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Re:Scientists have discovered a simple way to cook rice that... by mekoka on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @03:19PM (#9265272)
> Again, who eats their rice ice-cold unless they got take out the previous evening?

According to many, the best fried rice is made with cooked refrigerated rice. Also, there's this excerpt in the article "Chilling the rice then helps foster the conversion of starches. The result is a healthier serving, even when you heat it back up."

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Re:Scientists have discovered a simple way to cook rice that... by pbreit on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @03:26PM (#9265308)
Is it OK to heat it back up?

Still not convinced that turning a 30 minute process into a 12 hour one is "simple".

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Re:Scientists have discovered a simple way to cook rice that... by DanBC on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @04:21PM (#9265659)
Rice was the most common form of food poisoning in the UK for a while. Cooling the rice takes it through bacteria reproduction temperature; as does reheating the rice. The bacteria don't cause the poisoning though, so killing them doesn't help. The bacteria release a toxin and that isn't destroyed by heating.

So, if people are going to try this they need to cool the rice down as quickly as possible; keep it cold; and then properly reheat it.

http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/can-reheating-rice-cause-food-po...

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Re:Scientists have discovered a simple way to cook rice that... by wukerplank on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @03:57PM (#9265492)
I think it's simple as in: You don't need a lab to reproduce the results.
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Re:Scientists have discovered a simple way to cook rice that... by dragonwriter on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @07:24PM (#9266766)
> Still not convinced that turning a 30 minute process into a 12 hour one is "simple".

Inactive prep time doesn't add much in the way of complexity.

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Re:Scientists have discovered a simple way to cook rice that... by pbreit on Thursday March 26, 2015 @08:25PM (#9274081)
I get that sort of but I'm not sure the opposite of simple is complicated.
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