Finally some discount on Australian Rice!
Can't wait for it drops back to $11/10kg
Only buy Australian rice
Imagine the water pollution level of rivers in those South-eastern Asian countries
SunRice White Calrose Medium Grain Rice 10kg $16 (Was $24) @ Woolworths
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it's a grain
Good price.
Last time I've seen it this low was just before the pandemic started.
In regards to the SE asian countries being polluted waters, the rice paddys in Bali were quite clean when i went there.
Arsenic in California rice seems to be more of an issue.
Ps still getting through a 10kg bag on a similar special at the start of lockdown panic buying, was pretty hard to come by! Not heaps left, hmm
You should buy. Specials on this have been rare and it keeps for years if stored properly.
Yeah probably should, got less than 2kg left from March.. just put it in a jar, there were a couple of those weevils or whatever.. harmless according to this
https://www.sfa.gov.sg/food-information/risk-at-a-glance/ric….Usually just cut corner of bag and put a big plastic clip on. Should be ok
Waiting for 50% off
I've heard that someone couldn't generate enough electricity this winter after banning Australian coal lmao
Yeah and their citizens had to sleep in the cold. Ah well collateral damage for appearances.
Unfortunately you heard wrong lol
What was the real reason given?
Yep they heard wrong. The government just don’t care about anything but the party..
heard wrong
Heard wong.
@RSmith: LOL. Someone's downvote countered with my own upvote. (I wonder if it hurts to have one's sense of humour surgically removed?)
And the 50 cent army is in full swing negging anything said against a particular country.
Yeah Western Taiwan
I'd be salty too if a tiny island of the coast was the best version of my country. Kinda like NZ and Tassie :P
the world is a terrible place at present… one country "making a pandemic virus", another "building walls" and "gassing" the rest of the world to make it great again in a modern day salute to hitler…. what a time to be alive
Well one has been “voted” out. And the wall is coming down shortly. As for the other…….history will give the answer.
History can be manipulated.
And rewritten, this is happening right now in Western Taiwan and Hong Kong
$11 days aren’t gonna return till Australian farmers get a bumper season
As an Asian, Australian Sunrice rice tastes like dirt when we used to accidentally eat as a kid.
How will you accidentally eat it unless your parents accidentally cooked it… That would mean they accidentally bought it.
Maybe he means ate it raw
I think thats what they do in those poor countries that OP is talking about
Maybe you had a ripped bag and dirt got in? I wash my rice 3 times prior to it going into the rice cooker and confirm no dirt taste….
hey i also wash it 3 times hi-5
why wouldn't you.. good practice.
jsut chuck in in a shinhwa moite
What do you recommend? As an Asian I actually prefer sunrice. It's smoother and bouncier than rice I can buy from the Asian stores. So I'm totally opposite and prefer sunrice medium grain over anything else.
the sunrice jasmine from cambodia
yes, this. Japanese rice tastes so pure, like the soft water.
Imagine the massive dams stopping river flows so big business can grow rice in Australia by irrigating with a scarce resource.
My thoughts are never buy Australian rice - very poor use of our water resources. Buy Asian rice and let our water be put to better use.
Besides if you use the best Basmati you have no choice but to buy the overseas grown rice.
how do we cook?
how can she slap?
check out uncle roger on youtube for some tips
Haaai yaaa… Un-ker Raw-jer got cancelled by caaan-sir kao-cher.
I'm all for australian produce but rice is something not suitable for this dry continent, just like trying to run a ski slope in Singapore. Besides it tastes crap.
Funny you mentioned skiing because before I'd even read that far my thought was: We should abandon skiing holidays because Thredbo and Mount Kosciuszko are not suitable for this dry continent. ;-)
We're only hear that we're a 'dry continent' because of the ratio of desert to farmland. We actually have plenty of water. It's just not correctly managed/utilised, and it doesn't suit the climate alarmists to present a balanced view. e.g. Try and tell Kempsey, farms along the NSW Clarence River, etc there's not enough water.
Btw… If your rice tastes like crap you really should consider storing it in the kitchen instead. ;-D
Must be doing something wrong if tastes like crap
Perhaps as part of the recepie they put some crap into it for that authentic taste?
trump's personal recipe?
What authentic rice would you recommend?
Rice cooker is a must ;)
rice is something not suitable for this dry continent
Not entirely true. There is plenty of well irrigated land in North Queensland capable of growing rice and some farmers are already growing it up here. The issue has just been getting the right varieties which will make it more financially appealing for farmers to convert from sugarcane to rice
There's also near shovel ready projects up here to build more dams and better capture the vast amounts of seasonal rainfall that North Queensland receives. All that is required is greenies to stop paying professional protestors and Governments to stump up some cash.
