The first easily available (as far as I'm aware at least) 2025 crop rice is available in the US.
>>21769066>rice factory, new yorklmao guaranteed you're getting swindled for rice that would normally cost a fifth of whatever you paid for it.
>>21769066am i looking at a rice subscription box
>>21769073Lol wow a sourceless claim with nothing to back it up, i'm convinced.You know you can look up these exact rices and regions they're from and compare right? Most of the time if you can find it sold in the US at all, it'll be pre-milled months before you buy it, unlike rice factory which mills the rice when you order it, to the exact milling rate you ordered. >>21769074No, rice factory does a holiday gift box at the end of the year.
>>21769080huh, looks pretty neat, there any standout products you'd recommend?
>>21769066nigga it's rice
>>21769088I personally am a big fan of the Yumepirika as a "cheap" (relative) option. If i'm spending more money then the Inochi-no Ichi would get my vote.Though they should be getting more 2025 crop options available in early/mid January if you want the FRESHEST possible rice.
>>21769093And you've likely never had fresh rice, and it's okay to not know something. You should try not to judge something you don't know anything about though.
>>21769097cool, thanks ill have to try it out. really curious now to see how it compares to the typical calrose stuff im used to
>>21769066Based. I should be getting my box soon. Going to make nigiri with it for some friends. I'll be cooking the rice in my kumoi kiln donabe, of course. Should be good.
I cannot believe the quality of this rice is worth the price difference.
>>21769153It is, but you need to cook it well and use good tasting water. The rice is good enough to be delicious with no seasoning added.
>>21769153In this specific instance, it was $40 for $15 soy sauce, $6 salmon flake, $6 seaweed, and $18 worth of rice.The rice itself isn't even all that expensive compared to US grown californian rice, pic related. Tamaki Gold is grown in California and 4.4lbs is $17-25 (depends where you buy it), and it was milled/packaged months ago, whereas from rice factory i'm getting 5lbs of rice for $18 and it's milled when I order it, not months ago.
>>21769127Any bing bong with your ching chong?
>>21769214Not quite sure yet, bruv.
>>21769066This is about as early as you could expect to find 2025 crop rice, it would've been harvested between August and October (depending on the region), threshed/processed/dried until October-November, then shipped to the US and passed through Customs sometime in November, and then shipping to customers in early December. The only way to get it faster would be some turbo expensive air freight type shit that MAYBE some restaurants would pay for, but would never be done for regular consumer rice.
white rice is bad for you
>>21769340post body
just get Calrose
>>21769415Calrose is kinda shit tho, it's fine for the price, but it's rather bland.
>>21769066>thing, Japan :O>white rice>jew yorkI guarantee you paid a 1000% markup on that
>>21769178>it's milled when I order it, not months ago.lol, in a blind taste test you could never tell the difference in a hundred years.
>>21770082It would be easy. Just as easy as knowing that you are speaking from a place of complete ignorance.
>>21770085you, 100% would not. Guarantee. If you feel like making a complete fool of yourself. Have a friend do it for you.
>>21770092>I've never had freshly milled rice in my life, but I DEFINITELY know that 1 year old rice tastes exactly the same!!!Apparently you felt like making a complete fool out of yourself. Lol
>>21770101do it then retard. You wont, because you are too afraid to be shown to be a complete dipshit. Which, of course, you are.
>>21770123>seething>makes up more random shit You're still making a fool of yourself and I'm all for it lil bro!
>>21770164>too afraid to be outed as a psuedI thought not. Keep wasting your money though :)
Gotta love when people who've never had something tell you about something you've had and then tell you you're wrong for thinking differently from them, who hasn't had it.
This one is my favorite :)
>>21770169>I'm not scared to admit I'm a pseudWell at least you have going for you. Lmao>>21770185It's sour grapes behavior. One of many reasons could explain why. All of them are quite sad. :(
>>21769066>my heccin premium ricerino from a country that has notoriously shit soil and has to import 50% of its rice
>>21770169>calling people pseudThis isn't /lit/ bro
>>21769066I love how good rice brings out the retard in so many people. It's like their brain turn to mush when they hear you can purchase a superior product from a small company.
>>21770701Are americans this poor that 5lb/$17.99 for rice is considered expensive?
>>21770742No, they just assume it's more expensive than that.
>>21770742For some of the posters here, Absolutely.
>>21769080>unlike rice factory which mills the rice when you order itThis doesn't mean anything unless you specifically want to taste "rice 2025" as if it matters as much as wines(it doesn't).
>>21769066>>21769080This seems like the kind of purveyor that's only really useful for high end Asian restaurants or sake brewers, if you're just making rice at home the milling shouldn't matter really.I know it's tempting to get obsessive over every component of food, but that gets expensive and ridiculous, especially over something as plain as rice.
>>21770778>>21770767You've clearly never had fresh milled rice, it's much more floral tasting, it's fine if you don't care about that flavor aspect, but it's very present in freshly milled rice.
>>21770778They'll tell you they eat enough rice that a barely noticeable sidegrade is totally worth paying 5x the price, just like people will tell you that their shitty uncomfortable 250-dollar meme pillow is worth it because you spend a third of your life sleeping.
>>21770790See, like this fucking idiot here >>21770789 who will pay literally 12 times the cost(not an exaggeration) just because the rice tastes a bit floral, which is probably attainable in 5 other ways if he could think critically. Doesn't feel as good as buying the meme product though.
