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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."
Try the soylent green. Its delicious.
erm..
I'm on a diet, you insensitive...
uhh..
FP?
*sigh* ... I got nothin'...
mmm... yeah... You see, we're putting the cover sheets on all TPS reports now before they go out...
But where is the eatable electronic ink paper! Ohh I need to go print a TPS report then feed it to my boss - bbl.
I was informed a while ago (to my surprise) that Sushi doesn't necessarily contain fish. I now understand that Sushi relates to the seasoning of rice and the style of presentation - typically with Nori (seaweed).
[Tell me if I'm wrong and you're the CEO of Sony or similar!]
It tastes like toner.
Domo Arigato Mr.Homaro
Indeed - sashimi is raw fish, often served with sushi.
Yeah, all obes people should be forced to eat their words!
Sushi doesn't taste fishy - or at least good sushi doesn't.
Does he also print the nutritional information on the back as well?
... there's something fishy going on here ...
"The dew has clearly fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning"
Holy crap! I knew that they made it out of old paper. Tesco (UK's WalMart) make everything taste of paper. Now I know.
Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules.
and although the place sounds interesting, it's way too outside the budget I need for a feeding.
here's an review I found that sums it up:
[ ]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.
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The word Sushi, to my understanding, is derived from the words su (vinegar) and meshi (rice).
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!
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Yep, sushi is cold rice flavoured with vinegar and sugar. This food can be used in various ways, and rolls are just one variation.
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, sashimi tends to go very well with sushi.
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How can the guy call it sushi when it has no sushi-rice?
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.
Great, so now we can actually fax them food.
Let's see - vast drone-like armies of workers ... corporate marauders ... increased terrorism ... now pictures of food instead of food. If DeNiro shows up to fix my toilet I'm moving to Canada.
Anyone sharing a desk with their neighbor in the next cube yet?
Contrast with Surstromming, which is fish allowed to ferment in the can to preserve itself. Thank you, Sweden, for one-upping Norway. Lutefisk wasn't disgusting enough.
If it were an HP printer when the seaweed part of the cartridge expired youd have to replace the WHOLE cartridge and it would cost $5000 dollars, and expire when there is still 15% sushi left!
Our intelligent designer has never created an animal that we couldn't improve by strapping a bomb to it.
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.
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.
No, if DeNiro showed up, he'd already be in Brazil.
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
>The 3-D printer could function as a cooking device, creating silicone molds for pill-sized dishes flavored, say, like watermelon, bacon and eggs or even beef Bourguignon, he said, and he could also make edible molds out of cornstarch.
Is he trying to create the mythic Replicator from Star Trek?
-johnmeier
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???
It's called "sashimi" when there is *NO* rice. i.e. just slices of raw fish. Sushi is either nigiri or maki. Nigiri is peices of (usually) fish on top of balls of rice. Maki are what the "rolls". In both cases, the rice is seasoned with vinegar and sugar. See http://www.rain.org/~hutch/rice.html for sushi rice info.
This of course will get its breakthrough (as with VHS, Internet, DVD, P2P) when pornn pics can be printed with flavour.
Don't forget hakarl, shark meat that's been buried in the sand for six months...
I call bs. You are posting on /. hence you can't have a girlfriend let alone a hot asian one.
:-P
Next you are going to say she likes watching Anime and playing on the PS2.
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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.
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Yeah, in the same way the kittens = poptarts.
Actually, now we can say,
"My dad ate my homework as a late night snack"
OR
"I ate my homework, it tasted like an A-."
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".
And we wonder why people crash planes into our buildings.
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You know, oblivion keeps looking better every day.
So.... Does someone have a torrent link for this? Now all we need is printable beer and we're all set.
"We'll be the first restaurant on planet Earth to use a class IV laser to cook food"
Anyone got a link to the planet that already does this?
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...
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You are posting on /. hence you can't have a girlfriend let alone a hot asian one.
I think by 'hot japanese girlfriend' he meant his computer. Maybe it's overclocked?
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Soylent Sushi is PAPER!
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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...
I just don't think I could do lutefisk...
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When willl they learn that sushi is a art form, not to be duplicated by a machiene.
Actually, the technology has existed for a few years now to do this with icing on cakes. I was able to put the stanza of a poem on my groom's cake by giving them a pdf file of the poem stanza text and a graphic. They then printed the icing out onto the cake. It was quite neat and did a very good job, though naturally you still neat artistic skill for any of the frilly edges and 3D creations. ;-) !
And, before anyone asks, the poem had nothing to do with Nantucket
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for astronaut food. I am not saying taking a printer into space with flavor ink cartridges, mind you, but that the printed papers be shipped with them...
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.
I went to Moto in November for my birthday and I have to say it's not as wacky and people make out to be, but it's also a pretty good restaurant. That last statment assumes you don't have a problem paying the same amount for dinner that you would for a mini iPod. I don't do often but, I'm a foodie and I like a challenge. There are plenty things to not like about Moto most revolves around his attempts a 'new' ways to make food. The 'sushi' well it tastes kind of salty, kind of like seaweed (go figure). If I remember correctly it was served after a champagne sorbet or some caviar course which was much better (the basics always works). The overall experiance was good, there are plenty of aother places that I would want to go before I go back, but I definitetly would he is at least trying something new.
Tastes a little flat? Just sprinkle some Epson salt on it.
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.
At Market District newcomer MOTO, the show starts with waitstaff dressed in black lab coats, ...
Dude, somebody call PETA quick!
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Counterfit Susi is it Ok to pay with money I ran off on my printer?
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No thanks, I'm not going to eat anything whose name sounds even *remotely* like "Hot Karl."
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