/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>17640133
if you bought a 50 pound bag of rice from Bangladesh at your local indian market, yeah I would

Yep

>>17640133
depends on where you live and what type of texture you want from the rice

>>17640133
>>17640133
yes every time
it helps ensure that the heat from the rice cooks the egg

>>17640133
Depends on how much arsenic you want in your rice.

only disgusting Asians wash their rice
only disgusting blacks wash their chicken

>>17640217
What do disgusting whites do? And native americans?

>>17640222
white people wash their hands
disgusting native americans wash down their whiskey

>>17640133
Moths, larvae, and eggs are more or less harmless to eat, so you don't technically "have to" wash your rice.

>>17640245
What about arsenic?

if you're worried about your rice to the point where you meticulously wash it
stop buying shitty rice

>>17640256
90% of rice comes from...

make sure to wash your chicken too
90% comes from...

>>17640273
Thats not soap, right?

>>17640133
Only if you buy the bulk kind that comes in burlap sacks.

>>17640285
Imagine the smell.

this is now a chicken washing thread

Start running the sink with medium-warm water and while sink fills combine
2 cups of bleach
1/4 cup of dawn dish soap
A heavy shake of salt
A splash of lemon juice
A splash of vinegar
After mixed well add to the sink
Then begin to add ammonia until fragrant
Best chicken wash of all time. My wife's son Jamal and her boyfriend Tyrone can't get enough of it

>>17640279
Yeah, it was a tiktok video made for updoots.

>>17640292
>>17640273
You think it's funny, but there are actual people out there who do this.

>>17640289
inhale the aroma

>>17640305
>actual people
not people, blacks

>>17640313
I mean, if you buy chicken sold in a wet market, butchered in a dirty wooden block, sure, wash it. But if it comes in a styrofoam tray and was refrigerated, no need.

>>17640350

>>17640289
smells ricey

>>17640133
if you are in the western world you dont have to wash your rice at all, its a waste of water.

>>17640356
https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1648907591043.webm

>>17640217
Hey, I'm not Asian!

I only wash white rice. Brown rice I'll give a quick rinse but there's not really any excess starch to get off, it's just for cleanliness.

I enjoy the starch

>>17640133
you have to wash it to wash away the startch or else your rice will become pudding

>>17640133
NO!!!!!!!!!!!

>>17640236
Whitoids kiss their dogs on the lips btw

>>17640563
I’m white, I’ve never done that.

>>17640313
>water, vinegar, & lime
That sounds fine desu. Heck, give the chicken a bath in that and it's practically a marinade. What bothers me are the videos of people using soap, or actually "soap", i.e. chemical detergents. Does anyone really do that, or is it just a Black Twitter meme?

As for "spreading germs", how can washing chicken be any worse than dumping the raw-chicken-water from a styrofoam tray down the drain? And you do rinse the tray before disposing of it, yes? (I don't want salmonella festering in my trash can for a week and causing toxic stink. The sink doesn't bother me since that is continuously getting hit with hot water and various cleaners.)

I may actually start doing this (with the water/vinegar/lime).

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>>17640710
>As for "spreading germs", how can washing chicken be any worse than dumping the raw-chicken-water from a styrofoam tray down the drain?
Yes, for obvious reasons.

You don’t have to wash your rice. You can just be a smelly brown long grain mongrel. Don’t expect to participate in civilized society at that point, though.

>>17640833
95% of latino videos I've seen on youtube have people washing the rice. Also it's common to do that in the Middle East. I don't know what you're talking about. Maybe you're hungry.

>>17640710
Washing chicken sprays chicken juice everywhere.

>>17640285
does the price vary by arsenic and poo content?

>>17640133
of course I fucking do, but it has nothing to do with cleanliness
removing some of the starch makes it less gummy and prevents boilovers

You don't HAVE to do anything.
Just keep in mind that the people who packaged it are brown.

>>17640292
Don't do this it makes mustard gas.