>>21770796It's $18 for 5lbs of rice >>21770742>>21770746Looks like you're the retard assuming it costs more than it actually does.
>>21770799Forgive me, 11.5x the cost. You're the retard who is paying to jack off an x/y axis of their rice.
>>21770742I buy rice for 50 cents per lbIts an outrageous price and only retarded poor third worlders like you wouldnt know the difference But thats why you have an iPhone, isnt itLmao
>>21770807Anon, that's not the rice OP bought.The price was already given $18 for 5lbs, no need to pick a TOTALLY DIFFERENT rice being sold on their site at $23 for 2lbs.Also enriched long grain rice from Arkansas/Louisiana being compared to freshly milled short grain rice from Japan is a joke to begin with.At least compare it to similar short grain rice from California if you want to be SOMEWHAT fair in your comparison.So again, if you look at the actual rice bought (5lbs for $18). It's only about 3.5x more expensive. And if you compare it to short grain rice from California, it's just as expensive, or even a bit cheaper >>21769178
>>21770807Do you think all grains are identical?All wheat is just generic wheat?All corn is just generic corn?Etc.The idea that all rice is identical is baffling. Are you retarded or do just enjoy attention?
>>21770817>that's not the rice OP boughtI never said it was the specific variety in the OP picture. I'm making fun of retards up their own ass about rice to the point of paying outrageous prices for it just to get 0.1stick-smooth / 3.4firm-soft ratio organic rice from a specific city in japan like that fucking matters and using the dumbass arguing about floral milling notes as my vehicle to do so.But you don't seem to be denying that 23 dollars for two pounds of rice is fucking stupid so I'll take that as you bowing to me on my actual point. Feel free to shakily type "well uh maybe it's a bit excessive" but that's just the pussy way of saying you agree with me.>>21770820>thinking that paying nearly 12 dollars per pound for rice is ridiculous is the same as thinking all rice is identicalIlliterate fuck.
>>21770829Luxury living really does seem to expose your bargain‑bin insecurities.
>>21769066How do you even prepare and consume rice that good?
>>21770829You have zero experience with this and yet speak on the topic as if you had any actual knowledge or understanding of the particulars being discussed.Honestly, being this arrogant about your ignorance is hilarious.
>>21770847Donabe or mid to high end rice cookers.
>>21769066what a fucking idiot.buy an ad.
>>21770842>luxuryHow much rice do you eat for this to go from a thoughtless retarded poser purchase to luxury spending? Your average jap only eats a quarter of a pound per day. Is needlessly paying 3 dollars per day a luxury to you? I'd put this in the same category as buying starbucks daily and nodding your head about whatever third-world country the beans came.>>21770851I'm sure your rice tastes 12x better, just like an iPhone is 12x more stylish than a smartphone that's 3 years old. That floral color scheme really makes the difference.
>>21769098>fresh riceimagine being this retarded.who knew that rice snobs exist.
>>21770861Imagine pretending you have ANY insight or knowledge about something you've never experienced.Ignorance is bliss, but I didn't realize it also came with so much arrogance.
>>21769098>And you've likely never had fresh rice,and neither have you all rice is months old before you get it.
>>21770866proves my point that he's a rice snob and full of shit.look retard I'm not buying rice from your cousins scam.
>>21769066Imagine sour grapes over rice. The losers on this website are truly exceptional.
>>21770871I don't give a fuck what you buy, but acting like you KNOW it makes no difference when you've NEVER experienced it is rediculous. You're basing your knowledge off your own biased expectations (that freshly milled rice can't be different from what you've personally eaten). But you have no basis for that assumption besides your lack of experience with anything else.
>>21770876it's hilarious to watch you double down on be retarded. please continue.
>>21770858You get pretty worked up over the way others handle their money, huh?
>>21770876The irony is that you don't even know whether or not anon has experienced it. You're basing your knowledge on your own biased expectation that someone shitting on your hobby has never tried it, instead of having tried it and knowing that it's not worth taking seriously.
>>21770879Frankly I'm enjoying this as well. Please give me more things you have no personal knowledge of or experience with and tell me how it is.I'm sure you have similar views on A5 wagyu despite never having tried it either.
>>21770883Because you know he hasn't since he's bringing up long grain enriched rice as a comparison >>21770807Come the fuck on.
>>21770884>I'm sure you have similar views on A5 wagyu despite never having tried it either.but I have anon, and while being good, it's not better than steak, I used it to make chili as well. please keep raging.
>>21770876Absolutely this. It's funny watching the retard try and reason his way into an argument everyone knows he is completely ignorant about.There is obviously a difference between freshly milled and old rice. If you prefer fresh and you found a way to acquire it then good for you! I'm happy. I pay a premium for fresh fruits and meat that I know are high quality and they 1000% taste better than cheap shit at shitty grocery stores.
>>21770884>despite never having tried it either.same steak cooked
>>21770889>>21770883
>>21770893you should not project this hard it can't be good for you
>>21770893>out with a whimperKEK
Sorry, that was me, not him. Again you are assuming just because he is shitting on your hobby he has never tried it, instead of having tried it and judged it not worth taking seriously. Anyone that's been to a quality sushi restaurant has tried high-quality rice, you don't need to online order it from new york yuppies.You can say that there's no way he's tried it if he doesn't think floral 2025 milled rice from Upyourownass prefecture isn't worth it, but that's again just you assuming without knowing, isn't it?
