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Fighting words. I suspect a substantial fraction of the world cooks rice by this knuckle method.

As for unhygienic, you do wash your rice, right? Your hands should already be in there.

Edit: Jo Koy explains how to cook rice with this method https://youtu.be/wMNLicO2cHw?t=107

We never wash rice before cooking it in our household. It's never a problem.

You do you, but there can be arsenic in rice, which is proven to cause cancer, so in other areas of the world, washing the rice is important.

Unfortunately washing rice doesn’t remove the arsenic[0], cooking it with a lot of water like pasta does that. You might still want to wash the rice to remove other contaminants, depending on the rice you use.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3CHsbNkr3c&pp=ygUEUmljZQ%3D...

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