Nowadays there’s a life hack for pretty much everything. One woman was shocked after discovering a hidden secret about boil in the bag rice that she’d never realised until being forced to cook it
The internet has proven itself useful for sharing hacks for making your every day life that little bit easier. One woman recently took to TikTok to share her shock after discovering a secret about boil in the bag rice.
A TikTok user known as ‘Broke until payday’ shared a video of how she has just realised boil in the bag rice, which she claimed she disliked, wasn’t as special as she assumed.
“Why am I stupid? Because I thought boil in bag rice was like some special kind of rice,” she said. “So the other day I told my mum to run to Asda because I had run out of rice. And she was like ‘ah all they have is boil in the bag rice.’ So I was thinking ‘ah I don’t like boil in the bag rice’. But just pick it up because we need rice.”
However, the disappointment of not having ‘normal’ basmati rice quickly turned into shock when she started looking at the box of boil in the bag rice.
“So I’m looking at the packages now and I’m like this is just normal basmati rice that I buy anyway but not in a bag. Surely you must be able to cut open and just boil it without it being in the bag” she said. “I honestly honestly thought in all my 41 years of life that boil in the bag rice was some special kind of rice for people that can’t cook rice, so they made special rice and put it in a bag.”
“So I was today years old when I learned that so I just cut all the rice out of the packages because who boils rice in a bag anyways? If you do, no judgement. But look how it came out, it just came out like normal regular rice.”
She showed her pot of cooked rice, which she had fluffed up and added butter to ahead of serving it with her meal. “So all that to say, if you run out of rice and all they have in the shop is boil in the bag rice, you can buy that,” she said.
People had mixed feelings about the woman’s video, with some people not understanding why she chose to cut open the bag.
One person commented: “I don’t understand why you cut it open and emptied it, it cooks exactly the same,” to which the TikTok creator replied: “Because I don’t like boil in a bag rice.”
“Boil in the bag is just for people who can’t cook as when it’s completely expanded you know it’s done and it’s easier to clean the pan,” a second person said, while another person commented: “It’s portioned that’s why it’s in a bag and also makes it easier.”
“I had this conversation in reverse with my ex…he only bought boil in the bag rice, and when I explained to him it was exactly the same as the packer I bought, he was so confused,” another user shared.
