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> Rice and a good rice cooker. I like rice, but am concerned by the number of people who don't wash it (arsenic) [1]. Then you have the issue of reheating/leav

by bArray 7y ago

> Rice and a good rice cooker. I like rice, but am concerned by the number of people who don't wash it (arsenic) [1]. Then you have the issue of reheating/leaving to cool [2]. With the amount of idiocy going around it seems like a massive risk. Pasta is very difficult to mess up, worst case you're just going to get some crunchy or over-boiled pasta. [1] https://www.recapo.com/the-doctors/the-doctors-diet/the-doctors-arsenic-in-rice-and-arsenic-poisoning-symptoms/ https://www.recapo.com/the-doctors/the-doctors-diet/the-doct... [2] https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/food-and-diet/can-reheating-rice-cause-food-poisoning/ https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/food-and-diet/can...

netsharc 7y ago
I eat a lot of rice and am now worried, but man, [1] is just a random blog that looks like it's a fake news website. The author blurb just says she married the love of her life in 2012. Uh, how is that relevant? It's the kind of article/site like one you'd see taking a graph of the effects 2011 Japanese quake on currents across the world, and claiming it to be a graph of how radiation has reached California...
dylz 7y ago
[1] looks like a spam blog.
netsharc 7y ago
After researching it, the arsenic isn't "fake news", and I would trust the BBC to actually have asked real experts [1], [2], and their recommendation is: > Now, some ways of cooking rice reduce arsenic levels more than others. We carried out some tests with Prof Meharg and found the best technique is to soak the rice overnight before cooking it in a 5:1 water-to-rice ratio. > That cuts arsenic levels by 80%, compared to the common approach of using two parts water to one part rice and letting all the water soak in. Using lots of water - the 5:1 ratio - without pre-soaking also reduced arsenic levels, but not by as much as the pre-soaking levels. [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/health-38910848 https://www.bbc.com/news/health-38910848 [2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2F1MDzyW55pg97Tdpp7gqLN/should-i-be-concerned-about-arsenic-in-my-rice https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2F1MDzyW55pg97Tdpp...

by bArray 7y ago

netsharc 7y ago

I eat a lot of rice and am now worried, but man, [1] is just a random blog that looks like it's a fake news website. The author blurb just says she married the love of her life in 2012. Uh, how is that relevant? It's the kind of article/site like one you'd see taking a graph of the effects 2011 Japanese quake on currents across the world, and claiming it to be a graph of how radiation has reached California...

dylz 7y ago

[1] looks like a spam blog.

netsharc 7y ago

After researching it, the arsenic isn't "fake news", and I would trust the BBC to actually have asked real experts [1], [2], and their recommendation is: > Now, some ways of cooking rice reduce arsenic levels more than others. We carried out some tests with Prof Meharg and found the best technique is to soak the rice overnight before cooking it in a 5:1 water-to-rice ratio. > That cuts arsenic levels by 80%, compared to the common approach of using two parts water to one part rice and letting all the water soak in. Using lots of water - the 5:1 ratio - without pre-soaking also reduced arsenic levels, but not by as much as the pre-soaking levels. [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/health-38910848 https://www.bbc.com/news/health-38910848 [2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2F1MDzyW55pg97Tdpp7gqLN/should-i-be-concerned-about-arsenic-in-my-rice https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2F1MDzyW55pg97Tdpp...