Anonymous wrote:i rinse my rice and lentils and quinoa.
I don't rinse my cous cous or my uncle ben's (broccoli cheese forever) 😂

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Anonymous wrote:I find this very confusing and little to no difference in final product. I grew up not washing. I try washing it now but at this point it seems a waste of time.

I feel the same way. I don’t notice a difference in taste or texture when I wash it, so I have stopped doing so.

You wash it to remove dust, contaminants, and reduce (naturally occurring) arsenic levels.

Consider: you wash fruit from the supermarket before eating it, right? And not to improve its taste. Same thing with rice.

Lindberg suggests rinsing it to remove starch and improve the texture when cooked. Since I have tried it both ways (I diligently rinsed rice for years) and find the final product the same, I’ll choose not to rinse.

So again, rinsing it removes dust and surface contaminants, just like you are rinsing off your supermarket grapes and strawberries.

Do you also eat supermarket fruit and veg without rinsing them, since rinsing those doesn't have any impact on their taste either?

Gross.

I’m confused. Do you rinse dry pasta before cooking, too? Isn’t that more analagous to rice than strawberries?

omg what.

the prior poster said you should rinse your rice like you do your fruits and vegetables. i am asking why boxed rice is more akin to fresh fruits and vegetables than it is to boxed pasta, which pasta i am guessing the poster does not rinse before cooking (and before you say that lasta water gets drained, some gets absorbed into the pasta and many of us use some of the pasta cooking water for the sauces).

NP. Really? As the PP made crystal clear, you wash rice and fruit in order to get rid of chemicals and contaminants, including arsenic in the case of rice. Pasta is not generally considered to have unwelcome chemicals or contaminants, so there is no need to rinse it prior to use.

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Anonymous wrote:Always wash it. Helps reduce arsenic & other heavy metal content too.

This. Also microplastics. Some places intentionally add microplastic coatings to the rice to prevent sticking together in storage if gets humid.

Wait, what?!?

What nothing - it’s a totally bogus claim poster probably learned from some self-designated health expert influencer’s podcast.

Uh, no.

Rice is filthy.

Asians and other rice cultures have known this for centuries.

You Uncle Ben Minute Rice folks don't know how to cook rice.

Uncle Ben Minute Rice is par-boiled so doesn't need washing/isn't filthy. So, burn? I guess?

Uncle Bens is not real rice, so...

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Anonymous wrote:I find this very confusing and little to no difference in final product. I grew up not washing. I try washing it now but at this point it seems a waste of time.

I feel the same way. I don’t notice a difference in taste or texture when I wash it, so I have stopped doing so.

You wash it to remove dust, contaminants, and reduce (naturally occurring) arsenic levels.

Consider: you wash fruit from the supermarket before eating it, right? And not to improve its taste. Same thing with rice.

Lindberg suggests rinsing it to remove starch and improve the texture when cooked. Since I have tried it both ways (I diligently rinsed rice for years) and find the final product the same, I’ll choose not to rinse.

So again, rinsing it removes dust and surface contaminants, just like you are rinsing off your supermarket grapes and strawberries.

Do you also eat supermarket fruit and veg without rinsing them, since rinsing those doesn't have any impact on their taste either?

Gross.

I’m confused. Do you rinse dry pasta before cooking, too? Isn’t that more analagous to rice than strawberries?

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Anonymous wrote:Always wash it. Helps reduce arsenic & other heavy metal content too.

This. Also microplastics. Some places intentionally add microplastic coatings to the rice to prevent sticking together in storage if gets humid.

Wait, what?!?

What nothing - it’s a totally bogus claim poster probably learned from some self-designated health expert influencer’s podcast.

Uh, no.

Rice is filthy.

Asians and other rice cultures have known this for centuries.

You Uncle Ben Minute Rice folks don't know how to cook rice.

Uncle Ben Minute Rice is par-boiled so doesn't need washing/isn't filthy. So, burn? I guess?

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Anonymous wrote:I find this very confusing and little to no difference in final product. I grew up not washing. I try washing it now but at this point it seems a waste of time.

I feel the same way. I don’t notice a difference in taste or texture when I wash it, so I have stopped doing so.

You wash it to remove dust, contaminants, and reduce (naturally occurring) arsenic levels.

Consider: you wash fruit from the supermarket before eating it, right? And not to improve its taste. Same thing with rice.

Lindberg suggests rinsing it to remove starch and improve the texture when cooked. Since I have tried it both ways (I diligently rinsed rice for years) and find the final product the same, I’ll choose not to rinse.

So again, rinsing it removes dust and surface contaminants, just like you are rinsing off your supermarket grapes and strawberries.