Why you, you… racist! Ooops, sorry… spellcheck kicked in there when I typed: "realist".
So a balanced comment… I'm somewhat in the know about water and agriculture in this country.
There are some parts of Aus that are only suitable for growing rice. They aren't the best in the world but that's all you can do with them. However, rice is fairly water intensive and I don't buy Australian rice for this reason. We should produce less water-intensive crops.
For some reason I feel sorry for this comment. All the effort in writing it then gets negged. LOL
Badge of honour. (And I type fast LOL.) Also reminds me of the saying that goes something like: If you've never offended anybody in your life you've never stood on a homeless person sleeping on a Sydney train. Something like that anyway.
Negged because it's utter crap.
We should produce ALL crops we eat here and leave other countries to produce ALL the crops they want to eat there. This free trade nonsense impoverishes and ruins, not enriches and supports.
You won't catch me arguing with you against neoliberalism, don't worry. However, this isn't like "Japan is good at making cars and Australia is good at growing wheat. Japan should cease to grow wheat and make more cars, and Australia should cease to make cars and grow more wheat". Boiling it down to free trade does a disservice to the issue. Australia is not suited to growing rice at a large scale, to an extent that doing so impacts negatively on the other things we can do.
And as I said above, the 'drier continent = we don't have enough water' is dishonest nonsense.
It truly, truly isn't. I have a fair amount of hands-on and pen-pushing experience in managing water in Australia. Simply put, if water wasn't an issue here, there would probably be 100+ million Australians. Water is the number one issue that holds Australia back.
I've lived in several areas where tens of thousands of litres of water spill into the ocean every day.
Like… river mouths? Estuaries are unique environments and perform critical functions that we rely on. Water needs to "spill into the ocean every day". That's where it's meant to go.
Meanwhile government sequesters and destroys productive farmland at will
Ok lmao source for this one?
sucks artesian watertables for the financial benefit of foreign coal mines just to wet-down their coal, etc.
Yeah no surprises I completely agree that this is not a good use of water… but it doesn't mean that we have excess.
Australia has ample water. It's just wasted or not managed correctly.
Well, 1/2 ain't bad on this one.
But presenting that unskewed reality doesn't suit the climate agenda crowd, and because people who know this fact can't be bothered staying around long enough to refute their silly claims
"Climate agenda" dogwhistle, easiest way to out yourself as someone who has literally no idea what they're talking about, no relevant experience or qualifications, and probably gets their news third-hand from the likes of Alan Jones. But hey, as for your second point. I'm still here and happy to "refute my silly claims" - though I'm not sure that refuting my own claims would be doing me any favours?
1 litre of beer requires 4 litres of water to make it …
I don't drink, but I bet it takes something like 8L of water to get 1L through our taps. ;-)
Basmati any day.
They're for different things, but if you're eating rice as a main meal then it's sushi rice all the way
Indeed.
Some things are best left to Asians, rice being over of them.Hey! leave the racism to me
@Arigato: Hey! Leave labeling racists to the real racists. (This will be a 'whoosh' moment for those very people.)
Agree, basmati for Indian, Jasmin for Thai, medium is good for general purpose/korean.
Shame Brown rice doesn't go for the same discounts
Not impressed at all with basmati. I use jasmine for everything from fried rice, to curries, to rice pudding now.
@Chocobros: I used to buy basmati and jasmine in microwave packs. They were both good. But when I tried to cook raw bastmati myself it was a failure every time. So when that 5kg bag ran out I never bought it again because jasmine otoh always turned out perfect. So I don't know what I was doing wrong. (I just did the same thing I did with jasmine.) After that experience I didn't think the difference warranted having two types in the cupboard lol.
@[Deactivated]: Oh for reals? So make sure you get a good quality basmati and not the garbage sold at coles/woolies in the 5kg bags (the coles and woolies brand is actually better then the other junk like maharajas choice in the 5kg bags)
Then wash the crap out of it until the water is clear and then cook with 2 parts water to 1 part rice e.g. in a rice cooker. Can't go wrong
But for other cuisines e.g. thai i agree jasmine is superior and sushi of course japanese short grain rice reigns supreme
you're eating rice as a main meal then it's sushi rice all the way
Don't tell that to an Indian.
apologies
are these good for Fried Rice?
Yes, especially if you're making fried rice.
Edit: need to know how to cook it i guess. I use a pressure cooker so very easy for me. 50/50 water rice. 3 minutes high pressure, natural release.No. It's soft and sticky.
For fried rice get :
Jasmine rice ( best for chinese fried rice)
Long grain (best for south east asian fried rice ; indonesian, malaysian)
They both can be used interchangeably. I prefer jasmine rice to be honest since it tastes sweeter than long grain.
