A time-sensitive question about rice. Please read.

Please never phone ME from the toilet!

When the rice has done its work, put in a low oven long enough to de-contaminate it. Then cook it up in the regular way. Then put it in the oven again, long enough to dry out completely. At this point you can use it as packing material for delicate items you are shipping, like ostrich eggs.

Uggh. I hate when that happens. No sense in throwing away perfectly good rice...it's so wasteful. My phone dries out the best with short grain brown rice - it's healthier. When the phone is dry, place the rice in a fine-meshed sieve and give it a good rinse under the tap to wash away any excess starch, and other stuff. Then away you go. Here's a whole host of rice recipes you can peruse while your phone is drying out: http://www.food52.com/recipes/search?recipe_search=rice

Hi! In answer to your question...which type of rice..well..think about which is the most absorbent. Answer is that they all take the same amount ot water if, like me, you use the 2 cups of water to one cup of rice absorption method [foolproof!].However, they all take different lengths of time to cook so maybe you should go for the fastest absorption!...Basmati takes 10 mins, brown takes 25/30 mins and red rice a bit longer. SO use basmati. And as for what to do with it, well, as the phone was in the toilet I would throw the rice away. Then pour yourself a martini. Enjoy! Jacqui.x