One of our small weekly events at home is milling rice.
We start with brown rice and use a small home rice mill to turn it into white rice.
In about a week, we usually mill around 20 cups of rice.
A messy but fun kitchen tradition
Recently the kids have started helping.
They seem to enjoy scooping the tiny grains of rice and pouring them into the machine.
The rice mill is quite noisy, but we’ve all gotten used to it. Whenever I ask the kids, ‘Shall we mill some rice?’ My daughter always say, ‘You mean that loud “whirring” thing?’ It makes me laugh every time. Even though it’s a bit loud, that ‘whirr’ has become a familiar sound of our weekly routine.
Of course…
by the time we’re done, there is rice all over the floor.
But that’s part of the fun.
After the rice is milled, rice bran collects at the bottom of the machine.
The kids always look at it with so much curiosity.
Freshly milled rice tastes really good.
We bought the milling machine last year and it has quietly become one of our little weekly traditions.
