Rice Cooker

[Mik]

@wtg said in Rice Cooker:

@Quirt-Evans and @Mik - so you guys are doing the resistant starch thing!

Maybe...if I knew what it was.

[Mik]

OK, I looked at it. No, not doing that unless perhaps TJ's precooking the rice and microwave finishing accomplishes the same thing.

[Steve Miller]

@Mik

Wouldn’t frozen rice have to be pre-cooked? Seems like it would be ordinary dry rice otherwise and why freeze that?

[Mik]

Yeah. I don't know how they do it, but it turns out great. Been using it since 2010. Not like that nasty shelf stable ready to serve stuff. Ugh.

[wtg]

I'm pretty sure they cook the rice and freeze it.

We've been using the "throw an ice cube in cold cooked rice and reheat in microwave trick" for quite a while now. It's brilliant. The cube doesn't melt but enough of it vaporizes to moisten the rice. The rice tastes almost like it just came out of the rice cooker.

[Steve Miller]

@wtg

Brilliant!

[wtg]

ATK talks about the ice cube hack.

https://www.americastestkitchen.com/articles/3194-this-hack-for-reheating-rice-uses-an-ice-cube-does-it-work

[Steve Miller]

@wtg

Brilliant!

[Mik]

Good trick. I will remember that for leftover Chinese!

[Quirt Evans]

@wtg Thanks, I'd missed this.

Maybe I read too quickly, but why wouldn't bread be the same thing? It's cooked and then cooled. Is it the reheating that does the trick? Wouldn't that mean that toast has resistant starch?

[wtg]

@Quirt-Evans I don't think I saw any references to resistant starches in bread in the NYT article in the other thread, but I found this that seems to have some good info:

https://www.sciencealert.com/does-freezing-bread-make-it-any-healthier-for-you-an-expert-explains

[AdagioM]

I keep “good bread” (from local bakery) sliced, in the freezer, because we don’t eat it very quickly. Pop it in the toaster and it’s great. The Ezekiel and similar breads are sold from the freezer section at the grocery store, and we keep that in the fridge when we’re working on a loaf. What does it mean? Dunno. Bread in the house, mostly!

[Quirt Evans]

@wtg Interesting, and thanks for doing the research for me!

I am now eating a toasted bagel for dinner (it was refrigerated, not frozen, alas). Commercial, but fresh, so hopefully without the grocery store preservatives that might interfere with resistant starch.