Is it necessary to rinse rice before you cook it?

>>9195662
Instant rice? No.
Other rice, yes. Specifically the kinds you buy in bulk in giant bags.

>>9195662
I don't rinse my rice.
I think if your rice is full of sticks, dirt and possibly rocks, rinsing was a way to inspect it like you do beans. It's also a way to make sure the last rinse it got in some plant was with clean water.

If you buy rice from the USA, you don't need to worry. The fields aren't flooded with DDT waters. But, if you buy your rice in big generic looking bags from third world nations, hrm. You're rinsing off vitamins that were placed there to mimic the nutrition lost when they removed the germ (from brown rice), so rinsing takes nutrition. It also rinses off starch. If you want rice that doesn't cling to itself, you might want to rinse several times.

I like it a little clumpy, personally.

>pic of uncle bens
It's just not worth it to buy instant rice. The texture is so wrong. Uncle Bens is famous for converted brand rice, which kind of turned brown rice into an instant rice, which had no starch to muddy up a rice n beans casserole, like jambalya. It was a local preference, and no one really likes it that way anymore unless its what their grandma used and they're particular like that.

Buy aged basmati and wait 30 minutes (20 to boil/simmer, and 10 to steam), or buy frozen rice that you're reheating in your microwave in steam-in-bag, which is indeed real rice.

uncle benis :DDD
Rinse cheapo rice. There's some dust and crap in that starch.