And if you accidentally get rice in the case and cook it while using your phone you can claim it uses rice burning technology.

You got lucky brad, I washed mine but unfortunately the rice did not work, it was bricked.. my boy tho has washed his multiple times by leaving in his pocket, and each time fired right back up after the rice drying ...

Couldn't resist.

Weird science but a great piece of useful information...

Grits work even better than rice to dry out electronics but they are a little hard to find in Michigan.  

They also work great for killing ants.

Girls Raised In The South dry out electronics and kill ants? 

Only if you raise 'em right...

The ants or the grits?

Will any of these methods work if you drop your cellphone in a cup of Pepsi?

Did you try dehydrated pizza for yours?  

Forget it. The syrup never comes out, although the bubbles seem to come out easily enough...

my spare iphone 4 went thru a wash cycle a few months ago. unfortunately, the rice bag trick didn't work for me. i had it on my desk as a paper weight for months waiting for  my next trip to the apple store in indy to get it replaced for $200. recently, my son's phone was stolen in san francisco so i sent the paper weight to him so he could get it replaced out there. the young lady at the san fran apple store replaced it for free. he said he told her the truth about the water damage but she said since we both had used iphone 3gs and iphone 4 smartphones, she would be nice and replace it for free. i guess dave being honest helped a bit, too.

One thing to try, is to use a hair dryer, on low heat setting, and 'breeze' the phone overnight, in a place where the phone is open to the air.  Then do the rice  imersion technique.  I have recovered a number of cell phones this way... (However, I have never owned an i-phone, so...).  

Geez, I thought everyone knew that rice was a magic cure for wet devices.

Let us know if our advice was any help Brad.