When we cook for ourselves or loved ones, we want to give them not only gastronomic pleasure, but also a supply of vitamins and other useful substances. And in the conditions of today's reality, this is not so easy to do. And after all, it does not always end with spoiled or expired products: it happens that you buy a pack of rice for pilaf, and during cooking it frankly stinks of... plastic. Therefore, it is important to be able to check cereals so as not to accidentally feed yourself and your family with dangerous synthetics. Here are some effective ways you can easily spot fake rice.
This gastronomic nightmare called "plastic rice" covered humanity several years ago, and came to attack from a kind of "Mecca of counterfeits" - China. As it turned out, the local craftsmen learned to "cook" rice groats from a mixture of starch, rubber and the actual plastic. The same varieties that have a grain color other than white can even tint with brick dust.
The tongue will not turn to call such a "rump" food, so it is very important to know at least a few tests that will help you quickly recognize a dangerous counterfeit and protect yourself and your loved ones from major health problems that you can earn guaranteed by using such falsification.
Method 1: "drown" in water
This rice screening option saves you the trouble of inhaling the unpleasant synthetic odor that is generated when plastic rice is cooked. Just toss a few grains into the water: the fake rice won't sink.
Advice from Novate.ru: no matter how much we want to save ourselves from the need to sniff fumes from fake rice unpleasant to the nose, we still do not it is worth dwelling only on this test - it is better to combine it with other tests, more about which you can find below.
Method 2: crush in a mortar
Mechanical impact on grains can also help to recognize whether the product is real or fake. It is enough to pour some rice into the mortar and crush it with a pestle. Organic grains will turn to white powder, fake ones will leave a yellow stain.
Method 3: boil and digest
This version of the check, in fact, is carried out by everyone, even if unconsciously, but simply by preparing cereals for dinner. The fact is that during heat treatment, fake rice begins to give off a characteristic smell of plastic. In addition, if you leave such porridge on the fire longer, you will notice that the grains, unlike the real ones, do not boil down, but remain in their original form.
In the same way, you can recognize a different type of fake rice - if it was "sculpted" from starch or potato mixture. After boiling and cooling the water, put your hand in a saucepan and squeeze the rice - if it loses its shape and turns into a homogeneous mass, then it is clearly not real.
Method 4: "frying" cereals
Such a test involves not only setting fire to rice with a lighter - it will be enough to pour it onto a hot frying pan. The fake plastic grains will start to melt and lose their shape and color. Real rice will either retain its color or turn black with temperature. Also, due to its organic origin, cereals can catch fire - this is also an indicator of a real product.
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Method 5: test with time
This option, although the longest in time, is considered the most effective. It is necessary to cook the rice as usual, and then put it in a warm place - on a radiator or in the sun. And after a few days, check what has become of it: real rice will dry out and begin to rot or mold, but fake rice will remain as if it had just been removed from the fire.
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Bonus: test for recognizing fake colored rice
In order to test colored varieties of rice, for example, devziru and chungara, you need to grind the cereals in your hands. Real rice will not leave strong marks on the palms. But the same fake, painted with brick dust, will not only give its pigment to the skin of your palms, but also "bestow" the sense of smell with a corresponding characteristic smell. Also, organic grains are elastic and will spring under the fingers and make a sound similar to a quiet creak.
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A source: https://novate.ru/blogs/270320/53922/