Comments on: Katsu learns Cooking: Sushi!

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heated towel rails for bathrooms — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:52:02 +0000

Food for thought.

By: Games! Games! Games!

Games! Games! Games! — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:05:27 +0000

All On The Big N

The Nintendo Gamecube still has a great selection of games….

By: Hussy

Hussy — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:00:28 +0000

While Isa and I were in Brooklyn, there was a sushi place about two blocks away from where we were staying. What we didn’t know was that if you just payed $19.95 it was all-you-can-eat. We ended up there by accident on a Sunday morning, escaping the sleeping gay men in the apartment and I ended up eating 20+ rolls of sushi.

Invite me over the next time you make sushi.

By: LordAbsu

LordAbsu — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 03:28:28 +0000

Human beings have co-existed with germs since time immemorial, and we live in an era of such advanced scientific (i.e. medical) prowess so as to seem unparalelled when compared to the rest of our bloody species history.

If our ancestors thrived on the feces-licious mountain streams of old, surely we can expect a lil’ 21st-Century medical back-up in case the frozen fish gives us the runs.

More sushi for you, Katsu.

As for myself, I’m not keen on sushi, but it has absolutely fuck-all to do with the rawness… I just haven’t tasted any that’s rocked my world.

Maybe you can take that as a challenge.

By: Katsushiro

Katsushiro — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 19:22:34 +0000

Yeah, I can hardly wait to make it again, although I have a feeling that, for now, I will be making sushi just for myself. Most of my friends don’t care for sushi, and in the house, while Natalie lkes sushi, my mother in law just kept making ‘ugh’ faces all night while I made it. What really pissed me off was this: I made sure that the salmon never touched anything other than the cutting board, my fingers, the knife, and the serving plate. Not for the sake of the counter, but for my own sake: I’m not going to be eating fish that’s been just laying there right on the counter. Nevertheless, the mother in law spent a good chunk of the ngiht hovering around and repeating ‘Make sure to wipe down and disinfect the counter when you’re done!’, as if it was the first time that I had ever worked with anything raw in the kitchen. You know, I work with raw *beef* and raw *chicken* in that kitchen on a nearly nightly basis, both of which are deifnetly germy and unsafe to eat raw, and she’s never said a word. But spend one evening doing sushi with raw frozen saltwater salmon, which is so clean and parasite-free thanks to the freezing that it’s perfectly safe to eat raw like that, and she goes into conniptions about making sure everything’s disinfected afterwards.

And even then, after explaining how safe the fish was, *why* it was safe, and still going the extra mile and wiping down the counter carefully with Lysol (which is sold as a *germ killer and disinfectant*) and making sure she saw me do that, later than night when I dropped by the kitchen to get something to drink, the whole thing smelled of Clorox. She had used fucking *Clorox* on the counters. WTF?!?!

Makes absolutely no sense. I deal with raw meats every single day on that counter. Especially chicken, which is so full of germs when raw that it should be classified as a WMD. But it’s the perfectly clean and safe salmon that sets her off (oh, and I’ve made salmon plenty of times before on that same counter, just that I usually broil or fry it afterwards. Jeebus..).

As for Natalie, she has decided that she doesn’t trust home-made salmon. Nevermind that I’ve explained how and why it’s safe, that I showed her how I made it, that I explained that the salmon used in sushi restaurants and supermarket sushi bars has usually been sitting there out in the open for far longer than my salmon ever did, but she still eats that stuff happily.. she still doesn’t trust it.

I live with irrational people. Oh well.. More sushi for me!

By: LuniticusTheSane

LuniticusTheSane — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:28:33 +0000

I’ve had a few nights of sushi making fun myself. Over here at my house making sushi becomes an event, we invite a whole bunch of people over and everyone is required to prepare at least one roll. We have several rolling mats so we get three or four people making rolls at the same time and before you know it there is a feast to be had. Big note, no matter how fresh the fish, make sure it gets frozen! Also if you are not sure as to the freeze date on the salmon, smoke it. Smoked salmon makes great sushi, especially with cream cheese. Yellow fined tuna is my favorite for the raw stuff, just ask the butcher if it’s sushi fresh, they’ll know. Aside from smoked salmon, another safe meat to use for all the rawphobics out there is immitation crab meat, it comes precooked, tastes great, and looks really pretty in rolls.