Does anyone here make their own sushi? Is it worth it economically?
It's only hard for the first 5 years when you have to keep throwing the rolls away because they aren't up to senpais standards.
>>21696058You can't make sushi without proper training. You're not making sushi, you're making trash masquerading as sushi.
>>21696058Its very affordable if u leave out the FishI tried it once, but not with raw Fish "sushi grade" is way to expensive, and i dont really know how much of a meme it is, but seaweed and short grain Rice is very affordable where i live, the most expensive ingredient would be kewpie mayo, but this u can Substitute well.
>>21696102Ah yes, i cant imagine how fish laid on rice would taste without someone training 10 years for it.
>>21696107From my understanding it takes 10 years just to learn the eggNo I won't cite my source *taps stack of papers on table*
>>21696058I made some salmon rolls a while back with some supposedly high quality frozen salmon. It was a lot cheaper than buying the rolls at a restaurant, but the salmon was noticeably lower quality than what you get at restaurants. It was still pretty good.
I make onigirazu from time to time and the Japanese girl down the street made "sushi casserole" for our block party last month. It's sushi rice pressed into a casserole dish, topped with decent quality tinned fish, eel sauce and green onion. To eat, you serve yourself a scoop into your plate and grab at it with pieces of nori. She said it's common in Hawaii, where it's actually eaten with raw fish (like a variant on poke I guess) but I've never heard of it before then.
>>21696058it's basically just forming and rolling rice, raw fish and vegit's much more efficient to just make it as a poke bowl
>>21696058If I caught the fish, I'd make sushi with it. Otherwise it's economically not worth it to me.
You can make the lower grade sushi cheaply, but it only makes sense to make in volume. The ingredients in California rolls and spicy tuna rolls are fairly cheap.
I wanna make oniggery do anyone got a decent sushi rice recipe?
>>21696110it took me just one when I found out the heat of the rice cook the egg
>>21696498Use the Morimoto method for short-grain rice
>>21696498You don't use the same vinegar seasoning for onigiri just a little salt is mixed in.
>>21696565>>21696571thank youuuu
>>21696058I've been making California rolls for a couple of months now, which is pretty cheap:>Short grain rice (I like Tamaki Gold)>Sushi seasoning (Mizkan is good and convenient)>Nori sheets>Immitation crab (individually wrapped sticks, kept in freezer)>Toasted sesame seeds>Fresh ingredients: cucumber and avocadoIt's as good or better than any cali rolls I've had at sushi places. I would like to try salmon and tuna nigiri next.
Sorry, I’m still learning how to sharpen the knife I’ll use to open the sack of rice
>>21696233this. I love a bowl with sliced seared blue rare salmon
>>21696368thats how you get parasites. sushi grade fish gotta be deep frozen for a minimum time I forgot now to become safe
>>21696105You don't need sushi grade fish. Any fish good enough to eat raw is fine.
>>21696058>Is it worth it economicallyPickle your own cucumbers, and it's trivial. Fake-krabe is cheap. You just need a bamboo or plastic roller, short grain rice, rice vinegar, nori wraps, stuffings. That's it. >>21696633OP ought to sear at least if he hazards it.
I made it twice, first time I fumbled the rolls, second time they were better. I thought the rice would be the hardest thing but that was easy and I don't have a rice cooker. It's obviously cheaper than going out to eat.
>>21696137Poke bowls are fire.As is korean bibimbap.
As other have said volume is key, and it's much simpler at home to forgo making maki and uramaki rolls and either go do nigiri or just straight up pokebowls. If you do want prep a large number of rolls ahead of time and chill in the fridge or just have one big sushirito these Sushi Bazooka Makers on Amazon are really cheap and work great:https://www.amazon.com/FrZslpka-Sushi-Maker-Vegetables-Indispensable/dp/B0B2WJNKN4
>>21697232I prefer Ethiopian bibimbap
>>21696058if you want cheap homemade sushi just buy some farm raised frozen salmon and cold water defrost it.
It is worth it economically to make sushi for tonight and maybe into tomorrow's lunch but don't try to stretch it further than that, it isn't a good that keeps fresh for longer than a few hours. With that said I don't use a bamboo roller, I figured out how to roll it with just a paper plate; I use three wet seaweed wraps of height shingled onto each other and put the rice in the middle, then quartered cucumber, avocado, tuna and crab. It's very easy to roll, if you're good at rolling a joint or a cigarette you will get the hang of it quickly
>>21696058you shouldn't make it because it's cheaper, you should make it because you enjoy it
>>21696058I put mayo and honey mustard on my sushi.
>>21696058The problem is that even if you try to buy minute amounts you'll end up with tons of one type of fish. You won't be able to make the variety they're able to serve at sushi restaurants and eating like 15 salmon nigiri gets old really quick.
>>21696058yeah rice cooker, roll it around a bit, attach some salmon, store bought wasabi and soy sauce, serve with marinated ginger that can also be bought canned there's nothing to it, quality depends on how good your fish is
>>21697683>gets old for you
>>21697700You're a big eater
>>21697683Do you only eat fish in sushi? Surely you can reuse the leftover fish in other meals
>>21696102Based
You don't have to make maki rolls You can just make sushi rice bowls and serve with nori sheets Then just roll em up like tacos for dunking if you wantIt's very cheap
>>21696058>Does anyone here make their own sushi?Yes. I eat rice, seaweed, and fish, and it all comes out of my asshole in perfectly formed brown rolls. (The heat of the rectum cooks the rice.)
