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What is sortexed rice?
It's a word derived from the brand name for a machine used in processing the rice.
As the word already suggests, it is a machine for sorting the rice. With rice that has gone through this process, you ...
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I want to cook brown and white rice together
That is possible, but you need to stage the cooking process. If your preferred cooking method for brown rice takes X minutes and for white Y minutes, start cooking the brown rice as usual, and add ...
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Why does baking cooked rice not overcook it?
There are several factors involved here.
Being stuffed
This plays quite a big role. My mother would usually run out of peppers and place the extra stuffing in the pan alongside the peppers. The ...
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Why does baking cooked rice not overcook it?
Rice does taste a little different after baking, and its texture is also a little different, but the reason it is not mushy or overcooked is that the recipe controls the moisture levels. Totally ...
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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?
The simple explanation is that your mother regularly burned the rice. That would cause all of the off flavors you mentioned. The fact that she says it should be "really dark" would ...
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Can I cook brown rice in broth?
There is no problem doing this, some flavour transfers to the rice as you'd expect. Try to measure the amount you use so the rice doesn't need draining (or just have it with the remaining liquid). And ...
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Can I use air fryer to dry out rice in preparation to be fried in a wok?
No, it won't work.
You don't need to dry out your rice for making fried rice. Instead, you want the starch in your rice to undergo retrogradation. Starch retrogradationis a process which starts out ...
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Making rice in a thermos flask
There are several sources of information on line that illustrate people cooking rice in a thermos flask. It should be easy to google, and it certainly looks possible. They basically do as you ...
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Food safety when making Koji rice / kojikin
The biochemical processes for A. oryzae inhibiting the growth of B. cereus involves the production of a range of metabolites that exert antimicrobial properties [1,2,3,4]:
"The exAP-AO17 protein ...
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Which kinds of rice can replace Uzbek devsira?
You can't replace devzira—it's unique. That said, I've seen people use anything from Arborio to Kokuho and results were quite good.
Of course it tastes different, and it's much harder to cook it ...
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Why does baking cooked rice not overcook it?
This case has to do with air flow, as well as moisture from the additional materials.
The pepper in the outside, and the mix that is combined with rice is often raw. Vegetable like the pepper, onions, ...
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Which type and grain size of rice (flour) is best for which use case?
There are a few good rules of thumb to decide what grain size to choose.
The best recipes will specify what flour type to use. Go with the type required by the recipe. Note that, if a recipe is ...
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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?
Arroz guisado does not mean fried rice, it means stewed rice!
I don't know if in Mexico is different, but we don't usually fry the rice in Spain. You usually fry lightly the garlic, pepper, chicken... ...
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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?
I don’t know it’s regional differences in how it’s prepared, or just simplifying the preparation for lazy English speakers, but I’ve seen plenty of recipes where biriyani is layered after cooking the ...
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Can I use air fryer to dry out rice in preparation to be fried in a wok?
It’s possible that it would work, but I suspect that spreading it out on a sheet on to cool and release steam would work even better if you were in a hurry.
If you’re making fried rice with fresh rice,...
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Can “quick cook” brown rice be cooked in an Instant Pot?
I used this exact brand and type of rice. 10 minutes in the instant pot at high pressure with a quick release was perfect!
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How to make puffed/popped rice?
In India, dry rice is often puffed in sand or salt. It fries in the sand or salt without oil. Once puffed, a sieve is used to separate the rice from the sand or salt.
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