He shakes the rice, and scrutinizes. This lowers the rice's self esteem before the next step.

He's walking on my rice.

if 1 bug is found, 5500 pounds of rice will be rejected….. yeah, right.

This reminded me of how much hard works my parents, grandparents and generations before me making rice from start to finish manually their whole life. I remember those day my mom had to make a small mud patch in the garden to germinate the rice. My father and the water Buffalo did the ploughing to prepare the field. Once they’re big enough, she brought them to the field and plant them by hands. Every couple days, she would bring me to those field and we together pulled up the water with this tool ( note sure what it called anymore, it’s like a cone shape bucket with strings on both side, 2 people each hold 2 strings attached to top and bottom of the cone and scope up the water from tiny runnel to water the rice paddy. On dry season, sometimes we had to do it from one runnel to the next to gather enough water for small paddy). it took months of manual watering, weeding, etc… for the rice to be ready for harvest. If that’s on hot day, my parent would cut the rice overnight to avoid the extreme heat. There’s no fancy tool, just small sickle and lots of sweats, they tied them in bunches, carried them to the wood trailer. I had seen some farmer carried so much rice that the back of their neck and shoulder swollen up like they got a baseball inside. Once the trailer is fulled, my father would be the one who pull it while other pushed from behind to bring the rice home, then back to the field and repeat until all rice was transported back. At home, they use this tool looked like wooden nunchucks to wrap each bunch of rice and hit it on a slab of stone until most the rice fall off the plant, any left would be manually pull off by us kids. The rice then would be sun dry for couple days. As kids, our job would be this easy part of watching out for rain and turn the rice by dragging our feet though it every once in a while to make sure the rice got completely dry for storage. Everyday just scooping out the rice, sun dry them, and scoop them back in at the end was enough to build 6 packs lol. If we goofed and not paying attention to the sky, we could loose it all with some sudden rain. Once dried, my mom would use flat big bamboo tray to screen out stuffs like empty husk, straws, dirt. First she used the biggest circle tray, possibly 4-5ft diameter, this one was tightly weaved, no holes to flip the rice back and forth, the bad one or empty husk usually lighter would gather in one end and she would throw them aside to use as burning material for the kitchen later. Then she transferred the good one to smaller ones with some holes on bottoms to screen out the rocks, dirt or other debris. All that done, we could finally store the rice. If we need to use it, my mom would have to bring out this huge tool that’s like a giant form of mortar and pestle to de-husk the rice. Rice was put inside a huge stone hole, the adult would use their feet to step on one end of a log which connected to a big pestle . When they stepped on the end, the pestle would raise up and they released the pressure, the pestle would hit the rice and remove the husk. This again would go through screening process to separate the eatable rice, husk and bran. Brand would be used for the animal food, husk for burning material. Some years when the weather was tough, we could loose all the crop right before harvest. Imagine working with promised pay by the end of the year and all went down the without any warning. Im glad, my parents don’t have to work like that anymore.

it's 5am and suddenly I'm learning rice technology truly, this is an amazing time to be alive

Can we all appreciate the fact that modern farming technology is so good that entire truckloads of rice can be reasonably expected to be bug-free? Even with standards that high, it is still sold at a profit...mindblowing

Rice is one of the cheapest foodstuffs in the grocery store, and I never thought about how much it goes through to get it the way we do in those bags. What an interesting little video! I love _How It's Made_ so much!

Got to love how they gloss over the significant steps of planting, growing, and harvesting the rice.

“If he finds just one moth or beetle, the entire 5500 pound truckload of rice will be rejected” Bug: I’ll take your entire stock

You’d be surprised how a couple of bugs can make a logistics company reject an entire truck. I work at a Kelloggs warehouse and if we find even one bug on a truck, we have to reject the whole truck, because we don’t know if there are hundreds more hiding in the pallets, boxes, etc. Just imagine pouring a bowl of cereal to find even one beetle. You’d probably throw the whole box away too. It’s just a larger scale with logistics.

It's amazing that ancient people ever even figured out that rice was edible given how many steps are required to turn it into the final, ready to cook product. Not to mention they probably had even more steps involved given they didn't have machines.

As a Filipino and back when I was a still a kid, my elders used to say to me not to waste a single grain of rice because a farmer gave out so much effort to de-husk every single grain of rice on my plate.

Much respect for farmers back then to make rice without machinery (Edit) yes including people who still do it until today

We need an episode of How it’s Made that shows how an episode of How it’s Made is made.

I want this man to narrate my funeral. He's been there for me since I was just a lad; explaining rice creation.