>>17640356
I'm white and I will usually rinse off the 'gunk' because I figure it helps the marinades stick and get a better sear

>>17640133
generally yes. if nothing else, that rice at one point was sitting on a tray to dry for who knows how long and in what conditions. if it's not a sealed plastic bag, but a more traditional cloth one, stuff can get into it as well. at the very least you should rinse it off once or twice, more if it's particularly starchy and you want it to not be for reasons.

Yes, unless its enriched.

>>17640133
Yes, you need to rinse the excess starch off of it or it will turn out super bland and mushy.

You dont have to if you live in the first-world. Its not going to be dirty or anything. But if you want your rice to be less sticky, washing it removes excess starch. So you definitely want to watch rice when making pilaf or biryani, but not when making risotto or rice pudding.

>>17640289
Like rice? Do you think ingredients cant possibly be fresh or good if they dont come in a plastic container?

>>17640563
wtf is wrong with you ?

>>17642868
You can just wipe it you know

The water from the tap aerosolizes the germs

>>17640563
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU85z--OVA8

>>17640247
gotta build up tolerance somehow

>>17640133
Absolutely every single time.

>>17640151
>what type of texture you want from the rice
This is the answer. Any other response proves you don't know what you're talking about.

According to this guy, it's your choice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjvN-bqg0FE

I wash my rice because thousands of people die in New Zealand each year from tainted tap water and I'm suicidal.

>>17640133
you don't have to shit, try stuff, see if you can tell the difference, decide if it's worth the time.
Some people microwave bacon because it saves time. More power to them, the sick fucks.

i wash it to remove the starch that bubbles out of the pot and makes a mess

I watched someone on youtube make rice unwashed vs washed and they said the unwashed had a better texture so now I don't wash my rice.

>>17640133
For normal rice, yes, cleans the rice, and washes out excess starch and rice husks. For rice grown in America, no, it will wash out all the vitamin A, B12 that was sprayed on during the milling process.

>>17640133
I only wash short grain rice. Washing jasmine rice has a habit of fucking up the aroma.

>>17645162
WASH GOOD
NO WASH BAD
TRIBALISM IN ALL

>>17645369
>American diets are so shit that they literally have to spray vitamins on rice so that they can survive
I don’t want any extra shit on my rice.

>>17640273
If you dudint wash yo chicken yo ass is WACK foo

I cooked my rice in the microwave today, and it was the fluffiest rice I've ever had. Including a rice cooker

>>17640151
>>17645162
ok, wiseacres; then what kind of textures do you get if you do/don't wash the rice?

>>17645949
when you wash it's more fluffy and doesn't stick.
it also helps wash away any random crap that's got into the rice, although how much that matters depends where you are.

>>17640133
No. Rice has some arsenic but you'd have to eat a shit ton of it to have to worry about washing it.

>>17640247
It looks like washing it with a constant flow of hot water, then cooking it the same way gets the arsenic content down.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/simple-cooking-method-flushes-arsenic-out-of-rice/

>>17645949
It's much starchier and stickier if you don't wash it and it clumps together. Ideal for adding gravy or making jambalaya or similar.
It's looser and better for certain rice dishes (think Mediterranean or similar) if you not just wash but also soak it. If you've ever done it both ways, you would know this is true. It's easily, observably true.

>>17640133
I don't have to since I have a rice washer

>>17640133
yes because starchy rice is gross and will never result in decent fried rice

>>17640305
>people

>>17640133

You don't have to wash anything. I know because I literally don't wash anything. Literally even dirty ass potatoes are fine after they get boiled.

>>17640285
does this apply to the "premium japanese rice (product of california)" that they sell at my local chink market in 50kg burlap bags or only poo rice?

>>17640285
No you don't. The tempuratures that the rice cooks at will kill all the bacteria. I do burlap rice, never washed it, never been sick. I think washing rice is basically just a japanese formality thing, like taking off your shoes before you walk around the house.

>>17640133
You're using that water for other things after using it to wash rice, right?

