How bad are those rice pouches?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

They are not great taste-wise, but definitely not harmful.

Wrong. Microwaving anything in plastic is harmful. The chemicals from the plastic leach into the food--whether it be bags, containers, bottles, etc.

+1. The ingredients themselves don't look too bad, but I'm wary of cooking anything while it's in a plastic.

+2
If I am going to microwave something like that, I transfer it to a glass covered-casserole dish and follow the time from there. No (additional) waste, no plastic.

+1

My issue with those is microwaving in plastic. Not sure about what leaches out of plastic.

Transfer it to something else.

[Anonymous]

Those pouches are expensive. And I'm not a thrifty shopper, but I cannot bring myself to pay $2.50 for one meal's worth of rice.

[Anonymous]

You can put the trader joes frozen brown rice bags in a glass container and microwave and it comes out the same? Must try this. The plain brown rice bags are the only rice we eat, usually mixed into a salad or stuffed peppers. No one is really a big rice fan at my house so I haven't invested in a rice cooker, and rice is my culinary kryptonite for some weird reason

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those pouches are expensive. And I'm not a thrifty shopper, but I cannot bring myself to pay $2.50 for one meal's worth of rice.

You are cheap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

They are not great taste-wise, but definitely not harmful.

Wrong. Microwaving anything in plastic is harmful. The chemicals from the plastic leach into the food--whether it be bags, containers, bottles, etc.

+1. The ingredients themselves don't look too bad, but I'm wary of cooking anything while it's in a plastic.

+2
If I am going to microwave something like that, I transfer it to a glass covered-casserole dish and follow the time from there. No (additional) waste, no plastic.

+3 don't microwave plastic

[Anonymous]

check out the consumer reports issue on rice and arsenic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those pouches are expensive. And I'm not a thrifty shopper, but I cannot bring myself to pay $2.50 for one meal's worth of rice.

You are cheap.

Hardly. People don't stay rich wasting money.

One bag of rice is a couple bucks vs. one serving of rice for a couple bucks. Silly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those pouches are expensive. And I'm not a thrifty shopper, but I cannot bring myself to pay $2.50 for one meal's worth of rice.

Totally agree. Rice is one of the cheapest things around -- to pay that much for a pouch seems over the top. I use a rice cooker so I don't have rice ready in 90 seconds, but by the time I'm finished heating up other stuff, setting the table, and corralling the kids, the rice is usually ready and I have more than enough to freeze for future meals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not bad if you don't mind a little arsenic and empty white carb calories.

Try frozen brown rice - easy to heat up and safer.

Brown rice has more arsenic than white rice - it's in the outside bran.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not bad if you don't mind a little arsenic and empty white carb calories.

Try frozen brown rice - easy to heat up and safer.

There is more arsenic in brown rice than white. Not enough for me to stop eating it, but brown rice isn't "safer".

I feel fine with the precooked rice OP mentions.

[Anonymous]

Gross I would never eat them. Just nasty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not bad if you don't mind a little arsenic and empty white carb calories.

Try frozen brown rice - easy to heat up and safer.

Brown rice has more arsenic than white rice - it's in the outside bran.

Hey, zombie. This post is 11 years old.

[Anonymous]

Everything in Moderation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

They are not great taste-wise, but definitely not harmful.

Wrong. Microwaving anything in plastic is harmful. The chemicals from the plastic leach into the food--whether it be bags, containers, bottles, etc.

+1. The ingredients themselves don't look too bad, but I'm wary of cooking anything while it's in a plastic.

+2
If I am going to microwave something like that, I transfer it to a glass covered-casserole dish and follow the time from there. No (additional) waste, no plastic.

Interesting. Never thought to do this..

All of that is more effort than getting a rice cooker and using that.

Don’t heat food sitting in plastic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

They are not great taste-wise, but definitely not harmful.

Wrong. Microwaving anything in plastic is harmful. The chemicals from the plastic leach into the food--whether it be bags, containers, bottles, etc.

+1. The ingredients themselves don't look too bad, but I'm wary of cooking anything while it's in a plastic.

+2
If I am going to microwave something like that, I transfer it to a glass covered-casserole dish and follow the time from there. No (additional) waste, no plastic.

Too late, it was precooked in the plastic pouch at the factory. Microplastic = colon cancer