/ck/ - Food & Cooking

My mom's variation of sushi:
>seaweed
>rice
>egg
>fish sticks

I'm never not in the mood for sushi.

>>5217716
That's because you're a fucking cat.

>>5217718
Hey buddy, discrimination is never okay.

>>5217703

Yo, I'm drunk as FUCK right now and sushi is all I motherfucking want to eat

>>5217703
Never tried sushi, but I really want to.

i want sussshi

>>5217802

>>5217809

>>5217814

>>5217817
ok so this isn't actually sushi

Let's hear for conveyor belt sushi

>>5217823

every time i see this at the store, and it has instructions to cook it in the oven.... im like NOOOO

Its supposed to end up like this

I can name every piece of sushi in this thread.

> from left to right
>>5217703
Otoro/Toro (super fatty tuna)
Chutoro (fatty tuna)
Tua
White Fish
Shrimp
Mackarel

>>5217716
Dragon Roll (shrimp tempura with eel on top)
and some eel roll?

>>5217731
Fresh Water Eel Sushi in the little box,
Fresh Shrimp Sushi in the box

IN plate, from top to bottom:

> egg sushi,
> red snapper
> white fish / yellow tail
> tuna /salmon
> Uni (sea urchin)/Salmon Roe
> Real Crab Sushi
> Tiger prawn sushi

(con'd)

>>5217706
thats kinda like fish katsu. your mom not as pleb as you think.

>>5217858
cond

>>5217784
Otoro Super Fatty Tuna

>>5217802
Chrashi sushi bowl with salmon roe, scallop, egg, yellowtail, tuna, shrimp, and octopus.

>>5217809
Eel and avocado roll,
Salmon cut roll,
Salmon sashimi

>>5217814
From topleft, to bottomright:

Fatty tuna (Otoro,)
Whitefish
Tuna
Dunno....
Duno what grass that is...
Squid
Makarael
Shrimp
Sea urchin
dunno

>>5217817
Salmon Roe
Sea Urchin
Bean Curd
Octopus
Dunno
Egg
Dunno
Tuna
Red Snapper
Shrimp
Mackarell
Ginger

>>5217832
Scallop Sushi
okay, now i can take challenges.

>>5217865

Rice roll

>>5217869
>>>5217809 (You)
>Eel and avocado roll,
>Salmon cut roll,
i think you're wrong there. that appears to be a spicy tuna or spicy salmon. witness the slight glob of what appears to be chopped/ground fish mixed with spicy mayo. notice how lighter it is compared to the salmon in the foreground

>>5217869

>>5217863
To be fair, number of dishes from Asia (not only Japan but definitely including) are made in the way of assembling whatever you have at home PLUS rise, egg (could be raw) and seaweed. Ending up with something possibly similar to what Anon's mother assembles.

>>5217863
Add some sauce (soy or other), some spices and mix it all together. Then thank your mother for lovely food.

barrel roll

>>5217882
i'm not challenge guy, but that's shiokara, which is squid + squid digestive system + salt

Sushi is about the rice and not the fish.

>>5217817

any idea what the bottom left is?

>>5217900

This so much. The fish can be ridiculously fresh and tasty but if the rice sucks then the sushi will suck

>>5217900
Rice is about the fish and not the sushi.

>>5217900
Sushi is about Sashimi - FISH

>>5217902
looks like mackerel to me but I'm no expert.

>>5217910

i thought that as well, actual raw mackerel but i'm not so sure, the one on the right is the usual cured mackerel though

>>5217909
fuck off weeb

>>5217937
oh come on ... then why everyone is talking about what kind of FISH is on sushi
not a single one said something like "it looks like this sushi uses short-grain variety of rice"

I would love to just buy sashimi grade fish and make sushi myself but my knife skills are horrendous.

>>5217992
I have a japanese knife designed just for cutting sushi, and a filleting knife, do you want them?

>>5218020
Yeah if you have links to where you got them that would be great.

>>5217992
Assuming you WILL get sashimi grade fish (i have my doubts), cooking rice correctly will be by far your biggest problem.

What do you mean your knife skills are horrendous??? Do you have good knife ?? Can you hold it??? Now CUT. Even if you fuck it up (which you will) it will taste great because look at it - YOU MADE IT.

