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Sushi Prepared on a Printer 306
Ant writes " The New York Times talks about Homaro Cantu's maki, it looks a lot like the sushi rolls served at other upscale restaurants: pristine, coin-size disks stuffed with lumps of fresh crab and rice and wrapped in shiny nori. They also taste like sushi, deliciously fishy and seaweedy. But the sushi made by Mr. Cantu, the 28-year-old executive chef at Moto in Chicago, often contains no fish. It is prepared on a Canon i560 inkjet printer rather than a cutting board. He prints images of maki on pieces of edible paper made of soybeans and cornstarch, using organic, food-based inks of his own concoction. Then, Homaro flavors the back of the paper, which is ordinarily used to put images onto birthday cakes, with powdered soy and seaweed seasonings."
Mmm (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Mmm (Score:2, Funny)
Talk about being hungry an hour after eating...
Next we'll learn how to grill steaks on a Lexmark printer... soon there will be no need to leave the computer room for lunch!
EricSee your browser's HTTP headers [ericgiguere.com]
Re:Mmm (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Mmm (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, I dunno, you might be able to grill a steak on this printer [pcworld.com].
EricIt's Paper! (Score:5, Funny)
hmm... (Score:2, Funny)
erm..
I'm on a diet, you insensitive...
uhh..
FP?
*sigh* ... I got nothin'...
There's always ... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:it gets worse (Score:2)
Re:hmm... (Score:2)
But where? (Score:5, Funny)
hehe (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, all obes people should be forced to eat their words!
Re:But where? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:But where? (Score:3, Funny)
"What is edible sushi underwear."
Sushi Fishy. (Score:5, Informative)
[Tell me if I'm wrong and you're the CEO of Sony or similar!]
Re: (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Sushi Fishy. (Score:5, Informative)
The birth of sushi as we know it, was to use this vinegar rice to wrap fish in it, to conserve the fish, sometimes for months!
Re:Sushi Fishy. (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Sushi Fishy. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Sushi Fishy. (Score:2, Interesting)
It's not a fair comparison ;-) (Score:3, Insightful)
Rakfisk [lahlum.net] is worse than lutefisk, I think. Surstrømming might still win as the most disgusting dish, but at least it's a bit of a match.
Re:Sushi Fishy. (Score:2)
Re:Sushi Fishy. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Sushi Fishy. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Sushi Fishy. (Score:2)
My hot Japanese girlfriend says you are wrong.
This is the kanji for sushi: here [google.com]
Re:Sushi Fishy. (Score:3, Funny)
Next you are going to say she likes watching Anime and playing on the PS2.
Re:Sushi Fishy. (Score:5, Funny)
I think by 'hot japanese girlfriend' he meant his computer. Maybe it's overclocked?
Re:Sushi Fishy. (Score:2)
I'll do him one better - I've got a hot Asian (actually Japanese) wife!
But he is actually right - sushi neither refers to the rice nor directly to the fish. It's a method of preserving food. Specifically, it originally was a method of preserving fish - hence it generally being served with fish today (though not always). But it is not really correct to say that sushi does not refer to the fish - without fish,
Re:Sushi Fishy. (Score:2)
Re:Sushi Fishy. (Score:3, Informative)
More common at home is to make "shirashizushi" - basically a large bowl with the rice and a bunch of different toppings spread out on top. Another variation is to have rice and toppings in bowls, then take a piece of nori (pressed seaweed) and add some sushi and whatever toppings you like, then roll up and eat - sort of the same way you make tacos.
But yes, as it happens, sashim
Re:Sushi Fishy. (Score:2, Informative)
I tried this at home (Score:4, Funny)
Thanks (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Thanks (Score:2)
mi-su-ta-a su-pa-a-ko-ru
For lucky best sushi.
Re:Thanks (Score:2)
Good sushi doesn't taste fishy (Score:3, Informative)
Re: (Score:2)
Re:Good sushi doesn't taste fishy (Score:4, Informative)
It isn't
Seriously, next time you're in a port town, try some fresh Sashimi, I guarantee it won't taste like "fish" at all - or at least it won't taste like what most people seem to think fish tastes like (that is to say, f'in nasty).
Re:Good sushi doesn't taste fishy (Score:2)
No seriously even catfish doesn't taste 'fishy' other than texture when it's fresh. By fresh I mean Catch fish on shore line, gut, clean, prep, and cook over open fire within 5 minutes of catching.(cook longer than 5 minutes)
Some of the best fish i have ever had, never made it to a fridge.