I love this board's sour grapes. They spend their days stuck in bitterness, pretending they don’t care while quietly envying others. Instead of finding joy or growth, they let resentment weigh them down, which makes their lives feel miserable.
>>21770897>no uRetard
>>21770897>Anyone that's been to a quality sushi restaurant has tried high-quality riceUnless you're going to very high end sushi restaurant, no the fuck they haven't.Even relatively good sushi places use generic tamaki gold or similar rice that will be months old (from the milling date).You need to go to like Nobu or similar to get genuinely good high end rice. Or find some tiny mom&pop sushi place that orders rice autistically from places like The Rice Factory.An average decently midtier or high end sushi restaurant in the US is simply not going to have the freshest highest quality rice possible.
>>21770904>An average decently midtier or high end sushi restaurant in the US is simply not going to have the freshest highest quality rice possible.Neither will rice factory new york, even if that shatters your asshole. It's still going to be better than anything you can produce because they are better at working good rice than you are.
>>21770913>Neither will rice factory new yorkHow do you know?>It's still going to be better than anything you can produce because they are better at working good rice than you are.Why do you assume this?
>>21770913>Neither will rice factory new yorkBased on what?Who else is currently selling 2025 crop rice milled to order in the US today?
>>21770923>How do you know?Because an online order from rice factory new york is halfway around the world from the rice farms where it is grown. This is quite obvious.>why do you assume this?Because "some random anon on /ck/ is worse at cooking rice than a head chef at a high-quality sushi restaurant" is a more reasonable assumption than "someone doesn't think my hobby is as cool as I do so there's no way they know anything about it". Or do you think that the opposite is true and all assumptions are equally reasonable, or that it's more reasonable to think that someone who thinks your hobby is lame means they don't know anything about it than it is to think that to think that some random anon is worse at working with rice than a high-quality sushi restaurant chef>>21770926>in the US today?Exactly. Freshest possible, highest quality possible, is what he said.1) If you're shipping it halfway across the world then it's not the freshest possible, and if they're selling it to some random gaijin then it's not the true cream of any one crop.2)It's a retarded assumption that the very best japanese rice farmers are selling the best of their highest quality crops to random nameless foreigners online instead of reserving it for people more important than you or I.
>>21770935Are you retarded?Rice is shipped unmilled to the US, where it then gets milled to order. Rice freshness doesn't really start to degrade UNTIL it has been milled.And further, no one gives a fuck if there is TECHNICALLY fresher rice available in Japan, we are talking about the US retail market, the rice in the OP is the freshest possible rice for the US retail market.
>>21770935How do they get specific cultivars usually reserved for high end restaurants? Have you heard of temp controlled shipping/storage?
>>21770935>Because an online order from rice factory new york is halfway around the world from the rice farms where it is grown. This is quite obvious.Is it different for high end Sushi restaurants?>Because "some random anon on /ck/Why do you assume he's not a cook at a nice Sushi restaurant?Weird assumptions from your part desu senpai.
>>21770942High end sushi joints aren't typically milling their rice before service each day.
>>21770948Neither is OP. Your point?
>>21770940>doesn't really>TECHNICALLY fresher rice available in Japan>well it's the freshest possible... for the USSo you admit that rice factory new york will not give you the freshest possible, highest quality possible rice then. That you agree with the very obvious conclusion that you should live where a product is grown instead of halfway around the world if you want it as fresh and high quality as possible.>but no one really gives a fuckNo one really gives a fuck about rice like you're pretending to but here you are doing a song and dance like you actually care a whole bunch about rice being as fresh as possible while also pretending that's attainable halfway across the world from where it's actually grown.>>21770942>Is it different for high end Sushi restaurants?Not really no, which is why I say that eating at high-end sushi restaurants means experiencing high-quality rice worked with skilled hands. Did you have trouble reading the reply chain?>Why do you assume he's not a cook at a nice Sushi restaurant?I get you're trying to reverse it here, but when doing so requires you to assume that random /ck/ posters are better at working with rice than head chefs at high-skilled sushi restaurants, you really can't even pretend you're not just being a retard for the sake of argument.
>>21770940how do you KNOW rice isn't milled in America? you act like every bit of rice in this country sits in a warehouse for 5 years before it's milledhow do you KNOW
>>21770952When a rice is marketed as having been grown in a specific area of japan, either it was grown there and it's not as fresh as possible because it was shipped around the world, or it was actually grown in the US and is fresh because you got scammed by new york jews. Pick your poison.
>>21770951>Did you have trouble reading the reply chain?You have poor reading skills if this is your conclusion.>I get you're trying to reverse it here,Yeah, you've got awful reading skills. Finish school, get a job, and maybe if the universe stops laughing you’ll afford gum.
>>21770949>I'm not paying any attention to the argument!Please follow along better, retard. It doesn't matter who mills it. It matters when it is milled. Please show me other services or businesses that offer freshly milled rice.
>>21770956I'll ask you directly. Do you think it's reasonable or unreasonable to assume that a random anon on this board is worse at working with rice than head chefs at high-quality sushi restaurants? And tell me how long you've been browsing this board too, for laughs.
Conclusion by sour grapes gang: OP has failed at being the biggest and best rice autist because he doesn't live in Japan. The simple fact that he has not uprooted his entire life in the pursuit of the freshest rice possible means he is a scam(like the rice he buys) and that he doesn't actually enjoy great quality rice.
I'm fine with my 20lb bag of thai jasmine long grain that lasts me a whole year thanks
>>21770958>Please show me other services or businesses that offer freshly milled rice.Too dumb to look it up yourself?
