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-> Wash your fucking rice

What? Sure, if you want to remove some of the starch, but what if you don't? I don't really know why you should if you don't want to, unless it was dirty, but rice today comes pretty clean of debris and bugs. Plus, it's going to be cooked, so no problem there.

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It's not for safety: it's because starchy rice sticks together and makes clumpy bad-tasting rice, it's also much more easily seasoned in my experience if you wash it first.

Rice is full of arsenic. Washing it may help a little, but even better, use more water to cook it and then dump the water.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-38910848

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