Why does it hurt every time I eat rice?!
P.S. I have no known allergies, eating disorders, conditions, etc. I honestly just want to know if anyone else experiences this, or knows why this happens. "Just stop eating rice" doesn't satisfy my curiosity as to why this occurs.
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Trust the RN's answer/advice. It could be a thing that she describes, but is usually more prevalent in younger people, and it could be as simple a thing as your rice is pretty dry when you consume it, and as you eat a couple of bites, you produce more saliva, making what you eat wetter and therefore easier to swallow. As for all the answers asking about whether or not you are cooking the rice, ignore the ignorant comments. If that were the case, clearly you would not be able to swallow the rice after one or two bites, it would continue to be the problem. As for cooking any kind of white rice, the best recipe there ever was for cooking it was given me by my Grandma when I was a young kid. I remember her simple explanation and it goes like this: "One cup of rice - two cups of water. Two cups of rice - three cups of water. Three cups of rice - four cups of water. Etc., etc. You always add ONE more cup of water than however many cups of rice you cook. Pay attention, you don't double up, just ONE more cup of WATER than however many cups of RICE you cook. Add salt to taste, about a half tsp. per cup is plenty. Also, before I add the water to the pot, I stir in a little olive oil. This helps to keep it from sticking together and I add it to the dry rice and stir well. After you add the water, bring it to a boil, lower the heat to LOW, cover and cook 25 minutes. Remove from the heat, remove the cover and let stand about 5 minutes. Tip: this works just as well in a rice cooker as it does in a pot, and you should use a heavy gauge pot if you can. This is taking longer to answer than it does to cook the rice. This will work, and your rice will be moist, and since I'll go ahead and tell all, I'm a CAJUN. We get up in the morning and put on a pot of coffee and a pot of rice and then think, "What am I gonna cook today?" The rice is a given. We eat it with almost everything, and some foods are mostly rice, like Jambalaya!!
BON CHANCE!! (GOOD LUCK IN CAJUN)
50+ YEARS EATING RICE. VERY GOOD RICE. WITH BEANS, GUMBO, GRAVY - the real kind like you get on a Roast Beef Po-Boy in New Orleans.
Might be a good question for a doctor. I used to get those types of pains when I was a teenage and ate bread. It was like a knot stuck in my chest that hurt like crazy. But mine would go away if I drank something. I'd get it checked with a gastrointestinal doctor. Perhaps a stricture of your esophagus is the reason, which they could find with a scope. Good luck!
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either because you are asian or you are not.
Do you cook the rice? What else does your diet consist of?
I don't know the portion of rice to water. normally, try using 2 and 1/2 cups of clear water to one cup of rice. Cook it on arice cooker or the o top of the stove. If you cook on the stove bring to a boil until the water on top equal the level of the rice (normally 15 minutes). But before the water boils down to the level of the rice, stir it in.
By the way, if your problem is too much starch that sticks to your throat, was th rice by rubbing them between your hands until, the water is clear: It takes about 4 rinses or 5. Don't go more than 5 rinses. This should take most of the starch attached on the rice.
The type of rice is also something to reconsider. There is Jasmine and Jasmine/new product; These types of rice is rather sticky. A Calrose medium or short grain will lessen the starch of the surface.
If your problem is less starch on your rice, use the Jasmine rice from Thailand.
Hi Kat, I live in Vietnam and people in my country eat rice everyday. We feel nothing about it and we can't live without rice. Maybe you don't know how to cook rice yet and that's the reason rice is hard and it hurts your throat. Well, why don't you try to eat fried rice first? I mean you fry rice and put oil, eggs, pork to make fried rice. But most people use the multi rice cooker to cook the white rice. You have to put water to make the rice soft. Looks like you think rice is an instant food and you don't cook before you eat. There's no problem when my whole country eat rice so I think you did something wrong with the rice before you eat.