Do you also eat supermarket fruit and veg without rinsing them, since rinsing those doesn't have any impact on their taste either?

Gross.

I’m confused. Do you rinse dry pasta before cooking, too? Isn’t that more analagous to rice than strawberries?

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Anonymous wrote:No. I don’t think I have the right kind of colander to do it.

You don't use a colander

You fill the pot with water above the rice line, swirl it around with your hand, then drain the water slowly over a cupped hand to catch any stray grains.

Repeat 6 more times.

No 7 times man. 7 is the key number not 6. 7 chipmunks on a branch, dancing on my cousins ranch. You know that old nursey rhyme from the sea! Step into my office!

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Anonymous wrote:No. I don’t think I have the right kind of colander to do it.

You don't use a colander

You fill the pot with water above the rice line, swirl it around with your hand, then drain the water slowly over a cupped hand to catch any stray grains.

Repeat 6 more times.

No 7 times man. 7 is the key number not 6. 7 chipmunks on a branch, dancing on my cousins ranch. You know that old nursey rhyme from the sea! Step into my office!

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Anonymous wrote:No. I don’t think I have the right kind of colander to do it.

You don't use a colander

You fill the pot with water above the rice line, swirl it around with your hand, then drain the water slowly over a cupped hand to catch any stray grains.

Repeat 6 more times.

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Anonymous wrote:I find this very confusing and little to no difference in final product. I grew up not washing. I try washing it now but at this point it seems a waste of time.

I feel the same way. I don’t notice a difference in taste or texture when I wash it, so I have stopped doing so.

You wash it to remove dust, contaminants, and reduce (naturally occurring) arsenic levels.

Consider: you wash fruit from the supermarket before eating it, right? And not to improve its taste. Same thing with rice.

Lindberg suggests rinsing it to remove starch and improve the texture when cooked. Since I have tried it both ways (I diligently rinsed rice for years) and find the final product the same, I’ll choose not to rinse.

So again, rinsing it removes dust and surface contaminants, just like you are rinsing off your supermarket grapes and strawberries.

Do you also eat supermarket fruit and veg without rinsing them, since rinsing those doesn't have any impact on their taste either?

Gross.

I’m confused. Do you rinse dry pasta before cooking, too? Isn’t that more analagous to rice than strawberries?

omg what.

the prior poster said you should rinse your rice like you do your fruits and vegetables. i am asking why boxed rice is more akin to fresh fruits and vegetables than it is to boxed pasta, which pasta i am guessing the poster does not rinse before cooking (and before you say that lasta water gets drained, some gets absorbed into the pasta and many of us use some of the pasta cooking water for the sauces).

NP. Really? As the PP made crystal clear, you wash rice and fruit in order to get rid of chemicals and contaminants, including arsenic in the case of rice. Pasta is not generally considered to have unwelcome chemicals or contaminants, so there is no need to rinse it prior to use.

Rice comes from a farm. It's the seed of a plant.

Pasta is a processed product that comes from a factory, just like a cookie.

Yes, but I thought there’s more to it than that. White rice is milled to strip off the coat, and washing it before cooking removes “dust” (starch) from milling. Brown rice isn’t milled and has no dust. When I wash brown rice the water isn’t cloudy, not like white rice anyway. One might wash brown rice because, as you said, it comes from a farm not a pristine factory.

DP but you mistake the reasons for it being cloudy when washed.

White rice has B vitamins added to help prevent malnutrition from eating a lot of white rice. When you wash it, you also wash off the B vitamins in addition to the microplastics, toxic oils, contaminants, etc. So it's more cloudy due to the added vitamins.

Brown rice typically doesn't have B vitamins added to it. So the rinse water looks more clear.

You're referring to the "dusting" method of adding vitamins. There are more advanced and water-resistant methods of fortification. I'll leave it to you to research the prevalence of those methods vs. dusting, so your DCUM posts, going forward, can be as accurate as possible.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK531758/

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Anonymous wrote:I find this very confusing and little to no difference in final product. I grew up not washing. I try washing it now but at this point it seems a waste of time.

I feel the same way. I don’t notice a difference in taste or texture when I wash it, so I have stopped doing so.

You wash it to remove dust, contaminants, and reduce (naturally occurring) arsenic levels.

Consider: you wash fruit from the supermarket before eating it, right? And not to improve its taste. Same thing with rice.

Lindberg suggests rinsing it to remove starch and improve the texture when cooked. Since I have tried it both ways (I diligently rinsed rice for years) and find the final product the same, I’ll choose not to rinse.

So again, rinsing it removes dust and surface contaminants, just like you are rinsing off your supermarket grapes and strawberries.

