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Is this how most white people cook their rice?
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* sorry wrong person quoted you by mistake
This and the thread is fucking with me because of it lol
Don't you think this is a bit of an ignorant thread asking if the majority of an entire group of people from many different nationalities based off one skin color do something one way based off a YouTube video?
I've never seen anyone rinse cooked rice under water before. You don't need a rice cooker to cook rice well, though.
You're probably thinking of some Iranian rice dishes.
Okay. I might make some people angry in here, but I've done this. Well what we actually did was buy rice that came in bags with small holes in it. Boil it in a pot of water. Then you could just pull the bag out and let it drain. I would then put it in a bowl with some milk and sugar. It tastes great.
I cook rice in a pot. Mine isn't wet like that. I also rinse my rice before cooking it.
That said, the video is hilarious!
That said, the video is hilarious!
Inferring it's a white people thing off a video featuring an Indian cook at that.
I have never ever seen someone strain rice. what?
there isn't only one way to make rice but this is new to me
there isn't only one way to make rice but this is new to me
it's not her recipe. She just presented it for BBC
I just heat up water and stick boil in the bag rice in it, and take it out after a set amount of time.
LMAO. I just made some rice last night, and that's definitely not how I make it. If you're going to rinse it, you do that first, then add around the normal amount of water (slightly less if you already soaked it), bring it to a boil and then let it simmer for 10 - 12 minutes partially covered, then let it sit on the stove for another 10 - 12 minutes covered. Going to get a rice cooker sometime soon though. Mainly to save time when trying to cook multiple things on the stove at the same time since I run out of space too easily and end up having to set the rice aside for a while after it's done.
Kyle's alter ego was the first person I thought of while playing the video in the OP.
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I know how Indians cook rice and it's different to the Chinese method, but they do not put unwashed rice and then rinse the rice after cooking lol.
Also it's a Chinese recipe and no Chinese would ever cook like that.
There are countless Indian cooking videos on Youtube that shows people straining the rice at the end of cooking it. I've never done it personally, but it's obviously common enough that it works. Putting down other cultures for how they prepare their food--sometimes being one of their staples--really reeks of ethnocentrism.
Rinsing the rice after cooking it, though, is something I have no answers for.
Rinsing the rice after cooking it, though, is something I have no answers for.
But they do strain the rice from what I've googled. Seems to be a very common method.
I have finally found the video that dethrones Oprah's "you didn't season this food" video. Oh goodness his face is killing me the pure horror
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I mean that is the technique for basmati rice. But for fried rice and then rinsing? Lol
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It won't.
Like if you look at the BBC recipe it's very clear they didn't actually contact a person versed in Chinese food to make the recipe. That's probably the most egregious thing.
It's blowing up in the Chinese/Asian-communities for a reason.
Never seen anyone cook rice like that in my life... so thanks for ruining that 30 year streak, OP...
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Unless you like cold wet rice, none.
Basmati should be drained, cooked a little bit further, and then rested.
Yes, straining the rice and removing the starchy water after the rice is cooked is a very common technique in India. lol at all the white people in here gasping in horror at straining the rice. Cooking rice and removing the excess water is supposedly the healthier way of eating rice.
The washing of the rice after straining though? That's weird and I have never seen that before. Maybe she is applying the same logic for pasta to the rice - that is the cold water prevents the rice from sticking to each other. No idea. No one washes rice after cooking.
I have seen rice cooked like this up until the running tap water through it.
Genuinely shocked at that part
Genuinely shocked at that part
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