>>21770968>not an argumentI predict a concession soon. Kek
>>21770960Avoid projecting your shortcomings onto those around you. Also every point you make is flawed and illogical. Premium rice really touched a nerve for you, huh?
>>21770960>I unironically believe it takes 10 years to learn how to cook riceLMAO WEEB
/ck/ and /v/ seem to be the absolute poorest boards on all of 4chins
>>21770975You said here >>21770942That it's a weird assumption to assume that a random anon wasn't on par with head chefs at high-end sushi restaurants. So I ask you directly:Do you think it's reasonable or unreasonable to assume that a random anon on this board is worse at working with rice than head chefs at high-quality sushi restaurants?>>21770977I don't subscribe to that idea, but I do think that head chefs at high-end sushi restaurants are going to be better at working with rice than random anons browsing this board.
>>21770886if I had those steaks I would just show them my BBQ through the kitchen window and then let them rest for 8 mins.
>>21770979you aren't rich, you sad sack
>>21770980Only a true kitchen clown thinks rice is difficult. They’ve made machines to do it for the inept retard like you, but I suppose your wallet and paranoia keep you stuck in mediocrity.
>>21769066Thank you for first telling the board about this website a few years ago, I've been buying rice from there since.It's really quite good.
>>21770983I own my own house, two cars, and have a wife and two children with no debt, I would say compared to some dude sperging about the cost of a strangers rice online I am in fact rich.
>>21770984>Only a true kitchen clown thinks rice is difficult.I never said this and I don't think this. I just said that head chefs at high-end sushi restaurants are going to be better at working with rice than random anons browsing this board. Do you disagree or are you going to keep trying to pretend I'm saying something else?
>>21770991Expensive or high-quality ingredients can improve the taste of food regardless of who cooks. You keep confusing skill with ingredient quality and wrongly assume one is useless without the other.
>>21770991The only thing high end sushi chefs have over the rice hobbyist is excellent batch to batch consistency. That's the only "hard" part about cooking rice.
>>21770992I cannot presume that a random anon would have better or worse ingredients than a head chef at a high-end sushi restaurant(the anon I was arguing with said would it actually be worse at most high-end sushi restaurants than what rice hobbyists would buy), I think that head chefs at high-end sushi restaurants are going to be better at working with rice than random anons. Do you disagree or are you again going to pretend I'm saying something I'm not for the third time in a row?>>21770994So you think that a head chef at a high-end sushi restaurant has no more skill with rice than someone shitposting in a rice thread on /ck/? Do you think that batch consistency has nothing to do with skill garnered from focused practice?
>>21771002>random anonCould very well be a high end sushi chef. There's nothing stopping one from posting here. If a random anon compares the shittiest store bought rice ever made to a very high quality Japanese short grain and cries about the price difference it is a fair assumption that they know very little about rice.
>>21770961Conclusion by butthurt anon who stopped replying to be because he got BTFO:"I want to pretend to enjoy the freshest rice possible and LARP that rice stored and shipped out from New York that was grown halfway across the world is as fresh as can be, and I have no real response that preserves my identity as Mr.Rice."
>>21771007>Could very well be who knows not me ahahahahHow likely do you think? If gun to your head, you absolutely had to ballpark it, what would you say are the chances that the owner of a random post on /ck/ is better at working with rice than the head chef of a high-end sushi restaurant? Would you say it's more than 50%? More than 25? Or are you going to be honest and admit it's less than 1% chance that a random anon is better at working with rice than the head chef of a high-end sushi restaurant?>compares the shittiest storebought rice to to very high qualityThat wasn't him though, see >>21770897All he did was shit on your rice hobby.
>>21771009>not an argumentConcession accepted. :)>>21771012>goalposts changedKek
>>21769066>artisanal ricemy sides
>>21771021I changed nothing, this was my original post >>21770913Either you think it's reasonable to assume that a random anon is worse at working with rice than a head chef at a sushi restaurant or you think it's unreasonable to assume that. But you seem allergic to honestly saying which you think is true, though.Moving the goalposts is reading that and pretending I typed that it takes 10 years to learn to cook rice, or that cooking rice is difficult. Dishonest faggots.
>>21769066I can only assume this is a smash hit to the retards that got duped into buying $1000 instant pot that they call rice cooker over in weebland
It appears that ricechads have won again.>>21771049And this was your last post. Lmfao. >>21771012
>>21771049Here's your answer because I'm feeling generous. You are correct, but only for the entire process of making sushi rice. Simply cooking rice, no. OP could cook rice equal to a high end sushi chef given the same rice, water, and equipment.
>>21771091I the same thing in the same way 6 times and every one of you starchbitches was too pussy to answer it directly. You wanna link to the other five times I asked it the same way and you kept dodging?>>21770935>>21770951>>21770960>>21770980>>21770991>>21771002You finally started tiptoing around answering it in the most weaselly way possible, saying "well uhm it COULD happen I guess" without copping to whether it was reasonable or not to assume, so I tried to work with you on you moving the goalposts to whether it was possible instead of whether it was a reasonable assumption.>>21771098>but only for the entire process of making sushi rice.I would say likely in other rice applications as well, because they are still professional chefs in an establishment that works with rice regularly. Just those two things alone likely put him leagues ahead of OP, but of course we're working on assumptions here.I'll meet you in the middle and say that the gap is going to be a lot smaller when we're not talking about sushi rice specifically and if OP is heavily invested in one particular non-sushi dish then he likely outperforms the chef at that particular dish. I don't extend the slur of "starchbitch" to you because you had the grains to answer my question and actually engage with it.
