Do you rinse rice before cooking?

I wash jasmine rice until the water runs clear.

always wash my rice before cooking it.

No

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I like gummy rice doe

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try medium or small grain then....

The way I do it is to wash it in a fine metal strainer with hot water (i use the hose on my kitchen sink) until it runs tgrough clear, then put it in the rice cooker. You'll notice a difference. Still sticks, but in a "clean" way if that makes sense. The grains still stick together without being gummy. I rarely do more than 2 cups of rice at a time though.

Just rinsing it in a strainer like that doesn't take but maybe 30 seconds. I don't do it in a bowl like most Asians do. Ain't nobody got time for that.

I use a 50/50 blend of plain long grain white rice, and long grain jasmine rice. I mix 2lbs of each together and keep that 4 lbs. in a cannister on my counter. You still get the same aromatic flavor, but it doesn't clash with things like gumbo.

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never rinsed rice in my life

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Also, never wash my beans.

Unless a recipe explicitly says to rinse rice, I don't fool with it. It's too much of a pain in the butt and I currently don't have a fine strainer.
I read an online article a while back that ripped on Americans for soaking beans overnight, but not rinsing rice...that in Latin America, no one soaks beans overnight, they just cook them. And no one in Asia would cook rice without rinsing it.

no,never

Mahatma long grain, no.

Jasmine, Yes