"notbob" > wrote in message
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>I made Emeril's Cajun Jambalaya, last night.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/5excp5
>
> Pretty dang good for an FN recipe. Only one problem, OLD rice!
>
> I guess I never thought of rice getting too old or going bad, but it
> does. Unlike cereal grains, which tend to go rancid, rice gets old and
> porous, making the cooked product crumbly and mealy in mouthfeel.
> Ick!
>
> This was long grain white rice and was only about 8-9 mos old. What's
> the shelf life of most rices?

Interesting. We don't eat rice all that often so I have found some expired
rice in the cupboard. I didn't try to cook it. Just threw it out. Now I
usually buy it in a plastic jug. It seems to have a further out expiration
date than the plastic bags.