"Brooklyn1" <Gravesend1> wrote in message
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> 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.

I normally do buy Texmati but this was sooo much cheaper!