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Switchback posted:Dino what are your opinions about those pouches of rice you microwave for 90 seconds? lol uncle Ben's. Stuff is indeed wasteful but I mean there are some instances for it like camping if you're not bringing things to actually cook. Thus: bring things to cook when you camp, a camping stove + pot and pan and ingredients = full meal.
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They make a good sterile substrate to grow mushrooms with.
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therattle posted:I’m not dino but I hate the plastic waste in those. I’d rather cook a load of rice and freeE portions. I'm interested in hearing more about these free E's
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Yeah. Just eat a 1/2 cup of the Uncle Ben’s straight up, then wash it down with 3/4 cup of water. No need to waste time microwaving it.
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500excf type r posted:They make a good sterile substrate to grow mushrooms with.
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Doom Rooster posted:Yeah. Just eat a 1/2 cup of the Uncle Ben’s straight up, then wash it down with 3/4 cup of water. No need to waste time microwaving it. You need to have a hot bath or shower afterwards to ensure it cooks through properly
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Switchback posted:Dino what are your opinions about those pouches of rice you microwave for 90 seconds? It’s complicated. I understand that I’m able bodied, and have access to a rice cooker, the money to be able to buy 20 lb bags of rice, and the ability to bring said 20 lb bags of rice home, the storage containers to keep the rice free of bugs for the three or so months it takes me to go through that rice, and the space to store it. When I was young, I had parents with the time to teach me how to cook, and I had access to enough rice, and the guidance of a parent to be able to cook several pots of rice in the rice cooker, so that I became good at it, and can do so with confidence. I also get that the RTE (ready to eat) rice is a seriously huge game changer when making dishes that require the grains to be separate. (RTE rice is what we call the microwave pouches.) The process to get those grains into the pouch makes it so that the rice grains are not sticky at all. You can open the pouch, break up the rice with your fingers, and immediately start making a stir fried rice, or another such similar thing. It’s a convenient thing to have when you’re at a hotel or something, or a school dorm, or any other situation where you want rice, but don’t have the space or facilities to make rice happen. That said. They taste FINE, but are trash when compared to the real thing. Also, Minute Rice is not the same thing. Minute Rice is actively loving gross. Do not buy that trash.
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Does anyone know how they process this sort of rice in the UK? It's not grown in the UK but is labelled as UK origin as it is processed there (a £900 million industry somehow!). I ask because when I was growing up we'd always buy stuff like that and absolutely never washed it (nor did anyone I know) and it came out fine. When I started buying Jasmine rice abroad or imported short grain rice I quickly learnt that washing made a big difference to getting consistently good cooked rice - I had a go recently at washing that sort of basmati when visiting my parents and even the first rinse was extremely clear, so I wonder if it's prewashed or something? I noticed that Waitrose has also started stocking own branded Hom Mali rice and it's way better than jasmine rice's I've seen in supermarkets before. distortion park fucked around with this message at 13:05 on Feb 7, 2024 |
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distortion park posted:Does anyone know how they process this sort of rice in the UK?
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bought a rice cooker off the back of this thread making me go 'hm, maybe I've actually been doing this badly the whole time' ...buy a rice cooker, everyone
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distortion park posted:Does anyone know how they process this sort of rice in the UK? They import the brown rice, and polish it down to white rice in the UK. It's sure as hell not grown in the UK. And no, it's not pre-washed. Like I said before, not washing rice won't harm you. And, the moisture content in Basmati is low enough that even if you do just throw it straight into the cooking pot, it'll come out fine. However, having known what rice has to go through before reaching your table, I do wash my rice every time, because it's just gross to be eating the dust and such that tags along on the grains. Yes, if you're buying Hom Mali rice then the Thai government has Very Strong Opinions, and enforces them with export standards as outlined here: https://faolex.fao.org/docs/pdf/tha166269.pdf If it's labelled Hom Mali it's at least 92% pure.
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What does purity of rice mean? If my Thai hom mali is 97% pure what's the other 240g floating around in the sack composed of?
