You use the chopsticks differently for rice. Think “shovel”
Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Thursday, 23 January, 2025
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 months agoBecause I’m silly - how do you eat rice properly with chopsticks? I can use them and pick things up okay but doesn’t drier and crumbly rice fall, or even if you get a clump isn’t it hard to pick up more than a little bit?
I’m guessing sticky short grain rice is easier, or when it’s mixed in with sauce and other food to bind it.
Taleya@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I use a fork at home and don’t understand why it’s an issue. Italians and Spaniards eat rice with a fork.
Duenan@aussie.zone 2 months ago
It’s not easy with chopsticks.
Quite honestly if I’m faced with it I either get a spoon or if lacking I have to hold the bowl up to my mouth and sweep it in with the chopsticks.
just_kitten@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Most cultures that use long grained rice don’t use chopsticks, it’s either using their hands directly or a spoon (both are how I grew up eating rice and I dare say much of South and southeast asia). Ironically with sticky rice it’s harder with sauce as it tends to un-bind the rice.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Thanks, that makes sense
indisin@aussie.zone 2 months ago
To eat rice with chopsticks it needs to have been cooked to be eaten with chopsticks IMO. It’s more sticky and you gently grab a clump, place the clump in your mouth, then go for the main dish, then chew (or chew/swallow the rice bite first). Eating wet or dry single grains of rice with chopsticks sticks is not fun.
For ref at home we typically just use a spoon, and it has been ages since we’ve cooked rice to use chopsticks with but IIRC it’s always jasmine rice absorption method or sushi rich when we’ve bothered to eat rice using chopsticks at home. Don’t quote me on any of that though.