Do you wash rice?

[Anonymous]

Yes to rice, no to pasta.

[Anonymous]

Who washes pasta???
WTH!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, washing rice three times before cooking removes arsenic.


Boiling rice in lots of water (like pasta) and draining the liquid out reduces arsenic even more, and it reduces a significant amount of starch. Making it more suitable for giving to babies and people who want to lower their carbs.

Can you tell me more about this? How does cooking rice that way lower the carbs in rice? And also, how do you do it? Cook for the same amount of time, but then just drain?

Yes, you can cook rice in more water than needed (just like you do for pasta). Then once the rice is cooked, you can remove the extra starchy water by draining the rice using a strainer or just draining the water like you do with pasta.

People use the starch water to starch their cotton clothes, drink it as drink called Kanji, feed it to cattle or use it to increase nutrients in soil. There are many uses of starch water. I prefer to not drain out any starch water (pasta or rice) in the drain and instead I water my vegetable garden with the water that I use to rinse the rice before cooking as well as the starch water from cooking.

[Anonymous]

I rinse it 3-4 times. I've read that it removes debris-- but for cooking purposes it takes out a lot of starch so it's fluffy individual grains and not mushy/gluey.
I didn't always know to do this and my rice had such a terrible texture until I learned.

[Anonymous]

I’ve tried it washed and not washed and there is no difference so I don’t anymore.

[Anonymous]

I always rinse the medium grain Calrose style rice 2-3 times before cooking. Otherwise it’s splodgy and sticky.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, washing rice three times before cooking removes arsenic.


Boiling rice in lots of water (like pasta) and draining the liquid out reduces arsenic even more, and it reduces a significant amount of starch. Making it more suitable for giving to babies and people who want to lower their carbs.

Can you tell me more about this? How does cooking rice that way lower the carbs in rice? And also, how do you do it? Cook for the same amount of time, but then just drain?

Yes, you can cook rice in more water than needed (just like you do for pasta). Then once the rice is cooked, you can remove the extra starchy water by draining the rice using a strainer or just draining the water like you do with pasta.

People use the starch water to starch their cotton clothes, drink it as drink called Kanji, feed it to cattle or use it to increase nutrients in soil. There are many uses of starch water. I prefer to not drain out any starch water (pasta or rice) in the drain and instead I water my vegetable garden with the water that I use to rinse the rice before cooking as well as the starch water from cooking.

Uncle roger says “hi-YAHHH” to straining rice. Wtf?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For a long time, I did not wash my rice and it came out fine. But then I started washing and oh my, what a difference!

i never do. will have to try reading this...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rice is supposed to be washed. Ask any Asian.

This.

Until the water runs clear, as my mom would admonish me in my youth.

[Anonymous]

Pasta literally means “paste”. It’s a paste that has been made using wheat that has already been washed. Rice on the other hand is a grain and needs to be washed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you wash rice, why do you not wash pasta?

Because rice and pasta are two very different things that need to be prepared and cooked in different ways. I also don't make pasta in my rice cooker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, washing rice three times before cooking removes arsenic.


Boiling rice in lots of water (like pasta) and draining the liquid out reduces arsenic even more, and it reduces a significant amount of starch. Making it more suitable for giving to babies and people who want to lower their carbs.

Can you tell me more about this? How does cooking rice that way lower the carbs in rice? And also, how do you do it? Cook for the same amount of time, but then just drain?

It drains out extra starch - but this is applicable to certain rice varieties only, helps store it longer too. I do this with white rice. For brown rice, I pre-soak for at least 4 hours.

Also, apparently cooling down rice before consuming it changes the nature of starch and colorific content of rice for the better.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/can-you-eat-cold-rice

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-32019176

[Anonymous]

I’ve never heard of washing pasta.

I wash brown basmati rice and brown jasmine rice. I do not wash Uncle Ben’s converted brown rice.

[Anonymous]

No to pasta. Have not even considered it.

Yes to rice, because my recipes always turned out badly if I skipped it.

[Anonymous]

Yes. also, presoaking rice and then drianing removes a lot of arsenic.