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15302235 No.15302235 [Reply] [Original]

Hi, /ck/

I've just gotten a sushi kit for Christmas. I live in a city with access to very fresh seafood and I was going to make my first attempt at sushi rice tomorrow. I have what appears to be a good cookbook regarding the rice. Just wondering if y'all had any advice, stories, suggestions, or favorite recipes regarding a home cook and his first little sushi kit.

>> No.15302239

>>15302235
Stick a whole pilchard up your asshole.

>> No.15302277

mmm tuna

>> No.15303084
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15303084

i could eat salmon sushi everyday if it had no negative consequences

>> No.15303098

>>15302235
>sushi kit
so is it just a bag of rice and a frozen fish?

>> No.15303108

>>15303098
prolly just a bamboo mat and maybe some nori.

>> No.15303114

>>15302235
If your recipe doesn't say to use kombu, you should add kombu to your rice seasoning. Don't forget to use a DAMP towel to cover the rice, if the rice tries out it is ruined. Make sure you are chopping and flipping the rice with your paddle and not stirring it.

If you make hand rolls (temaki) eat them immediately, as this is not a type of sushi that keeps well at all.

>> No.15303126

Prepare your area “mise en place” or whatever you call it. I have a bowl of water for my hands, a damp towel folded for the knife, and all the ingredients prepared as well as the plates they are going on.

>> No.15303196

>>15302235
its not worth the effort

>> No.15303241

>>15303196
It's not that hard, it might be tricky to learn, but once you know what you're doing it's a relatively simple food to prepare.

>> No.15304220

>>15302235
Just make rice and slap some fish on it
Wala

>> No.15304223

just eat sashimi. Or plop it onto a bowl of rice. You're really not missing much unless you delve into the more expensive or harder to get stuff.

>> No.15304505

>>15303098
>>15303108
what's it like to be a master sushi chef and still have time to shitpost on 4chan?

>>15303114
yeah I do keep seeing the kombu in the recipe. I should probably be able to find that at fresh market, but if not, we have an Asian market down the road too. Only problem with the latter is that none of them speak English.

>>15303126
thanks, senpai

>>15303196
I'm gonna go with >>15303241 because that anon is probably right. It's gonna be hard but once I get it down it'll be fun

>>15304223
yeah gonna start out simple and work up to stuff. my favorite sushi is really just a simple maki roll or nigiri

>> No.15304581

op hasn't answered the question, what the fuck is a sushi kit?
Do you get mirin, nampla, rice wine and so on?

>> No.15304754

>>15303084

Gross, salmon is like a 3rd tier sushi fish. The nips even had to be convinced to eat salmon as sushi.

>> No.15304792

>>15302235
most bulk sushi rice bags have a recipe on them for making sushi rice which is a good start.

i just soak, then cook the rice, and add rice wine vinegar and white sugar when it's done. something like 1/4 cup vinegar and a tablespoon sugar per uncooked cup of rice. maybe less vinegar, I just eyeball it

>> No.15304795

>>15302235
What is in the sushi kit

>> No.15304842

>>15304581
Sorry, it's a very simple starter kit with the bamboo roller thing, a little santoku knife, a cookbook with recipes. I already had mirin, rice wine, fish sauce, wasabi paste, pickled ginger, nicer knives, soy sauce, a brand new unopened box of "sushi rice" (short grained) etc.

>>15304792
yeah it seems like the seasoned vinegar, controlling the heat, and folding the vinegar into the rice instead of stirring it, etc is where people will fuck up homemade sushi

>>15304795
2 bamboo mats, 5 pairs of chopsticks, 1 paddle, 1 spreader, and a little santoku knife. It also has some rectangular plastic box that's separated into 5 compartments. This box resembles an ice cube tray, though I obviously know that it's not.

>> No.15304938

>>15304754
Makes sense since there are literally NO salmon within thousands of miles of Nipland.

>> No.15304978

>>15304938

They have a few species, but apparently they are so loaded with parasites they were culturally not seen as a sushi fish. Some Norwegian guy had to sell them on Atlantic salmon sushi cuz they were trying to sell it.

>> No.15304987

>>15304223
Based chirachi sushi enjoyer. Just make a bowl with rice, veggies, fish, roe and an egg yolk. Perfect food.