On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 21:15:11 -0300, Joy Beeson
wrote:

On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 14:48:46 +0700, John B.
wrote:

On Tue, 12 Jul 2016 23:44:38 -0300, Joy Beeson
wrote:

[snip]

. . . Black
Japonica has a hull on it; I suspect that the ice-water suggestion is
for white rice.

Hull on it? I think that it is not polished and has a sort of brownish
or maybe blackish "bran layer and the germ". Ian't that is what may be
called "brown rice" in the U.S., and "red rice" here. It is supposed
to be more healthy than polished rice.

We call polished rice "white rice" in my dialect -- except when we
mean "not fried rice". Properly, "not fried" should be "steamed".

In rice eating countries normal everyday rice is boiled and "modern
folks" all have an automatic Rice Cooker which in it's original guise
was just an electric pot with a thermostat on it and had marks inside
for the water level for 1 cup, 2 cups, etc., of rice. They make them
in a lot of sizes that the largest will cook probably a pound, or
more, of dry rice at one time. To say about a housewife, "Oh, she
can't boil rice" would be a deadly insult :-)

The only time I've seen rice steamed is when cooking "sticky rice" and
the original method was to put the dry rice in a woven cane basket
which was placed on top of a special metal pot. The basket seals the
mouth of the pot and the steam from the boiling water rises up through
the woven basket and cooks the rice.

Black Japonica is a brand name for "a field mix" of black rice and
mahogany rice, not polished.

I had to look it up on the Internet as I have never seen it here in
Asia, and I lived in Japan for nearly 10 years. I assume that it is
some form of rice that is only used in special dishes.


I cook only brown rice -- I can't eat naked carbs at my age, and must
not overdo the whole grains. (I miss the days when I was on a
weight-gain diet.)

(It turned out, by the way, that the chip was a piece of my temporary
bridge, not my tooth. Dr. slapped a patch on it and we hope it will
hold until September. I promised to cut my sandwiches into pieces in
the meantime.)

What happens in September?

The extraction will be healed enough to install a permanent bridge.
The impromptu appointment was actually a good sign: I'm already
healed enough to forget to be careful of the temporary teeth. I have
to poke my lip to notice that the gum isn't healed yet, and it doesn't
hurt, it just feels not normal.

I can only feel for you as I had teeth problems for years (and I did
religiously brush my teeth).
--
cheers,

John B.