On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:36:00 -0800, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>I have never washed my rice before but... I bought a horking huge back of
>aged Basmati brown at Costco. And I am using it to make Spanish rice. Yes,
>I know this isn't the typical rice. I would normally use Texmati for this
>but I only have one cup left and I want to make a very large batch of it.
>So I need more rice than that. The only other brown rice I have is 1 cup of
>long grain, which would be my second choice but again not enough. And a
>couple of small packages of some kind of Asian rice which appears to be a
>medium grain. So this is the closest thing that I have.
....

I never wash my brown rice, which is my staple. But I'd be more
concerned with the different cooking times of the various types of
rice you mentioned. I know brown rice talkes a lot longer to cook
thoroughly than some other types of rice.

John Kuthe...