I have a rice cooker (came with my apartment) but I found buying rice at the grocery store nearby a little overwhelming so it’s taken me 3 months to actually buy rice — and it’s primarily because I want to save money on food costs as a struggling student. 😅
When doing research on Reddit I kept seeing people recommend koshihikari and “whatever is cheapest” because it’ll taste fine. So I took that advice and bought this bag of rice from the store after carefully (but not carefully enough) looking at the bags, carried it all the way home, properly read the back, and realized I’d bought genmai instead of hakumai!! Genmai was only mentioned on the bottom of the bag, so I didn’t catch it before and assumed this was hakumai…
(I can’t post images so it’s called スマート米 能登, koshihikari from Ishikawa. Got a gold circle on the front of the bag).
I remember that genmai was not recommended for regular eating (https://www.japanlivingguide.com/dailylife/food/japanese-rice/) and I’m worried about how to make it in my rice cooker as I’ve never used one before. I also don’t want it to go bad before I get a chance to eat it all and have it be a waste, but I don’t want to eat it regularly if it’s not good to do that.
I thought about trying to see if they’ll let me return it so I can buy the right kind, but I don’t want to carry it all the way there just to find out they won’t and have to carry it all the way back AND be out of money if I can’t eat this?
Just wanted to know if any of you have recommendations about how I can cook this and make use of it.
A good lesson for me and I’ll learn from this and be able to laugh about it later for sure, but I’m feeling pretty bad about it right now. 😥 I feel incredibly stupid, but mostly sick about the money I’ve potentially wasted.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
by kenzie0704