Dramatic way of making the Japanese dessert "mochi"

10/16/2017

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Geography Story: Dramatic way of making the Japanese dessert "mochi"

Traditionally, the process of cooking is associated with slow motions and calm atmosphere. Quizzclub team was very surprised to find an aggressive way of making desserts.
The video is enclosed - come and see!

Mochi is a Japanese rice cake made of sticky rice dough. The process of making Mochi is called Mochitsuki:

1. The sticky rice is steamed or steeped for a night.

2. Then the rice is pounded for sometime by a wooden hammer. At least two men are needed for this: the second one waters the dough and mixes it with hands.

Geography Story: 2. Then the rice is pounded for sometime by a wooden hammer. At least two men are needed for this: the second one waters the dough and mixes it with hands. — pixabay Public Domain Dedication

3. Finally, the dough becomes chewy and ready to be shaped as a cake.

The fastest mochi master in Japan is Mitsuno Nakatani. He dedicated his life to mochi making. You can observe fragments of his work in the following video:

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11 Comments

Allison Aspden

That is most enlightening. I never knew anything about mochi.

Lourdes Ayala

Very interesting! I will try to find some Mochi at our local Asian market place

Ilias Tsiabardas

Boy it takes a Big Sweat to Make Mochi

Jacqueline Tattam

“ Traditionally, the process of cooking is associated with slow motions and calm atmosphere”. The author of this has obviously never cooked a thing in his/her life.