Check your rice

[OldBroad44]

I hear it has a slightly nutty flavor...

I doubt it. I suspect sh!t usually tastes how it smells--like sh!t.

 

[Flopsweat]

Part of the reason for washing your rice and other whole grains is to get the rodent and insect poop and poop powder and insect parts out of the rice. And debris dust and dirt from threshing and rice powder from broken grains. There are actually gooberment standards for how many insect parts are allowed per weight of flour. I don't remember how many but I remember it was number insect parts per weight of rice. Not weight per weight. And it didn't say anything about what size or type of insect parts. I decided I wanted to forget that number before I ate rice again. Its also important to wash rice to remove the rice powder that comes out of the cloudy part of rice grains. If you don't the rice powder turns into glue as the rice is boiled and sticks all the rice into one big solid lump.

Sticky rice! All the starch you can handle. I hardly ever make sticky rice though.

 

[Nosferatu]

I hear it has a slightly nutty flavor...

I just spent the better part of a day inside a silo full of corn this past week. I can confirm the presence of rodents, plus other critters. I didn't taste it directly, but there was a certain must in the air.

 

[Knobgoblin]

Sticky rice! All the starch you can handle. I hardly ever make sticky rice though.

I have family all around me that makes it almost daily.
It's good to be related to the sticky rice clan. Love that stuff

 

[Knobgoblin]

I just spent the better part of a day inside a silo full of corn this past week. I can confirm the presence of rodents, plus other critters. I didn't taste it directly, but there was a certain must in the air.

Must you always go there??

 

[Nosferatu]

Sticky rice! All the starch you can handle. I hardly ever make sticky rice though.

This is one of the things I miss about having an Asian roommate.

 

[FATAL125]

This is one of the things I miss about having an Asian roommate.

Pray tell, what are the other things...

 

[Nosferatu]

Pray tell, what are the other things...

They fit in small spaces and constantly smell like lumpia.

 

[Flopsweat]

Pray tell, what are the other things...

Ahem, well if we're talking about girl Asians,
...
Nah, wrong thread.

 

[Flopsweat]

Must you always go there??

I just now got this. Must be slowing down.

 

[Certaindeaf]

They fit in small spaces and constantly smell like lumpia.

Fists of furry!

 

[FATAL125]

They fit in small spaces and constantly smell like lumpia.

I'll keep this in mind for your birthday...

 

[Nosferatu]

Fists of furry!

And feet...and mouths...

 

[OldBroad44]

This is one of the things I miss about having an Asian roommate.

Reminds me of the three different red Chinese house mates I rented rooms to while living in Corvallis right after China opened up. Two had parents who were middle class, so got sent to the country side and used essentially as slaves. Eventually were forgiven and allowed to go back to university when the communist government figured out that you dont get many engineers and scientists to create and run technology if you banish and enslave and work to death or starve all the university teachers and students. I remember watching Tiennamen Square with one room mate, and her confidently asserting that the People's Army would never fire on the people, whatever their orders. Then our horror and tears as it did exactly that. She was from Beijing University.

One day I came into the kitchen and found this room mate laboring over a tray of uncooked rice. It had become contaminated with little white worms about 1/4" long or smaller, probably the larvae of a grain storage beetle. She was laboriously using tweezers to separate the hundreds of worms from the grains of rice. Even though discarding the infested rice would cause her no financial hardship at this point, it never occurred to her to discard the rice. Not after living through the cultural revolution as the slave of peasant farmers, who hated their middle-class- background slaves and fed them last or not at all during the famines. Millions died.

 

[OldBroad44]

This is one of the things I miss about having an Asian roommate.

Its way easier to eat chunks of sticky rice with chopsticks than non sticky rice.