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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
here's the problem. I could care less about whether or not you or anyone else thinks a particular brand of rice sucks. the low is related to it as a topic of conversation at all, not the actual or perceived quality of Uncle Ben's.

Just one more point- make sure you have a good rice paddle or none of the rest matters. I got the yellow one from Tanaka distributors.


http://starbulletin.com/2001/02/14/features/story1.html

[i]Some things you don't think about until they change. In this case, they're rice paddles.

The familiar flat pieces of bamboo that flare from handles to wide, rounded, slightly concave heads may be destined for the nostalgia bin as new and improved plastic models muscle into the marketplace.

And while the description "new and improved" is overused in this age of unrestrained consumerism, the latest rice paddles are a great leap forward. Really.

Why? Because rice doesn't stick to them -- not regular rice, not Uncle Ben's, or mochi rice, not fried rice or Thai sticky rice, not cold rice, not mushy rice.

Some might say, big deal, but it is a big deal. Really.

"Because you don't have to scrub them!" said Mildred Spence, a clerk-typist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. "It just doesn't stick. At first I didn't believe it, but it works. It's so much easier to clean"