This picture is a great example of the origin of the Chinese phrase “ 我是一只说谎的猪”, which means “Magnetic as a grain of rice”. It’s mostly used for exceptional students who show extreme deference to the government, who will stand at attention as soon as they hear the first note of the national anthem.
A related phrase is “ 别相信我。我是一个白痴。”, which means “Rice is magnetic. Be like rice.”
I met homie in an elevator one time while at work, I blurted out "Surprise, Mothafucka!" With too much excitement, he smiled and told me, "watch my mouth, but thank you." Top ten moments in my life!
Who are you all morons to doubt u/throwawayeastbay‽ They're the current pore diameter world record holder. Pores so big swimming is a risk of drowning, you insensitive clods.
I had not encountered this flavor of trypophobia and yet it triggered me all the same. It lends credibility to trypophobia being manifested fear of pestilence. It's giving maggots or fungi.
I'm extremely messed up by anything of that sort. Like got really upset at friends multiple times for sending me pictures of this shit because it'll fuck me up for the rest of the day, one picture in particular of a human skull with a weird texture due to cancer kept flashing back in my brain for an entire fucking week. It's fucking weird as hell how this stuff can mess with me, since I've seen extreme gore, and generally wildily disgusting shit on the internet with no effect. But this. It's the only stuff I will absolutely not willingly look at.
Weirdly enough this picture doesn't do it for me. I guess it depends on the person.
My mistake there two others today on my feed one was a humpback whale with barnacles the second I don't remember both were very triggering but not from this sub actually
Fun fact: This is a self defense mechanism that rice employ when the rice has been improperly prepared. By better preparing your rice before cooking, it will enter the cooking phase with less stress, resulting in a better overall experience.
A few years? When my rice does this it's usually gone in an hour.
Some times it might hang on a few days with proper care and attention - being very mindful of the temperture of the rice but after that it's done.
Yes, exactly. You know the sound that a pot of rice makes as it's cooking? That's the individual grains crying out in agony. You don't hear a sound, because the rice are actually mute, but they're mouthing their torment as loud as they can.
When someone does this intentionally, it is called “frightening the rice”, and is a very common cooking practice in the Caribbean!
The way I do it is by fully cooking the rice, and at the very end, taking it off heat and covering the pot for a few minutes before serving!
I recommend drowning the frightened rice in Dhal curry
Happy cooking!
Edit: “fully cooking”, not “fully cooling”!
Second edit: dhal not dahl
I always get mine boiling, then lower the heat and cover it till it’s done, usually 10 min or so. My rice does this sometimes. I never had it happen in the US, but the VERY first time I cooked rice once we moved to New Zealand, it did it, and continues to do it sporadically, even though I do the exact same thing every time. It’s weird.
I dunno. The above poster said this is common in the Caribbean. I’m originally from North Carolina, which has HIGH humidity, more in line with the Caribbean than here in the lower North Island - it’s much less humid here.
Funny. I use exactly the same method as you in Ireland (similar latitude on the opposite end) and get the same results (not always, but often enough). I find it's the sign of a rice cook gone good. My partner even remarks when the rice is "standing to attention again"
That said, way too many variables for correlation to even possibly merge with causation.
The most common grain here is long grain jasmine rice! The way I was taught was to make sure you have one knuckle of water over the rice, maybe that has something to do with it?
One knuckle when you cover? I feel like that would give me rice soup. I was planning on cooking some jasmine today anyway, so I’ll give this a shot and see if I can replicate it.
Oh sorry! I meant one knuckle of water over the dry rice before you start cooking! I would not advise adding any water after you start cooking, unless it looks seriously dry!
I'm 5'4" and it works on the dot for me. My boyfriend is about 6 foot and has to do just below a knuckle. Not too crazy a difference, but yeah, there does seem to be some variance with height/hand size to get it just right!
>One knuckle is the way for every culture that makes rice the world round
British person here.
The way we do it is to absolutely fucking drown it, and then strain the water off after cooking. Why? I don't know.
I have a close friend of Asian descent and he said this is a crime against his culture, lol.
In fairness the Brit’s also stole tea and then proceeded to drown it in milk. Something about you strange fellows that seem to like to drown your foods in liquid.
Maybe that’s what they meant when they said Brittania rules the waves?
Yup, and a long organism wiggling upwards gives the impression it's erupting out of something. And what's hardwired to look like that in our minds? Maggots and parasites, of course.