Re:Good sushi doesn't taste fishy (Score:2)
I think he's just saying that raw fish should not remind a woman that they need to visit the drug store.
Re:Good sushi doesn't taste fishy (Score:2)
Now, if you mean that good sushi shouldn't taste like canned cat food, well, then, yes. Sushi should taste like fish. At least the sashimi.
Is this low carb? (Score:5, Funny)
Not very filling... (Score:2)
How many sheets of paper would you have to eat to constitute your 100%DV of fiber I wonder? MMmmmm...paper, D'oh!
Tesco Sushi (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Tesco Sushi (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Tesco Sushi (Score:2)
Re:Tesco Sushi (Score:2)
Re:Tesco Sushi (Score:2)
I live in chicago (Score:5, Informative)
here's an review I found that sums it up: [chicagoreader.com]
[ ]For the past decade restaurants have gone to great lengths--showy food, exposed kitchens, gimmicky menus--to add drama to their dining rooms. But when the theatrics overshadow the food, a restaurant and its diners are in trouble. At Market District newcomer MOTO, the show starts with waitstaff dressed in black lab coats, continues with aromatherapeutic flatware threaded with sprigs of fresh herbs (listed as a course on the menu!), and hits a peak when servers approach the table with six-inch syringes to inject a single rice ball with sweet-and-sour sauce. And if you think Charlie Trotter's servings are small, wait till you see what chef Homaro Cantu calls a salad: a teaspoon of tiny spinach gelatin cubes and another of frisee. A bite-size portion of scallops came sitting atop a plastic box (constructed by Cantu himself), where a small but tasty filet of black bass was steaming in "Pacific Oceanic products" (water FedExed in from the Pacific). If the minuscule portions of white-truffle ice-cream spaghetti and smoked-watermelon soup tasted good I'd be more forgiving, but they didn't. It goes on like this through the 13th course--you'll wish you'd opted for the five- or seven-course meal or, evenbetter, that you'd gone next door to Folia instead. Moto is at 945 W. Fulton, 312-491-0058.
Re:I live in chicago (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:I live in chicago (Score:2, Insightful)
Perhaps after eating 13 courses of tiny ammounts of food I might be "full"... nope.
Sure it tastes good (subjective) but if I pay $100.00 I don't want to need to eat again till at least the next regular meal time.
Sheeh I'll take McDonalds!
Black Lab Coats? (Score:3, Funny)
Dude, somebody call PETA quick!
New Canon disclaimer (Score:2, Funny)
Re:New Canon disclaimer (Score:2)
Sushi is the rice, not the fish (Score:3, Interesting)
It's made from soybeans.
It's like saying a tofu steak is a prime cut of filet mignon because you colored it and added some flavoring.
Re:Sushi is the rice, not the fish (Score:2)
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Paging Mr. Tuttle ... er ...Buttle (Score:3, Funny)
Anyone sharing a desk with their neighbor in the next cube yet?
Re:Paging Mr. Tuttle ... er ...Buttle (Score:3, Funny)
Good thing it wasn't an HP printer (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, go on, applaud the criminal (Score:5, Funny)
Hmmmm (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Hmmmm (Score:2)
STFU will ya? Who the fuck are they to tell other women what they can and can't do?
Moto's is always doing this crap. (Score:5, Interesting)
Look, it's not sushi, if you RTFA you'll see it's a novelty item printed with sushi designs on the outside -- it's not supposed to even look like sushi.
That apart, the point about Moto's is that it doesn't serve actual food, it serves insanely tiny and bizarre objets d'art in Kubrik-esque surroundings. You don't go there to eat, you go there to witness the most ridiculous restaurant ever, and boy do they deliver! Single strand of spaghetti? You can get that. Silver teaspoon containing tiny dab of meat-flavored ice cream? You can get that (but can't keep the teaspoon). Giant pile of pretention, drenched with arrogance, topped with a fundamental inability to understand cookery and garnished with a four-digit bill? They have that, too -- actually, it's compulsory.
It's still part of what makes Chicago great, though.
Re:Moto's is always doing this crap. (Score:2)
of course not, did you think you could print sushi? i mean, when /. summarizes that "Darl McBride eats shit," do we really mean that (even if we want it to be true)? :P
Re:Moto's is always doing this crap. (Score:4, Interesting)
Well, actually, I was picturing a printer that lays down a layer of sushi rice in a given pattern, lays toppings on that, and thus 'prints' out plates of sushi to order. So you could dial up '20 maguro in a ring, then 10 amaebi and 10 engawa within that, and NO UNI' and it would lay down nigiri accordingly and output just such a pattern of sushi, with NO UNI.
