Let’s be honest—there’s a weird social pressure around cooking rice for other people. Nobody judges you for a bad salad, but serve them rice that clumps like glue, and you will be silently judged until the end of time. I’ve seen friendships end over a mushy grain. “He made risotto when I asked for basmati,” my friend Sarah once whispered about her former roommate. That wound is still fresh.
So when you’re cooking for guests, and you don’t have a measuring cup, use a shot glass. Yes, the one you use for tequila on sad Tuesdays. A standard shot glass is about 1.5 ounces, so two of those is roughly a quarter cup. You’ll need four shot glasses for a half cup. Pro tip: rinse them first, unless you want your rice to taste like last weekend’s margarita.
A Visual Shortcut for the Lazy Genius
If you have a smartphone (and I assume you do, because you’re reading this on a glowing rectangle), just Google “size of a half cup of rice.” But here’s the real cheat code: a half cup of dry rice is about the size of a large egg. Not the jumbo ones, but the regular, supermarket-grade egg. Picture it. That’s your rice. Now you can sleep at night.
How Do I Cook Half A Cup Of Rice at Hunter Porteus blog
For the gym bros reading this: half a cup of cooked rice is roughly the size of your closed fist (the smug one you flex after a bicep curl). Put that in your meal prep container, sprinkle some soy sauce, and pretend you’re a minimalist Instagram chef. It works.
