Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> "bob" wrote:
>
>> Once in a while I need to reheat left-over rice and to keep them moist I
>> like to spray a mist of water on the rice before microwaving.
>>
>> Problem with ordinary water spray bottle is they needed to be primed (pump a
>> few times) to suck the water up a tube. Then when I finished using it, I
>> have to pump a few more times to get rid of the water so I can put the spray
>> bottle away.
>>
>> Is there a spray bottle that does not use a pump and a tube, but just a
>> bottle and a cap that acts as the nozzle and the user just flip it upside
>> down and squeeze to spray? I would still like the nozzle to be adjustable to
>> spray a fine mist. This would make it easy to use once and put away.
>
>Why not use the sprayer on the kitchen faucet? It works.

Sounds to me like he'd just need to rinse the rice in a sieve with
plain tap water, let it drain till wet to his liking and it's done. Of
course I'd never need to... the few times I have enough left over rice
worth futzing with it becomes fly lice... but most times there isn't
enough worth dirtying a pan so it becomes bird food. Rice is still
pretty low cost and cooks up fast, if I needed rice I'd cook a cup
fresh. The only times I've ever reheated rice in the nuker it was
rice n' beans or some sort of pilaf, needs no wetting because it was
cooked with oil.... typically been sitting in a covered glass caserole
in the fridge with a few left over pork chops for no more than two
days. I can't remember the last time I cooked plain white rice, only
time I'd have any is from the Chinese take out, and 99 times out of a
100 it becomes bird food. I feed the birds every day, several times a
day... first thing this morning they heard me open the door, here they
come:
http://i45.tinypic.com/2zntvmu.jpg
These guys would eat rice too:
http://i50.tinypic.com/2l8ypvr.jpg