Questions tagged [rice]
Questions on rice. Please be specific; different rice cooks differently.
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How to keep rice in sushi-like dishes from drying out overnight?
So my kids like to take 'sushi' (that is, variations without raw fish) and sushi-like dishes (onigiri/onigiraza, musubi etc) to school for lunch. However in the mornings I don't have time to fully ...
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Fastest or most efficient way to cook rice in a pot with a lid?
Without using (read: buying) a rice cooker, what methods can I use to reduce active cooking time for brown rice? Does pre-soaking help? Should I add the rice before or after bringing the water to a ...
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Can fermented dosa batter cause bacillus cereus poisoning?
Dosa batter is made by allowing urad dal and rice to ferment for upwards of 24 hours, letting natural yeasts develop in the batter. I've read that bacillus cereus poisoning is a concern with rice left ...
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How to prepare rice in a very real emergency - no boiling (no electricity or alternatives)?
Earthquakes and typhoons are as plentiful as rice where I live.
The power distribution system is incredibly sturdy here and power outages tend to be managed well, though they happen.
Many people ...
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How to avoid "Keep Warm" mode on rice-cooker
I have a "Hamilton Beach Multi-Cooker" rice cooker / steamer / etc. 840304400 is the model number.
We only cook rice for sushi, rice bowls, onigiri, etc. 9 times out of 10, we want to work ...
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The best method to seperate rice grain from glutinous rice grain?
I am trying to make alkaline water rice dumplings in large batches (about 50 kilos)
I bought my glutinous rice grains directly from the producers and thus there are some rice grains mixed into the ...
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How do restaurants make chicken fried rice? What ingredient am I missing?
Everytime I try to make chicken fried rice like I get at the take out place it never tastes like it does when they make it. We all know the basic ingredients
Rice (1 day old),
Chicken,
Green Onions,
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Does the ratio of rice:water change if rinsed first?
In Tim Anderson's Japaneasy he instructs to cook 300g of rice in 390g of water (1:1.3).
He also says to rinse the rice first. When I rinsed the rice and weighted it again after letting water drain, it ...
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What types of rice are appropriate to use in a rice cooker?
I have recently acquired a Zojurushi fuzz logic rice cooker.
What I am having difficult to find is the best kind of rice to use with it; I am looking for a good brown and white rice that can go with ...
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Does washing rice in a non-stick pot erode the non-stick coating over time?
I usually wash my rice in the pot that comes with my rice cooker (Tiger JBV-10CU) which is non-stick. I've heard that rice can be abrasive to the non-stick coating if you move it around in the pot as ...
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Is there science-based information on long-term white rice storage?
I have some special white rice I picked up while traveling, and am conserving for the right dish because I can't buy it where I live. However, that got me wondering how long rice actually keeps. when ...
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Why is vinegar not applied to rice used for onigiri like rice for sushi?
So sushi and onigiri (rice balls) are similar to a naive eye to me wherein there's some shaped rice.
Sushi usually gets some vinegar for taste and to help it stick to my understanding.
Yet onigiri ...
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How many calories are in a cup of rice?
Typical googling tells me a cup of white rice has ~200 calories, but the bags of white rice I purchase tell me a quarter cup of dry rice has 150 calories (Jasmine, in this case, but others have been ...
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Can I cook brown rice in broth?
Can I make brown rice substituting chicken broth for water? How much of the chicken flavor transfers to the rice?
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Remediation Methods for Rice Contaminated with Broken Glass
A picture is worth a thousand words...
I dropped a glass jar filled with rice. I've picked up the macro-sized pieces of glass, but am wondering if there is any way on earth to make the rice safe to ...
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Laotion (Thai/Viet) Style Sticky Rice, after making sticky rice do you knead the rice in something specific?
I have been trying to replicate some sticky rice that I ate during my childhood. I know you have to rinse the glutinous rice several times and let it soak for a good period of time. I then used my ...
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Which kinds of rice can replace Uzbek devsira?
I found a recipe for a Fergana-style plov (English version), one of the main versions of Uzbek plov. The description asks for devsira, a type of Uzbek rice. Not having that I wonder which other types ...
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What am I doing wrong with my rice cooker?
I have a Breville rice cooker and follow the instructions exactly (for 2 cups of rice). There are two settings - on or off (keep warm). The manual says:
But no matter what type of (white) rice I use, ...
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I want to cook brown and white rice together
I want to cook brown rice and jasmine rice in the same pot, or normal white rice whatever works better with brown rice. Is it possible to do so without having mushy white rice. I love brown rice i ...
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Why does my rice smell?
I don't understand why my rice smells like eggs.. We have a new rice cooker that we used for two months now. I wash it, but should I deep clean it? Also, I put my rice in a big plastic bin so I won't ...
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All fried rice recipes seem to have the same toned down interpretation
I have been trying to recreate the fried rice from a restaurant that I loved before moving. They were a Japanese steak house (called the Iron Chef), the type that cooks in front of you, and they made ...
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What is sortexed rice?
Here is a link to rice I want to buy. It is quoted as being polished and sortexed. I was wondering exactly that meant? Sortexed is not a word I heard before.
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Why are holes punched into rice packages?
When you buy imported rice in the store, there are often rows of tiny holes punched into the plastic bags. What is that for? Doesn't it contribute to spoiling and spreading of bugs?
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Can “quick cook” brown rice be cooked in an Instant Pot?
I have a package of “quick cook brown rice, and I am hoping I can cook it with my 2 quart Instant Pot. Will this work? How long should I cook it, what pressure level should I use, and what release ...
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When making sushi, why do you have to rinse the rice?
I'm interested in learning to make my own sushi.
