Took me 6 months to realize I was rinsing my rice wrong

I always thought you just rinse rice once real quick and call it done. Then my buddy who cooks at a pho place in Philly watched me do it and was like 'you need to rinse until the water runs clear, not just cloudy.' I counted and it took me 4 full rinses before it was clear. Now my rice isn't all gummy and I actually save money because I'm not throwing away bad batches. Anybody else have a dumb kitchen habit they just found out about?

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patb862mo ago

Rinse until the water runs clear" changed my life too, no joke.

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alicecooper2mo ago

My buddy Dave used to cook rice like he was making concrete. He'd just throw it in a pot with some water and hope for the best. One time he made a batch so sticky we used it as poster putty to hang up a calendar. I told him about the rinsing thing and now he swears he's a rice master. He even bought one of those fancy Japanese rice cookers, but I still see him eyeballing the water level like it's a science experiment.

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