Musubi

[Cup Noodle]

What the fuck is a Musubi? Well I'm glad you asked. Many decades ago some chinkey eyed bastards decided to bomb a U.S. airforce base on a barely hospitable island. The U.S. president knew it was coming but he wanted to turn his isolationist country into a war machine, but that is another story. After this occurred a war was started. On the american side there was a problem of getting meat to ships that could be deployed for months at a time. Some genius conjured up SPAM aka super preservative ham. Let's just fast forward through bazillions of lives lost. In 1945 the U.S. dropped two nuclear bombs on Nippon irradiating the entire nation and turning their brains to mush. On a side note this is how anime came to be. After Japan surrendered sailors would trade spam for slant pussy. For starving hookers this was a feast for the gods. At some point a hooker took a can of spam to a sushi chef who was short on fish, sugar, and vinegar and musubi or SPAM sushi was born. If you want to make this abomination for yourself I will tell you how. Get a musubi press from ebay or amazon or whatever first. Get one made in Japan. They know how it should be made considering it is the national dish of their hookers, and they won't fill the plastic full of carcinogens and testical shrinking chemicals like the chinks will.

Ingredients
Super Processed Ham
Rice
Nori (that green shit on sushi)
Oil
Soy boy sauce

Process
Step one is cooking rice. If you can't complete that competently you should probably just leave now.
Step two do all the rest of this while your rice is cooking
Step three slice spam and pan fry in oil. Sprinkle soy sauce on each side. I get eight slices per can. I prefer sesame oil cause asian.
Step four cut two nori sheets to make eight pieces.

Assembly
Stick a piece of spam in the middle of a strip of nori and shove it in the musubi press. Spoon in some fresh rice, amount to your liking. Press until firm, and then press out of the press and fold the nori. This is what it will look like and if you can't do this you should just go to McDonald's because you will never be able to cook for yourself much less others.

Congratulations. You have made broke ass hooker spam sushi.

(This is actually really good if you like spam)

 

[CivilianOfTheFandomWars]

This looks like some primo stoner snacks bro

 

[winterfag]

Spam musubi's pretty nice but the problem is that spam is the sort of thing I'd very rarely want to eat. I tend to also mix in a little oyster sauce and suger with the soy sauce I fry it in, hits the spot every once in a while but I'm pretty bad at making them sturdy. I've adjusted the amount of water I use in the rice cooker, and both rinsing the starch out and leaving it as is, but most of the times I've made it the rice in the musubi falls apart way too easily. Part of the problem is me using such shitty knives to cut (my musubi press handles two of them at once)

 

[Blue Screen of Death]

It's good shit, I need to buy the stuff to make it myself.

 

[仙草茶]

I certainly hope you copy-pasted that whole mess above, otherwise, may I suggest sunlight? fresh air?

 

[Cup Noodle]

Spam musubi's pretty nice but the problem is that spam is the sort of thing I'd very rarely want to eat. I tend to also mix in a little oyster sauce and suger with the soy sauce I fry it in, hits the spot every once in a while but I'm pretty bad at making them sturdy. I've adjusted the amount of water I use in the rice cooker, and both rinsing the starch out and leaving it as is, but most of the times I've made it the rice in the musubi falls apart way too easily. Part of the problem is me using such shitty knives to cut (my musubi press handles two of them at once)

If you don't like spam you shouldn't try spam recipes and you certainly shouldn't put fucking oyster sauce and sugar in oil. What the fuck is wrong with you. You can't even cook rice. I don't want to hear some excuse about a knife when the only time you need a knife is to cut the spam. Go code or whatever. Leave the cooking to us idiots.

I certainly hope you copy-pasted that whole mess above, otherwise, may I suggest sunlight? fresh air?

Might I suggest that someone could have an expedience of sunshine and prefers to spend their nights engaging in tom foolery?

 

[仙草茶]

Might I suggest that someone could have an expedience of sunshine and prefers to spend their nights engaging in

Aren't you a rare breed, if you find yourself fulfilled by that, all the more power to you!

 

[I Love Beef]

shit looks pretty gay

eat tenmusu

they're riceballs with deep fried tempura shrimp

better than this shit

infact make a loco moco with a burger patty and an egg, the fuck you use spam for

 

[Least Concern]

Your story about spam musubi's origins is painfully wrong but at least you earn points for comedy.

Spoiler: if you care

Both before and after WWII, Hawaii had a large population of ethnic Japanese, and they've been wrapping rice with a filling or topping in seaweed for centuries. Real meat is expensive in Hawaii due to limited space for ranches, but canned processed meats from the Mainland are more affordable. QED.

If you try to order spam musubi from an actual sushi restaurant in Japan, I'm pretty sure they'll just look at you with a confused expression on their faces. Same with dragon rolls or firecracker rolls or anything involving avocado, of course.

 

[qu_rahn]

If you don't like spam you shouldn't try spam recipes and you certainly shouldn't put fucking oyster sauce and sugar in oil. What the fuck is wrong with you. You can't even cook rice. I don't want to hear some excuse about a knife when the only time you need a knife is to cut the spam. Go code or whatever. Leave the cooking to us idiots.

