Rice is the food that every household eats, with as many as three meals and as few as two meals. It is one of our essential staple foods, especially in the south, where rice is eaten every day. But when it comes to buying rice, it often makes people feel distressed.
How to distinguish good rice from bad rice? Today, I will share with you a few tips to easily distinguish between good and bad rice.
One of the methods is that when buying rice, we can grab some rice with our hands and smell it deliberately. If the rice is of good quality, the aroma will be stronger, which is well known. But if the rice is moldy for age, it will smell musty and it will be very easy to identify.
Method 2 is to prepare a lighter, then take a piece of rice out of the bowl and burn it with a lighter. Be careful to turn on the heat to the minimum to prevent burns. If the rice is of good quality, the smell of the fired rice will become stronger and stronger, giving off the aroma of popcorn. And if the rice is of poor quality, the smell emitted during the firing process will be stinky. This method is suitable for smokers to carry with their lighters.
Method 3 is to prepare two different bowls of rice, then insert both hands into the bottom of each bowl of rice, and keep grasping with your hands for about 30 seconds. Then take out your hands and observe, if one hand is covered with white powder, it means that the rice is of better quality, the starch content is also higher, and the nutritional value is relatively high. Therefore, during the rice washing process, do not wash the rice too cleanly, wash it about twice is fine.
Method four is to prepare a piece of paper, preferably a white napkin, then divide the paper in half from the middle, spread it out in a bowl, then grab a small handful of rice and put it on the paper, wrap the rice with paper, and finally pinch the paper vigorously and hold it for 30 seconds or about a minute. What does this do?
After about a minute, we open the paper, pour the rice into the bowl, and observe the imprints on the paper. If there is nothing stained on the paper after the rice is poured, it means that the rice is relatively fresh.
Then we try another bowl of rice, using the same method to put a small handful of rice on the paper, clamping the paper firmly, also for a minute or so.
When the time is up, we slowly unfold the paper again, pour the rice into the bowl, and observe the final effect. It was found that there was nothing stained on the paper either, indicating that the bowl of rice was also very fresh. If it is old rice, the starch on the surface of the rice or rice will easily get on the paper.
Through this method, we can easily distinguish the freshness of rice, whether it is Northeast fragrant rice, pearl rice, or sugar grain rice.
I didn't expect that there is so much attention to when buying rice. If you learn the above skills, you can easily distinguish between good and bad rice when you buy rice in the future, and you will no longer buy old rice.