Cooking query
By China Syndrome •
OK, sorry for this trivial post, but cannot find an alternative forum in QL to post this query.
I have a dispute with my wife over the preparation of rice before cooking in a rice cooker.
Here is what each of us reckon:
1) Rice must be washed before cooking to remove the dust i.e. dust causes the brown on the bottom of cooked rice in the rice cooker and is not nescessary anyway.
2) Rice should not be washed as the dust contains the 'goodness'.
I wont say which of us says what so that there is no support re gender i.e. male v female. But if any 'chefs' have an opinion, lets hear it:-)
Mrs Kim always washed her rice...
You can't teach experience...
Have to admit, unless it says on the packet to wash the rice first (which I've never seen) I don't! I'm still alive and kicking, so I guess whatever starch and nutrients or processing there was in what I ate didn't kill me. (Not fond of rice so haven't consumed mountains of the stuff anyway).
If I was buying it from a sack in a souq THEN I would, but not the pre-packed stuff. Although, strangely enough, I always rinse lentils, other pulses etc and burghal (cracked wheat) even though I buy that pre-packed - you can see the water cloud and bits 'n pieces you don't want float to the top, so I rinse until it looks clear.
But what do I know ...
If the rice is from Asia and sub continent, wash at least twice but don't rub it. If rice is from US, no need to wash cause rice are pre boiled from this country. I learnt this from the chef "Yan can Cook" chow chen!
What ever case it maybe.. WASH your rice.. so that you can wash away all the dust..
The browning of the base in a rice cooker.. Refer any manual of a Rice Cooker.. Browing is very common on the base of a rice cooker.. As the base is what get very hot all the away.. so slight browing of the rice in a rice cooker is normal..
Washing rice is goodness.. strange but true..
IMI - The Screen Behind The Mirror
"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."
"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
washing is a must. i am sure u wash ur vegetables then why not rice? secondly presoaked cook better.
If u r going to eat it, otherwise keep the goodness
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./`I don't wanna waste another day-Keepin it inside, it's killing me./`
Rice must be washed before cooking to remove the dust i.e. dust causes the brown on the bottom of cooked rice in the rice cooker and is not nescessary anyway.This is rght bcs if yiu dont wash sometimes little insects also in rice can cause harm.
Wash the rice, dust contains bacteria not goodness :P
I'm not always right, but I'm never wrong -Garfield
Dust contains goodness...........
Have all the goodness during sand storm........
Hi,
dust contains the 'goodness' is correct but most of us wash the rice before cooking.