Is washing rice really still necessary? 

Hello there. Wasn't expecting you here too. I'm starting to feel that either our tastes in RU-vid videos are extremely similar, or that you're just an omnipotent being lurking out in comments section on RU-vid

You and Justin Y. are here damn

@@manishprasad1298 I think were on the same page here

@@jiekendinner were? Or do you mean "we are"?

Yes

bro how do u comment on every video bruh

bro its Justin Y.

I agree Mr Ninja

haven't seen you in a while, how goes it?

Yeah.

this is very interesting! i heard stories from my parents about how they sometimes found tiny stones in their rice if they did not clean the rice thoroughly (I'm south korean) I thought we didn't have this type of issue anymore these days but looks like we still have!

Protein enriched rice

Seems to me you are trowing away a lot of protein xD

I live in a pretty urbanized part of Canada but sometimes I still get bugs in my rice-

thats primitive. catch it instead

Because it always does. People just want to be right and condemn anyone that disagrees. Rather than be open to new or different ways to do things. Welcome to 2023

This channel is dedicated to informed decisions, not to tell you what to choose.

@@Esteem_Boat_Willy yes that is the joke in my comment

@@Esteem_Boat_Willyare you 10? Worlds always been like that bud 😂 well, as long as we’ve been around. We’re complete pricks

@@TedBarton91 I love when internet dingdongs run their mouth...and look like complete morons. Not only did I already use the word ALWAYS in my comment...but it's sarcasm to welcome someone to the current year. As if they just woke up from a coma. Are YOU 10? Welcome to basic English.

We wash rice because of the same reason we peel pau skin we don’t trust the workers who touch it after giving their balls a good scratch I’m not even joking

@@bruhbruhin_a_sling7775 my mom said if you don't wash your rice it will smell after coocing

@@bruhbruhin_a_sling7775 i wash my rice cuz there is a lil bit of dust in the rice

@@bruhbruhin_a_sling7775 Agreed. Fuck not washing rice.

Ok in india everyone does it. Remember Asia is not a identity from isis terrorist to Chinese to Mongolian to Siberian to India belong to same continent

I'm from Pakistan and I feel the same way

@@abdulmannanbabar8020 I guess because for you guys it's the same thing that bread is to us in the west.

i’m jamaican and we do this as well :)

@@mccaylawhite8900 OK I'll bite. Why does washing rice work for you? Would you recommend it?

I´ve adopted this habit some years ago despite the fact that my diet is not based mostly on rice. I buy ten kilos, then I put it in glass jars with a tight lid to prevent any contamination and I am good to go for some time. It is cheaper, it prevents unneccessary packaging and in any case you have the amount you need in consistent quality. In many countries the sack of rice is also like a life insurance. You know you have something to eat the next months, even if you don´t have income for whatever reason, or food is out of stock.

I'm glad they did, too! Especially now that we know about asbestos contamination in talc. It's now being removed from cosmetics and baby powder for that reason.

@@phantomkate6 Just so you know... they're not removing the talcum powder from baby powder. They're changing the refinement and testing for it to make sure asbestos isn't in the powder. Any baby powder that you buy that does not *_expressly point out_* that it's "talc-free" still has talcum powder in it.

@@matchesburn yes I know all of this, thanks

@@phantomkate6 well it would have been nice if you said that in your original post instead of having to have someone else explain it. Its not good to tell only half the story.

@@TheBitter73 I didn't realize I needed to spell out the definition of 'contamination,' since I thought it was common knowledge and we're on the internet anyway. Sorry.

Why we wash rice: common sense and a brain

@@jarrod4115 The video literally explains that is pretty pointless if you're from a developed country and comes down to preference and what you're making, yet you still choose to believe is because you have a brain with "common sense" and to top it off you liked your own comment, tell me how does it feel to be this much of a knob?.

