How important is it to wash your rice?!
How important is it to wash your rice?
Before cooking it on a stovetop, not a cooker.
I don't taste a difference.
Answers:
I've never washed my rice!
Washing rice has nothing to do with removing dirt and/or bacteria or anything else bad. Rice is cleaned before it's packaged.
Washing (or soaking) rice removes excess starch, and supposedly keeps it from clumping.
I don't like rice that won't clump - I like the clumps!
I think it's not vitally important but necessary to do if you do not want to be at the risk of getting sick from the unwashed rice. Make sure you wash it just in case, even if it's just a quick rinse. It may be tedious but it'll help.
when i wash my rice sometimes i find little rocks in it.
I never do that ,before cooking .
it isnt that important...sometimes i clean my rice...and sometimes i dont...I mean you re gonna cook it anyways so any bacteria that is on there... will die when you cook it
I have never washed Rice before using
I usually don't wash the rice that I make. The only time I wash rice is when it specifically states to do so in a recipe. I have a mexican rice recipe that says to wash the rice for a few minutes to remove all the starch.
The difference wouldn't be so much in the taste as the texture. If you don't wash out the excess dust it'll make your rice stickier/mushier. A lot would depend on your preferences and how dusty the rice was to start with.
I lived in Hawaii, grew up with rice everyday. We only use sticky rice, medium grain. The rice has a talc power on it and everybody I know washes it three times. It won't hurt you to not wash off the talc, but you will have more of the gooey glutenous residue, if you don't
I wash the rice... and there is a difference in taste.
In college, I made rice and my roommate commented that they never washed riced. After the meal, he commented that the rice tasted better washed.
i never wash the rice it does make it easier to handle. and there is no difference. If it is a cleanliness thing then putting it in boiling water will sterilize any bacteria
Actually, rice SHOULD be rinsed before cooking. Depending on the variety, it is packaged with varying amounts of an edible talc powder that keeps the rice dry when packaged. If you don't rinse it, it will not harm you, but your rice will come out too sticky and take longer to cook.
the reason for washing rice is to lower the starch content, and it also helps to make the rice not stick together in clumps.
I never wash mine. It comes out fine.