Boiling covers a multitude of hygienic sins, the worst of which happened to the rice long before it entered your kitchen. Birds, insects, and rodents have all p

Boiling covers a multitude of hygienic sins, the worst of which happened to the rice long before it entered your kitchen. Birds, insects, and rodents have all pooped in and around it. Agriculture is filthy and there’s no way around it. In the US, the primary reason raw cookie dough shouldn’t be eaten is not because of the raw eggs which these days are remarkably safe (but still not 100%), but more because of the latent ecoli/salmonella in the raw flour.