The promise?
Achieving an ideally sticky sushi rice without relining your kitchen with rice or gunning down the bottom of your pan. This culinary miracle takes place in a simple curved plastic bowl and a silicone cap. The rice cooker comes with a plastic spoon like in Japanese restaurants and a silicone mat to roll perfect makis.
Cooking?
I open, skeptical it must be admitted, the sushi kit. The objects are of good quality although I do not see the use of this spoon. I'm looking for the tiny instructions for cooking cereals and sushi rice. Intense reading. Proofreading. I still don't understand the why and how of it. I decide to let my talent do the talking and I add a cup of well-rinsed round rice (because I'm a sushi rice purist) and a cup of water to the pressure cooker. If I interpret the instructions correctly, we season afterwards but as a good bad student who respects myself I add the sugar and the rice vinegar before cooking. And presto, microwave for 12 minutes at 800 watts. After 10 minutes, I taste my rice. Hmm… not sticky enough. I give 5 minutes. It couldn't be more sticky! Looks like concrete. First batch:trash.
Here we go again but I decide to cook for only 12 minutes. Not bad. I let it cool down and psychologically prepare myself for rolling the maki.
Rolling?
In my memory, rolling maki is a disaster. I carefully prepare the seaweed, the ingredients and off we go. Fortunately, I already have my first star in maki rolling because it is not the instructions that will save me! First try with the silicone mat. More than bof, but you have to take the hand. After three puddings of rice with this damn silicone I decide to take back my super wooden mat. That changes everything and ten minutes later I think I'm the queen of maki rolling. I think I just got my second star.
The tasting?
Hmm that's good! and it's made with everything I love. The rice is perfectly cooked. My ingredients are fresh. In short, me and my girlfriends who came to encourage me, we enjoy ourselves.
The balance sheet?
It is a product that works. Really. The rice cooks easily in the microwave in just 12 minutes. The silicone washes well which is a nice change from pot-with-rice-stuck-to-the-bottom scrubbing. But for about thirty makis, you still have to count nearly 2 hours between the multiple cooking of the rice (the portions indicated are REALLY below reality! Cheerfully multiply by 2 or 3 the quantity of rice listed), the cooking period cooling and the oh so playful period of driving. In short, these sushi come out of your eyes even before you have tasted them. So yes, it works. But honestly get delivered!
