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.

The directions say to wash in cold water, then cook at a ratio of 1 cup of
rice to 2.5 cups of water. Can add 1 tsp. of salt and oil if desired. You
are then directed to let this mixture soak for 15 minutes, the cook, bring
to a boil while stirring, then cover and simmer for 35 minutes.

I am not sure how this batch will turn out. The rice did appear to need to
be washed. There was a little crap in it. Like straw like stuff. Could
just be lone hulls or something. Dunno. I rinsed it well and drained it
and lost a few grains in the process. My intent was to use 2 cups of rice,
then about 4 cups of liquid which includes salsa. It is a cheap jarred
salsa and it contained a few lone kernels of corn and a few beans. I cooked
up a pound of small red beans earlier. I will probably add some of those
in. Maybe a cup or so plus a can of corn (drained) towards the end of the
cooking time. I am also adding a pound of cooked ground beef, and some
chopped red and green peppers and white onions. I did not measure these but
portioned them out for the freezer. Just eyeballing this there is probably
1.25 cups of each.

So... I kind of messed up in measuring out my liquids and I think that I
put in a little much because these veggies are not cooked and will add
liquid. I could cook them separately and then add them but I feel that I
will get a better flavor if they are cooked in there. So to compensate, I
intended to add another .25 cups of rice, but I screwed up and dumped in
about a half a cup. Yeah, I know I am going all metric then not. Deal with
it. Heh. Hopefully that part will all work out in the end. I'll check it
at about 25 minutes and add more water if I need to or cook it down a little
with the lid off if I need to do that.

But... I just wonder about the washing part. If you wash your rice... How
do you do it? I had read somewhere to put it in a colander and rinse it but
mine has holes that are far too large for this. I used to have a big wire
one but no longer do. Can't remember what became of it but I think perhaps
it broke somehow. I do have mesh strainers but they would be too small for
2 cups of rice. But... I also thought... If you are rinsing it in the
strainer, then only the teensy pieces of crap would drain out.

So... I put it all in my pot, filled the pot with water a couple of times
then drained most of it off, restraining the rice with my hand. I did lose
a few grains in doing this. Then to get the rice out, I just scooped it
with my hand back into the measuring cup. I was rather astounded at how
much liquid the rice had soaked up at that point because it totally
overfilled the 2.5 cup, cup then! For the remaining bit that I added, I
just sort of did the same thing with the rice in the measuring cup then used
my hand to restrain it as I poured the water out. Again, lost a few pieces.
There has got to be a better way!