Who knew there’s a completely different way to make brown rice. My Tiger rice cooker was damaged in a tragic kitchen accident. I replaced it with a Zojirishi, which was a great choice.
The GABA brown rice setting took me from hating brown rice to exclusively making brown rice. It soaks the grains for a few hours in warm water to sprout them and then cooks. It’s very close to the texture of white rice with awesome flavor. Wish I would’ve known about this sooner so I thought I would throw it into the pit.
So can you sprout just any old brown rice, or do you have to buy a special kind of rice to sprout it? I bought some brown Jasmine rice recently that we really liked, just wondering if it could be sprouted...
I use an Instant Pot knockoff to cook my rice, but it doesn't have this GABA function, but I bet I could make it sprout without a special new cooker...
Yes you can sprout rice without an auto function by soaking it for a given amount of time at a given temperature. You can sprout regular ol brown rice. You can also buy pre sprouted rice.
Wondering same, I use an IP also. I do not have counter, or even pantry, space for yet another countertop appliance. I don't have any I want to give up. I wondering if just putting the rice/liquid on saute for a bit, first, would work. Like saute till warm, leave with lid closed for a few hours, then cooking, might produce similar. Needs more attention, but not another piece of the counter.
The wife and I have recently survived a noteworthy case of food poisoning from takeout Chinese food. She showed me an article about food poisoning from rice. It seems uncooked rice can contain spores of Bacillus cereus that can cause food poisoning. If the rice is moist and left standing at room temp those spores can grow, multiply, and produce toxins that survive cooking. My question is, doesn’t it create a perfect atmosphere for these to grow in the sprouting process.
From my college days and taking environmental microbiology that focused on public safety. Food poisoning is where the bacteria produces a toxin that causes a physical reaction. It has to produce enough toxin to trigger the reaction and the toxin is heat tolerant. Food infection is where the bacteria grows inside us to such a level that it produces a physical reaction. So either you are infected with the bacteria that grows inside you or you are poisioned by the toxin produced by the bacteria
Yeah - I thought about this myself when reading this subject the other day. Rice AND pasta are really bad for this type of food poisoning, and need to be refrigerated promptly as leftovers.
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