​@@jarrod4115I mean Adam lays out the facts and basically confirms certain rice doesn't need to be washed and might actually make a dish worse depending on what it's going for

I wish I could eat newly milled rice :( it sounds like it would be really tasty

@@McDudes IT IS BRO see if you can find some

It is the law

They spancc when i don

They even let me wash eggs

This is also why I’m against gay marriage

We wash in africa too idk how it started

then the Flight of Flip Flop then the Coat Hanger shurikens

Burst Nugget - 😁😂😂😂

Same with my Caribbean people. 😆😆😆

@@RoseAngella Yeah. I got cussed by my mother for that, she even refused to eat unwashed rice 😥

@@burstnugget8225 I see you've met my mom.

Strange, in my family who are from Jalisco and Michoacán always wash our rice, even when making Spanish rice.

I am from spain, in my house we always wash the rice to remove starch

i've never washed rice either. this is new to me too.

From Veracruz and we definitely wash rice.

Same here. Mom sometimes washes rice, but less so since she moved to the US. She told me when she was growing up in rural Mexico that it was necessary due to the reasons mentioned in the video, but since moving here she doesn’t do it all the time unless for a specific reason.

😂😂😂

I hope you are kidding 😂

@@BangkokBonkers He's not joking. It's his early days of trying to fit in with the humans.

@@GaussianBluff 😆🤣😂😂😂.......👍😁

I know this must be very funny but I am missing the joke.

this, ohhh man...

This comment killed me 😂😂😂😂

Good thing I don't live there. The cost of dental services here doesn't cost as much as a TV, unless you're considering getting braces.

@@triadwarfare you have some really expensive TVs over there.

@@karu6111 wtf 🤣

I know the reason why I wash rice, I cook with basmati rice ans washing is essential to get utmost fluffiness and flavour. I have also tried cooking it same way without washing its not the same and taste is not nice at alll, soaking it and washing it and then cooking it will give amazing results. Ive tried both and theres a huge difference in the final result.

​@salieabdulrahman8835 I 100% agree with you. I was a lazy student, never bothered washing my jasmine rice. However at a high end Chinese restaurant, I was blown away how amazing their rice tasted, and since then I have learnt how to properly wash and steam rice (and adjust the ratio of water). It really makes a difference to the texture of rice (asian varieties), and it's a little irritating that Ragusea made this video because he prefers eating gluggy rice with a fork (just use a spoon ffs)

@@moodynoob thats a taste preference which is fine to have

​@@moodynoob​it's not like he made the video, because he likes this gluggy rice more. It is a traditional (and in europe vastly known) kind of italy dish called "risotto", which probably is one of just very few traditional rice recipes he knows. Normaly europeans don't eat rice as often as asian people and you would just fail to make many (if not all) kinds of risotto, if you tried to wash your rice before.

Wow, are you in your 80s? That's so cool!

@@hesh9646 Born in the 30"s actually. Here was breakfast during WW2: Bread that my sister baked from home ground flour was broken into pieces, a little milk was added, very little sugar (because it was rationed), and that was it. Went to school hungry. Stole food when I had the chance. There was no welfare unless you were physically or mentally handicapped, but people helped each other when they could. I think those war years shaped my life in a very positive way. For one thing, I can now afford to buy rice, and thanks to this video, I know whether-or-not to wash it.

@@Partysize2 Odd question but do you know if there were food deliveries in major cities like LA, such as from a delicatessen? Relevant to a book I'm writing.

@@sodacan1415 I don't know, I have never lived near LA. Were you referring to "in the olden days"? I lived in the midwest then, and there was no such thing as food delivery anywhere that I know of. These were WWII days and later.

@@Partysize2 Yes, I'm thinking of sometime in the '40s. In the book 'The Thin Man' from 1933 the protagonist orders sandwiches from a delicatessen so I was curious as to how common that was. Thank you for answering.

never thought I'd see hand tool rescue here

Power washer is the quickest way to descale a fish - change my mind.

More like a quick soak in some Evapo-Rust, I would have thought.

just put it in the washing machine between two sifters

Better be one of your next videos, if it is, you'll get my bell icon.

"said"? Huh?

Sure let’s listen to the guy in the mud hut

​@@yenpham-jb4wo listen to LTG's speech

@@yenpham-jb4wo insanely ignorant to make this comment when almost all countries that rely heavily on rice are of similar technological advancement and socioeconomic status. Very few parts of asia are developed like the west. Singling out this guy is wild.

