[Sca-cooks] OOP - Funky smell to Vietnamese Spring Roll Wrappers?

[Mariann Eaves]

My mother, born and raised in Oahu will wash the rice to rid it of the
surface starch but to make sure that it is "clean".  Old habits die hard.


Saraqan


On 8/24/09, Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius <adamantius1 at verizon.net>
wrote:
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> On Aug 24, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Audrey Bergeron-Morin wrote:
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> Maybe there's some kind of dessicant or conservative in the packaging
>> that dissipates once it's open?
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> Could be. I even wondered about some molds on the rice before, during, or
> after processing, mimicking some human digestive process and producing that
> distinctive barf aroma. Maybe even some kind of insect repellent. I'm not
> even ruling out actual ralfing on the product itself.
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> My lady wife has the true Asian's pathological concern for washing rice (I
> apologize for what may appear to be a racist remark; it's just a very common
> characteristic I have noted; it is in no way a value judgement), some of
> which I'm sure stems from culture-transcending personal taste and quality
> concerns over issues like surface starch, but also feeding into urban
> legends (and possibly urban facts, for all I know) about illiterate people
> mistakenly adding rat poison to rice, thinking it is starch. I wouldn't
> know; I don't think I've ever actually seen rat poison in my life.
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> I guess what I'm saying is, there's almost nothing that could find its way
> into the packing or the product itself, that would surprise me very much.
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> Adamantius
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