Most of the brown rice you buy in grocery stores today is actually parboiled. Parboiled rice cooks with less water and in about the same amount of time as white rice. If you want real, genuine brown rice, you have to read the directions on the back. If it cooks in less than 30 minutes or 35 minutes, it’s not really brown rice. It’s parboiled. If the ratio of water to rice is less than two to one, then it’s also parboiled.
Btw is it just me or parboiled rice tastes much worse than regular rice? Granted I’ve been avoiding it like the plague in the last two decades, but I have some bad memories of how flavourless and weird-textured it was.
(And since I learned the trick of cooking rice in salty, olive-oily water that I wait to boil away/absorb, that’s all I do, the end result tastes amazing compared those sad plastic bags of rice we cooked in my childhood.)
Most of the brown rice you buy in grocery stores today is actually parboiled. Parboiled rice cooks with less water and in about the same amount of time as white rice. If you want real, genuine brown rice, you have to read the directions on the back. If it cooks in less than 30 minutes or 35 minutes, it’s not really brown rice. It’s parboiled. If the ratio of water to rice is less than two to one, then it’s also parboiled.
Parboiled brown rice is still “real, genuine brown rice”. It’s just been parboiled. It’s not fake rice somehow.
What person that likes rice actually wants parboiled rice?
Shit - me! I rarely eat rice so get the Trader Joe’s frozen stuff.
Frozen rice?
Yeah, I said it. Usually get the Jasmin rice but this gives you the idea:
https://www.traderjoes.com/home/products/pdp/organic-basmati-rice-082778
I was turned on to the Jasmin rice by a Chinese person.
edit- got the basmati by mistake one time. it was good.
Btw is it just me or parboiled rice tastes much worse than regular rice? Granted I’ve been avoiding it like the plague in the last two decades, but I have some bad memories of how flavourless and weird-textured it was.
(And since I learned the trick of cooking rice in salty, olive-oily water that I wait to boil away/absorb, that’s all I do, the end result tastes amazing compared those sad plastic bags of rice we cooked in my childhood.)
Agreed. Parboiled brown rice does not taste like brown rice at all.