Does a cooking Japanese rice with a rice cooker replace washing it?
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Usually you need to wash off (roughly) the bran from the rice no matter what you use to cook it.
Recently thanks to the technology, there's new kind of pre-treated rice that doesn't require washing.
It doesn't kill you if you didn't wash rice, in my opinion. it is not like it is dirty or something. It is just a matter of taste.
It's just this small amount of bran on the rice. If you want shiny white rice, then wash it. But I am not actually sure myself whether I can distinguish when I am served unwashed rice. Some of my friends say that the rice smells bran-ish when washing is not fully done.
Recently thanks to the technology, there's new kind of pre-treated rice that doesn't require washing.
It doesn't kill you if you didn't wash rice, in my opinion. it is not like it is dirty or something. It is just a matter of taste.
It's just this small amount of bran on the rice. If you want shiny white rice, then wash it. But I am not actually sure myself whether I can distinguish when I am served unwashed rice. Some of my friends say that the rice smells bran-ish when washing is not fully done.
- 20 Aug 2003
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A rice cooker only cooks. You have to decide whether to wash the rice before you put in in, or not. As nnnaaa wrote, there are varieties of uncooked rice that need or don't need to be washed beforehand. Your choice. The cooker only heats and steams it.
'No-wash rice' (musenmai)
'No-wash rice' (musenmai)
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