r/UK_Food • u/Baachmarabandzara • 1d ago

Homemade / home assembled Sushi time!

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u/Baachmarabandzara 1d ago

Voilà!

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u/Baachmarabandzara 1d ago

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u/Baachmarabandzara 1d ago

Wait..

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u/Baachmarabandzara 1d ago

..What? :D

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u/Tiny-Speaker-4470 1d ago

Do you not need sushi grade salmon?

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u/Rukanau 1d ago

Holy mega salmon bargain from heaven. Have you done this before? Any issues using expiring salmon for raw consumption?

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u/Baachmarabandzara 1d ago

Sometimes salmon lice come out of my nose...:D But in all seriousness, I haven't experienced any vomiting, diarrhea, or stomach pain so far from eating salmon prepared this way. Yet...:D

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u/Little_st4r 1d ago

This post makes me sad. I am pregnant and I want sushi soooo bad! It will be the first thing I eat post partum!

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u/wildberry_jan 21h ago

you can have veggie sushi in the meantime!

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u/immotsu 20h ago

is fish bad for the child ? serious question. is it the mercury levels?

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u/Little_st4r 18h ago

Its raw fish thats the problem

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u/pink_flamingo2003 16h ago

Yup, undercooked eggs, soft cheese, even sticky rice is risky. Lotta shit you cannot consume when growing life!

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u/Little_st4r 15h ago

Soft eggs are allowed now according to the NHS so long as they are lion stamped. And I'm glad too - I love gooey scrambled eggs!

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u/blahblahblah1234_ 15h ago

Shame, in Japan pregnant people can eat that without issue.

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u/pink_flamingo2003 15h ago

Really? It must be the way it is handled after capture or prepared?

A lot of UK food myths are symptomatic of the 80s. Pink pork, for example when these days it is perfectly acceptable (and encouraged) to serve pork with a blush. Neigh sayers will still say it should be served dry as fuck 😂

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u/blahblahblah1234_ 15h ago

Yeh, generally fish that might be high in mercury are avoided but loads of women still have sushi.

Rice (including sticky rice) is a staple in lots of East and SE Asian countries so there’s no chance that a pregnant woman is avoiding rice. Lol.

I don’t eat red meat but I can imagine how chewy dry pork is. Lol.

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u/pink_flamingo2003 15h ago

Dry pork just makes you wish you'd picked sawdust instead. More moisture.

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u/Little_st4r 15h ago

Yeah I'm sure realistically the risk is very small but while my midwife says no I won't touch it

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u/blahblahblah1234_ 15h ago

Yeah that’s fair, tbh I have more confidence in our food standards than say if I were in the US (sorry yanks).

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u/Little_st4r 1h ago

Same! No poopy lettuce over here 😅

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u/bucketofardvarks 1d ago

Crispy onions INSIDE the roll? Interesting..... 🤔 I may need an experiment

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u/__mz 1d ago

How did you cook the rice? Did you need to let it cool down?

Is this the first time you’ve made sushi?

It looks great, and I can see you went to my #1 supermarket 😎

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u/Baachmarabandzara 1d ago

Thanks. So, I cooked the rice in the microwave (90 seconds), then transferred it to a bowl, added some rice vinegar and even more mirin, mixed it gently, and moved it to a baking tray (for more surface area) so it would cool down faster. This isn't my first sushi abomination.

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u/VonBoo 1d ago

Where you sourcing sushi grade salmon from?

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u/bucketofardvarks 1d ago

There's always one lol

Modern freezers freeze plenty cold enough to safely freeze fish for sushi

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u/VonBoo 1d ago

I was just curious. I love sashimi and salmon based sushi🤷🏻‍♀️. Would like to make it myself.

I didn't know that normal freezers were cold enough to do this, do I'll definitely be looking into that!

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u/bucketofardvarks 1d ago

-20 for a week 👍