Cooking brown rice...

[K Frame]

We've had a couple of posts about how best to cook brown rice over the years.

At some point in the past I gave up on doing it stove top because the grains would always explode and it would turn into a pot of glue.

So, I started using Alton Brown's method of baking it, which worked well.

A few months ago I got a cheap rice cooker, basically one of these: https://tinyurl.com/4zdfb475

No muss, no fuss. Does a good job cooking white rice, so I thought I'd give brown rice a try.

Yeah, it's freaking brilliant.

Perfectly cooked brown rice. Didn't explode the grains, and it's nice and tender but with the proper brown rice tooth.

Best $10 I ever spent on Woot.

Which means it will explode and take out my kitchen, my house, and the rest of my HOA in 3... 2...

[Ron]

We've had a couple of posts about how best to cook brown rice over the years.

At some point in the past I gave up on doing it stove top because the grains would always explode and it would turn into a pot of glue.

So, I started using Alton Brown's method of baking it, which worked well.

A few months ago I got a cheap rice cooker, basically one of these: https://tinyurl.com/4zdfb475

No muss, no fuss. Does a good job cooking white rice, so I thought I'd give brown rice a try.

Yeah, it's freaking brilliant.

Perfectly cooked brown rice. Didn't explode the grains, and it's nice and tender but with the proper brown rice tooth.

Best $10 I ever spent on Woot.

Which means it will explode and take out my kitchen, my house, and the rest of my HOA in 3... 2...

At least it will get rid of a HOA.

With your charming disposition and sparkling humor I'm sure someone will take you in till the new place is built 

[K Frame]

We can use the brown rice as glue to rebuild better, stronger, and prouder than before.

[Bogie]

I own and use one of those rice cookers - for my Three Ladies jasmine rice from Thailand. It works great for that.
 
I HATE brown rice... Because doctors inevitably will push it as some sort of diet food. Why? It's still carbohydrates, but they are frickin' stuck on it.
 

[K Frame]

"Because doctors inevitably will push it as some sort of diet food. Why? It's still carbohydrates, but they are frickin' stuck on it."

Because brown rice still has the fiber and nutrients that are lost when brown rice is polished into white rice.

Fiber has a whole host of nutritional benefits that are lost if you remove the bran coating from brown rice, making it white rice.

The same is true of wheat.

Processed wheat flour is stripped of its bran and most of its nutritional value. You get white flour which, inevitably, has to be enriched to regain those nutritional benefits that were lost in processing.

[Bogie]

I'm tired of being lectured... Fun thing is... My "numbers" haven't changed - but the criteria to evaluate them has...

[K Frame]

So stop going to the doctor.

[zxcvbob]

I own and use one of those rice cookers - for my Three Ladies jasmine rice from Thailand. It works great for that.
 
I HATE brown rice... Because doctors inevitably will push it as some sort of diet food. Why? It's still carbohydrates, but they are frickin' stuck on it.

I believe the glycemic index is a lot lower for brown rice than white rice.  (so it doesn't spike your insulin) 

I have read that leftover rice that has been refrigerated also has a much lower glycemic index than freshly-cooked rice -- even after you reheat it.

[Ron]

I have read that leftover rice that has been refrigerated also has a much lower glycemic index than freshly-cooked rice -- even after you reheat it.

Fried rice for the win! ( it's usually made with leftover rice from what I gather)

[zxcvbob]

Fried rice for the win! ( it's usually made with leftover rice from what I gather)

Yes, it's difficult if not impossible to make good flied lice with fresh rice.  The starch recrystallizes when it's refrigerated plus it dries out a little.

[K Frame]

You know, I've been going to the doctor for all of my 60 years, and I have NEVER had one "push" brown rice as some sort of diet foot.

ALL of them, however, have advised moderation, emphasized following the food pyramid, and especially BALANCE in my diet.


So, I'm not sure who you've been going to, or what you've been hearing, but... whatever.

[cordex]

... emphasized following the food pyramid ...

What is this, 1992?

[K Frame]

What is this, 1992?

Yeah, because I only went to one doctor, once, in the 1990s.

Jesus *expletive deleted*ing Christ...

[cordex]

Yeah, because I only went to one doctor, once, in the 1990s.

The food pyramid has not been considered a worthwhile dietary recommendation for decades.  Emphasizing it as an example of how good the advice you get from your doctors is strikes me as counterproductive for your argument.

[K Frame]

"The food pyramid has not been considered a worthwhile dietary recommendation for decades."

By whom? You and your friend Fred, the cutting edit newtritiunisht?

I used the food pyramid of an EXAMPLE of some dietary recommendations that doctors have provided over a period of DECADES, not what what Bogie got from Dr. Cumbersquatch the last time he was in.

Don't work so hard at being a *expletive deleted*ing muppet. 




Hey Bogie, one good reason for eating brown rice...

It makes you *expletive deleted*it regular.

[K Frame]

Fried rice for the win! ( it's usually made with leftover rice from what I gather)

I read this yesterday, so last night I made a somewhat close, but not really, approximation of fried rice with some of the brown rice that I made.

Turned out pretty decent.

No eggs, because I rarely have eggs, and I got it a bit on the wet side (I should have cooked it a bit longer to evaporate more of the rice wine vinegar) but it made for a quick, easy, and filling dinner.

I used ground turkey for the meat. Tonight I may make it again and use chicken breast that I sous vided on Sunday.

[cordex]

"The food pyramid has not been considered a worthwhile dietary recommendation for decades."

By whom? You and your friend Fred, the cutting edit newtritiunisht?

By USDA, Harvard School of Public Health, AHA, ADA, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics ... basically any modern medical group. 

Don't work so hard at being a *expletive deleted*ing muppet. 

Sorry, I know you don't like competition.

[Bogie]

Regarding shitting regular...
 
My quack put me on metformin because when I passed an age marker, I went from "prediabetic" to "diabetic."

[K Frame]

Try eating a lot of alphabet soup.

You'll have a lot of vowel movements.

[Bogie]

I do NOT recommend Metformin.

[K Frame]

Have you thought about giving Dr. Horatio T. Cornhole's latest concoction a try?

It contains the latest wonder drug, laudanum, which is a cure for just about everything!

9 out of 10 practitioners are positively addicted to it.