If you want to make delicious rice every time, read on!

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Spoiler: Itsrice, and the actor believes there is a right and wrong way to cook it.

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Here are the rice cooking dos and donts that you should probably know, according to Saldana.

First, you gotta rinse your rice before you cook itwhich is also aPadma Lakshmi-approved tip.

Saldana notes that she washes her rice with water over and over and over again.

Once rinsed, its time to cook the rice.

And then you add your water, she says.

But you dont add so much water.

You dont want pasty, sticky rice unless thats your intention.

Youll get that grainy, delicious rice.

Every little grain is oily.

Its really good, Saldana says.

OK, she definitely convinced uswe need to try her rice cooking method ASAP.