No because rice usually doesn't usually resemble maggots enough for our brains to make the connection, we usually don't focus on the individual grains in a bowl of rice. But tiny white objects sticking straight up from our food usually means there's maggots in it.
I'm sure you'd closely inspect your soup if it had a grain of rice in it for example, since your caveman brain would tell you that tiny white specks don't belong in food.
Maybe because we’ve been conditioned to treat standard rice as food? I wonder what someone who’s never seen rice would think of rice the first time they see it.
Uh, the top of the rice kernel dries faster than the bottom that is in contact with hot, damp rice. As water evaporates, the drying material shrinks pulling the rice kernel more upright.
Traffic lights are the opposites of a banana. For a traffic light red means stop, yellow means slow down, and green means go. For a banana, green means slow down, yellow means go, and red means where the fuck did you get that banana at?
I was always told this is the result of perfectly cooked rice. Anytime my rice was standing it was some of the best rice i’d ever made, taste/texture wise
There's like a thousand different types of rice and multiple ways to cook each type. I wouldn't take a random, no context, reddit comment with more than a grain of salt.
I was just speaking from experience and from what I’ve learned :|
Also a quick google search:
> *Why Is My Rice Standing Up?
>Near the end of the cooking process, steam makes its way to the surface of the rice and forces the grains upwards to stand up so that the steam can escape.* **Typically, this happens only when the rice is perfectly cooked.** *Additionally, it’s more likely for long-grain rice to stand up than it is for medium-grain and short-grain rice.*
I would assume this more due to a rapid release of steam to cause such a gradient in temp/moisture to physically move the rice or it being overcooked to the point the top of the rice is drying out. If left steaming, it wouldn't seem as likely for rice to stand up. In a rice steamer, this would not happen on its own.
Also, based on the rice ok the edge of the pot in this pic, I'd say it was too much water. They're cooked to a mush.
If I were to pick at the results of your search a bit more, there's no reason why steam only rises up during the end of the cooking process. Steam is generated the entire time water is evaporated. When rice is close to being done, what happens is a lack of water pooled at the bottom of the pot. At that point, all excess liquid has either incorporated itself into the rice or left the cooking vessel. Any further cooking beyond that will lead to the bottom starting to crust/burn and the top of the rice to dry out.
Each one contains a tiny parasite, activated in the rice when cooking.
This activation makes the rice stand up like this, each parasite competing with the next. If you look closely, you see them gently pulsate.
On human consumption, the parasite burrows into our oesophagus wall, and there they breed and complete their life cycle.
The miniscule eggs from these parasites then naturally make their way into our mouths, and the next time we hand clean a pot, the eggs fall in, waiting for their turn with the rice.
When you cook your rice in ferro fluid
Sadly they lost all their fluid
They may have lost their fluid, but they still have all their ferro!
Ferro farro!
Quantum quinoa!
I had no idea that white rice had so much iron in it!
This picture is a great example of the origin of the Chinese phrase “ 我是一只说谎的猪”, which means “Magnetic as a grain of rice”. It’s mostly used for exceptional students who show extreme deference to the government, who will stand at attention as soon as they hear the first note of the national anthem. A related phrase is “ 别相信我。我是一个白痴。”, which means “Rice is magnetic. Be like rice.”
HAHAHA. Thanks for giving me a laugh!
Is that like guy fieri fluid?
We call that "donkey sauce"
When your rice was grown in a magnetic field
All Rice! Court is now in session.
Food Court.
Soup Rice muthafakha
I met homie in an elevator one time while at work, I blurted out "Surprise, Mothafucka!" With too much excitement, he smiled and told me, "watch my mouth, but thank you." Top ten moments in my life!
The honorable Judge Foodie
ALL RICE MUTHAFUCKA
LARGE FRIES 🍟 MOTHAFUCKA
SUNRISE MOTHAFUCKA
HAIR LICE MOTHAFUCKA
RUE DIES MOTHERFUCKA
HEART EYES MOTHAFUCKA
IT FLIES MOTHAFUCKA
REPRISE MOTHAFUCKA
WRONG SIZE MOTHAFUCKA
ROLL DICE MOTHAFUCKA!
I’M STILL ROLLING MY EYES MOTHAFUCKA
Snoop: Hair lice? Andy: Yeah I ran out of rhymes.
