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Can, doesn’t mean it should. Rice should be cooked in just enough water for it to be absorbed or boiled off. Many types of rice are packaged with added minerals and shouldn’t be washed (check your packaging, you loose this if you have to drain).

Even the cheapest rice cookers use clever physics to fully automate this process and make it come out perfect every time.

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Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Have you tried not washing rice?

It turns into a gloopy mess.

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- grapefruittrouble@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  depends on the rice, how much starch. Jasmine - no need to wash, Sushi - must wash
  
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  - filcuk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I would again suggest you check your particular packaging. It should say whether to wash or not.
    Sushi rice is supposed to be very sticky, I don’t wash any rice where I live.
    
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  - Bluewing@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Unless you are making sushi or risotto, why would anyone not cook Jasmine rice? Anything other rice is less than ideal.
    
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    wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Basmati is pretty good too, but yeah it’s tough to beat jasmine rice…
    
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    HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    there are so many different grains of rice why limit yourself to one
    
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    FlexibleToast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Calrose all day.
    
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- chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I almost never wash rice unless I’m doing it for korean dishes that use the water, and I don’t have that issue. I do use a cheap rice cooker, and it comes out fine.
  
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- wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Some rice is prewashed before the minerals are added
  
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Alberat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
what countries still have fortified rice? it feels like a cold war thing idky

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- currycourier@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I mean salt is still iodized. Fun fact, adding iodine to salt is actually seen as one of the most cost effective public health measures ever done.
  
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  - SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    and leaves the salt bitter.
    
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- filcuk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  In an era of overprocessed foods engineered to be cheap and look good, adding back micronutrients wherever possible still makes sense I think.
  It’s definitely done where I live.
  
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- frostysauce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  The US consumes plenty of enriched rice.
  
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