Rice is one of the best staple foods you can eat today and offers many amazing benefits, but sometimes time isn’t always on our side, how long it takes to prepare a dish can make a big difference to the food we choose.

In this article, we will look at how long it takes to cook rice in a rice cooker, let’s take a dive.

Quick answer: it depends on the type of rice, but the average time for a full cup of short grain rice is 13 minutes, 25 minutes for cooked rice, 40 minutes for whole grain rice and 50 minutes for brown rice.

Rice cooking time table

The type of rice cooker you choose will affect the time it takes to cook the rice in it. There are two most popular rice cookers:

1. Rice cooker
2. Nice rice pot

Whatever you use, it will change the cooking time. Here are the tables with the average cooking time for rice:

Cooker cooking time table with cold cooking

white rice

White rice per cup	Cooking time (minutes)
1 cup	10-15 minutes
2 cups	20-25 minutes
3 cups	30-35 minutes
4 cups	40-45 minutes
5 cups	50-55 minutes
6 cups	60-65 minutes
7 cups	70-75 minutes
8 cups	80-85 minutes
9 cups	90-95 minutes
10 cups	100-105 coins

Brown rice

Brown rice per cup	Cooking time (minutes)
2 cups	60 minutes
3 cups	60 minutes
4 cups	60 minutes
5 cups	60 minutes
6 cups	60 minutes
7 cups	60 minutes
8 cups	60 minutes
9 cups	60 minutes
10 cups	60 minutes

Rice cooker cooking schedule

white rice

White rice per cup	Cooking time (minutes)
1 cup	10-13 minutes
2 cups	20-25 minutes
3 cups	30-35 minutes
4 cups	40-45 minutes
5 cups	50-55 minutes
6 cups	60-65 minutes
7 cups	70-75 minutes
8 cups	80-85 minutes
9 cups	90-95 minutes
10 cups	100-105 minutes

Delicious rice

Brown rice per cup	Cooking time Minutes
1 cup	25 minutes
2 cups	35 minutes
3 cups	50 minutes
4 cups	60-70 minutes
5 cups	70-75 minutes
6 cups	75-80 minutes
7 cups	80-90 minutes
8 cups	100-110 minutes
9 cups	120-125 minutes
10 cups	130-135 minutes

Note that these are average aggregate times. source

How long does it take to cook 3 cups of rice in a rice pot?

It takes 30-35 minutes for white rice and 60 minutes for brown rice to cook 3 cups of rice in the oven. this Type the rice cooker that you will use is sure to influence the expected time.

How long does it take to cook 5 cups of rice in a rice pot?

The average number of minutes to cook 5 cups of rice in the oven is 50-55 minutes for white rice and 60-70 minutes for brown rice.

How long does it take to cook 10 cups of rice?

Note that the more cups of rice you put in, the longer it will take to cook it completely. This means that the average cooking time for 10 cups of rice is 105-130 minutes for white rice and 90-130 minutes for brown rice.

How to speed up cooking rice?

If you don’t have time and are looking for faster ways to cook the rice, one thing you can do now is pour the salted water into the rice pot / pan and bring it to a boil, then add the rice and wait for the rice to become softer and more tender. (Source)

Another thing you can do is cook the excess rice and leave the leftovers in the pan, so you can just heat the rice and eat it. This works very well, and I usually do it when I know I’m on a tight schedule.

How do you know when the rice pot is ready?

Different rice cookers have different functions, but most of them automatically turn off and activate the keep warm function after cooking is finished, just like Japanese rice cookers which are a bit advanced.

What are the best rice cookers?

Final thoughts

Rice is good for our health, and eating enough rice is full of its benefits. Hopefully this article will shed some light on the cooking time it takes to cook the rice.