Change my Mind

Risotto is just soggy fried rice


Change my mind

 

without the health defficits of frying.

i rather like the flavors myself. of course, like anything else, depends on how its made.

are you talking about prepackaged ready to micro-wave risottos, one at some overpriced 'itallian' resteraunt someplace other then italy,
one your friend made the last time you were over?

like fried rice, the term is kind of a little bit too generic
to cast a blanket judgment of everything that qualifies.

 

I think that's the definition in a dictionary.
Soggy, overcooked rice.

 

It's not just soggy fried rice. It's soggy fried rice...and more.

 

well the only risottos i've ever had, had mushrooms and all sorts of veggies and flavorings.

and the prepackaged ones, i always use as ingredients in something else, or throw something else in with it, including the sacralige of one or more meat or meat like substances.
if you don't like something someone else prepared, don't order it again,
if you're whining about something you made yourself, well, i don't see how that's someone else's problem.

is there some objection to "soggy rice", or is it about giving it some fancy sounding name?

humanity is chasing little green pieces of paper over a cliff to collective suicide, and people look for the most obscure non-problems to whine about.

 

i have no idea what risotto is. sounds like pasta to me.

 

It's rice.
It's nice.

 

It's okay.

But rice and okay dont rhyme, so.

 

It's rice, hey
It's oh-kay

 

soggy and fried, are a bit of a contradiction. more like steamed, but unlike plain steamed rice, which doesn't have much flavor of its own, the whole idea, is you've got this other stuff in it, shrooms and bell peppers and possibly bits of tofutabeast and whatever else, all these different things having their own flavors, instead of just rice. i have no idea how this mostly asian kind of a combination ended up with an italian sounding name. its one of those weird named things, like tera misu, which is more like a kind of chocklet pudding cake, then anything made of misu and dirt (and unlike risotto, IS more itallian then asian).

it is, totally weird about the name thing with either of them.

 

I think the main thing that makes it risotto is that it's a particular type of rice.. And stirring it a lot.. Something to do with breaking down some part of it? Starch? So that it's creamy. And "cooked in broth" (now checked Wikipedia)

Don't think fried comes into it.

 

your probably right, and of course fried doesn't. but all the ones i've ever had, there were all about having and being more then just the rice. that could be because the ones i've had came either from trader joe's or the veggie department in other stores and i think i might have had some in a resteraunt of some kind but only once or twice while the tj and other grocery store packages ones i've had a bunch of times.

i do think people make too big of a deal when they put some fancy name on things
to that extent i'll go along with the origeonal intent of this thread,
but not with the idea that this requires a lowering of quality either,
just that its silly to make a big deal about fancy sounding names.

 

I wonder if we've changed Gorilla's mind yet

 

I'm sure he's sitting there, shaking in his boots.

Or his dress shoes.

 

Cant beat a good paella.. now that's rice!
Risotto is just soggy rice..

 

The best rice is steamed white rice.

 

100% Irm i always ask for that with my Curry

 

I quite like boiled rice with a meal, but only when it is slightly under-cooked and served straight away.
Jane is quite impatient when it comes to cooking, so I normally get it my way. LMAO.

 

I way prefer brown rice.
When I was a kid, and a terribly fussy eater, brown rice and grated cheese was about 80% of my food.