>>17648372
it's more for the inedible dust and weevils than the bacteria mate

>>17640247
i believe u have to soak the rice like u would beans, to remove the arsenic

>>17640133
If it's "enriched," do not wash the rice. Enriched rice is coated with vitamins and minerals. You will wash those out.
Otherwise, if it is not enriched, yes, you should wash your rice.
>>17649603
Accurate.

>>17648372
I was mostly thinking of dust and stuff that falls on the rice.

>>17645369
I’ve never bough enriched rice in my life. Just looking on google, it all seems to be l*ng grain, which you should not be subjecting yourself to anyways.

heavy metals add flavor, rice washers are pussies.

>>17640443
>https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1648907591043.webm
lmao

>>17645173
What the fuck?

if you don't wash it and just cook it bare it stinks like sweaty pussy

>>17643305
Hah who cares?

>>17640133
No, I just put it straight in the rice cooker. I can't be bothered to get a sieve dirty.

>>17640133
Yes

>>17652936
You don't use a sieve, look at OP's picture. You just agitate the rice in the cooker pot and then pour the water off.

>>17645173
wtf, it worked!

>>17642868
gunk is fat and can only help for sears

>>17640133
rice is covered with excess starch. the couple of times i've cooked rice without washing it first it ended up with a gross foamy starch scum on top. it doesn't make it any more food safe but it gives it a better texture so why wouldn't you do it

Washing it removes starch and changes how it cooks. Most of the time washing will improve the texture, but if you're making like risotto you want the starch to be there.
or if you bought enriched rice then you're just washing all that enrichment down the drain

Do people who don't wash it not notice the smell of old bran on the surface?
Perhaps the smell of oil or butter is deceiving?

>>17640133
I have cheap shitty enriched rice, I don't wash the enriched stuff because it's so processed washing it would wash the added supplements.

Having said that I wanna buy higher quality rice and be able to wash that. I want some nice short grain glutinous rice.

my favorite rice is akamai

>>17640133
depends on where its from. You dont HAVE to but the water you get from rinsing it is good for your skin so you should keep it

>>17640133
Depends on the rice

I never used to but my Asian girlfriend said I need to so now I do

>>17640247
It will literally do nothing to you at such low concentration

>>17640292
I rinse my chicken because Adam Ragusa said not to

yeah. imagine adding a pinch of corn starch to your rice when you cook it. thats essentially what not rinsing it is like.

>>17640133
if you are in the western world and wash your rice you are a idiot and waste water on top of it as well

people in countries with shit tier food safety standards or poorer countries basically wash rice to get rid of bugs, bug parts and dirt.
In the western world and how rice is produced here these things are not an issue and the rice is clean. Stop washing your rice if you are in europe, us, canada and so on you retards just waste water

>>17658665
depending on where she's from it could be a food cleanliness thing. if you live in a developed nation then that's not a factor but you should still do it to wash away extra surface starch

>>17640710
how slow is this board that there are still emojis floating around?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3CHsbNkr3c

>>17658764
>In the western world and how rice is produced here
It isn't produced here
All the rice I see in stores comes from south east asia or India

>>17640133
no it waste to much half goes down the drain when i pull out the plug to drain the water

>>17640133
Depends on the way it was processed and texture you want, generally it's a good thing to do to wash out extra starch.
People who think it's for cleanliness are fucking idiots

>>17640273
americans are retarded enough to spread salmonella and bacteria all over their kitchen, clothes and face.

>>17658878
>wash out the extras starch

rich is literally just starch

>>17658811
then call it prepared you retard if that suits you better, fact of the matter is our food standards are so high that we dont get the typical dirt with rice and the reason why third world countries wash it, stop washing the rice you retards you are just wasting water

>>17658985
all the more reason

>>17658878
>>17658985
The 'starch' is just rice dust from the rice grains jostling around, washing it just gets rid of that dust so you dont have your final rice coated in a 'celephane' like membrane that sticks the rice together.

>>17659602
>rice coated in a 'celephane' like membrane that sticks the rice together

This would literally never happen with normal unwashed rice. There's probably something wrong with your pot or rice cooker. Rice doesn't form a fucking cocoon dude wtf

>>17640133
No.