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?
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.