I found this article pretty interesting… it seems to contradict the current cooking zeitgeist
Don’t wash your rice for any kind of flavor reasons. Wash your rice because there might be bugs in it.
These comments are interesting. I have never washed rice, nor even considered it. Now I want to try it out and see what difference I can experience!
tldr; no
(Yes if you’re a clean freak)
You don’t wash rice for cleanliness. You wash rice to remove excess starch.
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Do you like eating…. Feces? Dirt? Dead bugs? Feces from dead bugs?
It isn’t just about the arsenic or the quality.
Interesting. Though anybody literate in the scientific method knows that one study doesn’t mean much. Whether it’s placebo or not, I notice a difference in the finished product when I wash rice, so I will continue to do so.