Also the bugs crawling in the rice lolllll. I don't think not washing rice would work for us considering local farmers will dry their rice on the side of roads and it gets debris in it 🤷‍♀

@@slot_machine My rice doesn't have rocks or bugs in it, but it has too much starch for my rice cooker, so I have to wash it anyway I think.

if you still buy rice from sack or small brand not mass brand that use multi-milion tool, you still have to wash rice but i still wash my rice even i buy from mass brand because of starch.

Its common in Philippines to fine small those tiny rocks if you don’t wash it properly

@@shawnkay5462 Do you think it's because of what the rice went through from the farm to you?? When I was in Viet Nam the farmers would spread the rice on half of a two lane rural road. When dried in the sun they swept it up with a broom. I don't know about the Philippines but with American grown rice that's not done. It doesn't touch the ground after being harvested in the field.

like a undergrad thesis with only one source and citation lol Grade: F

@@kaidanalenko5222 11:33 “fortificant”. Even auto correct doesn’t know that word.

@@TheBooban are you criticizing or supporting the other comment? Cause fortificant is an actual word...

@@kevinsmithgaming fortificant is too academic that even autocorrect doesnt know

@@kaidanalenko5222 We forgot that a doctorate backed by a decade of education isn't enough to communicate information 🙄🙄🙄. You're not reading a thesis, you're attending a class.

New York doesn't make the best bagels **turns off notifications and runs away**

We can at least usually agree store bought pre sliced bagels are tolerable, yet not great.

@@chestersnap GET BACK HERE!!!

@@chestersnap Well, Montréal does

Homemade Bagels are always better than store bought

Nice

You must be asian race

@@yasminenazarine1629 Don't read too good, do you?

Why do u have to throw in no one in ur family is asian

What's this got to do with asian race 🤔if you don't have asian family but you're from other race land run away hole in America 99.999 % third world country Rafggies migration always says who they're what they're I feel sorry fir you you poor run away hole

LMAO IM DYINGGGG

Lol

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PTSD INTENSIFIES

de onde ce é? nunca tinha ouvido sobre lavar arroz antes de tentar fazer comida japonesa 🤔

yeah we do eat a lot of rice, the classic non sticky white rice combined with beans is basically a pattern you will always see in brazilian dishes

persians do the same

This. My mom ALWAYS washed our rice before cooking it.

@@mikepoehell ya Beans with rice

Cap: "I understand THAT reference!"

@@yusufanbarfirdausi621 why i season the cutboard not the steak?

@@thanthanh5190 yes

The same fucking joke, always

@@brenosilvamorais2510 and i love it

Arroz com feijão é top

@@enricomeirelles2304 Eu acho que ele não entende nossa língua não mano.

@@user-rx9ny4yo2e arroz com feijão é top

@@enricomeirelles2304 eu sei

the reason i dont wash my rice here in the southeaster united states is because when i do wash my rice the grains becomes a sort of mush but if i leave it alone and just cook it it turns out firm and depending on how much water you use you can get it a sort of al dente texture to it.

Correct

I use rice water to clean fruis,veggies

@Stirgid Lanathiel huh that's an interesting method! I come from indonesia and now living in taiwan. I'm so used to disgustingly dirty rice that can have anything from pebbles to mites so I don't think i can think of using the starch water to cook 😂 but my fam usually dump it on the garden to both water and fertilize the plants and I kid you not, sometimes I was too lazy to dump it out immediately so i left it as it is in a bucket. Within 8 hours it'll smell like rotten kitchen scraps which just proves that the rice rinsing water (at least for most indonesian rice) is very dirty and not very safe for consumption.

@Stirgid Lanathiel Either the farmer/manufacturer has very lenient QC or they just don't care. I mean, I can't complain cause it is very cheap. And ahahaha enamel damage. That's one way to put it. It's definitely an unpleasant surprise to find something crunchy in you mouth full of rice. Even worse, the pebble will almost always got ground up by the molars even if you stop right when u realize it's there. And then either you swallow the ground pebble rice or you have to spit everything and rinse. It's specially painful when that mouthful is the last bite of meat 😂

Have you ever like get off the water? Like mann... It is basic....

nah I’m black lol

Me as a malaysian: I do that everyday

Yehe big brain

XD

@@NotFur-3 Me, a Singaporean: Same

LMAO

Well most rice is eaten hot so it always was a heated topic

it is NOT rice, the topic is not rice.

