gallon for 5 lbs rice rule that i go by, but it depends on how much water you loose to evaporation before adding rice, I dont boil the "gravy " too long or I would need more water


oh, and by the way, ......eat a bag of dicks

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Works every time for me and I cook routinely, never a crunchy rice grain. 1-gallon of water for 5-pounds of rice every single time for a jambalaya.

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it definitely wasn't crunchy, just seemed kinda dry. i probably evaporated a little off, but i'll probably do at least 11 cups

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I use 10 cups of water for 3 pounds rice.

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I just did 10.1 cups of liquid for 2.04 lbs of rice for 85% of a 7.5 quart pot. Hope this helps.

Went with 11 cups for 3lbs. 14 would have been too much. Came out great

IDK, rice doesn't look fluffy to me. I use Rat's calculator from a 3 gallon to a 10 gallon and it works perfectly every time!

My last 3 gallon

1 pound of rice is 2 cups. So 12 cups of liquid would have been fine. Prob a cup on either side would have worked TBH. I always do the 2:1 and add it to boiling liquid and let it rolling boil 5-6 minutes (these two have always been key IMO) before lowering heat and covering. I always use long grain as that’s what I prefer.