Ricer vs Rices - What's the difference?
ricer | rices |
(US) A person, especially a Native American, who cultivates and harvests rice.
* 1967 , The New Yorker , Volume 43, Part 6,
* 1988 , Thomas Vennum, Wild Rice and the Ojibway People ,
* 1999' September 19, , ''Under the Wild Rice Moon'', ''Minneapolis Star Tribune'', reprinted in '''2002 , ''The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings ,
(cooking) A utensil used to extrude soft foods (such as, and especially, cooked potato) through holes about the diameter of a grain of rice.
* 2007 , Patricia Webster Stewart, Stuck in My Own Family Tree ,
* 2008 , Leanne Kitchen, The Greengrocer ,
* 2013 , Tara Mataraza Desmond, Choosing Sides: From Holidays to Every Day, 130 Delicious Recipes to Make the Meal ,
(US, slang, derogatory) An imported automobile from an Oriental country, deemed inferior because it is low-powered and/or cheap.
(US, slang, derogatory) A person who drives such an automobile.
(US, slang, derogatory) A person who modifies such an automobile using after-market parts to give it the appearance of being more powerful or sporty.
(Referring to more than one strain or variety of rice. Rice is usually uncountable.)
(rice)
As nouns the difference between ricer and rices
is that ricer is a person, especially a Native American, who cultivates and harvests rice while rices is plural of lang=en (Referring to more than one strain or variety of rice. Rice is usually uncountable..As a verb rices is
third-person singular of rice.ricer
English
(Potato ricer)Noun
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- He opened the cashbox and counted out the money, and Martin handed it on to one of the ricers .
- "Where are you guys ricing tomorrow?" he said.
- "Down in the Refuge," the ricer with the money said.
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- In exchange for use of a buyer's boat, the ricers were to sell what they harvested exclusively to him.
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- There are also lots of ricers'. By two weeks into ricing season, Native Harvest bought from 30 or 40 ' ricers .
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- He cooked a roast, made applesauce with the ricer and used every size pan he could find to cook vegetables.
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- Ricers can also be used for mashing other root vegetables, as well as starchy ones like broad (fava) beans and peas.
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- Passing cooked chunks through a basic, inexpensive handheld ricer maximizes their texture, which is less starchy than their russet brethren, and makes a soft, dry pile that simply stirs into creamy, smooth mounds.