Is anyone else noticing lower quality rice? ■ Each time I cook rice, I examine it and pick out black pieces, like with this bag of Uncle Ben's parboiled whole grain rice. In other brands of whole rice I have found green pieces, as if the rice did not fully ripen.

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[–]Brewdabier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yes they do inspect at the factory when packaging, how long does the product sit in a Wearhouse ?.

Yes we put fully cooked rice rice and any other food in the freezer, one example is fully cooked rice. Eggs, pottoes and meat is cooked then goes into individual bags for the full week. Luch and dinner we do the same, leftovers go into single servings containers for lunch the next day at work.

The freezer takes electricity, and electricity costs money. Freezing rice adds to your cost, so if you don't pre make food the freezer is off ?. It runs anyway so if you don't pre cook food it cost the same to have the freezer on. "are adding cost to your electric bill to freeze rice", the freezer still runs if you have food in it or not.

If you use the microwave oven or stove to thaw the rice, there is more of an electricity cost you are adding to your rice. When you cook a meal and have leftovers do you toss the leftovers in the trash ?.

Do as you like but please don't bother me with lazy poor excuses.

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I hate to waste food and do not throw leftovers in the trash. I put them in the refrigerator and eat them later. I have no problem with however you want to cook and preserve your leftovers. But since you started our conversation here demanding to know why anyone buys parboiled rice when you can but regular rice for less, I brought to your attention some of the hidden costs to your method.