GeniesLoki

I'm going to regret asking this, but can someone explain to me why draining rice in a colander is actually bad? (I tend to cook white rice the "correct" way and short-grain brown rice by boiling in excess water and draining, I'm just a little puzzled by the level of outrage)

Usually, if proper proportions of water and rice were used to begin with, rice is considered done when it has absorbed all the water, so there should be no need for draining. Usually.

Yeah, I get that, and that's what I do too, I'm just trying to figure out why using more water and draining the excess when the rice is done is supposed to be this horrendously bad thing.

Like, what actually goes wrong?

The rice gets overdone and if it's sticky rice, it gets not sticky

Why does the rice get overdone? Isn't that just a timing thing? Can you just drain it when it's ready? Sticky one is a fair point though.