yewnit [2592654]

I never really questioned why but yes I wash my rice. 3 or 4 times until the water isn't super cloudy. I've always told myself that we wash it to clean it off for w/e reasons may be.

Also, in Hawaii everyone has a rice cooker (pretty much 90% of our meals include rice as the starch). I'm baffled at the fact people cook rice in a microwave or on a stove. The only thing I knew about were those microwave trays of rice you could buy in the store.

Yall are animals for not using a rice cooker like a civilized person.

EDIT: I keep seeing it in the comments and I am legit trying this whole 'butter and salt the rice' before cooking it tonight. Hope it goes well with chili :D

SporkMonkey [2065017]

By rice, do you mean my penis?

shyleenus [2772040]

I am hoping you wash your penis

SporkMonkey [2065017]

More worried about cleanliness than size - my kinda gal.

CHINGADERA [2270005]

1 day 35 posts, the future is bright for this noob.

shyleenus [2772040]

I just like to chat :( I didn't know what else to do after my energy bar depletes LOL
I don't know what I'm doing ~

Borscht [2511009]

If you don’t wash your rice before cooking we can’t be friends. #Washedriceforlyfe

TheUltimateSalt [2171375]

FAX
#Washedriceforlyfe
#DontdisappointUncleRoger

1. Go to the Asian super market and buy the big bags of rice
2. Go home and use some plastic cup to measure amount of rice
3. Pour into rice cooker thing
4. Wash rice x2
5. Put amount of water needed
6. Place in the godly rice cooker
7. Switch it to cook mode
8. That is the way
9. If I didn't do this I would get in trouble lmao

OingyBoingy [2753672]

Question though,

Do we need to rinse boil in bag rice?

Since when we boil it, we don't have to worry about it soaking up all the water before it's ready

SporkMonkey [2065017]

I toast my rice a little in butter before adding chicken stock and cooking it in that instead of plain water.

yewnit [2592654]

I never really questioned why but yes I wash my rice. 3 or 4 times until the water isn't super cloudy. I've always told myself that we wash it to clean it off for w/e reasons may be.

Also, in Hawaii everyone has a rice cooker (pretty much 90% of our meals include rice as the starch). I'm baffled at the fact people cook rice in a microwave or on a stove. The only thing I knew about were those microwave trays of rice you could buy in the store.

Yall are animals for not using a rice cooker like a civilized person.

EDIT: I keep seeing it in the comments and I am legit trying this whole 'butter and salt the rice' before cooking it tonight. Hope it goes well with chili :D

shyleenus [2772040]

It's blowing my mind how many people cook rice on the stove
top still - also think i need to go to church for thinking microwave
rice is going to be okay... curiosity killed the cat. Please do update
about the salt and butter.. because i have always just done plain
jasmine rice cooked with just water.

Ampheromine [2065865]

Update: I made rice on the stovetop today. Unwashed jasmine. Sprayed the pot with cooking spray. Came out perf

Ampheromine [2065865]

Update: I made rice on the stovetop today. Unwashed jasmine. Sprayed the pot with cooking spray. Came out perf

Absinthian [2263711]

Not sure I follow your rationale for spraying the pan before hand. Doesn't the oil just float to the top when you put the water in?

Absinthian [2263711]

For those of us that don't make rice on a daily basis, rice cookers are a waste of precious kitchen space.

Absinthian [2263711]

For those of us that don't make rice on a daily basis, rice cookers are a waste of precious kitchen space.

Ripley [2180244]

Pressure cookers work fine for rice and have many other uses. Not sure how cramped your kitchen is, though.

Absinthian [2263711]

I have an old school pressure cooker I use for canning. Would probably cook 10 pounds of rice at a time. lol

But really, on the stove top works well.

Blunt [2076337]

Washing rice is unnecessary.

The only time it's feasible is if your using the starch water for things such as Korean natural farming, fermentation projects, or feeding plants (which are all interrelated tbh).

As a former chef, we never washed rice. If it isn't well dried after washing, it can introduce much more water than intended due to how much water can be held between the grains, which then changes the consistency of the end product.

Any supposed benefits that rinsing the rice would achieve, would also be achieved during the cooking process, so your adding extra time/steps, and possibly messing with the texture/water content of the end product, when the simple act of boiling would kill off anything funky.