Every guide I have read has stressed that the rice has to be rinsed thoroughly.
The bags of rice I generally buy say not to rinse the rice in order ...
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What kind of rice is used in Chinese cooking?
I love the Chinese food we get from takeaway shops, and often to save on the cost we will cook our own rice at home. This is good, but the rice never seems to have the same texture as takeaway rice - ...
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Brown rice in an old rice cooker?
A comment on the question about brown rice making a mess in old rice cookers has me wondering:
Is there a proper way to cook brown rice in a mechanical (one button) rice cooker, or do you need a ‘...
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Why does baking cooked rice not overcook it?
Many recipes like stuffed peppers call for baking already fully cooked rice for upwards of an hour at ~375 F. I’m surprised the grains come out intact and texturally not that different than before ...
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Which type and grain size of rice (flour) is best for which use case?
What type of rice and which grain-size as flour is best for which use case?
I have got a grain mill and am going to do lots of gluten-free recipes with rice flour. From cake, via pudding, to mochi (...
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How do I cook Basmati rice without soaking?
I know that all types of rice need soaking, but sometimes there are water shortages and I would like to skip this step to save water. How can I cook Basmati rice without a separate soaking step?
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How to make puffed/popped rice?
Is it possible to make puffed rice at home like the rice used in breakfast cereals? I have a hot air popcorn maker and have experimented with that with little success.
I imagine the problem is to do ...
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Food safety when making Koji rice / kojikin
I want to understand the process by which koji rice is not effected by Bacillus Cereus et.al.
The basic instructions for fermenting your own koji rice is:
Steam rice
Let it cool to around 35℃
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Could overfrying and/or undersimmering the Spanish rice have caused it to develop a cardboard-like taste and a pungent odour?
Growing up, my mother always made me one of my favourite treats, which was arroz Guizado, or Spanish fried rice. It was the only kind I had ever tasted up until I was around eleven or twelve. When I ...
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Can the dumming step of biryani be skipped by pressure cooking biryani rice and chicken separately and mixing them after cooling?
Although I figured out the right amount of water and salt for making biryani, at times, it still gets messed up if the amount of water in the cooked chicken is too high or if the rice cooking duration ...
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Cooking rice in bulk and adding to stew for weekday meals [duplicate]
I usually cook a stew of some kind on a Sunday, put it in a container in the fridge, I then eat it for an evening meal during the rest of the week up to Friday or Saturday. Each weekday evening I cook ...
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Can I use only urad dal to make dosa?
I've been making dosa lately and was wondering if you could make the batter using only soaked urad dal (black lentils)? Or, do you have to include soaked rice, as well?
I am diabetic, so I am trying ...
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First time and small batch biryani
I've dreamt of making biryani for some time, but have always felt intimidated by the layers and spices I'd need to buy.
Any ideas for a small pot version of biryani?
My friend's dad makes it ...
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Can I use air fryer to dry out rice in preparation to be fried in a wok?
This is one of those questions that's hard to find any results for on google because there are so many more popular similar but not at all the same questions/answers that it impossible to find the ...
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How can I improve this rice recipe
I have an older instant pot pressure cooker (ip-lux50 v3) and I've tried making rice according to various recipes I've found on the internet and none of them have turned out well
This is one recipe I'...
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Why add salt to the water when cooking rice?
Given the great answer to the question on adding salt to water when cooking pasta, I am curious whether the same explanation holds for rice as it does for pasta (flavor and starch gelation)? Is there ...
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Making rice in a thermos flask
Would mixing white rice grains with boiling water and pouring the mix into a thermos flask and letting it stay there for an hour work (to make edible rice)?
p.s I don't have a thermos flask to try and ...
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Black rice mixed in white
In the long grain white rice (parboiled) there these occasional grains of darker brown to black grains. Any idea what these are?
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Does an adult male require two kilos of rice per day to reach daily calories requirement? [duplicate]
I just looked up adult male calorie requirements. It's 2,500 kcal per day.
There's 1,250 kcal per kilo of basmati rice.
Does that mean I need to eat the calorie equivalent of two kilo bags of rice ...
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Risotto too grainy
I've been toying with my risotto recipe but I still can't make rice nice and smooth. Here is what I use;
Cup Arborio rice (from Whole Foods)
Kettle and Fire Chicken Broth 32oz
small diced carrot, ...
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How can I adapt rice cooker steamed fish to cooking in a pot?
I have seen steamed fish dishes where the fish is cooked on top of the rice in a rice cooker. I'd like to try this, but I don't have a rice cooker and always cook my rice in a pot. Does anyone know ...
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Can a rice cooker make amounts much smaller than its rating?
I'm looking at getting one of Zojirushi's induction rice cookers and the 5.5 cup model is currently a little cheaper than the 3 cup model. I'm a single guy and will only be making a cup or two of rice ...
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How can I cook parboiled rice in absorption method?
How many cups of water (not liters) should I add to 1 cup of parboiled rice in case of the absorption method of cooking?
How many minutes should I cook?
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What is the minimum length of time and temperature one can safely cook white Basmati rice for?
The particular Basmati rice I normally use (Aldi own brand), cooks perfectly with seperate, non-sticky grains using the following method. In a large pan of cold water (3 or 4 times the volume of rice),...
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How do I get rid of plastic smell in rice / pasta?
I bought a number of bags of rice and pasta and stored it in a plastic bin in the basement. I recently grabbed one of those bags of rice and it smells gross, like plastic. Everything in the bin smells ...
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Is Calrose rice a decent choice for paella?
I'm making paella.
Most of the recipes I've looked at call for specialty rice varieties that are expensive and/or difficult to find. I have a large amount of Calrose rice (this stuff) in my cupboard ...
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