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Decoy Badger posted:What does purity of rice mean? If my Thai hom mali is 97% pure what's the other 240g floating around in the sack composed of? Unscrupulous rice dealers will cut the rice with all kinds of foreign bodies like cornstarch, fake rice, bits of plastic, flour, et cetera. That’s why whenever there’s a big rice deal, before the buyer hands over the suitcase of cash to the seller’s heavies, they’ll have someone like dino. come along to cut open a bag with a knife, scoop out some rice, taste it, and (if applicable) nod their heads to say that it’s pure, or maybe even something like “oh yeah,that’s the good poo poo”
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therattle posted:Unscrupulous rice dealers will cut the rice with all kinds of foreign bodies like cornstarch, fake rice, bits of plastic, flour, et cetera. That’s why whenever there’s a big rice deal, before the buyer hands over the suitcase of cash to the seller’s heavies, they’ll have someone like dino. come along to cut open a bag with a knife, scoop out some rice, taste it, and (if applicable) nod their heads to say that it’s pure, or maybe even something like “oh yeah,that’s the good poo poo” Or, just as likely, run it through a quick couple of lab tests looking for % broken grains, moisture content, impurities (rocks and twigs and poo poo). Every distillery does this with every grain delivery, takes only a couple of minutes to waive a truck onto the loading docks.
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Trucks on waivers, what is this rice hockey
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dino. posted:It’s complicated. I understand that I’m able bodied, and have access to a rice cooker, the money to be able to buy 20 lb bags of rice, and the ability to bring said 20 lb bags of rice home, the storage containers to keep the rice free of bugs for the three or so months it takes me to go through that rice, and the space to store it. When I was young, I had parents with the time to teach me how to cook, and I had access to enough rice, and the guidance of a parent to be able to cook several pots of rice in the rice cooker, so that I became good at it, and can do so with confidence. What a kind and balanced view of packet rice. Who knew a thread about rice could be such entertaining and informative content!
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Whoever put that video up on the sticky rice tutorial all those different ways, thanks for that. I used the basic soak and steam method last night, and it came out great. Had it with some fried chicken watching the bawl game. Delicious. Also I have a Thai cookbook where they toast sticky rice in a dry pan then pulverize it in a cuisinart to have crunchy sprinkles on papaya salad. I haven't tried that yet. Sounds neat.
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Decoy Badger posted:What does purity of rice mean? If my Thai hom mali is 97% pure what's the other 240g floating around in the sack composed of? So I checked a certificate of analysis from a random shipment of Thai Hom Mali rice. Purity was 96% and some change. Red or undermilled kernels were 0.1%. Yellow kernels were 0.13%. Chalky grains were 0.5%. Damaged grains were 0.14%. White glutinous rice was 0.15%. Broken grains were 2.6%. Add it all up, and it comes to another 3.62%. You don't get exactly 100% when all are combined, but it's pretty damned close (99.62%), and can be explained by rounding off issues. The sampling is done in 1 KG samples taken from each of the bags, and an average is calculated overall. Hopefully, this gives you a snapshot of what a bag of good quality rice should look like. Per 100 grains of rice, no more than 4 of them should have issues in a decent bag of Hom Mali rice. @Rattle - Even the most careful millers can end up with paddy grains, rocks, dirt, or other foreign material in the rice. It's all down to how strict your spec sheet is. A lot of times, the more expensive rice that you see in the markets have a much smaller tolerance for issues with the grain, because the market it's being sold to is more sensitive than the typical people who buy it. For example, if you're a customer who runs the product through your own cleaning machines, and just need us to get the product from overseas to here, you'll have MUCH higher tolerance for foreign material in the sacks than someone who's opening up the sacks and using them immediately to cook. Make this triply so if the customer is literally sorting the rice by hand, because they don't have machines to test for foreign material. In those cases, the tolerances are almost zero. In a 44,000 lb load of rice, if there's more than like 5 or 10 rocks, they'll reject the load as not cleaned well enough. Whereas for the customers with their own cleaning material, they don't care to pay the extremely expensive markup to have rice that's been cleaned to that level, because they're gonna do it anyways, and they can do it cheaper than we can, because they're using their own in-house staff. The issue with cleaning to that level of zero foreign material is false positives. Yes, the color sorting machine will kick off grains with weird colors on them, but will also let through a couple of ones that are juuuust on the border of OK. If you jack up the strength of the rejections, you'll risk losing good viable product to the reject pile. Once it's in the reject pile, it's not worth sending through the machine again to pick out the good grains from the dirt, debris, and rocks, so it all gets discarded. This means that the markup is significantly higher for those who need that level of clean. For the typical customer, a couple of things in the bag of rice isn't going to bother them, as they're going to wash the rice. Or, if they're not going to wash the rice, they're not that freaked out by dirt anyways.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/health-68293149quote:Scientists grow 'meaty' rice hybrid food for protein kick How do you feel about the existence of this?
