Keep rice in a dry, cool place
After buying rice and bringing it home, you should observe one of the important points in storing Iranian rice at home. Prepare a dry and cool environment for rice storage. Heat and humidity are the number one enemy of Iranian rice. Deterioration of rice due to moisture and heat can also change its taste. So make sure that the place where you store the rice has proper ventilation and is completely dry. The ideal temperature for rice storage is usually 4 to 5 degrees Celsius (40 degrees Fahrenheit) and if you always maintain this temperature, you can keep rice healthy for several years (25 to 30 years).
Keep the rice with the distance from the ground and the wall
In the tips related to the best way to store Iranian rice at home, it is said that rice bags should be far from the wall and the floor. Because, as we said, moisture should not reach the rice, and this will prevent it from reaching the bag of rice and spoiling it if the walls or the ground have moisture. Also, in order to protect rice from other pests such as mice, cockroaches and other gnawing insects such as termites, you should place it at a suitable distance and space of 20 to 25 cm from the surface of the ground and the wall.
Keep rice in the appropriate container
Rice can be stored in containers of different materials. The first option is always the cloth bag or as we call it, the sack that comes with the same packaging when buying. However, glass containers, opaque plastic containers, and double-walled containers, whose inner layer is plastic and whose outer layer is metal, are the best options for storing Iranian rice. But according to the advice of older people and those who are experienced sellers of rice, storing rice in cotton sacks is the best method. These bags cause that if there is any moisture in the rice, it is transferred to the cloth and then evaporates from the surface of the cloth. It is a method and you can store your daily rice in the kitchen for one to two months.
Do not expose rice to direct sunlight
You should never expose rice to sunlight. Sunlight causes heat and as a result the growth of pests and lice. Also, when rice is exposed to direct sunlight for a long time, its grains will be crushed and will not have the original quality and health.
Buy rice that is well dried
As we said earlier, the best way to store Iranian rice at home is to keep moisture and heat away from it. One of the most important and main reasons for lice and worms in Iranian rice is humidity. In the rice mills and in the bleaching process, the rice grains are whitened by different grinding and rubbing methods, and in this process the rice is still wet and fresh. A complete process is a process in which the rice grains are placed in strong dryers and dried in a suitable period of time (about 50 to 60 hours). are, they cut this time in half and this issue causes the rice that reaches the consumer to be not well dried and so called damp. Moisture is the enemy of rice and a good place for pests to grow! So, make sure that the rice you buy is well dried, and if you buy fresh rice for any reason, dry it outdoors under suitable conditions and then store it.
Use oxygen absorption
Oxygen in the air may be a vital element for living organisms, but it is a killer for food, especially rice, and it easily oxidizes and spoils them. In this case, on how to store Iranian rice at home, we should recommend the use of oxygen absorbers, which you have probably seen in many food packages.
In meat and chicken packages, packaging of metal products that are prone to oxidation And of course, in the packaging of foreign rice such as Pakistani and Indian rice. In order to store Iranian rice for a long time, you can use oxygen absorbers and put them in the rice bag to absorb the oxygen in the bag and prevent the rice from spoiling and lice.