Hate me all you want but the only sashimi I've tried are supermarket & buffet sashimi's, & from my experience they felt somewhat soggy, does a real sashimi tastes better? like meaty sticky sort of taste? cause that's my impression when I see some of the pics you guys posted.

pic's not mine btw.

>>5218448
Each type of raw fish has it peak of taste. Tuna can not be too fresh or it is a chew fest. Shrimp should be just dipped in hot water, when you bite into to you should get a snap like a sausage and a sweet flavor. Octopus should be firm, but not tough. Also the best sushi places don't use fresh fish because the flesh would be too firm. The soggy mouth feel comes from the rice becoming water logged because it is getting moisture from the fish that is on top of it. Sushi is served not cold but around body temperature, sometimes they play with hot and cold aspects of the sushi. But ya most people here have not had good sushi and I think none had great. Also soggy water logged rice makes me sad as fuck.

So how does the fact that fish needs to be frozen for a considerable amount of time to be safe for raw comsuption (Anisakis) make you feel?

>>5218748
Happy?

The mall like 15 min away has these amazing fusion rolls for like $9 and its better than anything else in the area. Pic related.

There was a sushi bar at this one Chinese restaurant I went to, and the octopus was so rubbery that it wouldn't break up no matter how much I chewed. Buffet sushi can sometimes be good, but don't load up your plate with it unless you at least try it first. There's a huge difference in quality if you go to a restaurant that actually specializes in sushi. Too bad there's only one or two sushi restaurants in my area.

>>5217703
I fucking love sushi but it's some expensive.
how much do you pay for sushi in your country?
Here in italy a menù with 6 rolls and 4 nigiri and 4 small maki costs between 12€ and 14€

>>5218883

lol, you're severely underqualified to conjecture on sushi.

of course, so are most people in this thread.

>>5218883
Was it gluten free?

>>5219197
Depends on the restaurant, but that's not an outrageous price. Sushi in Napoli costs about the same as what you quoted. Sushi in Zürich, too. Depends on where you go to buy it.

Anonymous 02/22/14(Sat)12:06 No.5218883
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Hopefully this quotes, I'm new (from reddit /r/cooking)

I've never had octopus. Where would I want to go to find quality octopus? Thanks :3

>>5219295
Under the sea, in the shade.

>>5219260
I apologize for having an opinion.

>>5219295

you just have to click the post number in the thread, bro. make sure you have "quick reply" set in settings (bottom right corner).

And it depends on where you live. If you're in a flyover state, you're pretty much out of luck.

I love sushi. I love the subtle flavors, the texture of the various fish meats, everything

However, I usually only get it when i hit up one of the two Chinese buffet places I know - both of which have about 4 or 5 different kinds of generic sushi as part of the buffet...

Mind you, I eat a lot of those lil things when I'm there - get a lot more bang for my buck than I would at an actual sushi place - but at the same time I'm well aware that its pleb tier quality...


I'm sorry /ck/

>>5219338

brotip: most "actual" sushi restaurants are run by Chinese, Koreans or even Southeast Asian immigrants. You rarely see Japanese-run sushi restaurants outside of big cities.

they're all the same shit as a Chinese buffet.

>>5219347

>>5219352

lol, i've never seen that. pure gold.

point stands, though.

>>5219295
>>5219333
Here, I made a screenshot to help, since you're so cute.

I usually just look at the seafood section at the grocery store. If you've never had it before but want to cook it, cook it either quickly at a high heat or slowly at a low heat. Otherwise get it at a restaurant.

I found use of soy sauce and wasabi across the world in Japanese restaurants very interesting:

USA - regular soy sauce and EXCESSIVE use of wasabi (i saw people cry after eating it), also not real wasabi but a substitute made look like wasabi

Western Europe - SWEET soy sauce (packed with actual sugar) in addition to regular soy sauce and moderate use of wasabi

Japan - minimal use of only regular soy sauce and very little wasabi (wasabi doesn't come on the side of dish but placed as needed during preparation)

Anyone else had different experience?

>>5219352
I love my spicy tuna roll with soy sauce and I eat pickled ginger by the bowl. Deal with it, chinese cartoon nerds.