It might seem like a chore, but rinsing rice is absolutely essential. Here's why we do it, and how to rinse to ensure perfect fluffy grains every time.
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00:00If you think you can cook with rice straight out of the bag, think again.
00:03Here's why.
00:04Straight out of the bag, rice is covered in this excess layer of starch.
00:08You'll notice this like white film, white dust that kind of gets on your hands when
00:12you lift it out.
00:14If you cook with rice without rinsing that starch off, it can make your rice gummy.
00:18It's especially important to rinse brown rice.
00:21It hasn't gone through the refining process that white rice has, so it may have more actual
00:26dirty dust and particulates on it.
00:29The only rice I would not recommend rinsing is a risotto rice.
00:34When you're making risotto, you want the excess starch to really help with the creamy texture
00:40of that finished risotto.
00:42There are two ways you can rinse your rice.
00:44The first is you can put it in a fine mesh sieve, hold it under your tap, and just keep
00:49rinsing water through it while you agitate it with your hands a little bit until you
00:54can see the water running clear.
00:57If you don't have a fine mesh sieve, you can do it the second way, which is to put rice
01:01into a bowl, cover that with water, and then tilt the bowl so that water runs out.
01:08So you just do this again and again until the water that pours out is running clear.
01:14This way can work really well, but you do have to be careful that you don't end up with
01:18most of your rice in the sink.
01:20You really don't want all that gunk in your rice, so you need to rinse your rice.