>Put rice in machine
>Hit start
>Wait

How do weebs do it?

 

[Cup Noodle]

Spam musubi's pretty nice but the problem is that spam is the sort of thing I'd very rarely want to eat. I tend to also mix in a little oyster sauce and suger with the soy sauce I fry it in, hits the spot every once in a while but I'm pretty bad at making them sturdy. I've adjusted the amount of water I use in the rice cooker, and both rinsing the starch out and leaving it as is, but most of the times I've made it the rice in the musubi falls apart way too easily. Part of the problem is me using such shitty knives to cut (my musubi press handles two of them at once)

Botan CalRose rice. Rinse it even though it says you don't have to. 1.5 cups rice to 2 cups water. Thank me later.

Your story about spam musubi's origins is painfully wrong

It's my truth.

>Put rice in machine
>Hit start
>Wait

How do weebs do it?

We first rinse the rice using the neko paw method a few times over and we generally add water to the machine also. I'm also quite capable of using a stainless pot to cook rice or evcn traditional earthenware pots. Rice is actually hard to get right. If you go to a culinary school in Japan you will spend your first year pretty much just learning how to make rice.

 

[Least Concern]

Botan CalRose rice. Rinse it even though it says you don't have to.

You know why it says not to rinse it? Because most white rice sold nowadays is fortified with vitamins since it doesn't have much nutrition by itself - it's the brown rice which actually has nutrition and shit. Ever heard of beriberi? It's what people got when they ate too much white rice and too little of anything else and it was a problem back in the day before anyone understood what vitamins are, and it was also a problem in WWII because Japanese soldiers would in some cases feed their prisoners little more than white rice (either out of cruelty or just not having much else to give them). So modern white rice is fortified, but when you rinse it, you rinse a lot of that fortification right off.

Not a huge problem if you eat a fairly balanced diet otherwise, but there's really no need to rinse rice. Just cook it unwashed and get those vitamins.

 

[Cup Noodle]

You know why it says not to rinse it? Because most white rice sold nowadays is fortified with vitamins since it doesn't have much nutrition by itself - it's the brown rice which actually has nutrition and shit. Ever heard of beriberi? It's what people got when they ate too much white rice and too little of anything else and it was a problem back in the day before anyone understood what vitamins are, and it was also a problem in WWII because Japanese soldiers would in some cases feed their prisoners little more than white rice (either out of cruelty or just not having much else to give them). So modern white rice is fortified, but when you rinse it, you rinse a lot of that fortification right off.

Not a huge problem if you eat a fairly balanced diet otherwise, but there's really no need to rinse rice. Just cook it unwashed and get those vitamins.

Starch Fam. Rice pretty much is starch and those little particulates of rice hanging out on the grains thicken and sticken the end result. If you are just adding rice to a gumbo or something that's a good thing, but if you are trying to make rice a certain way, not so much. Rice is very complicated to get right and and differs from one type of rice to another. In my experience it is good practice to wash the rice and use the amount of water you use in cooking as the determining factor in the rice's consistency. I've even seen sticky on the outside rice still be hard in the middle. That was from my ex wife though and she couldn't cook worth a shit so it's probably irrelevant anyways. I'll continue to wash the excess starch from my rice

 

[XYZpdq]

any suggestions for faking the rice press? I hate buying non-food shit for quirky cheap crap food

 

[I can't imagine]

any suggestions for faking the rice press? I hate buying non-food shit for quirky cheap crap food

You can actually just use a SPAM can; just cut out the bottom of one of the shorter sized cans and it'll be basically the right size. You'll have to either watch for the sharp edges or use something to cover over them, though.

 

[Cup Noodle]

any suggestions for faking the rice press? I hate buying non-food shit for quirky cheap crap food

You can actually just use a SPAM can; just cut out the bottom of one of the shorter sized cans and it'll be basically the right size. You'll have to either watch for the sharp edges or use something to cover over them, though.

$7 and it won't be some nigger rigged contraption that will likely draw blood. It will probably cost more for a can of spam and a pack of nori. Hell it even has small lightweight packaging for traveling because you certainly wouldn't want to go on vacation without your musubi press.

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

Missed this thread for a week or so.

All hail the spam musubi. An absolutely nonsensical thing to be so fucking good. I would vote OP a recipe-mangling faggot, though - the spam isn't just brushed with soy sauce, it's a sweet, soy-sauce based glaze... Often no more than just some white sugar or mirin mixed in with the soy, but some of the locals have their own secret recipes using teriyaki sauce and oyster sauce and god knows what else. I like a few red chili flakes in mine.

Also was a gateway drug for me into onigiri in general.

 

[XYZpdq]

$7 and it won't be some nigger rigged contraption that will likely draw blood. It will probably cost more for a can of spam and a pack of nori. Hell it even has small lightweight packaging for traveling because you certainly wouldn't want to go on vacation without your musubi press.

seven dollars is about six dollars and fifty cents more than I want to spend on "lol it's cheap!"