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That reminds me of those vitamin containing breeds from a few years ago. They never showed up for sale in my area, do you know if they got popular anywhere?
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i initially thought they had created a new rice variety with substantial protein in it and then i see they just took rice and pumped pulverized cow into it. mmhmmmm
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Yeah for a moment I was all "Oh, rice that tastes like meat and has higher protein, without having to stop being vegetarian for it?" lol nope. Just rice soaked in fish and cow goop.
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VictualSquid posted:That reminds me of those vitamin containing breeds from a few years ago. They never showed up for sale in my area, do you know if they got popular anywhere? I know that in some jurisdictions, "Golden Rice" is mired in legal bullshit from farmers and such, preventing it from being grown or sold commercially.
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IIRC crazy people in developed countries who are afraid of genetic engineering convinced the developing countries it was designed to help that it was poisonous or something
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PurpleXVI posted:How do you feel about the existence of this? That describes lab grown meat that is grown on rice. I think calling it rice makes as little sense as calling a rice fed chicken rice. Just make some chickenrice instead.
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Rice that grows little cows inside of it would be pretty great tbh. Can we GMO this?
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mobby_6kl posted:Rice that grows little cows inside of it would be pretty great tbh. Can we GMO this?
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It's not just meat-infused rice though, it's rice being used as a medium for growing meat 
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I also use rice to grow meat. Usually in the belly area.
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i always enjoyed an article about rice in korea and i found it translated to english not-halfassedly today https://askakorean.blogspot.com/2010/08/ask-korean-news-korean-food-in-america.html the guy's kinda a hater, but that's in the nature of things bob dobbs is dead fucked around with this message at 03:21 on Feb 16, 2024 |
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bob dobbs is dead posted:i always enjoyed an article about rice in korea and i found it translated to english not-halfassedly today quote:When the ignorant masses eat the stale Big Mac and praise it as if it is the most perfect dry-aged porterhouse (see, for example, David Chang and his fraudulent franchise,) the Korean is at a loss for words. What does this mean (or was is more intelligible in korean?) Also rip kawi it was honesty one of his top threeish best restaurants but it was at the top of a dead-on-arrival mall so... RoastBeef fucked around with this message at 03:58 on Feb 16, 2024 |
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that guy (the translating guy, not the original article writer) fuckin hates david chang because, as the accusation goes, chang doesn't know poo poo about actual korean food. i find the accusation to hit pretty well, just on chang's surprise at how many banchan there are here's the guy bein more of a hater in more detail https://askakorean.blogspot.com/2012/04/korean-on-economist-gets-lunch.html the exported korean food is pretty fuckin colonial in character, like a lotta exported desi food, so there's some casus belli for hatin' there bob dobbs is dead fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Feb 16, 2024 |
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PurpleXVI posted:https://www.bbc.com/news/health-68293149 As a former Hindu, and a vegan, ew. Srsly. Ew.
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I tried whole grain rice and boy is it better for my sugar levels compared to white rice. I also like the texture.
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His Divine Shadow posted:I tried whole grain rice and boy is it better for my sugar levels compared to white rice. I also like the texture. Yes, nutritionally it might not make much difference but the GI is much better.
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What is your opinion of Maharani brand 1121 Basmati rice, OP?
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We bought some short grain brown rice and tried soaking it before cooking based on the advice of this thread. Absolute game changer. The difference between this and unsoaked long grain brown rice is like night and day. My life is now better for having clicked on a forum thread about rice.
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Everett False posted:My life is now better for having clicked on a forum thread about rice. I've been taking cooking advice from dino for over a decade but pre-soaking Calrose before putting it in the rice cooker is the one that I will whisper to my children in the womb. Also, dino! Link your drat cook book! It's very good.
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