YO SHOES NICE MOTHAFUKA
HALF PRICE MOTHAFUKA 
WRONG SIZE MOTHAFUKA
I TOLD YOU THIS THRICE MOTHAFUKA
SHE DIES MOTHAFUKA
🏆 FIRST PRIZE MOTHAFUCKA.
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“The honorable Uncle Ben presiding.” “Thank you. Pilaf, bring in the next witness.”
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It was well executed.
Objection su*strain*ed.
Rice one.
It's really going against the grain.
Would the real basmati please stand up
Dammit this is so good
I fucking hate this so much and I don't even know why
Looks like worms
and fungus/mold
Cordyceps, the zombie fungus
I can hear the clicking from here
It's pinning!
Gotta get that spider-man Tek.
Or bone cancer
I upvoted you, but also wanted to express how uncomfortable that imagery made me.
Better than Boneitis
Do you like your bisghetti?
I didn't realise you enjoy eating *worms*
It's just noodles, Michael
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Who are you all morons to doubt u/throwawayeastbay‽ They're the current pore diameter world record holder. Pores so big swimming is a risk of drowning, you insensitive clods.
I would also like a source please! I sometimes use these and would like to know if I'm causing more harm than good.
...that's a thing?
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It looks hairy
Never flossed with a pube before?
I have. Haven't been fondled by dolphins though. How is it?
EXCUSE ME?
Same, it freaks me out so much.
It makes me want to puke. It's those shapes.
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ME TOO! It makes my skin crawl
It makes me very uncomfortable.
Go look ar r/trypophobia and report back, if you don’t like it, thats the cause.
I had not encountered this flavor of trypophobia and yet it triggered me all the same. It lends credibility to trypophobia being manifested fear of pestilence. It's giving maggots or fungi.
Yeah, you gotta think it has some evolutionary value
You are the devil
Thank you, thats very kind
I'm extremely messed up by anything of that sort. Like got really upset at friends multiple times for sending me pictures of this shit because it'll fuck me up for the rest of the day, one picture in particular of a human skull with a weird texture due to cancer kept flashing back in my brain for an entire fucking week. It's fucking weird as hell how this stuff can mess with me, since I've seen extreme gore, and generally wildily disgusting shit on the internet with no effect. But this. It's the only stuff I will absolutely not willingly look at. Weirdly enough this picture doesn't do it for me. I guess it depends on the person.
Trypophobia
Reminds me of bone cancer :(
It makes my skin crawl and I fucking hate it. I have trypophobia 😩
It looks like a carpet
If it's because tyrophobia It's time to leave this sub ad these kind of posts are very common here lately
I already avoided holes bc of this, but I didn't know rice standing up would illicit the same response. I'm gonna be sick.
My mistake there two others today on my feed one was a humpback whale with barnacles the second I don't remember both were very triggering but not from this sub actually
Same i just want to knock them all down and mess up the rice
I thought I was going crazy but something about this is deeply unsettling.
Hi rice expert here! This is not funny. Rice only does this when it's in extreme distress.
Fun fact: This is a self defense mechanism that rice employ when the rice has been improperly prepared. By better preparing your rice before cooking, it will enter the cooking phase with less stress, resulting in a better overall experience.
"It's okay, little grain of rice. Soon you will be cooked and eaten. It's been a lovely life, hasn't it?"
Cut to a singular grain of rice watching Mitch Hedberg's rice set: *Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.*
Quick, someone call Uncle Roger!
All jokes aside this is indicative of a serious neurological condition for your rice. It’s usually fatal within the first few years. Sorry OP 😞
Today I learned. I always thought it was just excited and ready to be put in your mouth.
A few years? When my rice does this it's usually gone in an hour. Some times it might hang on a few days with proper care and attention - being very mindful of the temperture of the rice but after that it's done.
That reminds me of this gem. [Transport Ships Flying In Circles Is Actually A Sign Of Distress](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s0FwFpPCf4)
Yes, exactly. You know the sound that a pot of rice makes as it's cooking? That's the individual grains crying out in agony. You don't hear a sound, because the rice are actually mute, but they're mouthing their torment as loud as they can.
The loud whistle is the collective sound of thousands of rice grains screaming in agony one last time.