Maybe it's just me, but no. It turns to slop. Jasmine for everything over here.
Yes, however for best results, you need to use it as leftover rice.
So cook it, leave it in the fridge overnight, then use it in fried rice the next day.
I've always wondered about that… 'they' (whoever 'they' are) say not store cooked rice in the fridge because it grows some toxin… but then we hear to make fried rice this way!?
Stores fine in the fridge 2-4 days, just let it cool to Room temp first. It's pretty common in Asian countries to leave it out all day etc, they don't get sick
Also that's true, next day cool rice better for fried rice
@G-rig: generally they wouldn't leave it out at room temperature, it would just be kept warm in the rice cooker
@Phesto: Yeah you hope so, even if it's not that warm.
Rice cooker is the way to go then in the fridge as you say. Plenty of bain maries in Thailand get pretty luke warm so need to get there early lol
Jasmine is nice, doesn't stick together as much so depends what you want
To make a good fried rice you need the rice to be dry. If you cook a fresh batch of rice and try to fry it there is far too much moisture in there and it will turn to mush. If you leave rice at room temperature too long, it will grow bacteria and is about as bad as leaving chicken out.
Cook it, let it cool a bit, put it in the fridge within 1 hour. It will last up to around 5 days in the fridge.
@Phesto: Yeah I have that problem with others, but no jasmine. Not that Chinese restaurants are great, but I can produce the same result as they do with freshly-cooked jasmine. Not with other types though. Others turn into a gluggy mess alright.
@[Deactivated]: I usually just cook 3 cups extra, so whenever I feel like fried rice I can cook and be eating within 10minutes
@Phesto: Agree, drying is the key for fried rice.
Prep rice in the morning, Place cooked rice in an open colander and let it dry out for the day - I ensure that the rice is spread around the sides of the colander with an open centre to max drying. Make fried rice in the afternoon with perfect consistency rice.
Yep, agreed with mangobango.
"Imagine the water pollution level of rivers in those South-eastern Asian countries" - Wow! I'm not Asian but this comment is totally unnecessary. Especially from someone who has an Asian profile pic.
People are getting into the Australia Day spirit early lol
LOL. Not a hater or anything but I just got caught off guard with that comment. OP needs to understand that the Rice process is far more complex than that. Water is part of the cultivation stage. There are like 3-4 stages then after that. Anyways, I didn't expect to come here and argue with rice. LOL. Thanks for the post OP.
Plus, if the rice is grown upstream, is before the pollution from the big cities gets into the water. Same logic as Canberra water tastes good, Adelaide not so much.
Yeah because who would know less about Asian countries than someone with an Asian background. (Wait, what!?)
Given this post also promotes the 'healthy' aspect of Aussie made, I remember reading up on standards for arsenic levels in Australian rice a while back. Just due to our natural soil composition we tend to have higher levels of arsenic in our produce, hence (presumably for industry support) our 'acceptable' limits are set several times higher than other countries (e.g. EU or China)… this doesn't mean this brand is arsenic heavy, but does mean in Australia they are alright to bringing it to market for arsenic content up to 1mg/kg (say vs WHO recommendation of 0.3mg/kg) {not an expert, pulled some goofle-fu for details}
Worth looking into, does that apply if you are rinsing properly before cooking? From other documents and research it sounded like a problem in America but wouldn't have thought here. The same could apply for a lot of ground crops and you'll die of something or another so not too worried.
Agree that Brown rice is healthier, just takes longer to cook and not as nice (but good for salads if don't have quinoa etc)
I recommend brown rice. More nutritious
Ugh. I don't know how people eat it. I've tried it several times. Some claim it has a 'delicious nutty flavor'. But I think it tastes awful… actually it has no taste, but is like chewing on grass pods. And I love brazil, hazelnuts, macadamia, etc (all types really) and brown rice tastes nothing like them.
Try soaking it in water over night in the fridge.
But they say you can do that instead of cooking, right? So isn't that also putting cooked rice in the fridge? So causing the same toxin? I never see this explained with the 'toxin' claim. Unless it's heat that 'activates' it!?
@[Deactivated]: Never heard of it. But to cook nice brown rice you need to soak it over night in cold water. And rinse it the next day. Comes out nice and soft.
@spc12go: Yeah sorry, I mixed up two threads. They say not to put unused cooked rice in the fridge to eat later, that you should eat in then or throw it away because some kind of toxin grows on it. Then they say to 'cook' it by placing it in the fridge with water for hours. Sounds like the same thing to me LOL.
@[Deactivated]: All good, and you can cook fried rice with freshly cooked rice. Some restaurants use left over rice some use fresh rice.
@spc12go: Huh my rice cooker just cooks it. Needs more water than white rice though. And cooks slower.
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Oh good. Been waiting for this.