By mistake I stored rice in a detergent box. I took it out for cooking, but it smells like detergent. What should I do? Is there any trick that can remove the detergent smell from rice, or is it not safe to use?
Food Safety – Removing Detergent Smell from Rice
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Best Answer
Don't eat the smelly rice because it is probably irremediably mixed with chemicals that may be harmful. But you may use that non-edible rice for other purpose detailed below.
The rice smells like detergent because it absorbs very well what you mix with or around it.
If you have a new/old or hard to clean container/board that smells weird, you can put that detergent-smelling-rice in/on it and its smell will be reduced.
Using dry rice for cleaning up things is an old grandma's trick. Here are other possible uses:
A few other alternative usages added in the comments below:
a phone or electrical device that has humidity inside its circuitry can be placed completely inside of a container of dry rice for the water to be absorbed (Jason C suggestion), this seems to be a myth (thanks ShadowRanger for the test study link):Once the rice has served its non-edible purpose, it is then proper to discard it (Zach Lipton suggestion).