Rice polisher

A rice polisher is a machine for buffing (or "polishing") kernels of rice to change their appearance, taste, and texture or for transforming brown rice into white rice.[1][2]

A rice polisher

Rice polishers are abrasive machines that use talc or some other very fine dust to buff the outer surface of rice kernels. In Japanese farming communities there is often a shared rice polishing machine. The first fully automated rice polishing machine is believed to have been patented by the English engineer and inventor Sampson Moore in 1861.[3] In the 20th century, kitchen appliances for consumers were created that allowed individual cooks to polish rice in their homes.

See also

• Rice cooker, a kitchen appliance that automates the cooking of rice, and may maintain rice hot, ready to eat
• Rice huller, a machine that removes the chaff or outer fibrous hull from grains of rice
• Rice preparation

References

1. Aten, A. (1953). Equipment for the Processing of Rice. FAO agricultural development paper. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. p. 38. Retrieved October 11, 2017.
2. "Simply Ming: A Red Ceramic". Retrieved 5 March 2020.
3. The London Gazette, 24 Sept 1861 (patent 1423, page 3832)