Almost this entire thread is poverty screeching
>>21771125THE funniest and most entertaining kind of /ck/ thread imo.
>>21771110Your question is still pretty pointless because even Jiro would make bad rice if he was using a very low quality rice. OP could actually btfo Jiro or any other master rice maker if he was given better ingredients and equipment.
>>21771128>Your question is still pretty pointless because even Jiro would make bad rice if he was using a very low quality rice.That has no bearing on who has better rice skills. As long as both high and low quality rice are both available, choosing and being familiar with a good rice for a dish would be part of the skills of making a rish dish, would it not? Sourcing ingredients correctly is a big part of being a chef. It's not hard to order from rice factory so there's no reason to say that an anon would be using low-quality rice unless he was unskilled enough to think that would be a good ingredient for the dish.
>>21771142Im glad we can both agree that the rice factory serves a useful purpose for discerning rice enjoyers.
>>21771165>Sourcing ingredients correctly is a big part of being a chef>It's not hard to order from rice factoryThey make a big part of being a chef easier.
>>21771167Agreed. I love their rice and am thankful that I have been able to try sun dried rice, which normally never leaves Japan.
>>21771165Well yeah, it lets people whose heads are up their asses feel good about themselves while they ruminate on rice charts. You can get good quality rice at a decent grocery store, but some people want to feel food about having a 30% sticky, 42.5% firm Nagasaki 2018 rice and pretend that makes a huge difference.If you cannot get something as basic as decent rice of different varieties in your area and you haven't saved up the funds to move yet, the website is fine for that transition period.
>>21771175Oh, poor you. Someone’s got shinier rice and now you’re losing it.
>>21771189Just making fun of you, riceboy.
Fresh bread from a good bakery tastes better than store bread>reasonable carry onFresh pasta from a specialty shop or restaurant tastes better than dried store pasta>reasonable carry onFresh rice from a specialty importer tastes better than grocery store rice>AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>>21771175>I've got a severe case of sour grapes and I LOVE to invent a character to get mad at!The reason they have information about their rice is so that the consumer can make an informed purchase. Is that really too much for you to handle? I live in a state that makes a lot of rice, and it simply does not compare to anything I've had from the rice factory. On an aside, I hope you know that making random shit up like you are only reveals your own stupidity and insecurities. It's entirely projection.
>>21771194I'm not OP, brokeboy, just enjoying your meltdown.
>>21771202I've been rubbing my e-balls on every riceposter in the thread and it's been immensely enjoyable for me. I don't care if you're OP, you're just another notch on my belt.
>>21771209Everyone is laughing at you and calling you stupid. You've gone out of your way to make a fool of yourself and your delusions only further that. KEK
>>21771210This thread would be dead on arrival without me giving each poster a swirlie, the bullying was a price to pay to have a thread about such a dumb hobby. I'll give u guys a break now and let the thread die.
>>21771217Everyone is laughing at you and calling you stupid. You've gone out of your way to make a fool of yourself and your delusions only further that.
>>21771217>I may be poor and retarded but spiritually I'm rich Wewlad
>>21771217>I've lost and now I'm running awayLOL
>>21770986Based. Any standout varietals you have tried?
>>21771217Im OP and I only replied a few times and stopped when it became obvious your entire argument boiled down to>you don't live in Japan therefore any freshness is worthlessWhile simultaneously agreeing with me that the rice factory has the freshest rice available in the US.You also never articulated how/why you seem to think freshness only matters if you live in Japan and how you think it impacts the rice sold by the rice factory in a negative way that would make it equivalent, or worse than rice 5x as old milled months previously then sat in a warehouse for a few weeks to months before sitting on store shelves for potentially weeks more.But in any case, you just look retarded to me, if you think you came out looking like the sane/rational person here, by all means, enjoy that fantasy.
>>21771226I mostly buy the organic ones as I have young children and the organic offerings from America are bad. But I tried the sun dried rice they had last year or the year before and it was really good.
>>21769066imagine being so retarded you think "fresh" rice is special, or that it even exists, AND that you can taste a difference. KYS
>>21769098>>21770185>>21770789>>21770851>>21770866god this is pathetic snob talk, every bit of it. no one cars about your "fresh" rice.
>>21771279>>21771283We get it, you're butthurt and have grapes more sour than most could handle.
>>21769066look at this idiot! he doesn't have his own private rice paddy that he hand plants, keeps irrigated, and fertilized with the finest duck shit. then harvest and immediately mills and eats the rice on the spot. he eats stale rice from new york. what a loser
>2025 Crop rice has hit the USThat's just overpriced bullshit rice for hipsters that they sell at niche stores.>New York>5 LBLet me guess. They want $50 usd for that shit?
>>21771290$18It's also milled fresh when you order to whatever milling rate you want (10/30/50/70/100) from brown to white.
>>21769157>The rice is good enough to be delicious with no seasoning added.The heat of the rice cooks nothing?
>>21771217>I was only pretending to be retarded.
>>21771286>sour grapes
>>21771304>online no one knows you are poor he told himself as he gleefully posted his image macro reply
>sour grapes>disparagement of something that has proven unattainablenothing mentioned in this thread is unattainable to me. not being scammed is not sour grapes. not being a snob is not sour grapes.you are just butthurt that no one wants to buy your rice.
