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Educate me, please. What's the best way to store rice? How long will it last in storage, and does it matter what type of rice it is?

"Type for storage"? No diff so far as I've heard, unless you mean "brown" vs "white". (White stores longer because some of the nutrients have been removed.)

Buy some small bags of different types and try them, and try cooking them with different amounts of water and with or without washing. You can end up with some very different results. (Well, "different" from a rice eater's POV.)

Methods? I've never bothered to pay attention to that, just store it in an air and bug tight container, keep it cool, and try to keep it in a low humidity area. Toss when it starts moving on it's own or gets colorful.

White (husk off) has an indefinite shelf life if stored well. Good for pure calories. I just have it air-tight sealed food-grade buckets, but no other special effort.

Brown (whole grain, husk-on, regardless of color) is limited to about a year.

Morsecode wrote:Educate me, please. What's the best way to store rice?

The best way I have found rice stored:

Did not know that about Bud Lite

Thanks for the replies. I'm looking for a few easy foods to buy and put away that don't require special storage. I realize I won't be as well prepared as some, but I should be able to avoid starvation with a little planning. Only have the one mouth to feed...if you don't count the hamster & two cats.

Morsecode wrote:Did not know that about Bud Lite

Thanks for the replies. I'm looking for a few easy foods to buy and put away that don't require special storage. I realize I won't be as well prepared as some, but I should be able to avoid starvation with a little planning. Only have the one mouth to feed...if you don't count the hamster & two cats.

A 25 pound bag of Mahatma white rice (Super Wal-Mart, etc) and 8-10 pounds of packaged dried pinto beans (Aldi's, etc) will fit in a 5 gal food grade bucket and supply about a month's worth of basic carb, protein along with some other basic nutrients for <$25.

It won't take too long before you'll have 3 months, 6 months, etc. As it grows it will take a burden off you. I've got 24 of those buckets stacked in the garage, along with another 16 of the same buckets of additional various dried beans, sugar, wheat berries, etc. Covers my wife and I for a year, plus. We've also got other rotational supplies of coffees, canned meats (not much, because I don't much like to eat them), soups, canned veg, canned fruit, etc.

Start with the beans and rice. And start buying extras of other storagable items as they are on sale, or buy-one/get-one, etc.

After you get your own, if you're able, you might start doing more. We've now starting planning to store additional extra to be able to give out to friends and family, as needed.

The LDS Online Store has a pretty good deal on #10 cans of rice you can "stack and forget"..

http://store.lds.org/webapp/wcs/stores/ ... -1__195866

tn-dave wrote:The LDS Online Store has a pretty good deal on #10 cans of rice you can "stack and forget"..

http://store.lds.org/webapp/wcs/stores/ ... -1__195866

It's a solid storage option, but at about 3x the price.

Rodebaugh wrote:

Morsecode wrote:Educate me, please. What's the best way to store rice?

The best way I have found rice stored:

Whwn they switched to rice I switched to miller lite!