Best dried wild rice according to redditors

That would be actual wild rice. It is a different species from the standard rice (rice is Oryza sativa and wild rice is Zizania palustris) so it looks, feels, and tastes different. Really is isn't rice at all, and it is commonly cultivated not really wild growing, so wild rice is kind of a bad name (personally I wish the name could be changed to manoomin, the name used by the Ojibwa for whom it was a staple food, because wild rice is a pretty dumb common name, but that'll never happen).

Because of the cost it is most commonly added into rice mixes such that there is very little of it, but you can buy bags of pure wild rice on Amazon (whole is a bit pricier than cracked). If you haven't had pure wild rice I'd recommend giving it a shot, it's great stuff that really deserves greater cultivation and consumption.

Also, it is not to be confused with black rice, which is the common rice species, but of an uncommon black variety.

Shopping list:

One yellow onion, two if you love onions

Head of celery

Seven or eight carrots

Package of wild rice

A bunch of spices, if you for some reason don't own spices

Powdered chicken bullion

The Thanksgiving turkey carcass that you froze, of course

Your turkey pan drippings

A "nut bag" or "mash bag". You can get a nut bag on Amazon here, or you can go to your local homebrew shop and ask for a mash bag. It takes the place of cheesecloth, and it's totally worth the investment.

Stock prep:

Put the mash bag in your slow cooker.

Thaw that turkey carcass. When it's room-temperature, hand-separate the meat from the bone. Stick the meat in a plastic bag in the fridge, and put the bones in the mash bag you put in the slow cooker. Stick the drippings in the mash bag, too.

Quarter an onion, separate out the layers, and toss all four quarters into the bag. Cut four of the carrots and four of the celery sticks longways and shove those in there somewhere too.

Add a 1/4 teaspoon of sage, a 1/4 of thyme, a 1/4 of rosemary, a dash of parsley, four or five good grinds of pepper, a teaspoon of salt, and two bay leaves. I purposely under-salted because that is something that can be done at the table to taste.

Toss a teaspoon of bullion on top.

Fold the bag up and try to tuck it underneath itself. Make sure it's easy to remove from a bunch of hot liquid in the morning, though!

Fill the crock pot about half an inch from "full" with cold water.

Turn it on Low, then go to sleep.

Good morning!

Go into the kitchen. It will smell like Turkey Mecca, but be patient! Put a towel down and, being careful not to spill a bunch of crap everywhere, lift the bag out of the slow cooker and transfer it to a plastic bag. Move the plastic bag to the garage while you wait for it to stop steaming, then compost the bones and vegetables or else give them to Fido.

Peel the rest of the carrots and slice them into coins. Same with the remaining celery: wash it and cut it into pieces. If you LOVE onion, you can cut up a whole damn onion and add it, otherwise stick to half or a quarter. Add everything to the delicious-ass broth, then walk away for two hours.

When that two hours is up, and when the entire house smells like God has blessed you with the Eternal Turkey Soup, come back and get out that bag of turkey meat. Make sure it's bite-sized pieces, then add the entire horse-honkin' thing into the slowcooker.

Set a timer for 1h30m, then reread The Name of the Wind for a couple minutes.

Finally, make your wild rice on the stove. This stuff is actually really good, but any will do. Make two cups of it, and cook it on the "light" side, because it'll suck up some soup too.

(You can also add a box of fusilli to the slowcooker about 40 minutes before you want to eat if you want Turkey Noodle Soup, but I promise you, the rice is worth your time.)

When the rice is done, dump it wholesale into the soup. Click the little knob to "Off".

It's ready.

Say a quick prayer, because this soup will make you feel like you've been touched by the turkey angel.

Edit: two pictures - the bag inside our crockpot, and the morning addition of turkey

Go look for Cajun Country Rice on amazon.

Cajun Country Louisiana Long Grain Rice, 5 Pounds https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FFJ6BYK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_YpG5CbR6J0TV6