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Questions on rice. Please be specific; different rice cooks differently.

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Why does rice expand by more than the liquid volume it's cooked in?

Starch molecules in a grain of rice are actually arranged in a semi-crystalline state. The granules are about 2μm in size in rice (different plants have different granule sizes). … So you can imagine that in a dry rice grain, the strands of starch are like the fairly neatly stacked threads in my T-shirt, some shorter, some longer branched nets. …
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