God it got me all crispy earlier but I really need people to understand there are different types of rice and thus not washing your rice doesn't make u a dirty american
like, the only rise i rinse - AND I WISH PEOPLE WOULD SAY RINSE, NOT WASH, BECAUSE IT CONFUSES A LOT OF FOLKS OUT THERE - is specifically sushi rice, that's it
... i have never heard of rinsing rice for dirt, i've always heard that you're supposed to rinse it to remove starch, and that's nominally just for different kinds of sticky rice?? encouraging people to rinse all rice... bizarre
people are so weird about what they choose to be mad about, like, even if there WAS a type of rice known for dirt, who cares if they wash theirs or not?? they're not making you (general you) eat it or something
they mentioned something about rat feces, and i was thinking like, "bruh, you can literally see if your rice has been contaminated with foreign objects, in which case, throw the bag out"
i'm always looking at packages of dried beans and lentils, and they always say "check for stones or foreign objects" and i think i maybe once, in my entire life, found a very, very tiny rock
and i can totally understand why some babbie finally living on their own for the first time would make that mistake if they never watching someone preparing rice before
this is a bit diagonal of that but i once got a very ott scandalized american food criiiiiimes reaction to describing a very unexceptional arroz con leche recipe
but i am also American and don't know if they do dessert things with it in Britain or whatever, but generally i associated sweet rice with Latin American food, yeah
my mom used to make it all the time when I was a kid, but when I try making it it's always bland. maybe I should try looking at arroz con leche recipes and see if that's closer to how she actually made it
Arroz con dulce (Puerto Rican) Puerto Rican rice pudding is made with pearl rice. [...] Coconut milk, cream of coconut, evaporated milk, star anise, cloves, ginger, raisins (soaked in rum), vanilla, cinnamon, sugar, nutmeg and the option of lemon peel is simmered until the coconut milk is infused with all spices.
The rice is then drained and placed in a hot pot that has been coated in butter. The infused coconut milk is then poured on the rice and cooked until rice is tender and sticky. Coconut milk and cream can be replaced with more milk and cream cheese; pistachios can be substituted for raisins.
and if you're cooking on the stove top rather than using a rice maker, i think it tends to bubble up more and risk boiling over if you don't rise the type that needs to be rinsed first
i finally got myself one of those instapots and have been making so much more white rice in it now that can walk away and not watch a pot on the stove anymore
like even within the same kind of rice, depending on if you rinse the rice or not you can get wildly different results! but they are not necessarily better than each other
depending on what I'm eating I might want more flaky rice or more sticky rice, and you can control that a bit depending on your starch and water amount
like I remember my dad buying some rice that came in burlap bags that was something we always had to rinse, but like, you gotta find international stores for that kind of thing
american food criiiiiimesreaction to describing a very unexceptional arroz con leche recipeoh my godRice pudding around the worldZarda wa haleeb (Iraqi) rice prepared with date syrup served in the same dish as with rice prepared with milkoh put this directly in my mouth.Arroz con dulce (Puerto Rican) Puerto Rican rice pudding is made with pearl rice. [...] Coconut milk, cream of coconut, evaporated milk, star anise, cloves, ginger, raisins (soaked in rum), vanilla, cinnamon, sugar, nutmeg and the option of lemon peel is simmered until the coconut milk is infused with all spices.The rice is then drained and placed in a hot pot that has been coated in butter. The infused coconut milk is then poured on the rice and cooked until rice is tender and sticky. Coconut milk and cream can be replaced with more milk and cream cheese; pistachios can be substituted for raisins.