Buying Organic Brown Rice

Organic Brown Rice: Long grain brown rice, triple-cleaned and perfect for all baking and cooking purposes.

Convenient & safe storage: Our brown rice comes in six-gallon buckets (or pails... another word for the same container), containing 40 lbs. net weight. When you store brown rice at home, it needs to be protected in a couple of ways. First, it needs to be protected from a variety of little critters who'd like to get to it before you do. Weevils and rodents, for example. You also need to protect your brown rice from picking up excessive additional moisture, which can be drawn from the atmosphere. The buckets our brown rice comes in provide full protection against these storage risks. They have airtight gasket-sealed lids, Mylar liners, and oxygen absorber packets that remove the oxygen from the air in the bucket after we put the lid on. The O2 absorbers leave an atmosphere of nitrogen in the bucket (because air is mainly oxygen and nitrogen.) Our buckets safely lock out pests, and biological processes are put "on hold" in the Mylar protected, oxygen-free nitrogen atmosphere, so your brown rice enjoys complete peace and quiet until you want to use it. Note: If you don't already have a bucket lid removal tool, they make lid removal easy (see lower section of this Web page.)

Beat Oxidation! In whole-grain foods, the plant's cellular walls protect nutrients from oxidation. The process of oxidation begins to occur as soon as grain is ground, exposing the cell's contents to oxygen in the air. Flour that is several days (or more) old, has been exposed to oxygen that inevitably diminishes its nutritional value. The way to get full nutrition from whole grain foods is to mill them when you need them, right in your kitchen. Modern high-speed grain mills make it fast and easy to enjoy the freshest, best tasting and most nutritious food imaginable!

Super-Cleaned: All of our brown rice is triple-cleaned to ensure purity and protect your grain mill from any foreign objects. (Brown rice that isn't sufficiently cleaned may contain small stones that will damage or destroy a grain mill... not to mention that you don't want such things in your food!)

Non-GMO: All of Pleasant Hill Grain's whole grain products are natural (non-GMO).

Simple ordering: You pay no additional shipping beyond the cost on the Buy Buttons below. Grain is an exception to the free shipping rules, but the cost of shipping is included in the cost of each bucket of brown rice, in the tables below. Because shipping cost varies with distance, grain price varies depending on where it's being shipped to. There are three tables below, each showing exactly the same products, but at somewhat different prices depending on where you want us to ship it to. Just find the table that lists your ship-to state, and use the Buy Buttons in that table to add grain to your shopping cart.

If you don't yet have a grain mill, or you want to upgrade to a modern & convenient high-speed mill, Pleasant Hill Grain offers the world's best. You can see them on our home page: Grain Mills. (From where that link takes you, scroll down the page for a variety of mills.) We also have quality baking ingredients and special bakeware.

To Zone #1: Order from this table if you want your Organic Brown Rice shipped to one of these states: Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin and Wyoming. (Product ordered with this Buy Button can be shipped only to states in this list.)

To Zone #2: Order from this table if you want your Organic Brown Rice shipped to one of these states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia, Washington State, Wash. D.C. and West Virginia. (Product ordered with this Buy Button can be shipped only to states in this list.)

To Zone #3: Order from this table if you want your Organic Brown Rice shipped to one of these states: Connecticut, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. (Product ordered with this Buy Button can be shipped only to states in this list.)

Zojirushi Induction Rice Cookers: These new Zojirushi rice cookers use induction heating for the ultimate in speed and even heating. You get perfectly cooked rice, faster than ever before. And these Zojirushi induction rice cookers feature a GABA Brown setting that also offers exciting new nutritional benefits.

Induction Heating: Induction heating works by creating a powerful magnetic field that makes the entire pan itself become the heating element. Heating begins instantly, and heating remains extremely even throughout the cycle. Induction rice cookers also provide faster cooking times that conventional rice cookers.

Computerized temperature control system: Zojirushi induction rice cookers provide outstanding results with all kinds of rice including white, brown, sushi, sticky, fluffy and sweet varieties, as well as porridge. Also included is a setting for prewashed rice. Easy to read LCD controller is fully programmable and may be set for delayed cooking. Optional quick cook cycle reduces cooking time to approximately 22 to 33 minutes with regular rice.Includes easy to follow recipes. Programmable melody or beep on/off indicator. New larger digital display includes a clock.

New GABA Brown Rice Cycle: GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) is a nutrient in brown rice that researchers have found to lower blood pressure and relieve stress. Zojirushi's induction rice cookers offer a special cycle that activates the GABA in brown rice, increasing it to 150% of the level in nonactivated rice. This special cycle keeps the rice at about 104° F. for about 2 hours. Total GABA-cycle time is about 3 hours to 3 hours and 40 minutes, and along with increasing the GABA level, it also makes brown rice softer.