>>21771311And we're right back here >>21771230>You also never articulated how/why you seem to think freshness only matters if you live in Japan and how you think it impacts the rice sold by the rice factory in a negative way that would make it equivalent, or worse than rice 5x as old milled months previously then sat in a warehouse for a few weeks to months before sitting on store shelves for potentially weeks more.
>>21771298You are absolutely correct. >>21771235I find the organic ones taste better, and agree with you the sun dried is delicious. Probably the best texture of any short grain rice I've tried. It's a real toss up between the inochi no ichi and sun dried for me. Maybe one day we will get sun dried inochi...
>>21771290They opened and LA store last year if that makes you feel any better.
>all this damage control for a scamkekkles
Rice won.
>>21771324
>>21771308The average fast food meal costs more than most of the packages on the website and fast food is over half the topics on this board so people clearly have the means. They just don't give a shit the way you do.
>>21771486Yet those people aren't in the expensive rice thread posting for literal hours about how their Walmart enriched rice is just as good as freshly milled Japanese rice that a dirty spice has never even touched.
>>21771494Yeah people come here to shitpost. Are you new to this board? Most people probably think rice hobbies are dumb just as collateral damage from spammed jiro threads. Read what you just posted and ask yourself if a person espousing such a belief about rice on 4chan isn't fucking with you.
>>21771504The poorest always have the sourest of grapes
>>21769066>pecialty
What's really going to blow your britches is that blind tastes tests have been done with cheap rice cookers vs japanese rice cooker folded over 9000 times and the cheap cooker wins every time.
>>21771778Source?
>>21770742$20 should get you like 50 pounds of riceIm not falling for Jewish tricks from the samurai
lol this thread is still up? Good, I wanted to shit on this retard some more :D
>>21771930>stockholm syndrome
>>21771494it actually is
>>21771584Ironically it's the total opposite of these sour grapes shitposts. The best thing about this hobby is that you can enjoy some of the best it has to offer for incredibly cheap as compared to other high-end luxury versions of items like caviar, wine, steak, cheese, etc. Like, 2 pounds of some of the best rice you can buy is less than 50 dollars and goes a long way. That much upscale beluga caviar? Costs as much as a car. This is 100% a poorfag hobby and I don't even say that as an insult because I'd argue it's actually very good to not have top-tier products gated off by exorbitant price points.
>>21772623And by that I mean less than 50 dollars accounting for shipping as well if you're in the states. Probably less than 50 globally too because it doesn't get close to 50 total here, but I don't know about other countries as far as shipping availability and rates.
I can buy caviar in the grocery store for 7 bucks
>>21772638You can buy great value rice for pennies too. I'm talking about the generally agreed-upon highest-tier of the item, learn to read retard. Rice is a cheap hobby because you get the best of it for far far less than you can get the best caviar, and it keeps for a fuckton longer too if you need to wait to eat it for whatever reason.
>>21772641>paying 300x the cost for the same thingshiggy
>>21772645If you don't care about the hobby then that's your choice. But if someone does ever care about trying the highest-quality stuff, rice as a hobby has the distinct advantage of being far more accessible and convenient than the more expensive and perishable food items.
>buys 300 dollar an ounce rice>burns it to the bottom of the pan
imagine thinking that people give a shit about your weird fetish, and then getting so buthurt about it that you accuse everyone else of being jealous.pathetic
>>21771308having money is not the same as being a gullible tard my slow witted friend. I'm pretty sure I have more money than you. probably because I don't get scammed over rice. you really need to work harder on your insults. calling people poor and "sour grapes" is pretty low effort. you can do better. I believe in you.
>>21771319sorry my dude, you have me confused with someone else. you are now aware that more than one person here is making fun of your simping over third world food.
>>21772623>The best thing about this hobby is that you can enjoy some of the best it has to offer for incredibly cheap as compared to other high-end luxury versions of itemsah! so you are a poor.
>>21772724>ur poor!>>21772719>its a scam!>>21772716>caring about quality ingredients is bad!If you aren't the same anon as yesterday you've just repeated the exact 3 arguments already posted 30 times in this thread, you absolute blind retard. Learn to read, yeah? I believe in you.
>>21772742It's 100% the same anon, he's behaving like /k/'s Warriortard/Gookshill poster that uses the SAME arguments over and over and pretends to be other anons (despite using the same arguments, and in some cases even the same images as the "other" anon). Honestly kinda hilarious how easy it is to spot him though.
put a loose grain of this rice beside a random grain of any other white rice and shuffle them then try to pick the correct one with a gun to your headnice knowin ya
>>21772724So wait, is it the people who like this hobby that are poor, or the people that dislike this hobby? I don't even know what you're arguing for at this point. I'm just saying that money isn't really a factor in enjoying this hobby because even top-shelf varieties are inexpensive, and that's a good thing.
>>21772746He does the same shit on /lit/ too. He seethes about anything japanese
>>21772746Same guy that makes anti rice cooker threads too, huh?
>>21772776Wouldn't shock me.
>Japophilic weebs in here are willing to spend 23/lb on poverty foodCan you guys help me get my corn syrup business off the ground? I've been making high-end corn syrup and we've employed japanese workers in the corn syrup factory because of their attention to detail. All of our based Nipponese workers dream of corn syrup every right and they can understand all the floral notes that us stupid filthy gaijens are too stupid to notice.