@@AJ-vs3yz hahaha this pun

@@AJ-vs3yz Nothing slips past you.

What’s interesinting mean

@@advlia686 what does that mean

I'd rather not discuss that lol and aas someone who gets clean rice it's interesting to see the point int the vid

interesting*

Leave him alone and btw middleeasterns aka people like me also have a rice as predominant side/dish so stop it with the sterotypes and all that bullshit

Same, basmati's a great rice. It's pretty much the only one I buy non-organic, it has a 'cleaner' result.

that shit disgusting

@@kuryaku5906 I see i found fellow basmati understander folk :)

with basmati, I find it has to be washed a lot or else its extremely clumpy. For me usually I'll wash it 7 or 8 times and sometimes fry the rice beforehand as well, in order to get fluffy basmati.

I cooked mine with steam at 50% water and 50% rice and it's just fine@@ShaneCreightonYoung

Well. A youtube video you personally clicked becuse you felt like it. And tbh. You (i done it thousand of Times) prob started a video and x seconds into it went meeh. And stopped watching

Soo its really not a fair comparision

Adam is picking especially interesting topics on purpose, if his channel was more like a university degree and tried to teach you EVERYTHING you need to know, you'll have a lot of boring videos about things you won't care about at all.

There's a difference between being forced to learn something and voluntarily learning something.

your professor has 2 hours to put a class together. Adam has 2 months.

Google Seinfeld risotto to see a funny clip.

Risotto is an Italian rice dish

@@firstnamemclastname5035 its also a jojo character

I only know Risottoro, which is one of Abroad in Japan's dearest friends. Haa, Risottoro...

south east asian gang where you at?

Yep this Italian granny with 1st gen parents-&1frm Est European(b4 ww2?)- whatever-but this kid has done his research(just sneak away&rinse that long grain rice)last month-got less starch- less tiny pebble'rocks' even hard broken ones-If the really old ones(over 79) freak at least check it or they may crack their dental plate- Hey Karma

Sure let American fall down dead with ARSENIC with their unwashed rice!!! 😂😆🤪😜🤣 Do some bloody research!!!

@@yokikokudou If you watch the whole video he gets to the arsenic problem by the end.

oh, I saw that as a turkey where the woman's mother told her to cut the legs off before cooking, because "her mother did that". They called granny, and the turkey didn't fit in the roasting pan with them on.

my bro just turned into shakespeare for a sec

You need a job

@@Celtsryan most jobs aren't therapeutic. it will just give them more reasons to wash rice

That feeling gives me anxiety.

@@paracame8162 I mean to actually do something useful instead of spending their time washing rice

My grandma used to give me the rice to read the tiny rocks, when I was a child. Same here

Hey just curious why were there rocks in the rice?

@@JTBCP They weren't cleaned properly I guess, sometimes there would be tiny black ones, they were easy to find, but other times there would be yellow-ish ones that would be a lot harder to find.

In Mexico we do the same but with beans

@@JTBCP Freshly harvested! People used to buy rice straight from farmers or vendors. So it still had rocks in it :)

Rice is not coated in talc and was not done so in the past either. Stop believing internet myths as truths.

Now that's real wisdom from the older days before Internet and widespread knowledge of science

Packaging and extra packaging is additional cost which will always be downloaded to the end consumer. As an end consumer, why spend more on the same item when you can spend less on the item with less processing and less cost attached?

