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Sushi Prepared on a Printer
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."
Lutefisk is actually pretty good. I never liked it the first few years I lived in Norway, but now I look forward to it. It also depends where I get it - Stortorvet Gjestiveri is good I think, but other places I've had tried didn't taste as good. Of course, you need enough of the bacon fat poured on top to make it taste good :-)
Leave it to the US to take something thats been perfected over the course of a couple hundred years, and destroy it in the length of an article. I get the whole gimmick thingie, and the fact that you can 'now' eat stuff you normally wouldn't (edible underwear)but whats the friggin point. Sushi is supposed to be simple, quick, fresh, easy and healthy. I just don't see the point in all this???
This of course will get its breakthrough (as with VHS, Internet, DVD, P2P) when pornn pics can be printed with flavour.
It's not a fair to compare lutefisk with surstrømming. That's a fixed race.
Rakfisk 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.
Irene KHAAAAAAN!
but if I'm going to spend 240 bucks on sushi, I damn-well better be eating raw fish, not pictures of raw fish. It's an interesting idea, sure, and some of his inventions may have practical uses, but I highly doubt he's going to be able to levitate food. He'd either need to cool it with liquid nitrogen and put it on a superconducting plate, making it inedible, or he'd need freakin' huge magnets. And as for food disappearing, hell, I can do that easily. It's called "eating".
From TFA:
"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...
"When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind." -- Bill Moyers
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
Hey, is that Sushi in your pocket or are you just happy sashimi?
I might know what I'm talkin' about, but then again, this is Slashdot...
Not everyone shares your own idea of disgusting. I had an American girlfriend who loved pop-tarts.
I found myself on the verge of vomiting after a single bite. Seriously.
A lot of foods take some training for most people to like. Remember the first time you had coffee, beer, green olives, pickles, chili? Most adults enjoy at least some of these, but not a lot of small children do.
But hey, it's the adults that are wrong; except for the olives all the rest are bad for you in some way. So ban foods that most toddlers don't like, we don't need none of that in a modern, industrialized, first-world country anyway, right?
Gosh I go to a resturant to - uh - eat.
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!
Please. The Japanese culture is one of the least likely to have a problem with robotic sushi chefs. It their food, after all.
For $240, that meal had better include spotted owl, bald eagle, and wooly mammoth! Seriously, how many people out there have ever spent $240 on a meal, let alone $240 per person?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.