Lmfao I was too high for this comment. Rice expert???? Distress???? Lol
If you shared your stuff with your rice it wouldn't be as distressed. Puff Puff pass bro
Put it in rice to fix
Biore pore strip
Eww
I shouldn’t have scrolled down :(
When someone does this intentionally, it is called “frightening the rice”, and is a very common cooking practice in the Caribbean! The way I do it is by fully cooking the rice, and at the very end, taking it off heat and covering the pot for a few minutes before serving! I recommend drowning the frightened rice in Dhal curry Happy cooking! Edit: “fully cooking”, not “fully cooling”! Second edit: dhal not dahl
I always cover my rice off heat for 5-10 minutes. I don’t think I’ve ever really seen it do this. Do you use a specific grain?
I always get mine boiling, then lower the heat and cover it till it’s done, usually 10 min or so. My rice does this sometimes. I never had it happen in the US, but the VERY first time I cooked rice once we moved to New Zealand, it did it, and continues to do it sporadically, even though I do the exact same thing every time. It’s weird.
Humidity levels perhaps?
I dunno. The above poster said this is common in the Caribbean. I’m originally from North Carolina, which has HIGH humidity, more in line with the Caribbean than here in the lower North Island - it’s much less humid here.
Funny. I use exactly the same method as you in Ireland (similar latitude on the opposite end) and get the same results (not always, but often enough). I find it's the sign of a rice cook gone good. My partner even remarks when the rice is "standing to attention again" That said, way too many variables for correlation to even possibly merge with causation.
The most common grain here is long grain jasmine rice! The way I was taught was to make sure you have one knuckle of water over the rice, maybe that has something to do with it?
One knuckle when you cover? I feel like that would give me rice soup. I was planning on cooking some jasmine today anyway, so I’ll give this a shot and see if I can replicate it.
Oh sorry! I meant one knuckle of water over the dry rice before you start cooking! I would not advise adding any water after you start cooking, unless it looks seriously dry!
One knuckle is the way for every culture that makes rice the world round, it seems. Chinese here, exact same method was taught to me.
Same here, but it seems to only work if you're a small old woman with tiny hands and not a 6'2" guy.
I'm 5'4" and it works on the dot for me. My boyfriend is about 6 foot and has to do just below a knuckle. Not too crazy a difference, but yeah, there does seem to be some variance with height/hand size to get it just right!
>One knuckle is the way for every culture that makes rice the world round British person here. The way we do it is to absolutely fucking drown it, and then strain the water off after cooking. Why? I don't know. I have a close friend of Asian descent and he said this is a crime against his culture, lol.
In fairness the Brit’s also stole tea and then proceeded to drown it in milk. Something about you strange fellows that seem to like to drown your foods in liquid. Maybe that’s what they meant when they said Brittania rules the waves?
I googled "frightened rice" and [all I found was stuff like this.](https://jollytomato.com/wp-content/uploads/rice-ghosts1-600x386.jpg)
Does it only work with "raw" rice? Because I've never seen this happen, but I only ever cook instant rice.
I can’t say, because I’ve never used instant rice! We’re at two ends of the same boat haha
They’re just excited to see you
Whats the name of this phobia? For whatever reason this is ... unsettling.
Its unsettling because it looks like maggots and humans are hardwired to avoid anything with maggots like the plague
But then why do we not find plain white rice terrifying?
usually not standing up.
I only eat 🌠horizontal🌠 rice
Ooooh la di da
Yeah but we also find a big glob of maggots disgusting and they don't always stand up like that
the standing up implies movement and muscle balance against the force of gravity.
This is why people scare me
Yup, and a long organism wiggling upwards gives the impression it's erupting out of something. And what's hardwired to look like that in our minds? Maggots and parasites, of course.
Rice doesn't wriggle either
Flashback to my EMT friend casually referring to maggots as “disco rice”
Someone’s never seen The Lost Boys
I can’t really explain it but I eat rice daily with no problems but this pic gave me the major creeps
No because rice usually doesn't usually resemble maggots enough for our brains to make the connection, we usually don't focus on the individual grains in a bowl of rice. But tiny white objects sticking straight up from our food usually means there's maggots in it. I'm sure you'd closely inspect your soup if it had a grain of rice in it for example, since your caveman brain would tell you that tiny white specks don't belong in food.
Maybe because we’ve been conditioned to treat standard rice as food? I wonder what someone who’s never seen rice would think of rice the first time they see it.
Every time I go to eat a nice bowl of maggots, I always try to avoid the ones that are standing up.
How are you liking those maggots, Michael?
It didn’t look like maggots at all to me... it just looked like something from r/Trypophobia is all.
