Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. a bowl of uncooked brown rice - Magnez2/Getty Images The secret to perfectly tender brown rice? Letting it rest before serving.

We tested six methods for cooking rice and this one was the surprising winner. All six methods started with the same prep — rinsing and soaking the rice for 30 minutes — to remove surface starch and ...

You probably think cooking rice is straightforward: measure, rinse, boil, done. But traditional cultures around the world have been using a simple soaking technique for thousands of years that ...