Do you rinse rice before cooking it?

[kaylasmom22]

All my life I have seen people around me washing(rinsing) the rice before cooking it. We wash the meat as well, so maybe it's a Hispanic thing lol

[agrisham13mom]

We rinse rice, and all our meats as well I come from both a Hispanic and Caucasian background :)

[tisaynababae]

Always
Try to let air dry as well but if pressed for time, I will pop it into the rice cooker.

[mamaofficer]

I do, I was told it washes the starch off.

[bkwrmem]

i didn't wash when i made minute rice but then we got a rice cooker and used non min rice and i wash it it said so and i looked up and yea i do it now.

[momma-flynn]

No

[kansasmom1978]

Nope

[goldilocksbecky]

Plain white rice, yes.  I but it in a bowl of water and let it sit for a few minutes, then rinse off the water.  It rinses off some of the starch.  I do the same for potatoes.  Peel them, cut them up then leave them in a bowl of water for a few minute.  My family has always done it that way and we are not Hispanic, just country people from the South.

I always wash and trim chicken.  Beef, I'll rinse if it looks "slimy" from the package (I don't know how else to describe it. LOL), but I usually just wipe/dry it off really well with a paper towel.

 

[jadsmummy]

Yes! Rice needs to be rinsed of all the impurities for it to turn out properly.

[PinkyPan]

nope

[BewitchedKisses]

My ex's family is Filipino and everyonein his family rinses the rice before they make it. It keeps the startch from browning.