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I used to think this about rice. When I first started cooking rice, I washed it because I'd seen my parents and grandparents do so. But one day I thought about
by markdown 5y ago
I used to think this about rice.
When I first started cooking rice, I washed it because I'd seen my parents and grandparents do so. But one day I thought about it and came to the conclusion that it was silly, and probably a habit passed down from decades ago before modern food mills and factories.
I decided that it there's no way that rice bought in a supermarket today could be dirty. We don't wash flour, sugar or salt, and we don't get sick. So I stopped washing rice.
I did that for a couple of years until someone saw me doing it and pointed out that the reason to wash rice was to rid it of its starchy coating.
I went back to washing my rice.
- tbran 5y agoOkay, but did you notice a difference? Sometimes I wash, sometimes I don't.
- markdown 4y agoYeah, in the stickyness. Unwashed rice is more clumpy.
- ncmncm 5y agoYou never looked at the water that came off it? There is often a lot of actual dirt on brown rice. On white rice they add talcum powder to keep it from sticking, which at least used to tend to have asbestos particles in it.