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sabs let us know the result the rice as well as who won the fight for the kitchen

Thank you all for you add vice cooking for the family next week as my mom love to cook to we fight over the kichen lol.

P.S hope i win lol

Thought I'd answer Rusties question about the dogs' health on this thread as I don't want to 'spoil' Georgie's fame page!!

Rustie, the eldest dog suffered really badly with excema and allergies this year and we were advised to put him on a chicken and rice diet. It worked wonders, he stopped scratching after a couple of days and I would recommend it to everyone. Must admit that I hate boiling up the chicken and de-boning it as I'm a veggie - urrgh!!

Have you tried a rice cooker; I know we all have too many unused pieces of equipment but this is a really useful thing if you cook a lot of rice, particularly because it keeps it warm so if you are having a crowd around for chilli or whatever, it is a great help. It works on the same absorbtion method idea as Delia, but you simply bung everything in and turn it on, and that's that. They are only about £25 from Lakeland, or Argos are even cheaper.

I had a problem cooking rice and tried Delia's method, I find it works most times.

However, I'm now making a fair amount of it a week for my dogs and find that the microwave provides perfect rice everytime and have started re-using the micro for our rice!

Delia gave me the best advise to be honest, about when to stir and when NEVER to stir. Now my rice is fine. Have a look at a book of hers or look on her web site.

I had trouble for years, thought I'd never grasp it, but then listened to Delia and have not had a failure ever since, about 8 years now.

Although I've never managed it well myself, according to several chefs I've heard, it works best if the rice is as cold as possible - but make sure it is piping hot when served or you run into all sorts of problems with bacteria.