What are the benefits of using a rice steamer?

Long-grain white rice is rinsed before cooking to remove excess starch. Removing the starch makes the rice cook more evenly and it makes the cooked rice less sticky.

In the U.S., if you rinse the rice, you are rinsing away vitamins, minerals, and iron. Rice is fortified with vitamins, minerals and iron that is applied on the rice. It's up to you whether you want to wash your rice before cooking it.

In India we usually see that the rice is mixed with some acid boric in order to prevent the rice from insects that causes the grains to destroy so we have to remove this powder forwhich we have to wash the rice before cooking