any of various relatively long pieces of metal, wood, stone, etc., manufactured or shaped especially for use as rigid members or parts of structures or machines.
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.
Q: Is it okay to leave cooked rice at room temperature? A: It's safest to serve or refrigerate rice within a few hours of cooking. Though rice is an infrequent cause of illness, several outÂ­breaks have been reported over the years, typically linked to rice that was left out overÂ­night in restaurants. Because the illness tends to be mild, many cases go unreported. Uncooked rice is often contaminated with Bacillus cereus bacteria from soil.