How to cook rice

Serves 1. Scale accordingly.

1. Buy some rice. Basmati rice.
2. No, that stuff won't do, it has to be basmati.
3. Get about half a builder's mug full of it and put it in a seive.
4. Wash that shit.
5. Keep washing it.
6. More washing.
7. That should do it.
8. Drain off the excess water.
9. Put 3/4 of the same mug's worth of cold water in an saucepan that you have a reasonably tight-fitting lid for.
10. Put the rice in the water.
11. Add some salt. Couple of pinches. About 1/8 tsp.
12. Put that watery rice on a highish heat. Maybe a medium heat, something like that. 9 out of 14 on my induction.
13. Wrap a teatowel round the pan lid. Tie it up at the top to stop it turning into a crazy rice towel inferno, but not too tight.
14. When the water has boiled down to the top of the rice, put the heat down as low as it'll go, and put the lid on. 2 out of 14 on mine.
15. Leave it alone. Do not remove the lid.
16. Seriously, leave that fucking lid on.
17. 15 minutes after you turned the heat down, turn the heat off.
18. After 10 minutes, it's good to go.
19. Fluff with a fork, serve.