wire mesh colanders
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I’m glad to see that I’m not the only one who finds this kind of cultural and socio-economic insensitivity not funny or entertaining.
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And 40 comments down some one finally pointed out the obvious.
Patel is using regular cooking methods from the Indian Subcontinent.
While the superficial online tittering about this video is “lady cooks rice bad”. South Asians are legit pissed about the derisive reaction to a South Asian cook and South Asian cooking methods.
And East Asians seem pretty pissed about this Uncle Rodger guy playing up stereotypes in his comedy.
The story here isn’t oh my god people cook rice wrong. The story is the BBC engineered a situation for white people to laugh at non white people.
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wire mesh = sieve 
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#adventuresinpedantry
white people are being trashed in the video in a hackneyed, boring, cliché and offensive way too. and I don’t think BBC had anything to do with Mr. Ng making this stupid video to begin with.
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I’m pretty good at crochet, having taught myself, with a couple of false starts, as an adult. So naturally, if someone tells me they don’t know how to crochet I will be like “Christ you sicken me! Didn’t your parents teach you at birth? If you even have human parents. I swear to god Linda, if you don’t make a perfect row of double crochet right now I will burn you to the fucking ground”.
It’s just so absurd that my friends are afraid of learning to crochet!
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Using the “knuckle method” is measuring the rice and water by volume, as anyone who passed high-school geometry can easily see. So that’s an Asian stereotype he missed.
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What in the hell was that vid? 
Sentient vegetables peeling themselves and commuting suicide for curry is definitely an only in Japan aesthetic. Leading into “princess armlock”
Looked like something from the creator of Bobobobo-bobobobo (however many bo’s I can’t remember)
Many decades ago, I had heard that scientists (probably American scientists) had developed an enriched rice that was supposed to solve some malnutrition problems. And what the scientists hadn’t counted on was whether these nutrients would be washed away in the usual presoaking process…
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I have an uncle who is Spanish, and I know how he makes Paella. I learned how to cook rice in Japan using a rice cooker, and my mom makes her rice in a pot on the stove.
So even though I know there are absolutely many ways to cook rice- depending on what you want to do with it- the way this woman makes fried rice really just doesn’t seem correct.
I get that she was going for parboiled rice to start with, to try to not overcook it, but I’ve never seen anyone make fried rice or Japanese 茶半 (Japanese interpretation of Chinese fried rice, honestly, about the same thing, but better) like this.
It’s not as though it wouldn’t physically work- I’m sure it’s cooked enough to eat, but I’ll bet it doesn’t have the same texture and flavor of normal proper fried rice, which needs crispy bits or generally a much firmer texture.
I make mine in a bastard way already though, in an electric skillet at around 420 F, hottest it will go- I really need to get a wok- so I’ll see myself out now 
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Well, why not call it a teapot, then? Words and usage matter or else we end up with fewer words, confusing errors, and miscommunication all round.
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colander, sieve, strainer are all interchangeable.
Try sifting flour in a colander, then. Or washing uncooked rice in one.
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i wash rice in a fine mesh colander all the time, thanks.
Can you sift flour in it? I think you’ll find that’s a sieve.
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https://lmgtfy.com/?q=mesh+colander
sure why not
Imagine for a moment a ludicrous situation where a colander is a critical part for a life-saving procedure and whoever is in charge asks for one and is given a sieve, or vice versa? Life-saving procedure fails. Your ‘who cares’ attitude to language is what leads to this sort of thing.
Or shall we all just call anything that drains water a strainer and not care about whether the holes are 5mm large or 0.5mm? And never again have any terms to denote a difference? We have a rich language with much nuance and you just want to ignore that. Just because Amazon or others cannot tell the difference, or do not care does not mean there is not one.
Good evening to you. Not going to debate it any further, if you don’t get it yet.
PS I note you still haven’t claimed to sift flour in a colander.
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