Is washing rice really still necessary?
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Date: 2020-10-19
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Ray
When I was a kid I remember my mom had to pick out pebbles and little sticks from beans and then washing them to remove sand. Back in the day, some inexcrupulous producers would add some sand to their produce to increase its weight when selling, but for the last 10 years or so the beans I buy have been completely clean because better quality beans have become more affordable. I do freak out when people don't peel their carrots - that isn't because the carrots I get here are dirty, but I've always been told that the outer layer of carrots is still covered in dirt from when it was planted. I realize it's all psychological, because the same people who have taught me that never bothered washing/peeling their potatoes like they did with carrots and potatoes also grow under the ground.
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When I was a kid I remember my mom had to pick out pebbles and little sticks from beans and then washing them to remove sand. Back in the day, some inexcrupulous producers would add some sand to their produce to increase its weight when selling, but for the last 10 years or so the beans I buy have been completely clean because better quality beans have become more affordable. I do freak out when people don't peel their carrots - that isn't because the carrots I get here are dirty, but I've always been told that the outer layer of carrots is still covered in dirt from when it was planted. I realize it's all psychological, because the same people who have taught me that never bothered washing/peeling their potatoes like they did with carrots and potatoes also grow under the ground.
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mrmacross
We bought organic brown rice from the Korean grocer, HMart. We ended up exchanging the bag twice, and eventually returning it, because there were so many bugs in it. I guess the good news is that it probably was a true, organic, pesticide-free rice if there were so many bugs in it. But even my parents would have a moth problem from non-organic Thai jasmine rice we'd buy from a local Asian grocery store.
Even here in the US, if you buy a sack of rice, don't be surprised if there are bugs in it.
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We bought organic brown rice from the Korean grocer, HMart. We ended up exchanging the bag twice, and eventually returning it, because there were so many bugs in it. I guess the good news is that it probably was a true, organic, pesticide-free rice if there were so many bugs in it. But even my parents would have a moth problem from non-organic Thai jasmine rice we'd buy from a local Asian grocery store.
Even here in the US, if you buy a sack of rice, don't be surprised if there are bugs in it.
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mynamebestname
I have always wondered if not washing rice would be beneficial for making sushi since you want the rice to stick together. also in general when eating with chopsticks, isn't it easier when the rice can clump together.
Anyhow, I always wash my rice. especially since I once found a disgusting piece of dirt in my rice, -even though I live in the west and buy rice in small plastic bags
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I have always wondered if not washing rice would be beneficial for making sushi since you want the rice to stick together. also in general when eating with chopsticks, isn't it easier when the rice can clump together.
Anyhow, I always wash my rice. especially since I once found a disgusting piece of dirt in my rice, -even though I live in the west and buy rice in small plastic bags
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David
still find it's best to rinse at least once.
also: central USA rice has been found to have unsafe amounts of arsenic (from the chicken manure used to fertilize the dry rice varieties in the U. S) real data/ not 'frantic reactionary articles' show this to be true, in recent years.
Lists are out there with safer rice countries/ regions to get your rice.
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still find it's best to rinse at least once.
also: central USA rice has been found to have unsafe amounts of arsenic (from the chicken manure used to fertilize the dry rice varieties in the U. S) real data/ not 'frantic reactionary articles' show this to be true, in recent years.
Lists are out there with safer rice countries/ regions to get your rice.
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Lenore
White rice needs a good wash before you cook with it because the excess starch causes the water to foam up and cause issues when you cook in a pot, if you're using a rice cooker you don't need to. This is also depends on the rice, jasmine rice is actually pretty clean as far as starchy rice goes, it's easy to cook jasmine rice without a wash in a pot.
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White rice needs a good wash before you cook with it because the excess starch causes the water to foam up and cause issues when you cook in a pot, if you're using a rice cooker you don't need to. This is also depends on the rice, jasmine rice is actually pretty clean as far as starchy rice goes, it's easy to cook jasmine rice without a wash in a pot.
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Cletus
Some people: You DON'T use Minute Rice!
Me: No.
Some people: It's just better. Ah well, pass the butter.
Me: passes butter
Some people: I meant the butter in the tub. Not this stuff.
Me: Margarine?
Some people: Sigh, I'm gonna have to teach you a thing or two about good food.
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Some people: You DON'T use Minute Rice!
Me: No.
Some people: It's just better. Ah well, pass the butter.
Me: passes butter
Some people: I meant the butter in the tub. Not this stuff.
Me: Margarine?
Some people: Sigh, I'm gonna have to teach you a thing or two about good food.
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Yaam
Except Hersha was making fried rice, an east and southeast asian dish, and just as you shouldn't wash rice for paella or risotto, you SHOULD wash rice when making it to be used for fried rice. Also, she then proceeded to rinse the rice post-cooking, which you should never do.
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Except Hersha was making fried rice, an east and southeast asian dish, and just as you shouldn't wash rice for paella or risotto, you SHOULD wash rice when making it to be used for fried rice. Also, she then proceeded to rinse the rice post-cooking, which you should never do.
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Amir
IDK why I saw people make a dish with brown rice made me sick. At visual, I saw brown rice like white rice haven't washed and the flavour so earthy so made me sick. Yeah child trauma when asian family don't know how to cook brown rice or you don't washed white rice trauma
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IDK why I saw people make a dish with brown rice made me sick. At visual, I saw brown rice like white rice haven't washed and the flavour so earthy so made me sick. Yeah child trauma when asian family don't know how to cook brown rice or you don't washed white rice trauma
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SUP3RB
I usually wash my rice unless I'm making spanish rice because i need to brown it in oil.
I did buy a big bag of rice years ago and the water coming off the rice after washing it was brown, so from there on i started washing my rice more regularly.
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I usually wash my rice unless I'm making spanish rice because i need to brown it in oil.
I did buy a big bag of rice years ago and the water coming off the rice after washing it was brown, so from there on i started washing my rice more regularly.
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