>>21772788We know it's still just you lmao
>>21772788I'd unironically be interested in high-end corn syrup just to see how it changes pecan pie, I've been doing a 50/50 of Karo syrup and maple syrup where it's called for.
>>21772792>weQuit acting like you have a team of retards paying 50 bucks a pound for relabeled rice lmao
>>21772901$3.60/lbs rice has really upset you huh?
>>21772952Move that decimal 2 spots to the right weeb
>>21772962Once again, it's $18 for 5lbs, whatever made-up figure you've invented to "shit" on this thread is just in your head.
>>21772990I love getting upset at things I make up entirely in my head. I also love being wrong!
I bought rice from Target or Wal-Mart like a simpleton and cook it in a Zojirushi I bought years ago and collects dust mostly because I wanted to be LE NIHON STYLIN like a generic cringe faggot.
>>21772990You mean 18 dollars for .5lb? Read the thread moron.
>>2177301618 dollars per grain of rice, retard. Read the thread. Oh wait you cant read because you're a retard! Lol
>>21773021You're the one who's bankrupt after buying a cup of rice and trying to cope. Now go back to saying arigayto gozimashoe to every grain before you find out you dont have electricity to cook it with LOL
>>21773016This is my thread. >>21769178>In this specific instance, it was $40 for $15 soy sauce, $6 salmon flake, $6 seaweed, and $18 worth of rice.Pic related is the rice on their site (you can only buy the 2024 crop directly, the 2025 crop has to be bought in the holiday gift box until late December/early Jan, then they'll bring the 2025 crop options to the main site (not just in a gift box).
>>21773027>$18 worth of riceSo you got half a pound? lol you got scammed
>>21773088
>>21773026>posted from the local library
>>21773100nta but I used to work at a library and I never saw anyone posting on 4chanit was 90% youtube, 8% browser games, and 2% people applying for jobs
>>21773113They made sure you weren't looking, of course.
>>21773132it's just not possible for it to happen if i don't see it myself
>>21773180Are you at the library?
>>21773184can you see me?
what's a good cuckoo rice cooker?
>>21773180Well, can you explain this?
>>21774320supernatural just like the tv show
>>21774320
>>21774894Finally someone explains it in a way I can understand.
>>21769066Is that the one on 72nd street between Broadway and West End? I keep walking past that store and licking the windows
>>21774926No
>>21774894Ahh this explains it perfectly thanks
>>21774969What part of Ohio is this?
>>21774991That's New YorkJust not NYC.Scarsdale specifically, so outside of the city proper and much cheaper retail space.
>>21774994It is generally frowned upon to say "New York" to refer to upstate without specifying "New York STATE". It's like saying "I live in France" when you live in the Guyane department of South America. In a strict grammatical sense it's not WRONG but it's misleading at best
>>21775019LolLmao even
>>21775019Referring to New York city without putting "City" and just saying "New York" is fucking dumb and nothing you type with your grubby fingers will change that.
>>21775019>New York can only mean New York City, not New York, the state in which New York City is located in!Holy autism batman
>>21775019It's fucking scarsdale, it's like 30 minutes north of NYC, it's basically a further flung NYC suburb.We're not talking about buffalo here.
>>21775019holy retard
Jeez, didn't know there were so many upstate people on /ck/, sorry if your feelings got hurt?
>I was only pretending to be retarded.
>>21775083Everytime
>>21775083I never said I was pretending to think you're being dishonest by omitting the word "state". What I said, in fact, was that I was sorry your feelings got hurt. You're still being dishonest but I can understand why you prefer to give the impression you live in a city and not a rust belt industrial blight town.
>>21775090>damage control>projection>copeTypical.Also this >>21775083
>>21775123If I lived in Scheknektady or whatever I'd probably be struggling with some kind of internalized shame too. Sorry about your situation.
>>21775131The weirdest thing is I doubt anyone you've replied to is from (or lives in) upstate new york in the first place.
>>21769066Well, if Sakuna of rice and ruin taught me anything it's that it takes an annoyingly long time to process rice, so I suppose that makes sense that you wouldn't get it until December.
>>21775090>I never said I was pretendingSo you're just legitimately a retard, understood.
>>21775298TRVKE
ITT: economically anxious flyovers from Rockland County, Pennsyltucky
>>21775462Which retard were you? You seem lastingly angry about getting your dick split open.
>>21775665He's the same retard who's been seething this whole thread.
Who the actual fuck cares about chingchong rice you insufferable weeb incel? Calm your tits it's just fucking rice, the lowest, blandest form of carbs. It's food for slaves.
>>21776001Sorry, I meant to reply to >>21775665I'm trans by the way if that matters
>>21771125>>21771127The best thing about /ck/, /adv/ and /diy/ in all honesty. What is best in life is the poverty screeching from people with money, all banged up by that chip on the shoulder because they grew up poor and cannot escape the hand-to-mouth mindset.
Let me guess, you need more?
>>21777063Occasionally yeah
>>21777063That's more expensive than the OPs rice.$22 for 4.4lbs, vs OPs 5lbs for $18.And that rice just comes from California, not Japan.
>>21770807Wait until you find out people need to make profit, and everything you get at your grocery store is marked up 12x what it cost to produce
Picked up a 10lb sack of arroz grano mediano blue rose type extra fancy (a well regarded varietal for those in the know). Expiration date is in 2027, so I'd say it's fairly safe to say this *is* 2025 crop.