i buy my rice from japanese suppliers and i still find tiny stones or pebbles or coagulated blobs of rice in it from time to time, so of course im gonna wash it thoroughly (unless im making sushi then that starch is necessary so i sift it instead or wash only once) and a habit that i personally do and most japanese restaurants also do for large batches of rice is to put all of the cooked rice onto a basket and shuffle it with a rice spoon to fluff it up and let it dry faster, adding seasoned rice vinegar if the batch is meant for sushi/nigiri or rice balls. i find that no matter what brand i buy even if its the incredibly expensive imported rice from the states (im from southeast asia so importing from the other side of the world is practically highway robbery) i always always find stones/pebbles or bugs at least 5 times a year. and thats enough to do lasting damage to the body over the course of decades. so i just do what my mom taught me and always always wash my rice. i should add that as of may 2022 i've already found 7 foreign objects in my imported high quality rice, and its not even halfway through this year yet. a possible reason why i found much more this year than i usually do is because the health & quality standards for produce has dropped a lot during the pandemic to meet the scarcity of many nations lacking basic goods, particularly in most of asia. so it honestly doesn't matter where in the world your rice comes from, you should still wash it. also most filipinos can tell the difference between fake rice and real rice, and while the poor generally dont care and eat it regardless, the well off will absolutely not buy that garbage. why? because in recent years a lot of counterfeit rice dealers have been selling poly-cellulose based fake rice to people for virtually nothing, which have created a lot of new problems for the country because poly-cellulose is indigestible (its fecking plastic). so they have to force these fools to puke it all out, or perform surgery to remove it from their stomach. another reason is because most people here feckin hate it when our rice, bread, and whatever else is enriched or fortified by artificial chemicals, minerals, and vitamins like bromine and riboflavin, mainly due to disgust of seeing people overdose multivitamins and suddenly suffer from illnesses caused by vitamin overdose. like the case of a person who consumed a full bottle of vitamin-d softgel tablets and died 8 hours later due to vitamin-d toxicity induced hypercalcemia.

@@chloekaftan Sushi should have no starch on the rice grains. You might want to reevaluate where you get your information from.

Thats how I felt when I first watched Food Science years ago...check it out! Great show!

For real I always see cook as a chemist... But more into food creating chemist...

Me too

Same!! 😂

Instant rice is garbage

Same with potatoes for my country. If it is main carb in diet, it makes sense to buy a lot more

Jaja

This is what I've experienced too, it's just habit to buy big plastic or cloth sacks of rice to then store, wash and cook in a rice cooker for like five days at a time.

Oh yeah

Y'all know we got the best bread

@@Dotaplayers33 I like Italian better.

@@KarmasAB123 Okay, you get a pass.

I prefer darker scandinavien types of bread or simple french white bread.

Knowledge is tasty

Well here in the Philippines we washed it too for paella..And it still bind like unwashed, This guy in the video already said it rice is a solid starch either you wash it or not it will still bind when cook...The only difference is with unwashed it taste a little bit earthy and have distinct smell that is unappetizing to Asian..

actually I think it's more to do with water content. For example, fried rice is best made with day old, refrigerated rice bc it's drier that way, which is why some recipes suggest that if you don't have that, you should add less water to your rice cooker. The deciding factor really isn't whether you wash it or not; in older times ppl washed it bc it wasn't as clean as it is now and husks&dust may still be present.

Same here, never seen anyone doing it in Portugal

I wash my rice until the water runs clear because I don't like how starchy unwashed rice is after it is cooked.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

Who the heck don't wash their rice cooker?

@@jdcandres i get lazy and wash the cooker itself only once a week even though the lid said wash every time like its just not dirty, it's water residue and a bit of starch

People who don’t eat rice that often most likely don’t use rice cookers.

@@teologen I don't even know anyone who has a rice cooker... Not sure what eating rice "often" means, but I eat rice weekly maybe

I grew up in America

@@LemurJackson so have a lot of my friends, did you have a point to this reply?

You can wash rice like pandan rice and it gets individual and fluffy. You can wash japanese rice and it still stays sticky. Proof that washing rice is superior :P

@@KerupukKeju you didn’t get the point of the video 😿

@@LemurJackson damn i didn't

Excuse me, I am very interested in your story of being "kind of 'adopted'" by a Japanese grandmother. Mind telling us a bed time story?

