Cock delicious rice.

Good morning. Today, I will talk about how to cook delicious rice. Japanese people of the past had been making rice porridge, but it does not have much delicious. The people did not have much tool and method. However, it has never been easier today. Let`s see that how it had changed in Japan.

We do way to suck all the moisture to the rice. It is one of the way that rice is delicious to eat.The major difference between rice and wheat is whether or not to powder. We eat rice after cooked, but we will not crushed rice rarely.

kamado

You must have a rice cooker to cook the rice. Most Japanese has and uses it. However, people started recently that it using. Once upon a time they were using the cooking oven to cook the rice. We call “kamado” to it. It is made of earth. It was hard work does cook the rice. The people must watch the stove while she cooks the rice through. It was the role of the mothers in old Japan.

Japanese started using the electric rice cooker in thirty Showa Era. The mothers could have leisure to do other things. And then, rice cooker is evolving. Quality of the rice cooker was very good. The new product is equipped with a function to wash the rice.

By the way, When use whatever pan we can cook rice. First, you gently wash the rice as soon as possible. Rice is so delicate. Washing rice is enough about several times.

Second, you prepared a pot filled with water and put in the rice. It is necessary to measure the amount of water. When you make a mistake it will fail. Besides, using deep pot and heavy lid is good. And please wait you. Waiting time is different for each season. It is longer in winter than summer.

Third, please put on a pot and boil water after you put a lid on the pot. After a while, it gives rise to bubbles. You wait and see, and weaken the condition of fire.

Finally, you turn off the fire, and you will wait a long time. It is the work that steaming rice, so then you should not open the lid of the pot. And then, you completed if there are no water in the pot.

I used this way when I was junior high school student. It is very fun. Please try it by all means.

Next time, I will talk about Japanese staple food. Why we eat rice often?

See you.

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Process of rice reached us.

Hello every one. I ate sushi last night.

Today, I will talk about process that rice carried our home.

Japanese eat rice every day. So we buy a lot of rice, but rice that immediately after harvest cannot eat. There is a lot of works before we buy and eat it. One family buys rice about 82 kg in one year in Japan.

the large warehouse

First, the farmers store rice in large warehouses. We call it to country elevator. It is cool in the warehouses. People can store three hundred tons of rice in a warehouse. It also has a drier, because mold occurs when rice is wet. Besides, it is delicious when it drying. The farmers put rice in the dryer and then get rid of the dust. Rice that stores there take when need.

Second, the farmers polish rice. The rice is alive. It still had the germ and husk, but these get in the way when people eat. So they remove these from the grain. They didn’t do it blindly, because it cracked when they do wildly work. The farmers carefully remove the dust once again before they take out rice from the warehouse. There are various kinds of dusts. It is dangerous that stone or metal is entering into rice. Then polish rice softly. They cut the surface of the grain, and cleaning it. Shelled rice is brown because it having bran. The farmers get rid of bran from brown rice and clean the white rice. White rice is easy to eat well and look nice. Polish rice was handed long time ago. The Edo era, people used water wheel to do it.

the Japanese old machine when used old time

Third, they put rice into a bag. The production area, the brand and the day it was harvested are listed in the bag. And people do a check for rice. It is divided into six ranks by the quality of rice. The best rice is bad a high prices and called “brand rice.”

Finally, rice is sold to the rice dealer in the market, and it is placed to the store. Then we buy and eat it. Some rice is bought the government and stored. It is a very long way.

the rice shop

Next week, I will talk about rice using dishes. There is a lot of food with rice around the world. For example, Japanese often eat sushi and rice balls, but Chinese often eat fried rice and rice using noodles. I want to get you more interested in rice using dishes.

Please look forward to next time, see you!

How to grow rice in Japan

Good evening.

Today will talk about how to grow rice. When I was 12, I had grown rice. I didn`t have rice paddy, so I used a bucket instead of it. We can grow rice at our home relatively easy. But we need to know how to grow rice for that.

I will show you how to make rice using rice paddy. There are a lot of works.

the rice planting machine

First, we put the soil to special boxes, and sow grain of rice on spring. Then it put into plastic greenhouses because the rice are eaten by insects and birds when put out it. We wait until shoots. The farmers mix animal dung and fertilizers to the soil.

After a while, the shoots grow about 12cm high. Then, we use the rice planting machine. It is very expensive, so rice farmers use it with everyone. We put the seedlings out of the box, and we planted it in the water-covered rice paddies carefully. It is summer with the wind blows cool. When it isn`t, we did planting use our hands and long times. The seedlings grow steadily because it bathed in sunlight. The farmers frequently adjust the amount of water in the rice field. And they pay the best attention to the typhoon. Typhoon is a storm coming in the summer of Japan.  Also, the farmers check rice frequently about sick or not and breed insects or not.

the harvesting machine

About two thousand flowers bloom in one panicles. It is a flower without petals. It will close in about two hours from blooming. They make a scarecrow for the birds cannot eat rice. The scarecrows covered with straw hats and wear old clothes. And then they put special balloons or tape around the rice paddies.

It will be droop down with the weight when it is become large berry. It is the autumn. Then we harvest the rice using harvesting machine. The rice paddy that glowing is beautiful. Rice is stored after leaving only berry. Then the berry is divided we plant next year or we eat. This is the life of rice. It was much more difficult when didn`t have the machine.

When we plant rice at our house, we use bucket to the role of the rice paddy. It is because we don`t release the water. Water is very important for rice paddy. And we will work well to imitate farmer`s way.  If you grew rice on their own, you would feel more delicious it. My grandpa is the farmer. He is often say that the important thing is the love and effort.

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Warms and insects of breed rice

A happy new yare! Hallo. How are you? It is very cold now in Japan.

