why do japanese wash their rice so many times before cooking it,what is the reason ?any benefit from it?!
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Traditionally Japanese washed their rice to purify the flavor and to remove any impurities remaining in the dry rice but for now, people wash to remove excessive starch clinging to the outside of the grain.
Japanese rice is a kind of short-grain rice which has a higher proportion of waxy starch. This is to avoid the rice to stick together at the bottom of the rice cooker / pot, not mushy or watery and all will be fluffy. You can of course eat the starch without washing but some people just don't like it.
One of the first questions non-initiates ask is, "How does it stick together like that?" The answer: It just does. The shorter the grain of rice, the higher the starch content, and the higher the starch content, the stickier the rice. The kinds of rice favored in Japan are all very short-grained--the shortest and stickiest, mochi, looks like tiny pebbles--and as a result, the only way to get cooked Japanese rice off your fingers is surgical removal. (So be careful.) Wetting down the rice does cause it to lose cohesion, but you tend to end up with rice slime. (So be careful.)
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The following is one of the most shocking stories in the Ahadith of Sahih Bukhari:
Some people of 'Ukl or 'Uraina tribe came to Medina, and its climate did not suit them. So the prophet ordered them to go to the herd of [ Milch] camels and to drink their milk and urine [as a medicine]. So they went as directed and after they became healthy, they killed the shepherd of the prophet and drove away all the camels. The news reached the prophet early in the morning and he sent [men] in their pursuit and they were captured and brought at noon. He then ordered to cut their hands and feet [and it was done], and their eyes were branded with heated pieces of iron. They were put in "Al-Harra" and when they asked for water, no water was given to them. (vol. 1, bk. 4, no. 234)
The following details in this story are troubling. First, the pagan prescription of drinking camel's urine for medicine purposes, second, the barbarity and lack of any hint of mercy in this incident with the branding of eyes, the cutting off of hands and feet, and leaving people to scorch under the hot sun without water. This is one of the most authenticated stories in the Ahadith ofStihili Bukhari, as it is repeated twelve times (isnad).
It's not just the Japanese that wash their rice.
I've been told you always do it a few times to get any dirt or dust off the rice, not to mention so you can get any pebbles or non-rice things out of the rice.
I don't believe in rinsing it until the water stays clear - even most Japanese people I know only rinse it a few times then throw it in the cooker.
Rice naturally has starches stuck to it. Washing the rice cleans it - if you don't, your rice will cook up with a plasticky starch layer, and it turns your rice from nice, fluffy, and delicious to a brick of starchy nastiness.
It doesn't make it less sticky, most cultures wash there rice as rice is not naturally white and been put in machines with chemicals to finely grain and bleach it white. So washing off the impurities after being processed.
It's to remove as much starch as possible, thus making the rice fluffier and less likely to sick together.
It makes it less sticky after cooking, and removes impurities.
remove the starch
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