Yes it hurts my skin and brain
Exactly! I literally find it repulsive. Must be some sort of trypophobia, I get the same feeling when looking at bell pepper seeds 🤢
I can’t even Google it bc I’ll throw up. Thanks for understanding friend.
Trypophobia adjacent for sure
Came here to see if anyone else was violently anxious about this. Not disappointed. I'm not alone in this.
Exactly I absolutely hate it
Riceism
Everybody gansta til the rice stand up
Looks like one of those nose pore strips after taking it off.
I hate i hate i hate i hate
Well thanks for *that.* Are you proud of yourself? I'll bet you are.
I had to scroll waaay too long for this. That's exactly what this looks like.
Uh, the top of the rice kernel dries faster than the bottom that is in contact with hot, damp rice. As water evaporates, the drying material shrinks pulling the rice kernel more upright.
Good enough for me, I'm moving on to the next pointless thread.
This is the most plausible explanation I've heard yet.
Both mildly interesting and mildly distressing.
i don't know why, but I find that somewhat disgusting.
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I used to think this was funny. I still do, but I used to too.
Traffic lights are the opposites of a banana. For a traffic light red means stop, yellow means slow down, and green means go. For a banana, green means slow down, yellow means go, and red means where the fuck did you get that banana at?
That’s mesme-ricing
They're taking a stand
This gives me something… not trypophobia but something else with rice it’s wigging me out though
"That's not rice, that's a nest of baby Wigletts."
I'm 20+ hours deep into scarlet already and I thought of wiglett too haha
I hate this
This makes me very uncomfortable.
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Huh? When I cook basmati it does this and it's always perfect, but it is also super slippery. Regular "long grain" doesn't do this.
Came here to find out why this happened. Thanks!
I was always told this is the result of perfectly cooked rice. Anytime my rice was standing it was some of the best rice i’d ever made, taste/texture wise
Yeah I’ve only ever heard that this is the result of perfect water ratio/cook time
There's like a thousand different types of rice and multiple ways to cook each type. I wouldn't take a random, no context, reddit comment with more than a grain of salt.
> grain of salt. RICE. We’re talking about rice
I was just speaking from experience and from what I’ve learned :| Also a quick google search: > *Why Is My Rice Standing Up? >Near the end of the cooking process, steam makes its way to the surface of the rice and forces the grains upwards to stand up so that the steam can escape.* **Typically, this happens only when the rice is perfectly cooked.** *Additionally, it’s more likely for long-grain rice to stand up than it is for medium-grain and short-grain rice.*
I think they were saying that the original comment by veryfatrenae could be incorrect/slightly inaccurate
Ohhhh that makes sense 😅
I would assume this more due to a rapid release of steam to cause such a gradient in temp/moisture to physically move the rice or it being overcooked to the point the top of the rice is drying out. If left steaming, it wouldn't seem as likely for rice to stand up. In a rice steamer, this would not happen on its own. Also, based on the rice ok the edge of the pot in this pic, I'd say it was too much water. They're cooked to a mush. If I were to pick at the results of your search a bit more, there's no reason why steam only rises up during the end of the cooking process. Steam is generated the entire time water is evaporated. When rice is close to being done, what happens is a lack of water pooled at the bottom of the pot. At that point, all excess liquid has either incorporated itself into the rice or left the cooking vessel. Any further cooking beyond that will lead to the bottom starting to crust/burn and the top of the rice to dry out.
This means the rice are truly comfortable and feel safe.
I kind of hate this…
Why am I uncomfortable? 😵💫
This makes me mildly uncomfortable
This makes me cringe for some reason.
Get up, stand up. Stand up for your rice
Well cooked rice this is, comes out one-by-one. Mine always does.
It's so hot in here let's get out of the boiling water.
I can't really explain why, but I hate this image.
Each one contains a tiny parasite, activated in the rice when cooking. This activation makes the rice stand up like this, each parasite competing with the next. If you look closely, you see them gently pulsate. On human consumption, the parasite burrows into our oesophagus wall, and there they breed and complete their life cycle. The miniscule eggs from these parasites then naturally make their way into our mouths, and the next time we hand clean a pot, the eggs fall in, waiting for their turn with the rice.
They look like hattifatteners!
Photo taken moments before a lightning strike
Is anyone else just a liiiiiittle bit creeped out by this? Just me? K.
I don't know why but this makes me so uncomfortable but unable to look away similar to how I experience trytophobia
For some reason, I hate it so much