Originally Posted by raymor

Look at it after three hours instead of three days. After three hours, or ONE day, the rice bag should have had less water. After that, you just have a bag of wet rice unless you replace the rice with fresh DRY rice. Eventually, the water left in the open will evaporate.

The rice, or better yet crystal cat litter, SPEEDS the drying until equlibrium is reached, then if it's still not dry you need to replace the moist rice.