I will talk about warm and insects of breed rice today. If you don`t like warm, please don`t read this page.

Rice is contained a lot of nutrition, so many warm and insects breed.

Rice weevil was first discovered in America. Japanese call it “Inemizu-zoumushi.” The rice weevil is brown and the mouth of it is protruded like a straw. That is about 5 mm. 1975, it was found in Aichi, Japan. It not only walk but also fly and swim. It breeds the young rice seedlings, and eats it. The larvae eat the roots. Rice farmers are very troubled because rice does not grow well.

Rice weevil

Leafhoppers come from China to Japan at summer. It carry the disease to rice, then the disease kill off a lot of lice like crop circles. Black spots appear after the rice has been soaked up nutrition. And rice farmers cannot buy it because it looked worse. Japanese call leafhoppers “Unka.”

Stink bugs and Rice stem borers can interfere with growth of rice. It is subject to diseases too. There are three causes mainly.

sick of rice

First, it is due to mold. Blast disease is the main disease. Japanese called “Imochi-byou” to it. This disease is the most troubled farmers. It would spread quickly and kill a lot of rice. “Sheath Blight” is also the disease caused by mold.

Second, it is due to bacteria. “Bacterial leaf blight” is a very frightening disease. The disease spreads from the wound.

Third, it is due to virus. The virus brings insects. A disease that leaves withered stripes is this type.

Illnesses of rice will not go away. Farmers using agricultural chemicals when rice was

sick. This is because it does not worsen the disease. But the old days there did not have agricultural chemicals.

The people of ancient could only play when rice breed insects in Japan. There were not able to harvest much and often suffered from poor harvests.

They had to save water and bake rice paddy to repel insects in the Edo era. Then the people were making the agricultural chemicals from grass insects hate. Besides, people used whale oil, used catchers and filled in the rice paddies. How do they get rid of the insects are various.

Recently, there is also a way to get the little ducks eat the insects. This way is popular because they don`t use agricultural chemicals.

We can do thing that how to keep off insects and disease. We must keep in a dark and airy place with red pepper. And we need clean cases of rice sometime. There are not insects at clean area. Cleaning is necessary in order to eat the delicious rice. I think that rice to store in the refrigerator is best.

Did you find this content for you? I will introduce life of rice tomorrow. See you!

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A variety of rice

Hello everyone.

 

Today, I will talk about type of rice.

There are main 3 types. The first type, Japonica is most famous kinds for Japanese. It is soft, tough and roundness. Ten thousand years ago, it spread to Japan from China.

The second type, Indica [Indian rice] is long and an oval shapes. It has grown a lot in China and India. Indica is the type which can be harvested in the world. We can harvest a lot of crops than Japonica. It is often eaten with cully.

The third type is Jabanika [Spanish rice]. The shape is look like Japonica, and big drops of crops. It is grown in Europe, so it used Europe dish.

 

 

 

 

There are about twenty thousand kinds of rice all over the world.

In addition, Japonica is divided into small kind in Japan. Non-glutinous rice is the most of common kind. We call Uruchi rice. In Japan, many types of Non-glutinous rice are grown.  Akita-komachi can be given as famous types.

The rice cakes made from glutinous rice and Non-glutinous rice. This shuld not be hard when it cool, so it is delicious. We call mochi rice to it, because we need it when we make rice cake.  Mochi means rice cakes.

Kaori rice is special for Japanese. This is useful for festivals and other special ceremonies. Smells like popcorn when it is warm.

Sake rice is used to make sake. Sake is Japanese alcohol drink. This is a large drop compared to the Japonica of the ordinary.

Red rice is a very old type, and it was handed down from ancient China. Black rice and Green rice are similar to it. They are very colorful. Red rice contains a lot of nutrients, but it does not contain much moisture.

We can harvest about six hundred and ninety million tons of rice in the world every year. And China is country that are harvested rice is the vest in the world. Japan is the 11^th. Amount that is harvested in China and India account for half of the world`s harvest.

However, Bangladesh is a lot of consumption per capita. People living in Bangladesh eat about 5kg of rice per day. By the way, Japanese people eat about 1.6kg of rice a day. Japanese prefer to eat Non-glutinous rice.

How to store rice is very important because Japanese eat rice every day. Next time, I will introduced about worm and insects bleed rice.

See you again!

 

 

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Rice spread to Japan from China.

Rice is important thing for Japanese because there eat it every day. It is staple food for Japanese. Japan has a lot of dishes with rice, such as sushi and rice cakes. We have been eating rice for a long time.

I will show you about rice, because I want to know more it.

Then, let`s think. When and where rice spread?

Three thousand years ago, Rice spread to Japan from China. It is a very long way, about 850km. People were using the boat. We can found out a lot of old farm tools ruins from China.

 

 

 

 



And Japanese population increase because Japanese begun to make rice. There is a reason went to spread rice in Japan. For example, rice contains a lot of nutrition. It can be stored for a long time too. And then the most important reason is that you can harvest a lot from a little seed. It has been able to harvest a lot, because breed has been improved gradually. Today, two thousand grain can be harvested from a grain of rice.

By the way, how to grew rice in ancient China?

It is an event of ten thousand years ago from now. People began to grow rice in the Yangtze River in China.

Rice is difficult to grow than wheat because it should be grown in a warm place and need a lot of water. Conversely wheat is grown in a cold place. On one hand in the south of China, rice is grown extensively. On the other hand, in the north of China, wheat is grown.

Rice is valuable for Japanese. Once upon a time Japanese were using the money instead of rice. And then people had a war to get it. Small country was founded thanks to the rice. Rice is compared to silver in Japan. For example, Japanese call “Gin-shari,” it means white rice. And they cook a lot of rice with a special day such a big festival.

I will explain further details later date. See you again.

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