2 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Shirley you are not advising me to store rice in the freezer for 24 hours after having just purchased it from TOPS.

Or, if you are, then are you sure this is necessary?

I store rice in the refrigerator at about 0.5-degrees C.

Should this not be sufficient?

I suggest that you check in with your AI friend!

2 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Shirley you are not advising me to store rice in the freezer for 24 hours after having just purchased it from TOPS.

Or, if you are, then are you sure this is necessary?

I store rice in the refrigerator at about 0.5-degrees C.

Should this not be sufficient?

Cooked rice should be stored cold for 24 hours before eating.

20 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

The two IQ tests I did do disagree with you. I am well above the average. Top 0.1% of the population in spelling and numeracy skills.

I have always said in an argument, two Brits on to one Aussie is not fair. Three on to one is better odds.

Cranky? No. I just get tired of having to recalibrate my BS meter.

Fair play to you, you manage to disguise it very well on here.

3 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Shirley you are not advising me to store rice in the freezer for 24 hours after having just purchased it from TOPS.

Or, if you are, then are you sure this is necessary?

I store rice in the refrigerator at about 0.5-degrees C.

Should this not be sufficient?

You will keep the bugs slowed down from eating your rice to dust. Refrigeration may even keep their eggs from hatching. But you'd have to keep it in the fridge as you used it.

We only use organic brown or red jasmine rice.

Freezing is sure-fire. You have no idea how old that 'new crop' rice sold at Tops really is. Think about the rice pledge scheme which saw rice sitting in go-downs for years.

ALL rice has bugs. Bugs are good. That means no pesticides.

1 hour ago, scottiejohn said:

I suggest that you check in with your AI friend!

OK. I have done as you suggested.

Now, please pass around this info, so that there is no further confusion:

So, as I was stating before, I am NOT afraid of STINK bugs, and Weevils are what really get to me.

1 hour ago, jvs said:

Cooked rice should be stored cold for 24 hours before eating.

NO.

Cooked rice should be stored cold for 24 hours before FRYING into Chinese Flied Lice, etc.

Storage in the fridge makes for easier and better frying.

Otherwise, everything will get soggy.

You need the drier colder cooked rice, if you do not want to wind up with soup on your hands.

21 minutes ago, unblocktheplanet said:

You will keep the bugs slowed down from eating your rice to dust. Refrigeration may even keep their eggs from hatching. But you'd have to keep it in the fridge as you used it.

We only use organic brown or red jasmine rice.

Freezing is sure-fire. You have no idea how old that 'new crop' rice sold at Tops really is. Think about the rice pledge scheme which saw rice sitting in go-downs for years.

ALL rice has bugs. Bugs are good. That means no pesticides.

In fact, I store all rice in the bottom compartment of two refrigerators, when I have a lot of it.

Otherwise, one fridge can easily store about100 Kgs of rice in 5 kilo bags

I love rice, especially Thai Jasmine rice.

12 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

NO.

Cooked rice should be stored cold for 24 hours before FRYING into Chinese Flied Lice, etc.

Storage in the fridge makes for easier and better frying.

Otherwise, everything will get soggy.

You need the drier colder cooked rice, if you do not want to wind up with soup on your hands.

That is not the reason i do it ,it has to do with releasing insulin .

47 minutes ago, jvs said:

That is not the reason i do it ,it has to do with releasing insulin .

If you enjoy eating cold rice, then you should overstock on sushi and sashimi.

Add a dash of vinegar to the rice, while you are at it.

On 4/5/2026 at 3:42 PM, PhilipHabib said:

Any other pertinent life hacks you're willing to share

Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

4 hours ago, scottiejohn said:

OMG! Please not a another Harisfan/Susan/Bignok spouting forth again about their claimed, and obviously false IQ's!

Why does anyone make such self-boosting statements when they cannot be verified?

Please, you are hurting my eyes.

Although I must admit it's rare to encounter a poster whom butchers English so badly, he has contemporaneous grammar AND syntax errors in the same sentence.

On 4/5/2026 at 4:25 PM, Lacessit said:

I was in Thailand, the land of the bum gun.

While there were people in Australia fighting in the aisles over the last toilet rolls, I was taking photos of well-stocked shelves in Big C to send to my friends.

I was also posting them Covid test kits, which were $2 here and up to $50 in Oz.

In Thailand, I am a Vegemite hoarder.

Speaking of Vegemite, haven't been able to locate any at any of my usual haunts in CR.

Just ordered a few jars on Lazada.

Would be nice if you could get the larger jars here.