It's amazing how the simplest of things like rice or flour is produced by such a complex and many step process. And the fact we can watch the process for free and see all of this. It just makes one think how great of a time it is to be alive. And with that said, have a nice day today.

"The grates filters out some of the large stalks and debris" literally everything passes through

Something tells me one lil bug isnt going to make that company throw away 55,000 ponds of rice

I like how this show shows that many parts of things that are made are kept for other uses or just recycled.

Every time I see a How’s it Made. I think I want to see who makes all those machines.

"The broken rice is used to make cereal or beer." Or sold as broken rice for Vietnamese cuisine. Cơm Tấm (Broken Rice) is a very popular Vietnamese dish.

I LOVE RICE!

That opening chime was nostalgic. We had our TV subscription removed many years ago, I used to watch these channels every night playing LEGO

WOW!! I never knew this. Mechanical engineers are amazing to have designed machines to do this work.

Everything is better now. I’m from Southern Vietnam, my childhood was beside the rice and harvest. Farmers had to do everything from watering,seeding or harvesting by hands. They did have buffalo to help but it didn’t help really much. Some areas in my country still has to do by hand or just simple machines, not modern and convenient like that.

It's absolutely ludicrous how far technology has come, imagine how many tens of thousands of people it used to take to produce this much rice in a day. Now just a few people overseeing some machines do it, thank the stars we all happened to be born in the era we are now.

My fiancé is Filipina , in her village they have these huge rice fields that I’ve always thought were really beautiful. It’s so cool how it’s grown

One of my favorite dishes and episodes of How It's Made! As Asian as I am, I eat this literally everytime I come across it as I have done since childhood. Lol. My Filipino side craves rice!!

It is actually more interesting to see how rice is processed by small farmers, like in the Philippines. Muddy fields tilled by carabao, hand planted, grown for 95 days, usually hand harvested (sometimes a harvest machine is rented), dried locally, finally milled by the milling trucks that drive around the neighborhoods. The husks are used as compost. During the monsoon season we can get 3 or 4 rice harvest, if the rains cooperate. 😎

2:34 - Oh God, Peter what are you doing?... you could have killed us all opening that machine. Jeez!

Incredible! Amazing to think that some technical people have thought out how these machines work and then go on to construct them.

Always wondered how rice is made. Interesting to watch. Well summarized.

The most tricky part is the grinding process in producing white rice from brown rice (3:30), whose inner working mechanism is unfortunately not revealed here. This is a key information to learn as the grinding is imaginably quite different from the grinding of wheat grains which are crushed completely and the white flour is separated from the bran by screening, a simple physical process. But grinding brown rice to remove the bran is much trickier as the entirety of the kernel has to be protected.

Me: **owns a rice field** Also me: "Hmm interesting, I'm gonna watch this one in case something happens"

"How It's Made" is still an awesome program!

2:03 rejected and goes where??

The video talks about "raw rice". Here in India, the paddy grains are boiled in water once or twice before de-skinning. This process ensures fewer broken kernels and also the cooked rice is less sticky. Sold as "par-boiled" rice, called as "usna" in my mother tongue.

i will enjoy this bowl of rice with even more gratitude as i now know how much effort goes into making rice available for people, such as my self, as a meal on a daily basis.

I have found weevils in boxes of Rice a Roni, but not sure if they were already in there or if they were in my cupboard too long and found their way in. Years ago a grocery store we went to, we used to get these date coconut rolls, they were really good, almost like candy, and they in the produce section in little rectangular boxes. One time when I opened the box, the date coconut rolls were covered in webs. My mom took the box back to the store and the manager seriously told her this is common in many foods and that "there's hatchings all over the store." LOL.

I’m really happy that they can not only expect entire truckloads of batches to be free of a single bug, but that they’ll reject an entire batch if they find even one single bug. Makes me feel a lot better tbh

Fascinating. Something people don’t think about or possibly realize how much work goes through it.

You either A. Got this on your recommendation B. Are high and how rice is made randomly came into your head

Love rice, loved to see innovation in farming! 'Here is the brown (nutritious) rice. Here is the polished white (less nutritious) rice.'

I've always wondered what process was used. Amazing large scale.

@ 3:14 The machine separates "paddy rice" from "husked rice" and it's usually called "density separator". Paddy is less dense than husked rice.

We get some real husky and broken rice here in Jamaica, the ‘good rice’ is expensive. My favorite rice is basmati tho☺️

Absolutely fascinating!

Brilliant video! Currently building one and this video gives some motivation

This is the cleanest rice factory I've ever seen...most rice plants just push it around the ground with bulldozers along with the dirt and gravel.

