743: Baking with Dorie Greenspan and Everything Grains with Abra Berens
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
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Brown Rice Versus White Rice
The bigger the grain the longer it'll take if it's in its whole state so like you mentioned faro uh that's a confusing one because it comes as unpurled or unpolished semi-purled and then fully purled. It's taking the outside structure of the grain and pulling that away which is sort of like the tough exoskeleton i mean it's not we could go into the weeds on grain anatomy um but it's basically the people came here for it brown rice versus white rice. The less work that the water has to do to penetrate the center of the grain the faster it cooks, he says.
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