When it comes to pantry staples, rice is the cream of the crop. It's a food we use almost daily and an essential part of so many meals. But how do we store rice long-term to keep it fresh—and what ...

Place rice in a fine-mesh sieve. Holding sieve in the sink, run cold tap water over rice, gently stirring with a clean hand ...

A steaming bowl of fluffy rice is basically the Goldilocks of grains: not too crunchy and not too starchy, but just right. But what should you do when there’s a serving (or four) too many? Easy.

I once saw a dinner host throw all the leftover rice away and nearly lost my dang mind. It was ingrained in me at a young age that wasting rice—any food for that matter, but especially rice—was ...

12:51, Tue, Jul 22, 2025 Updated: 13:11, Tue, Jul 22, 2025 Knowing what to cook for dinner each night is a task many of us dread, especially if you’re stuck for inspiration. While preparing meals ...

Rice is perfectly safe as long as you cook, store, and consume it properly. Here are my top tips for avoiding Bacillus cereus. A recent graduate of the University of Minnesota, Nina started at CNET ...

All varieties of uncooked rice can contain spores of Bacillus cereus, a bacterium that can cause gastrointestinal illness. Your leftover rice could be teeming with bacteria. Leftover rice can harbor ...