Why do Asians wash the rice, before putting it in the rice steamer?!

So it will stick together.
And you can pick it all up with Chopsticks alone.

washing it removes some of the starch and reduces the cooking time, and sometimes the rice wouldnt be clean.......

for "ninaiscool" : yes if u had lived in Asia you will find that the rice isn't cleaned and packaged like it is here in europe, you could be buying it from a shop where it is left out (it would get some dust from the air) and weighed for each customer, as well as the fact that some of the shells might be still mixed in with the rice, so washing will remove them.

Washing the rice removes the starch, which stops the grains from sticking together. Its not just something asians do I do it too. It doesnt get rid of vitamins as rice doesnt have any, it contains carbohydrate.

Mm... It may help. http://hot2.info/rice-steamer

http://hot2.info/rice-steamer

it removes the starch that is on the grains so that the rice will be nice and separate with no slime instead of clumping and looking like oatmeal

cook rice evryday

naziii
and because the rice is dirty? O-o

try cooking dry rice, adolph!!!