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I cover the rice with my steamer basket and it never boils over. Or I tried covering the lid with a light towel and that too worked.

Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

Dan Marek - Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

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This event was on July 2, 2024

Join Chef Dan Marek in his virtual office as he welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to Ask Anything – from cooking techniques to course-specific questions, to how to turn your cooking passion into profit or simply hearing the perspective of a professional chef, Chef Dan is ready to answer them all.

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Question

Rosie AIELLO

I cover the rice with my steamer basket and it never boils over. Or I tried covering the lid with a light towel and that too worked.?

Answer

Yep, that's, that's true. Both of those things will work. I also know that if you put a wooden spoon over the top of your pot as well, it won't cook over, which is just, you know, the reaction happening between those two. Um, but yeah, those two things will work. I'd be a little concerning about covering, uh, the tight towel over it as well just because that towel can heat up very quickly and uh, sometimes you forget and you have a very, very hot towel. Um, but the steamer basket, uh, that does the same thing with the wooden spoon over the top wood as well.

Dan Marek

Director of Plant-Based Culinary & Dev

*Dan Marek* is a chef educator who has been teaching vegan and vegetarian cooking for over 15 years. At Rouxbe, he is our Director of Plant-Based Culinary and Development where he helps develop content, classes and builds courses for many of our partners. Dan is a board member of Slow Food Austin, the Institute of Child Nutrition, and Conscious Capitalism. He has earned his BA in Journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University and holds certificates in Nutrition from Cornell University. Prior to his role with Rouxbe, Dan worked with Whole Kids Foundation training teachers and food service at schools across the country on nutrition and culinary best practices. He also worked as a Healthy Eating Educator at Whole Foods Market’s flagship store in Austin, TX, was a personal chef for some of Austin’s elite business people, taught classes in culinary techniques at Austin Community College, The Natural Epicurean, and Le Cordon Bleu. Dan also regularly volunteers cooking or speaking about nutrition for the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Marathon Kids, Health Alliance for Austin Musicians, and the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Austin and Central Texas.