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.
12. Put a drip (seriously, one drip) of oil in there.
13. Put that watery rice on a high heat.
14. When the water starts bubbling (just bubbling, not boiling), put the heat down as low as it'll go, and put the lid back on.
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 5 minutes, it's good to go.
19. Fluff with a fork, serve.

Slightly modified from Zen Haircut's How to cook rice on e2. Slightly modified because, just like everyone else, he and his japanese lady were wrong.