On 9/17/2010 8:50 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:46:32 -1000, > wrote:
>
>> On 9/17/2010 3:11 AM, James Silverton wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't think it should be necessary to rinse rice before cooking and I
>>> have used a Japanese rice cooker for 30 years.
>>>
>>
>> You're right about this. They say you don't have to wash the rice coated
>> with glucose (!) instead of talc but I never could bring myself to not
>> wash my rice. It's a cultural difference, I think.
>
> They say, who's they...
>
> Fortified/enriched rice shouldn't be washed or the added nutrition
> will be removed. ALL rice imported into the US must be well washed to
> remove the raw sewage. Talc han't been used on import rice in the US
> for many years.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/08/us...led-peril.html
>
> http://www.epicurious.com/tools/food...=14&submit.y=7
>
>

All you say may be true. My point was that I doubt that most Asian cooks
of my generation or older will be able to bring themselves to cook
unwashed rice. It's a cultural difference, I think.