> wrote:
> Btw, one recipe I have (from the children's book "Everybody Cooks Rice")
> calls for cold cooked rice. Whatever for, when you're just going to heat
> it up again, according to the recipe?
>
>
> Lenona.
>

When you use fresh cooked warm rice, it just becomes gluey mush. It needs
to dry out a bit so that the grains retain their shape and texture.