The Way to Store Rice

Apr 14
07:18

2011

Shawn Ye

Shawn Ye

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The store of grain like rice is not so easy, we need to avoid it from becoming damp and going mouldy. Here are some ways we can use

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The rice we eat usually by many processes like shell and testa removing. Without the shell,The Way to Store Rice Articles rice comes into contact with air directly, so it could be harmed by injurious insect and mould much easier. People who buy a bag of rice usually put it in some box in the kitchen, then they would never pay attention to the rice until one day they find the rice mildew.

According to the condition above, there are several ways to store rice:
1. Take season into consideration. In different season, the quantity of rice we store should also different. Generally, because the temperature in summer is high, and so as the humidity. Under this circumstance, the rice can easily become damp and go mouldy. So it is hard for family to store large amount of rice. While in autumn and winter, the circumstance is totally different. At that time, the temperature is low and dry, rice could not be affected by environment, so people can store more than in summer.

2. Keep the space ventilated. No matter in supermarket or household, the rice keep in summer should pay attention to avoid damping. Store the rice in shady, cool and dry space. Here are some places which is not good for store rice. The first is put the rice directly on the floor. Rice would be affected with damp easily on the floor, so we need to put the rice on a base plate first. Secondly, do not store the rice with the products which contains a lot of moisture like fish, meat and vegetable. Because the rice would get mould. What's more, some people like to put rice in the kitchen because it is convenient. But they do not know the temperature and humidity in kitchen is bad for rice storage actually.

3. People are annoyed when they find insects in the rice. There are many methods to avoid insects in rice. Such as mixing some dry garlic, pepper or fennel in the rice bag. To some extent, this method is effective. But the taste of the rice would be influenced by those substances. And the insect would also have resistance with time by. Then what is the efficient way to avoid insects? According to the introduction of experts that insects egg could not grow to larva if the environment is lack of oxygen. So we can use plastic film to store the rice in household.

In conclusion, grain storage is not as simple as we image. There are still lots of knowledge we have to learn in it. 

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