Microwavable rice has made our busy lives so much easier – but there’s one thing about it that’s so frustrating.
Cooking dried rice from scratch can be a pain. If you don’t have a rice cooker it takes a while to cook and there’s an art to mixing it with just the right amount of water.
Many of us will also know the nightmare of trying to wash up the pan afterwards, as the rice loves nothing more than getting stuck to the sides. Thankfully, microwavable rice is here to save the day. All you have to do is pop it in the microwave for a couple of minutes and you’ve got delicious rice ready to eat.
But anyone who regularly eats microwave rice will know there’s one thing that makes it frustrating to deal with. Sometimes, the plastic packaging it comes in can be too thin on the bottom and can lead to it toppling over – spilling rice all over your microwave and leaving you with a mess to clean up.
If this happens to you, worry not, as one TikTok user has discovered the perfect trick to keeping your packets upright.
A woman who goes by the username The Budgeting Mum shared a video of herself cooking a packet of microwave rice she had bought from Asda, and demonstrated that the bottom of the packet can actually be opened up to create a flat surface that stops it from toppling over in the microwave.
She said: “I was today years old when I discovered this life hack. Anyone else not realise that if you pull these bits open at the bottom of the rice, it stands up and doesn’t fall over in the microwave?”
But it turns out the mum’s hack was controversial, as while some praised her for sharing a trick they desperately needed to know, others said they’d never had problems with rice packets falling over before.
One person said: “This has got to be the best hack I’ve seen on TikTok!”
But another argued: “I’ve never done that and mine have always stayed upright in the microwave.”
Someone else declared the trick had “changed their life”, while some other commenters were baffled by the notion that people stand their rice up in the microwave as they claimed they always cook theirs lying down.
One wrote: “Why are you cooking it standing up? Just lay it on its side. I’ve been doing it for years. I’ve never seen anybody stand it up before.”