@@kurukuru4120 Your request is gentle and polite. That is rare on the internet. I shall not refuse you. However . . . . . . I am Texas born. Texans have a saying: Never tell a short story when a long one will do as well. So . . . It began when my girlfriend introduced me to sushi. She said, "Sushi is an acquired taste. You have to try it three times before you judge." It was not that way with me. I loved it from the first taste. I soon found a sushi shop I liked -- Atari Ya (that is, Hit Shop). I worked my way through the menu. I found that sushi lovers divide into two groups: those who like uni and those who do not. I do not. Those who do not like uni, like tako (octopus). I love octopus. I soon had my assigned stool at the bar and my designated itamai (sushi chef). My order was consistent: tako sashimi to gohan to miso shiro (octopus sashimi with rice and white miso soup). I visited Atari Ya at least twice a week, sometimes five times a week. I was also an officer of the local aikido club. As a club, we went out once a month to eat Japanese food. I was charged with booking the restaurant, selecting the menu, and negotiating the price. Guess which shop I picked. Despite my immersion into Japanese culture, I still ate like a gaijin (foreigner). I put soy sauce on my rice. The owner of Atari Ya employed his own mother. She served gohan to o-cha (rice and tea). One evening after I had my service of tako sashimi and had dirtied my rice with soy sauce, I felt a gentle hand on my shoulder. I looked into the smiling, sweet face of Oba-san (grandmother). With a smile and a twinkle in her eyes, she said to me, "You come here often. You must learn to speak Japanese. You must learn to eat Japanese." She smiled bigger, patted me on the shoulder, and left. I turned back to my tako and dipped it in my mix of soy sauce and wasabi paste. (FWIW tako in the US and tako in Japan are different. US tako is steamed. Japanese tako is not cooked.) I bit into the tako and chewed my way through it. Had enough wasabi on it to give me that sinus rush that required me to center, close my eyes, and control my breathing to keep from crying. Once I had beaten the wasabi and was riding the endorphin rush, I opened my eyes and turned to pick up my rice bowl. The 'dirty' rice was gone. In its place was a bowl of 'clean', white rice. Oba-san had swapped my rice. Still a gaijin, I dirtied my rice again and ate. Later, when I turned back to my rice, I found a new bowl of clean rice. I turned to look to the rice cookers. Oba-san stood there, hands behind her back, smiling at me. She returned my gaze and bowed. Not a big bow. Just a head nod. This tug of war went on for weeks. In the end, Oba-san won. I learned other things from Oba-san. I do not practice Japanese daily, so my Japanese is not good. I still know my Japanese manners and still eat my rice clean. I still love tako. Other things have fallen aside from lack of use. But I never forgot the lesson of the rice and the way of the gentle Oba-san. Sleep well Kuru Kuru, and pleasant dreams. You have your bedtime story.

@@hlynnkeith9334 As a fellow Texan who had a biological Japanese grandmother, you're lucky she didn't chase you around trying to beat you with a sandal. :D Kidding, enjoyed your story.

@@DennisBLee Glad you enjoyed it. You know, I never knew Oba-san's name. She never told me. But she cared for me like I was her son. Once when I entered Atari-Ya, there was not a seat open. All the tables and all the places at the bar were filled. Oba-san came running from the back of the house to greet me and showed me to my regular place. She insisted that all the customers at the bar scoot down to make room. She had the bus boy bring a tall chair from the back and seated me. The guy next to me said, "You must be some customer!" I just smiled.

Little treasure like this are always hidden in the corners of youtube. Thanks for the story! I oughta go out and have sushi, although I have no idea whats good or anything

I have a big... BIG... BIIIIGGGGG... muscles!!! HAHAHA!!! What did you think I was going for? That's so DIRTY of you! GAGAGAGA!!! I am the funniest RU-vidr ever! Maybe that's the reason why I have TWO (!!!) HOT (!) GIRLFRIENDS. Thanks for being alive, dear chab

@@AxxLAfriku dafuq

@@AxxLAfriku grüße von kannix

@@AxxLAfriku wtf

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Same here. Philippines?

Does washing help removing these stones?

@@Seff2 washing removes the sand that was not removed by manual separation of stones. in USSR we experienced stones in rice like absolute norm.

Even in the US, in loose beans sold in mexican markets can have stones too. Source: am mexican.

Adds weight and volume, probably introduced for that reason.