I have to tell you that the Zo Induction rice cooker may be the most amazing piece of equipment we've purchased. I didn't know I liked rice as much as I do. Plus, Kate has started cooking whole oats for breakfast. They are amazing! We're really enjoying it. – Bart McSpadden, Edmond OK

Throughout Asia, the rice cooker is indispensable. Now, The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook unlocks the rice cooker’s potential for the American kitchen. Starting with an explanation of how a rice cooker works and important tips on cooking with rice cookers, it proceeds to easy-to-follow charts on how to prepare basic rice, grains, and dried beans. Then it moves on to making a perfect pot of rice, whether it’s American long-grain white or Bhutanese red. Once the basics of the rice cooker are mastered, there are rice-centered meals such as Butternut Squash Risotto, Fruited Pilaf, and Indonesian Rice Bowl. Next The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook explains how to use the rice cooker to prepare all manner of grain and bean dishes, from Breakfast Barley to Gorgonzola Polenta to Turkey Chili with Baby White Beans. Last, but certainly not least, the book reveals the secrets to making delicious puddings and fruit desserts, preparing and steaming fish, vegetables, tamales, dolmas, dim sum, and more, all made in the rice cooker from start to finish. 368 pages with 250 no-fail rice cooker recipes and rice cooking tips.

Unlock the full potential of your rice cooker to make great one-pot meals, side dishes, finger-food appetizers, hearty breakfasts, and even desserts with The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook!

By Beth Hensperger and Julie Kaufmann. Softcover, 368 pages.

Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook: $15.95 Qty: FREE FedEx SHIPPING if order total is over $99*. ($7.95 flat-rate shipping under $99)         Click for Info/Help

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My wife loves the Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook. The rice cooker she'd been using didn't work well -- now that she's read some of the cookbook she understands why. She used her new Zojirushi "fuzzy logic" rice cooker tonight and I must admit it was really good. I haven't been a big fan of rice in the past but I believe with the new Zojirushi cooker, this may change. Thanks for the recommendation. – John Palmer, Goochland VA

Berkey® Stainless Purifier Systems

Durable, stainless steel icons of purity, Berkey purifier systems have produced safe water for millions of people around the globe for decades. Equipped with the new Black Berkey® purifying elements, Berkey® Stainless purifying systems removed pathogens at the EPA's incredibly high "Log 7" standard, meaning that no more than one contaminant molecule per ten million remains in the cleaned water.

Unprecedented purifying effectiveness: Berkey® purifiers using the Black Berkey® purification elements are proven to reduce pathogenic bacteria (including E. Coli, Klebsiella, Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Giardia and Cryptosporidium) by 99.99999%. The Berkey Light® System has been tested with the maximum pathogenic contamination levels that can be produced in a laboratory. When contamination levels exceed one billion pathogens per liter of water (10,000 times the density of contamination used in the standard test protocol for bacteriological removal) they become too numerous to count (TNTC). Such contamination levels are referred to as "lawn growth." Under normal testing protocol, one pathogenic organism is tested at a time, each with a fresh purifying element. For this test, however, the laboratory was directed to mix together a soup of three separate pathogenic "lawn growth" cultures. Tested under this extreme contamination level, absolutely no pathogens were able to make it through the purification elements. The laboratory then incubated the water, and nothing grew. When the effluent (filtered water) was viewed under an electron microscope not even inviable (dead) microbes were detectable — nothing was present but pure H2O. Furthermore, contaminants reduced to below-detectable-limits include Trihalomethanes, Radon 222, and volatile organic compounds including Benzene, 2,4-D, Heptachlor, MTBE, Styrene, Tetrachloroethylene and Toulene, among many others.

Now see the new Berkey Light® System too... Click the link below to see classic Berkey® Stainless as well as the new LED-equipped Berkey Light® purifier system with transparent copolyester housing!

Click here for our main Berkey Water Purifier page

Metal Lid Remover Tool: Do you have plastic buckets with conventional, hammer-on lids that you want to remove? Just snip at intervals around the bottom edge of lid with wire cutter or similar tool, then this heavy duty metal bucket wrench will pry the lid right off. Makes a tough job easy. Side-lugs also allow you to remove the bungs from large barrels. 9.5" length.

Plastic Lid Remover Tool: Durable plastic construction, 8.75" length. Includes side lugs to remove bungs from large barrels.

Bucket Lid Wrench, Metal: $11.95 Qty: FREE FedEx SHIPPING if order total is over $99*. ($7.95 flat-rate shipping under $99)         Click for Info/Help

Bucket Lid Wrench, Plastic: $8.99 Qty: FREE FedEx SHIPPING if order total is over $99*. ($7.95 flat-rate shipping under $99)         Click for Info/Help

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