Rice isn't "made", it's grown. 😂

The most important part is removing small stones or hard mud balls. I'm thankful for this technology, for I once bit into a small stone while in a 3rd world country. The stone was in the rice, it even looked like a small kernel of rice, but it was a small white stone. Broke my tooth, very expensive and painful.

Great Video. Thank you so much!

The video shows a man walking on top of the rice to determine the moisture content and this is okay. But if a worker finds a moth or another bug in the rice the truck load will not be allowed ?

sometimes i put one of these on and pretend i’m in science class and it helps me fall asleep

I had no idea. Looked like a long process. Amazing what those machines can do. Was fun to watch. Great video

Very informative. Thanks!

We farm rice, but in small quantity. It takes a long time.

I live in the middle of a wide rice terrace. I say for sure I'm awe-strucked on how fast and efficient today's rice milling technology works. The amount of time and manpower lessened, yet I say for sure.. nothing beats old traditional rice grown on the province. Hand-worked hardworked rice is still the best than machine-harvested and prepared ones. I love this episode of modernity tho.

Love these videos so much. Thank you

Thank you for simplifying our life 🙇

"The broken fragments are then separated for later use in making either beer or cereal....beereal." "So now you know how to make rice. Now you've really paid the price. Now the price is rice."

If you want to learn a little about the process of farming and tending to the rice, I'd recommend the game Sakuna. Sure, it's not 100% accurate or realistic since its a videogame, but you get an idea of just how delicate and detailed the rice growing process is.

Wow! Absolutely amazing! Can’t imagine anyone complaining about the price of rice after watching this.

Quite a detailed process. Interesting.

I will never take Rice 🍚 for granted again. Amazing

That employee that gets to count the rice grains in the warehouse on his own has the dream job!

All this time I’ve wondered. Now I know. 👍😊

This process and many others like it allow for us all to be very productive working without having to worry about farming ourselves all day every day.

Mmm! I love Rice. I also love your channel so much! Lots of love.

There are usually weevils in our bag of rices. That’s one of the reasons why we have to wash the rice before cooking.

Very Good process

🇬🇧 Interesting 🤔 I’ve wondered what the process is to make rice and what it looks like before processing!!

1:13 Man casually stepping on rice. Asians: O _ O

I am really amaze to those people who thought and made all of these machines.

Amazing simply amazing 👏

I like the music they play at this factory.

here in the philippines, they harvest rice the ancient way.

Thought they're going to show the process of growing rice. Also i was shookt seeing so many machines haha. Here in the Philippines my grandparents still do it manually. I miss running around rice field chasing cousins (kung saan nila binibilad yung bigas para matuyo.) KZfaq algorithm making me miss my grandparents even more :(

One of my absolute favorite foods. Thank GOD for rice! 👍💕

we need a sorting system like that for society

2:31 "Finally they remove mud balls" Like we're supposed to know what they are.

That one dislike must be a guy that hates rice huh.

Thank u very much for informative video

The fans in the flat storage don't do any drying, that rice has already run through a dedicated drier to reduce moisture to ~12%. They're preventing the rice from overheating due to decomposition. Paddy rice (rice will hulls still on) can be damaged by temperatures reached during this process. Heat damaged rice takes on various levels of brown color as a result reducing its commercial value. It's also not terribly uncommon to fumigate an entire flat storage warehouse or silo to take care of weevils and other insect infestations. The only thing that grates over unloading pits are intended to filter out is animals and trucks.

didn’t know America had rice farms

i'm watching this while eating rice, and ends it when the video ends. perfect

A total miracle, all depending on oil, gasoline. Seems the same process for wheat. God bless the farmers who suffer so the rest of us can have it so good.

Hanayo from Love Live would be thrilled with this episode, as she is a proud rice lover.

I’m still baffled by how this is done. Air blasts a single dark kernel out of the mix?! What? How? Now I need to know how this was done before machinery 🤔

When two rice plants love each other very much...

4:41 - 4:49. Run it at 20% speed (video speed controller applet from chrome web store). The plastic bags are just 2 sheets of plastic and are being melted together in reeal time in the bagging machine. The rice falls down 3 bags into the bottom bag, while the 2 upper bags sides' are cooling after having been melted together.

I've recently switched to brown rice for its nutrition, and in the process, I'm learning to be patient while it cooks two and a half times longer than white.

This is why I wash my rice until the water is clear🤣

bruh he just stood all over rice that people are gonna eat

A brilliant sifting process.

Why is this so relaxing

Im from nepal and in each and every house u will get rice ❤❤and i cook and eat rice in the morning and in the night

“There’s no dinner, if there’s no rice.”

Incredible!!

Rice and spice sure does sound nice 😊