/ck/ - Food & Cooking

that documentary was cool, but up until the middle to the end of the movie, i realized that everyone is full of jiro.

I tried making it once, it was a disaster

You need custom made square copper pans and only the finest freshest eggs from Yamagata Prefecture.

Anything less and you might as well just order an omelette at Denny's

I might be wrong, but that there really just looks like a rolled up 'tamago' made from pure yolks and finished by browning in butter, then cut to shape.

>>3825802

Well see your problem is you haven't been a sushi apprentice for 10 years. No recipe exists because the process for making this dish spontaneously appears in your mind after apprenticing for that length of time.

As >>3825814 said you also need eggs so fresh they are taken before the chicken lays them (The chickens themselves are only fed a mix of rare short grain rice mixed with sweetened sake, and sung japanese folk songs every night), and they need to be folded 100000000 times in the finest japanese forged cookware.

So don't be discouraged, you never really had a chance.

>>3825829

Actually the folk songs thing is a hyperforeignism, it comes from the famous enkasploitation movie 触手強姦. In traditional tamago-making, the chickens are cursed at.

>>3825837

Ah, my apologies. Its just hard for a baka gaijin (TL Note: Stupid Foreigner) like myself to understand, as even cursing in Japanese is so lyrical.

>>3825823
It's a low-res photo, but I don't see any layers from rolling in there.

>enkasploitation movie 触手強姦
teehee

ITT: what happens when everyone's trolling everyone at once

>>3825867

>>3825872
>implying trolling isn't really just a joke at the expense of others in the first place
>implying i haven't seen that image many times before
>implying it's ever right

>>3825876

Wut, not sure if trolling or being told the truth.

But also saw the same documentary and DO WANT know how.

>>3825924
If you think shit like "they need to be folded 100000000 times in the finest japanese forged cookware." is someone telling you the truth, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I want to sell you.

>>3825932

Is it the 9th street bridge? That's my favorite in all of Brooklyn.

OP here, and what is this i dont even.

Shit I could go for some cornbread
Whole Foods used to make really good ones, but lately they changed the recipe and it's complete shit

Looks like the Mocchi my friends wife makes sometimes.

>>3825802

Thats obviously poundcake, and the recipe couldn't be simpler.

1lb of flour
1lb of butter
1lb of eggs
1lb of sugar
1lb of salt
1lb of baking soda
1lb of baking powder
1lb of vanilla extract

Put it in a bowl, mix, put it in a greased pan, then bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes. Just like grandma used to make.

from what i can tell in the documentary, their tamago looks to mainly be yamaimo and eggs. perhaps the yamaimo is what gives it the spongy texture.

>>3826011
That's an 8 pound cake recipe.

>>3826044

You can make a half batch if you're a pussy. The ratio holds.

>>3826011
>1 lb vanilla extract
why

>>3826078

That's only if you're going for a delicate vanilla flavour. I use more personally.

>>3826090
so you're telling me I have to weigh vanilla extract

>>3826102

Well yeah, you don't use volume measurements in baking. A cup of flour can weigh anything from 100-300g depending on how you pack it, for example. That would be the difference between baking a crepe and a brick.

>>3826090

If you use more its not a pound cake though, you're fucking up the delicate ratios.

It is very easy to make that. Even if you lack the proper Japanese omelet skillet, you can make it with anything you have laying around. The secret is to use real soy sauce from japan (they don't use sodium benzoate so it tastes soooo much better) mixed with a little bit of sugar. Scramble an egg with that sugar soy sauce mixture and the only thing you'll have to do is cook it.