I found this article pretty interesting… it seems to contradict the current cooking zeitgeist

  • donuts@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    This can’t be right. They must have something off with their method.

    You can even see murky, starchy white water drain out of the bowl the first couple of times you rinse and stir the uncooked rice. If that’s not starch then what is it? The water will come out visibly cleaner with each round of rinsing and stirring.

    Sure it could be placebo but I definitely feel that I can tell the difference between unwashed and washed rice.

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      1 year ago

      Argument goes that the easily removed starch is all very short chain polymers, where the stickyness is more due to medium chain and highly branched molecules. I would honestly not be surprised if some of the cloudy water was also talc or other inorganic anti-clumping agents.

      The type of rice you’re cooking is also very important.