>>21696102Faggot detected
>>21696618>cucumber and avocadoCucumber would be ideal.
just make gimbap. gimbap is like sushi except for the fact that you dont have to pretend to like it (because it actually tastes good)
>>21697779das not it mane
>>21697779it's the same thing
>>21697683>raw salmon rolls>grilled salmon rolls>salmon tartare rollsIt's as salmonimple as that.Tuna is overrated. Norwegian salmon mogs it in every dimension. Yes, I had fresh Maguro (that's "tuna" in Japanese) in Japan and it still sucked.
>>21696058I don't really bother making much in the way of fish rolls other than salmon. Typically use real or imitation crab, or chicken (I'm sorry Jiro-san). Absolutely blows any sushi places near me out of the water cost wise, but sometimes a man wants that good tuna and I just don't think that's happening at home anytime soon. Onigiri are pretty nice to make too. Have to field a ton of questions whenever I make them for lunch at work though.
>>21697779You guys put so many nondelicious garbage ingredients in your gimbap though, the only good one is beef Basically all sushi is delicious
>>21696058I tried making sushi once and nearly lost my life. Now, I leave it to the professionals.
>>21696058Economically? Maybe yes, maybe no.Do you catch wild tuna while out trolling on your boat, which costs you $300/trip to fill the gas tank? If so, it's fresh enough. The cost of the rice, veggies and sheets of nori are neglible.Or anyone can steam crab or boil and shell some shrimp and open a tin of caviar. Anyone can use smoked salmon. Tamago is easy mode.
>>21696102In the information age, you can self-train for nearly anything if you have the time and materials. It's just a matter of whether or not someone is deficient like you and either can't find a good source or the doesn't have the discipline to stomach being bad before becoming good.
>>21696137I think that's the optimal way to do it at home to be quite desu with you. We tend to do onigiri now and then here for work lunch meal prep, and it holds up quite well for a few days. I keep the nori in a separate bag and my girlfriend wraps them at lunch when she's eating so it stays dry and fresh instead of getting soggy and chewy, and I tend to fill it with either a sugar/mirin/bonito flake mix or a standard tinned tuna/sriracha/mayo type filling. Both kinds tend to get a sprinkling of furikake on the outside as well. Both are well received. Between the rice, fish, and rice seasoning, it's quite cheap, and does tend to scratch that sushi itch, despite being kind of sloppa compared to actual decent quality sushi. They're very moreish, I can house quite a few of them if left to my own devices.
>>21697232>Poke bowls are fire.poke bowls are a god damn lottery.good ones are really good, bad ones are borderline inedible.If i don't get at least one option without avocado i won't even consider it.edamame also kinda sucks but it's bearable
>>21697779>worst korea slop>unseasoned rice>clusterfuck of abrasive filling ingredients to appease gook palates which have the taste preference of a kitchen sink garbage disposalpass
>>21698031nta but I tried to self-teach coding in C with the textbook available online and I was genuinely too retarded for that shit. Like I was reading the textbook page one onwards, wrote notes, and processed them but nothing stuck even after about 10 chapters. Maybe it doesn’t apply to cooking but there’s limits to intellect.
Only if it's cooked like>egg>shrimp>canned tuna>fake crab
>>21698026>Tamago is easy mode.Shut the fuck up, how many years have you studied the tamago for?
>>21698154>unseasoned riceSo you've never actually had kimbap. Neat.
It's easy, anons won't make the rice correctly so it's super sticky to spread and they won't use a sharp enough knife to cut through the nori.
you can use high quality canned fish for zero risk. sockeye salmon is pretty good for it>>21698325>and they won't use a sharp enough knife to cut through the nori.shut up...
>>21696102LololThen I will keep making trash and getting praised. The most important part of sushi, from my own humble experience, is the rice. More specifically, the ratio of sugar and vinegar and salt and types used.
>>21697779Just tried this. It was awful. Had bell peppers. Terrible texture for a roll.
>>21696102video related https://youtube.com/watch?v=lF46Cel3EUo
>>21698871I don't believe you. : )
>>21698861>The most important part of sushi, from my own humble experience, is the rice.Yup, if you get the rice perfect, any filling is delicious. Even just plain cucumber maki rolls
>>21696058Sushi is faggot food
>>21696058>Does anyone here make their own sushi? yes>Is it worth it economically?irrelevant
>>21699037This isn't even remotely true, son.
buying the sushi rice, the rice vinegar, soy sauce, and nori alone would probably be the price of a meal for one at some cheap take out.
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>>21696618If those are your rolls they look really good.>>21697932I don’t know why the pickled radish is always in gimbap, it’s so much better without the radish and I always poke them out
>>21696058>pictured: AU$22.50 Yes it's worth it to make your own. You do have to use the special sushi rice though, or it won't work