Do you also eat supermarket fruit and veg without rinsing them, since rinsing those doesn't have any impact on their taste either?

Gross.

I’m confused. Do you rinse dry pasta before cooking, too? Isn’t that more analagous to rice than strawberries?

omg what.

the prior poster said you should rinse your rice like you do your fruits and vegetables. i am asking why boxed rice is more akin to fresh fruits and vegetables than it is to boxed pasta, which pasta i am guessing the poster does not rinse before cooking (and before you say that lasta water gets drained, some gets absorbed into the pasta and many of us use some of the pasta cooking water for the sauces).

NP. Really? As the PP made crystal clear, you wash rice and fruit in order to get rid of chemicals and contaminants, including arsenic in the case of rice. Pasta is not generally considered to have unwelcome chemicals or contaminants, so there is no need to rinse it prior to use.

Rice comes from a farm. It's the seed of a plant.

Pasta is a processed product that comes from a factory, just like a cookie.

Yes, but I thought there’s more to it than that. White rice is milled to strip off the coat, and washing it before cooking removes “dust” (starch) from milling. Brown rice isn’t milled and has no dust. When I wash brown rice the water isn’t cloudy, not like white rice anyway. One might wash brown rice because, as you said, it comes from a farm not a pristine factory.

DP but you mistake the reasons for it being cloudy when washed.

White rice has B vitamins added to help prevent malnutrition from eating a lot of white rice. When you wash it, you also wash off the B vitamins in addition to the microplastics, toxic oils, contaminants, etc. So it's more cloudy due to the added vitamins.

Brown rice typically doesn't have B vitamins added to it. So the rinse water looks more clear.

You don't know what you are talking about

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Anonymous wrote:Always wash it. Helps reduce arsenic & other heavy metal content too.

This. Also microplastics. Some places intentionally add microplastic coatings to the rice to prevent sticking together in storage if gets humid.

Wait, what?!?

What nothing - it’s a totally bogus claim poster probably learned from some self-designated health expert influencer’s podcast.

Uh, no.

Rice is filthy.

Asians and other rice cultures have known this for centuries.

You Uncle Ben Minute Rice folks don't know how to cook rice.

Uncle Ben Minute Rice is par-boiled so doesn't need washing/isn't filthy. So, burn? I guess?

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Anonymous wrote:I find this very confusing and little to no difference in final product. I grew up not washing. I try washing it now but at this point it seems a waste of time.

I feel the same way. I don’t notice a difference in taste or texture when I wash it, so I have stopped doing so.

You wash it to remove dust, contaminants, and reduce (naturally occurring) arsenic levels.

Consider: you wash fruit from the supermarket before eating it, right? And not to improve its taste. Same thing with rice.

Lindberg suggests rinsing it to remove starch and improve the texture when cooked. Since I have tried it both ways (I diligently rinsed rice for years) and find the final product the same, I’ll choose not to rinse.

So again, rinsing it removes dust and surface contaminants, just like you are rinsing off your supermarket grapes and strawberries.

Do you also eat supermarket fruit and veg without rinsing them, since rinsing those doesn't have any impact on their taste either?

Gross.

I’m confused. Do you rinse dry pasta before cooking, too? Isn’t that more analagous to rice than strawberries?

omg what.

the prior poster said you should rinse your rice like you do your fruits and vegetables. i am asking why boxed rice is more akin to fresh fruits and vegetables than it is to boxed pasta, which pasta i am guessing the poster does not rinse before cooking (and before you say that lasta water gets drained, some gets absorbed into the pasta and many of us use some of the pasta cooking water for the sauces).

NP. Really? As the PP made crystal clear, you wash rice and fruit in order to get rid of chemicals and contaminants, including arsenic in the case of rice. Pasta is not generally considered to have unwelcome chemicals or contaminants, so there is no need to rinse it prior to use.

Rice comes from a farm. It's the seed of a plant.

Pasta is a processed product that comes from a factory, just like a cookie.

Yes, but I thought there’s more to it than that. White rice is milled to strip off the coat, and washing it before cooking removes “dust” (starch) from milling. Brown rice isn’t milled and has no dust. When I wash brown rice the water isn’t cloudy, not like white rice anyway. One might wash brown rice because, as you said, it comes from a farm not a pristine factory.

DP but you mistake the reasons for it being cloudy when washed.

White rice has B vitamins added to help prevent malnutrition from eating a lot of white rice. When you wash it, you also wash off the B vitamins in addition to the microplastics, toxic oils, contaminants, etc. So it's more cloudy due to the added vitamins.

Brown rice typically doesn't have B vitamins added to it. So the rinse water looks more clear.