On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 06:34:17 -0600, John Kuthe >
wrote:

>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...

US rice doesn't need washing, it's already clean... and definitely do
not rinse enriched rice or you'll wash away the added
vitamins/minerals. All rice from other countries needs through
washing due to their very unsanitary growing conditions... basmati is
especially filthy, buy texmati instead.