Since the rice for fried rice has to be “old”, I make a couple cups a night or two before I wanna make it and then throw that rice in the refrigerator.
My partner says this is weird because her family only made fried rice when they had too much rice leftover. But we eat a lot of rice and there’s not usually any leftovers, definitely not enough for a whole batch of fried rice. I really like fried rice though.
Also why isn’t there a cooking comm?
You can post in /c/food
Not weird at all, in fact fresh rice tastes better, chef Lau of cooking with lau fame advocates for starting with fresh rice
For Chinese food, ask Chinese people. American chefs don’t make Chinese food, they make this weird, overly sweet breaded crap that was popular in Canton and Fukien provinces 150 years ago.
So Americans make food that was popular in China when the largest wave of Chinese immigrants came to the country? It’s recipes that were created my chinese immigrants adapted to the ingredients they could get. Same with Tex-Mex and American Italian food.
Tex-Mex wasn’t made by “immigrants”, it was made by Texans in a mockery of Mexican cuisine. Flour tortillas instead of corn, clunky white people flavors instead of the delicate layering of Mexican interior food, and NO seafood. Marisco is delightful!West coast or east?
Lau comes from a professional cooking background, where they do fry fresh rice. Home cooks generally do not, and use day old leftover rice. My uncle owned and ran a restaurant and would fry fresh rice (his trick is to add less water than usual in the rice cooker, or steamed if it can be bothered to set up a steamer). My mother only ever fries leftover rice.
The minstrel showman, Uncle Roger, swears by leftover rice because he also does not come from a culinary background.
Dangit, my brain got stuck on the word “cook” when looking for a comm and I forgot about c/food.
How in the world do you start with fresh rice though? Won’t it end up to smushy?
No, it comes out fine. I use it straight out of the pot.
Edit: gotta use a LOT of oil though, it isn’t diet food
Add less water if you’re using a rice cooker so it comes out drier. Beware that this rice wouldn’t be too good for general consumption but it’s how restaurants do rice specifically for fried rice.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XjHQoYAp9I0
Also this channel is great.
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I haven’t done it myself but I’ve heard if you steam the rice to cook it then it’s better for frying since it will be less wet