>>21778240LolLmao evenRice like that is often harvested years before it gets processed/milled for sale.That could easily be 2022/23 Crop rice, in fact the odds of it being 2022/23 harvest is 100x more likely than it being 2025 harvest, since Goya simply doesn't operate on that sort of fast time scale on their rice products.
>>21778240>enrichedEwwwwww yuck gross bleh
>>21778255>often>could>odds>likelyNext time just admit you dont know shit
>>21778333Clearly you don't know shit, it's common practice for Goya (and other similar companies) to store the most recent rice crop for years and use up the older crop they still have laying around first.There is no reason to think your rice is 2025 crop and it would've cost Goya quite a bit to rush this through their entire process in a quick enough period of time to distribute 2025 crop in December, but with no benefit. It's a low tier enriched rice, it's not really MEANT to be eaten fresh, it's meant to be eaten by poors who can't get enough vitamins and minerals in their normal diet. Why the fuck would Goya spend $$$ getting fresh crop rice rushed through their process just to be sold for $0.50 per lbs?I get that you don't ACTUALLY believe your shit-tier Goya rice is from a 2025 Crop and you think you're proving some larger point by making fun of the rice in the OP, but you just look retarded.
>>21778403>no citations
>>21778414Crazy, i don't see you sourcing yours being 2025 crop besides the fact you think it's funny to make the claim.
>>21769098Anon, its rice. Its not only the bottom of the barrel poor people filler food, but its not even the bottom of the barrel Western poor people filler food, which would be dried pasta, bread or potato in (Current Year). Rice is what you eat if you enjoy not eating anything enjoyable ever.
>>21778437And yet you still can't get some.
>250 posts>it's all just the most retarded arguments to obvious bait>zero(literally zero) talk about what people are actually making and eating with the rice they buy>in the goddamn rice threadworst thread on /ck/ atmcan you guys actually post some stuff you've ordered from rice factory or other distributors and talk about some dishes you've made. I'm genuinely curious about the thought process of some anons who put thought into their sourcing and what they make with what they buy. I'd actually be willing to purchase some things based on recommendations but you fucks are too busy feeding trolls
>>21778807I use the absolute highest quality ingredients and cookware I can source to make sushi and other Japanese food. Fish is sort of my limiting factor, so I've moved onto buying whole fish, aging them and making sushi from that. Pic is lean tuna that was not purchased as a whole fish obviously.It's a fun larp and I save a few bucks when I want to pig out on sushi.I enjoy jap rice as a table rice for great quality meats cooked simply for the most part. A nice steak, some pickled veg, and really good rice is a wonderful meal.
>>21778850Looks nice anon. Do you have a specific order from OP's website or elsewhere that you use for that?
>>21778807Teriyaki chicken thighs I made recently. Double brewed soy sauce, real unsalted mirin, decent sake, and a special Japanese brown sugar. Came out extremely good. The way they cook thighs starting from a cold pan makes a really delicious chicken thigh.
>>21778851Inochi no ichi or a sun dried rice makes for the most satisfying bites of sushi IMO. There are 3 star restaurants in Japan that use the inochi no ichi for their sushi. Koshihikari or any of the spinoff varietals will also do really well.
>>21778861>>21778851i can also recommend the inochi no ichi >>21769097
>>21778863Do you ever make sushi with your rice?
>>21778870Yeah I did some basic nigiri, no pictures. I just ended up buying some sashimi from a decent sushi place nearby then did my own rice cause I have no experience with proper sushi cutting raw fish. The inochi no ichi is massively better than basically any other rice i've had with my nigiri, the large grain size and sweetness are near perfect.
>>21778873Agreed. Getting good rice and using really high quality ingredients has ruined a lot of sushi places for me. Only high end places really make sense because I can pig out on sushi I make myself and it's cheaper than the non-fancy places.Iio jozo makes some of the best rice wine vinegar. It makes incredible sushi seasoning. They also make, under the name nitto jozo, a liquid shirodashi that is one of my secret ingredients. Incredible flavor enhancer. Expensive, but the quality is worth the price. Highly recommend grabbing a bottle.
>>21769098>if this is food then what have we been eating.kothThey will never understand, and its ok.
>>21769066I ordered the Holiday Gift Box 2025, thanks for the heads up. I said fuck it since I just got a fancy Zojirushi rice cooker and have also been meaning to try something other than Tamaki Gold.>>21779353Good lord that rice vinegar is expensive. How does it compare to just using premade sushi seasoning like Mizkan?
You know what this means op. If you have the best river with the le thousand folded grain....You need the best water to go with it. I prefer this. Its pretty basic for a starter water but after you make your LE STICKY RICE once, you really can't go back.
>>21779484Never tried cheap sushi seasoning. I usually make my own. Higher end rice wine vinegars do not compare to the cheap stuff. You get a much smoother and more complex tasting vinegar with the good stuff. No harshness. If you think the artisanal vinegars are expensive look up wadaman sesame seed oils. Incredibly amazing stuff, shockingly good, but damn is it pricey.
>>21769066This feels like that skit where that guy fooled people into thinking they were coming into a 5 star Ramen restaurant but they really just served them packaged stuff in a flower pot. The people loved it and said they they’d pay $40-60 a bowl for it. Some wanted seconds.
>>21780931They started in Hawaii for the Japanese who live there and wanted specific Japanese rice varieties. They expanded to NYC and a few years later LA. They still mostly target Japanese/sushi restaurants, and Japanese people living/working in the US, or Japanese Americans.