I keep jasmine, basmati, long grain white, long grain brown, and short grain arborio rice in my home, have cooked with each many times, and can say definitively that none BENEFIT from washing beforehand.

Blunt [2076337]

Washing rice is unnecessary.

The only time it's feasible is if your using the starch water for things such as Korean natural farming, fermentation projects, or feeding plants (which are all interrelated tbh).

As a former chef, we never washed rice. If it isn't well dried after washing, it can introduce much more water than intended due to how much water can be held between the grains, which then changes the consistency of the end product.

Any supposed benefits that rinsing the rice would achieve, would also be achieved during the cooking process, so your adding extra time/steps, and possibly messing with the texture/water content of the end product, when the simple act of boiling would kill off anything funky.

I keep jasmine, basmati, long grain white, long grain brown, and short grain arborio rice in my home, have cooked with each many times, and can say definitively that none BENEFIT from washing beforehand.

Fishyfox [2010062]

"As a former chef, we never washed rice. If it isn't well dried after washing, it can introduce much more water than intended due to how much water can be held between the grains, which then changes the consistency of the end product."

Sorry but this does not make sense. Rice is cooked in water so unless you're gonna keep it for such a long time between washing and cooking that the rice is going to absorb all the water, there's no need to dry it at all.

Personally I wash my rice to get rid of any dirt that might have gotten in there during the production process, and also -tradition-. Boiling dirt does indeed kill bacteria but I don't wanna eat boiled dirt.

Blunt [2076337]

Washing rice is unnecessary.

The only time it's feasible is if your using the starch water for things such as Korean natural farming, fermentation projects, or feeding plants (which are all interrelated tbh).

As a former chef, we never washed rice. If it isn't well dried after washing, it can introduce much more water than intended due to how much water can be held between the grains, which then changes the consistency of the end product.

Any supposed benefits that rinsing the rice would achieve, would also be achieved during the cooking process, so your adding extra time/steps, and possibly messing with the texture/water content of the end product, when the simple act of boiling would kill off anything funky.

I keep jasmine, basmati, long grain white, long grain brown, and short grain arborio rice in my home, have cooked with each many times, and can say definitively that none BENEFIT from washing beforehand.

Fishyfox [2010062]

"As a former chef, we never washed rice. If it isn't well dried after washing, it can introduce much more water than intended due to how much water can be held between the grains, which then changes the consistency of the end product."

Sorry but this does not make sense. Rice is cooked in water so unless you're gonna keep it for such a long time between washing and cooking that the rice is going to absorb all the water, there's no need to dry it at all.

Personally I wash my rice to get rid of any dirt that might have gotten in there during the production process, and also -tradition-. Boiling dirt does indeed kill bacteria but I don't wanna eat boiled dirt.

Blunt [2076337]

It's not about absorbing the water, it's about the water that's retained in the small spaces between kernels.

It's like wetting sand, or fine gravel... the sand and gravel itself isn't actually absorbing water per say because they are solid (except maybe a small amount held in air pockets/micro fissures in the surface of the stones/sand material - which rice also does, aka pourous surface), the water is held in the tiny pockets of air between the particles.

When your cooking 20lbs of rice at a time, either in the oven or a large pot, the amount of extra water held by the rice is enough to change the consistency from a dry cooked rice that isn't very starchy/sticky, to one that is sticky, wet, and incorrect consistency.


What I feel makes no sense, is washing "dirt" off of your rice... I've never seen dirt filled rice. Maybe in the country your in, but in America (where we produce and process most of our own rice), I've never come across rice that's full of dirt. There is a white substance on rice sometimes, which is starch, or added minerals etc, but not dirt. And so long as your not agitating the rice much while cooking, the white dusty starch usually doesn't effect consistency.... but rinsing does.

A lot of what I've seen spoken about in this thread is people repeating the process they've been shown by their parents, and repeating the logic explained to them by their parents... "tradition". I'm sure I've cooked more rice than most in here, and in much larger quantities than most. You can disagree all you want, but the fact remains... weigh out 20lbs of rice, rinse it, and then weigh it again and you will see what I mean.

The ONLY rice I would rinse, would be sushi rice, and that's solely because that the traditional way to do it, and sushi rice has a sticky consistency to it anyway. Any other rice I would not.. and that's backed by experience in cooking them in quantity and being mentored/trained professionally by other professionals, not learning bad practice from a home cook