Have boiled too much rice. Can I boil it up tomorrow and use it then? Have heard various rumours aboutt the advisability of this. Can you do it?
Absolutely, it'd be sinful not to. Just refrigerate it.
Or fry it up tomorrow, will be lovely - really hot wok and the right amount of oil.
Go for it! A lot of take aways reheat rice all the time.
Boiled rice should be fine...fried rice seems to be a bit dodgy...well it was for me in Spain anyway :-[ (I didn't reheat it; had it in a restaurant my guess is it was like fried earlier in the day and not kept at the correct temperature or something)
Quote from: downgirl on August 27, 2008, 09:23:12 PM
Boiled rice should be fine...fried rice seems to be a bit dodgy...well it was for me in Spain anyway :-[ (I didn't reheat it; had it in a restaurant my guess is it was like fried earlier in the day and not kept at the correct temperature or something)
My guess would be you were drinking to much! :P
A good load of rice cooked at the start of the week should feed you all week. Fire a few veggies into it and a bit chilli sauce!
Quote from: tyssam5 on August 27, 2008, 09:36:08 PM
Quote from: downgirl on August 27, 2008, 09:23:12 PM
Boiled rice should be fine...fried rice seems to be a bit dodgy...well it was for me in Spain anyway :-[ (I didn't reheat it; had it in a restaurant my guess is it was like fried earlier in the day and not kept at the correct temperature or something)
My guess would be you were drinking to much! :P
A good load of rice cooked at the start of the week should feed you all week. Fire a few veggies into it and a bit chilli sauce!
Haha no I only had one glass of wine that night honestly!!! Sure I'm an angel!!! You would never see me drunk ::)
Quote from: hardstation on August 27, 2008, 09:16:29 PM
Yes, and some (well one I saw this week) keep a big barrel of rice out the back, in the rain. The wee chinky boy came out and filled a pot out of the barrel.
Hardstation - I take offence at the use of the word 'chinky'. It is disgraceful to talk about slanty-eyed people like that. Wise- Up..
Quote from: hardstation on August 27, 2008, 10:09:08 PM
I threw that in on purpose. Some did the nut when some boy called the judges of Kenny Egan's fight 'chinky b**tards'. It's a bit stupid, I reckon.
Going on his past form - was that boy Paddy Barnes?
Quote from: hardstation on August 27, 2008, 10:13:16 PM
No. Some boy on this board. Other posters cracked up.
Did u miss the Irony of 'Slanty-Eyed People'?
There are no problems reheating almost anything. Maybe I have a cast iron constitution.
BIG NO !
I'm no gordon ramsay but i DEFINITELY recall some cooking show on one night there and it said NOT to reheat rice, I cant remember exactly why but it did make me sit up and think !!
Eat it cold then! I eat cold chinese food all the time.
You could use it for a cold rice salad...there you go economical and healthy!
Cold rice salad - disgusting.
What all is in your cold rice salad puck? I don't like proper salad it tastes like grass to me but my mum's rice salad is lovely.
Nothing, I dont make it. Id eat cold rice, before Id eat cold rice salad.
The trick is that it should be cooled as quickly as possible after cooking and fired into the fridge. I used to live on the stuff! Uncooked rice has natural spores which aren't killed by cooking but they get excited and can form bacteria if the rice is warm or at room temp for a long period. If you get it cooled it'll be grand for heating the next day. Lovely!
Add a drop of water and put it into the microwave in a sealed container for a few minutes and it will be good
Quote from: Hurler on the Bitch on August 27, 2008, 10:14:51 PM
Quote from: hardstation on August 27, 2008, 10:13:16 PM
No. Some boy on this board. Other posters cracked up.
Did u miss the Irony of 'Slanty-Eyed People'?
You'll never make a Borat.
Quote from: Abble on August 27, 2008, 10:29:15 PM
BIG NO !
I'm no gordon ramsay but i DEFINITELY recall some cooking show on one night there and it said NOT to reheat rice, I cant remember exactly why but it did make me sit up and think !!
I saw a similar one myself, am sure they said the same about spuds. Never had a problem reheating either up to 2 days after the first cooking. Fry it up as stir fry and you'll be fine, (thats assuming you've cooked it first time round yourself, wouldnt trust the take away)
Quote from: Abble on August 27, 2008, 10:29:15 PM
BIG NO !
I'm no gordon ramsay but i DEFINITELY recall some cooking show on one night there and it said NOT to reheat rice, I cant remember exactly why but it did make me sit up and think !!
Are you sure abble?
Am quite sure I seen Nigella on one night & she had boiled the rice from the night before & fried them up the next morning with chorizo sausage & a few other things. Fcuk Im getting hungry thinking about it.
As someone said it might make a difference if it is boiled or fried rice originally
It's true that you could get food poisoning from eating reheated rice. But it's not actually the reheating that's the problem – it's the way the rice has been stored before reheating.
Uncooked rice can contain spores of Bacillus cereus, bacteria that can cause food poisoning. When the rice is cooked, the spores can survive. Then, if the rice is left standing at room temperature, the spores will germinate into bacteria. These bacteria will multiply and may produce toxins (poisons) that cause vomiting or diarrhoea. Reheating the rice won't get rid of these toxins.
So, the longer cooked rice is left at room temperature, the more likely it is that bacteria, or the toxins they produce, could stop the rice being safe to eat.
It's best to serve rice when it has just been cooked. If that isn't possible, cool the rice as quickly as possible (ideally within one hour) and keep it in the fridge for no more than one day until reheating.
Remember that when you reheat any food, you should always check that it's piping hot all the way through, and avoid reheating more than once.