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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Daily food. Make basmati only.  Wash rice three times before cooking.  [b]Then make it like pasta[/b] and drain out the water. It is healthier like this.

Eat with dal, veggies, meat. [/quote]How does the rice differ when cooked this way?[/quote]

When you cook rice like pasta and drain the water, it becomes lighter. Less carbs. Less calories.   You remove a lot of starch. It removes arsenic or any toxic minerals that was in the soil where the rice was grown, if that is a concern.

My mom used to use the rice starch to starch her cotton sarees. [/quote]

Huh, very cool. I am white and have found cooking rice to be oddly challenging to cook on the stove (my water ratio always seems off and it burns or is gloopy) and this is the only way I can cook it correctly but assumed it was a big no-no for the experts. Glad to hear it is considered acceptable, I agree it works well![/quote]

This is how it was done back in the days (I’m South Indian). I never knew about cooking it until the water absorbs, until we moved to the US.  And yeah, the strained water was used to starch cotton. Pretty sure my uniform shirts were also starched that way. [/quote]

I read somewhere you can also use rice water on your hair like a rinse to make it stronger and shinier. Anyone try that?[/quote]

Yes, the rice water (from washing the rice) can be used as a toner and a rinse for your hair and skin.  Also, the starch from the rice (cooked rice water) can be used on skin.  Not too much though. Once a week is enough.  And not in huge amounts.

Watch to see if your skin and hair reacts.   I usually use the raw and cooked rice water for feeding the soil in my garden.  Dilute the starchy water.  I do the same with pasta water.  I throw it in my yard.   I also use the cooked rice water as a 10 minute pack on my skin and then rinse it off, maybe once a week or whenever I have the time.  I usually am doing all kinds of beauty treatments while I am in the kitchen itself.[/quote]

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