There's even a restaurant hack to add _more_ free starch when cooking risotto to order: you blend cooked rice and water to a slurry in a high-powered blender, refrigerate it, and add it in small amounts together with the stock, to help form a strong emulsion (starch-fat-water bond) in the pan.

So did you just think you were bad at making risotto this whole time? Because there's no way you could have gotten the same creamy, luscious texture with your washed risotto rice than you would have gotten otherwise

@@raerohan4241 No, I only started washing rice this year. I started using jasmine as my go to rice and wash. I haven't made risotto since I did that. Back then, I was using brown rice. Without this warning, I would have made my next batch with jasmine and washed it.

Going back to your original comment@@juddvance7721 If memory serves the classic rice type for risotto is arborio.

Jasmine and Basmati rice are both long grain rice, there's really only 3 kinds of rices. Long, short, and medium (the "it's too short to be long and too long to be short" group). Jasmine and Basmati are probably the most famous long grained rice, along with the American white/brown long grain variants; arborio, valencia, and bomba rice (the stuff used for Risotto and Paella) are the most common medium grain rice; and short grain rice is actually extremely uncommon beyond some use in sushi (some sushi rice is short, some medium, it sort of depends. Sometimes short grain and medium grain rice are both called short grain (or medium) because actual short grain rice is so underutilized. The actual reason for why certain rices are better suited for certain preparations (i.e; Arborio or Valencia for Risotto or Bomba for Paella, and tbh either for both) is because certain rice cultivations tend to contain more free starches than others, or less. Arborio, Valencia, and Bomba tend to have a large amount of free starch and the shape of the rice lends itself best to those styles of dishes, whereas Jasmine tends to have less free starch and if you were to cook it into Paella or Risotto has a tendency to break during the cooking process because of how long it is compared to how wide it is (in terms of grain shape). source: 15 years cooking, background in culinary arts education

Man, this guy is an idiot. Never take cooking lessons from an American. Ever. Your great evidence is just one paper that's not peer-reviewed. People write papers on anything and everything. That's not evidence.

I was also shocked to hear East Asians don't drain their rice! Any East Asians in here, what do you do with the remaining water? Do you boil it off? Do you chug it like Badlands drinking the ocean?

@@BreakdancePeach there's no extra water...only pour in exactly what is required for the rice

@@BreakdancePeach I believe many / most East Asians use rice cookers to prepare their rice. The rice and cooker specify exactly how much water to add so there isn't any remaining.

Interesting because I usually purchase premium rice imported from India that doesn't require washing.

Nice!

Omg it works thanks

An Android user? RE-

@@EmptyCheetosBag Nah, we just cook our rice perfectly. That is the real life hack.

@Winston Smith definitely the microwave. Good things happen when you put metal in the microwave. Particularly when they also have batteries that can explode

And use the run off to make horchata...

@@PacesIII place the rice water on the floor. Add blood. Add the tears of your mother. Add 3 cats feet. Add 5 eye lashes. This is how you summon the ancient demon. Get the forbidden tutorial ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-n7rjEEk7q9M.html

@@whitealliance9540 oh god are you a member demon ritual cult 😱

yep that's facts. and separating all the beans to keep out rocks

@@whitealliance9540 Sorry, but I don't believe in supernatural nonsense.

And also really well researched

That dude is seriously annoying with his shtick

I thought I was the only one who found Uncle Rogers annoying AF, and I'm so glad at him being called out.

The uncle roger thing is suppose to be a joke stop crying please its really, really rude Edit: calling him out for entertaining other people with a different sense of humor and calling him cringey... isn’t that cringe? Literally just stop. If you don’t like him, thats fine. If you’re going to call him out in such an annoying manner just don’t. Yes i know what I’m saying is rude too but I can’t stand these people Edit 2: OH MY GOD STOP “@pikaぴかちゅ BUT HOWBOUT THIS BUT HE DID THIS BUT HE IS THIS” SHUT UP AND STOP HARASSING HIM BECAUSE HE JOKINGLY HARASSED SOMEONE ELSE SARCASTICALLY AND STOP HARASSING ME IM FKING SLEEP DEPRIVED AND PISSED Edit 3: STOP YELLING AT ME ABOUT THIS AND THAT CRAP IF YOU DONT LIKE HIM ITS FINE BUT WHY DO YOU FUCKING EXPECT HIM TO BE SOME DIVINE BEING THAT NEVER DID SOMETHING WRONG SHUT THE FUCK UP I DONT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT UR CRAP IM ACTUALLY PISSED

@@caliorbustarika3310 Uncle Roger is just a character lmao, he's not actually like that

If there are weevils, aren't there also white larva???