Ever since I saw a stereolith machine the other day, I have been in awe of the wondrous power of printers.
Re:Maybe fresh UNI is OK? [OT]. (Score:2)
Mmmmmmmmmmmm.... Uni.
Re:Moto's is always doing this crap. (Score:2)
And the only reason I'd go to Chicago is to not eat a nice, big steak.
Re:Moto's is always doing this crap. (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Moto's is always doing this crap. (Score:3, Informative)
Not true, it's in the shape of maki and has pictures of maki on the paper, and is wrapped around maki. That's how it was served to some friends on tuesday. It's also flavored to taste like sushi.
-ed
Beam me up, Cantu (Score:2, Interesting)
Is he trying to create the mythic Replicator from Star Trek?
-johnmeier
smelly soybean (Score:2, Insightful)
Pr0n (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Pr0n (Score:5, Funny)
bad news: someone could slip a pic of the goatse guy into your sandwich when you're not looking.
Re:Pr0n (Score:2)
good news: You could actually print a picture of Natalie Portman that tastes like hot grits.
You could do that now with no printing necesarry, just heat the paper. Grits... ugh.
More on Matrix-Jet Printing (Score:2)
Maybe I'm a traditionalist... (Score:3, Insightful)
$240 per person to eat PAPER?!?! (Score:5, Funny)
Torrent? (Score:2, Funny)
Print a pizza and save on delivery (Score:2)
And, of course, you pay for the receipe and the royalities to Mr. Cantu only. The ingredients will be stocked in the supplies cabinet in your office.
Interesting (Score:4, Funny)
Anyone got a link to the planet that already does this?
Opaque box? (Score:3, Insightful)
"The tiny opaque box, about three inches square, is made of a superinsulating polymer. Mr. Cantu heats the box to 350 degrees in an oven and places a raw piece of Pacific sea bass inside it. A server then delivers it to diners, who can watch the fish cook."
I would have thought that it would have needed to be clear, or at least translucent to see the contents...
Moto review and pics at lthforum.com (Score:2)
the amuse was cornstarch packing peanuts flavored like buttered popcorn
the paper maki was on there, as was a spur of the moment "raccoon roadkill" dish made up of leftover raccoon meat one of the diners brought in.
you really need to see the pictures for some of them.
moto review + pics [lthforum.com]
Axiom (Score:3, Insightful)
Hey, is that Sushi in your pocket or are you just happy sashimi?
The fine art of sushi takes another hit (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The fine art of sushi takes another hit (Score:2, Insightful)
cake icing (Score:3, Interesting)
And, before anyone asks, the poem had nothing to do with Nantucket
Not a bad idea.... (Score:3, Interesting)
Though I suppose they could try both, but if the printer malfunctions, they'd starve if they relied on this exclusively.
But this allows for more efficient storage. With a bit more tweaking with the proper research, with proper packaging which can also reduce the amount of exposed surface, this could be a really great way to provide nutrients for space travel, etc.
Protein contents? (Score:2)
Beyond 2000 (Score:2)
Chat with the guy who invented Bubblejet sushi: (Score:2)
He's one of the members of eGullet.
It's all slightly underwhelming (Score:2, Funny)
Re:so it will be finally possible to say.. (Score:2)
Re:so it will be finally possible to say.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:so it will be finally possible to say.. (Score:3, Funny)
"My dad ate my homework as a late night snack"
OR
"I ate my homework, it tasted like an A-."
Re:Right Way (Score:2)
Re:Right Way (Score:2)
I wonder how much I could sell prints of rice cakes sprinkled with butter salt. People could never tell the difference with the real thing.
Re:Paper jam? (Score:2)
Paper Cassette - Load Letter format paper (Score:2)
I'm sure you probably knew that.
However, some minor trivia. Apparently in the US it usually indicates that the Letter format paper in the Paper Cassette has run out and needs to be refilled. Here in Australia we used to see it for a different reason. We use A4 paper, which the printer knew was A4. From memory, if you installed Word without setting the region right, or, alternatively used the Default template, which I think defaulted to Letter format paper, you would get this message even if the paper cass
Re:Hot sushi! Try a laser printer (Score:2)
Re:Cooking != Art (Score:2)