Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mcnc!akgua!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!lorinda From: lorinda@uiucdcs.UUCP (lorinda ) Newsgroups: net.cooks Subject: Re: do you wash rice? - (nf) Message-ID: <5843@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Feb-84 22:26:16 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.5843 Posted: Fri Feb 24 22:26:16 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 26-Feb-84 00:41:13 EST Lines: 10 #R:tekig1:-152600:uiucdcs:8600041:000:644 uiucdcs!lorinda Feb 24 03:40:00 1984 my dad (also chinese, and also a restauranteur) taught us to wash rice too. one reason was because you got rid of unwanted foreign particles (chaff, bugs, etc.)from rice that was harvested under not so savory conditions (like in the old country). another reason (more relevant to us here) was that a lot of rice grownin this country is dusted with vitamin d powder. i guess the idea was to make it more beneficial when exported to developing nations (and the u.s. is the 2nd biggest exporter, after thailand - china grows more but not for export). however, that dusting of vitamin powder seems to make the rice less fluffy, so we wash it off.