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[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 109 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Rice is great if you’re really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 month ago

RIP Mitch hedberg

[–] CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social 11 points 1 month ago

It’s one of the few foods I can fully indulge. I want to eat two thousand of everything.

[–] n0respect@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Can't wait for my mashed rice

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] sundray@lemmus.org 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes... I've certainly never had mochi for dinner, that would be silly of me 😰 .

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

I just realized I'm an adult too. Hmmmmm

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

That's called ttoekbokki.

Or bánh if you're in Vietnam.

[–] pipe01@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Don't underestimate the Japanese

[–] Meron35@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Rice pudding, rice porridge, rice gruel, rice cakes, rice noodles, rice rolls, mochi, tteokbokki

[–] n0respect@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago

Okay you got me on all those. Mashed rice is great.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Bánh cuốn 🤤

[–] sunoc@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago
[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Like Pad Thai?

[–] OddMinus1@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can mash potatoes with a ricer

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

But can you mash rice with a potatoer?

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago

"Holy sheet!"

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

So get this

We have Long Grain Rice like the Australian Doongara variety and Indian Basmati variety, Medium Grain, and we also have Short Grain Rice some varieties of which are quite wide, such as Bomba Rice.

I think Bomba's probably what you'd be interested in.

Rice with the husk on seems larger and has more nutrients to carbs ratio but it's not very tasty. Probably the largest overall grain is called "Tilda Giant Wild Rice".

[–] n0respect@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago
[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Baked rice?

Mashed rice?

Frenched fried rice?

Stuffed rice?

Rice Au Gratin.. ..the list is endless..

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yet the list ended. It's fine. Aight? /s

[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

jacket rice

rice crisps (british "crisps")

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

For medium sized rice, consider mochi or tteokbokki.

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Isn't Mochi just small rice that's been physically abused until it becomes sticky and squishy?

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

It's a different kind of rice referred to as glutinous rice.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That parable about the emperor asking for double the number of grains on each successive square of a chess board would be fucked of rice grains were that big.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not like its easy with rice the size of rice

Yeah, that's like... 250 billion tons of rice. That's over 30 tons of rice per person in this world. Not sure this much rice even exists on this planet.

[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

And then when trying to place the 33rd batch they ended up with a negative number of grains somehow

[–] dylanely8lw@piefed.social 10 points 1 month ago

We humans never stop innovating

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 month ago

If rice becomes large enough to eat by ones and twos, will we start calling a single grain a rouse?

[–] dalekcaan@feddit.nl 8 points 1 month ago

So that's why it's called a potato ricer.

[–] starik@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago

I’d like to see what rice would look like after a few hundred years of selecting for grain size

[–] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Well, it's not large rice, but we do have large Teosinte.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Y'all need more glutinous rice based cakes in your life!

Tteobokki is easily accessible as it's Korean and trendy. But it's just the beginning of that delicious side of rice!

In China they had delicious variations. Salty and sweet alike. 粢饭糕 (zifangao) were a bit big. Fishstick sized. Deep fried. I usually had them as a dessert but the rice itself is neutral so it would work salty as well no doubt. Main thing is to eat it while it's hot, with a crunchy outside and the inside almost creamy.

But my favourite were the sliced nian gao. Imagine a roll of soft rice dough, ovalish in shape section. Cut in slices and those you can either fry or eat En sauce, like gnocchi really. Fantastic stuff!

Dammit I wish those were more accessible in Europe T_T

Tteobokki will have to do I guess.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.