Eli5 What makes minute / instant rice different than other forms of rice?
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It’s pre-cooked and dried out. That means you only need to add some water and re-heat it while regular uncooked rice takes half an hour or so to be boiled or steamed into an edible state.
Instant foods like noodles and rice are already cooked and then dehydrated. In that sense the carbs and non water content inside rice and noodles have already “transformed” into their cooked state but is missing water.
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Is this true of ‘instant oat/minute oats’ oatmeal too?
As mentioned by others it’s been precooked. Usually steamed.
What this means, physically, is that the structure of the grain had a lot of stress fractures. Which when cooked at home allows for the rapid absorption of water when you boil it.
So it does cook faster, but you’ve lost some nutrition and the final texture will be different.
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