@@_Free_Thinker Extra unseen protein!

@@_Free_Thinker white larva, oh you mean microproteins?

I find it strange. I mean the rice needs to be washed but everything else is ok? Like flower, cereals, pepper and tea? If I would find anything in a pack of food that does not belong there - especially weevils - I would throw away the whole container probably lol

@@1337Jogi I had ants in my cereal

Charcoal? I call it well done

are you trying to be funny?

Same!

Lol

use that charcoal to water your plants they will turn into apple trees

so i’m pakistani and my mum loves using basmati rice which i believe is a long grain rice but we moved to tanzania and basmati rice is p expensive and we eat a lot of rice everyday. we started buying the local rice which is grown in the mbeya region of tanzania. it’s around short to medium grain but it’s very very dirty. now i’ve never not washed my rice and i actually spend around 20 mins just washing my rice. basmati rice is imported here and is generally less dirty but mbeya rice is almost always v dirty. i wash my rice in batches and v thoroughly but that type of rice never gets not sticky? i can’t imagine how clumpy it would be if i decided to add extra starch and make it clumpy on purpose. i would not trust the rice until ik it’s clean mainly because something in me says there’s an issue even if i moved to a western country but here it’s a sanitary issue so i have to clean it.

Definitely. Jasmine Rice is particularly sticky.

Yes, short grain rice are sticky. Longer grain rice are not as sticky

I am your polar opposite, as a UK citizen in Singapore my rice cooking process was a mess for a while years ago. Haha. Now we have videos like this!

Parboiled rice is less sticky.

The rice cooker easily doubles as a steamer as well, assuming you have one with that thimble on the opening that creates the pressure within the rice cooker.

@@anirudhviswanathan3986 Yes, those kinds of rice cookers are super useful and interesting. It's great to have vegetables which you may end up serving in or adjacent to the rice cooking at the same time.

Rice cookers are wildly effective and produce great rice. Don't stop.

The steamer is very versatile. I use it to make multi-day bone broth I use it as a steamer I even use the "keep warm" function alongside the open lid steamer to incubate yogurt

I have pressure cooker where the pot can separate, idk about you but no reason to not start the rice in the pot on the stove, pasta style, then insert the pot into the cooker and have perfect toasty rice

Free protein and fiber

I don't know where you live but my family always stored spearmint gum in our bulk items like flour, rice and sugar. While it's not poisonous to bugs, the strong scent is an effective repellant. Historically, Mint was grown interspersed throughout gardens as a way to protect other plants from insects. Just take a stick of gum (my family uses Extra brand though idk how important that is) and bury it within your grain, making sure it's dispersed enough throughout it. As far as I know, no flavors are leeched and if you accidentally scoop some out, just put it back in.

I've only had this problem a single time but I've never looked at my rice the same since. To be fair, no amount of washing will make me willingly eat bug-contaminated rice.

Put your flour and stuff in glass or plastic containers when you buy it. If you bought it without weevils, it will keep them out. If you bought it with weevils, they may suffocate, depending on how often you open the container.

@@zviLikesTV any tips on how to get them out if their are already in

Lol

Lol

My ancestors that I don't even know are gonna travel back to the mortal realm and twist my neck 180° clockwise/anti-clockwise if I don't wash my rice

@@Solbashio nothing personal kid

​@@ReptilianLepton top 10 most dangerous weapons: 1: an asian mom's slipper 1, tied: la chancla 2: the car when you turn on the lights 3: minecraft noob's dead fish 4: hydrogen bomb

How expensive are the 50 kg bags?

@@pablojp3498 A really nice bag of rice is almost 50 us dollars. But there are cheaper options.