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Brown rice takes longer to cook than regular white rice (about 45 minutes vs. 15 or 20 minutes). However, it's easy to cook a larger batch and enjoy more than one meal for your effort. Cooked brown rice can be stored, covered tightly, in a shallow container in the refrigerator for 4 days. It will maintain good quality in the freezer for 6 months but will remain safe indefinitely in the freezer as long as the temperature remains at 0 degrees F or lower.
So if you're not going to eat rice straight after you've cooked it, then you need to store it in the fridge â as soon as possible, but definitely within four hours. Refrigeration won't kill the bacteria but it will slow down its growth â any uneaten rice should be thrown out after three days in the fridge. Moir says this type of food poisoning is less frequent now than it was in the 1970s, when fried rice was a common culprit.