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NPC,

Interesting question, but it might be really difficult thing to do for a few reasons:

I’m assuming you want to use the stuff because it has a really low carb and therefor starch contents. (it’s pretty much 97% water and some fiber). Sushi rice has a really high starch content which togther with the vinegar and sugar help bind everything as you’d want from sushi rice. Most binding agents you’d want to use to create a similar effect are also one form of starch or another.

Even if you want to use something like that, you’re still trying to loosly bind together little pellets of already “geletanised” water. That’s a difficult thing to do no matter what. Anything you do will probably interfere with the rice itself, either breaking the binding in the rice or turning everything into one big sticky blob.

That being said, if you dont mind trying some things and introducing some starch to bind things, there are a few things I would try in this situation:

Sushi rice is usually served cold, if this is the case you can try to use this to your advantage. I would try a really small amount of agar agar or maybe even pectin. These only really start binding when cooled down. In this case I somehow feel a small amount of liquid pectin (and vinegar and some sugar) just after cooking the rice, might give an interesting effect when it’s all cooled down.

Otherwise I’d try introducing back in some starch, preferably sushi starch so simulate back the starch that would otherwise leak out of the rice during cooking.

Hope this helps a bit

NPC,

No problem, this really was an interesting question that got my brain going in a fun way. Lemme know how things turn out

NPC,

This is easiest to do from a skillet, but a a pair of tongs or tweezers and sort of squeeze your pasta while turning the tongs around. You’ll curl up your spaghetti. Then use the tongs to slide the pasta from the pan onto the plate. Let go of the tongs the tiniest bit and pull it out of your spaghetti. It should give you a much nice and organised ball o’ spaghet

NPC,

That’s the fun part, just like everywhere else in my life. I just don’t

NPC,

Yeah, I just feel like my limited brain power is better put to use building a new aquarium or terrarium (my hobby) than sorting through clothes and such

NPC,

I’ve been keeping tarantulas for a few years now, had some extra cash laying around so decided to get a small aquarium to liven up my desk. Needless to say I’m planning a second and bigger aquarium for in the living room.

I do also have this huge terrarium for snakes project I have to work on, but that really is a long term project.

NPC,

Nestlé doesn’t steal water, they bride officials for it fair and square

NPC,

Act like it’s a police stop, give them the info that’s required and otherwise shut the hell up

NPC,

I have that setting, but even still bots seem to slip through. Even the ones marked as bots

NPC,

I had a cat called “D.C.” it stood for Dead Cat. Or was a fully black cat I saved from certain death in the wood, hence the name

NPC,

My favourite three are:

  1. Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolegnhi and Sami Tamimi; The book is made by a Jew and an Arab. They manage to bring together the differing flavours from both their different heritages while still keeping most things withing reach of most people.
  2. The bread Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum; It’s a great book all about bread ( I really love good bread, but who doesn’t) while still keeping things prert simple again.
  3. The Lady’s Assistant by Charlotte Mason

This really isn’t something that’ll help you improve your cooking by much if at all, but it’s a cookbook from 1775 and in my opinion it nicely showcases some history of western cooking. I just somehow really love this book.

NPC,

Anything by the “artist” pitbull… Like, who rhymes canon with canon…

Why is cooking a food item method called different things by what the item is, or what is the criteria?

On the Food network they boil potatoes, but they poach carrots. They poach turkey, but they boil eggs. They sauté’ onions, but they fry eggs in the same pan. Likewise, they fry hash browns, but they sauté’ onions in the same pan before adding the potatoes....

NPC,

I’m a cook and just created !askculinary for you. Feel free to direct any culinary question you have to it and I’ll do by best to answer them.

NPC,

It probably won’t, at least not for a long time. But I’m always happy to share my knowledge.

P.s. Your comment made me realise I should actually put something on that community. Imma update the sidebar right now.

NPC,

Just thick socks, a good pair of jeans, a hoody and wintercoat and maybe a shirt under it if it’s really cold. Than a good scarf, hat and mittens. Anything more and I find I’ll start swearing from the heat after only a few minutes, cycling through bad weather and show is hard work.

What's the worst a teacher's treated you?

my calculus teacher did little senior year jokey biographies of people as a big powerpoint on the last day. he was well loved, venerable, yet also slightly … odd. sharp, but vaguely weird. he separated people into basically informal friend groups [with multiple people on the same slide] and people who were the sort of weird...

NPC,

I have a terrible case of dislexia. It’s better now, but foreign languages during high school where basically impossible. Not that I wasn’t learning, I just couldn’t keep up with the class.

My French teacher, who was also the class mentor, didn’t believe dislexia was a thing and made it very clear he didn’t. I always felt like he was picking on me, as if he straight up didn’t like me. He’d often call me out in front of the class, but there’s this one time that still stands so clear in my mind:

We had a test, a simple one. Just 20-25 French words we had to translate. We had one day to memorise the. I studied for hours after school. My mom spend at least 3 hours studying with me. I still didn’t know much that night, but when showing up the next day for class, I had forgotten everything. I did the test as best as I could, but knew I was gonna fail. Just like I always did.

The following day, after he had graded the tests, he was calling out everyone’s grades. When he came to me, he held up my test to show the whole class, with it being pretty much all red crosses on it. He casually added “and look who didn’t study again and chose to get an F”

It broke me. I was trying so hard up until that point. I really did. It took all my strength not to just burst out in tears. I did everything I could, it still wasn’t enough and to add insult to injury my teacher felt it necessary to shame me in front of the whole class and he wasn’t even right in what he said.

After that day, I didn’t study for the class anymore. Not even once. After that moment I choose to live up to what the teacher already thought of me. It hurt my whole school career and I still kinda blame him for that.

Seriously, though. How often do you think of the Roman Empire?

I know this is a joke/meme, but I sincerely think of the Roman Empire a surprising amount of times. I find myself obsessing over how Roman citizens were living just as complex lives as we are today, or about Marcus Aurelius’ life and philosophy, or about how the Republic fell and became a totalitarian state.

NPC,

I’m really into history, so at least one a week

NPC,

I often will be downloading a film, streaming youtube or music and be playing video games. Latency matters to me and WiFi is just not stable enough

NPC,

I’m pretty sure it’s wifi from the neighbours interfering. I can’t be bothered to deal with that, not when I have a cable laying around. Plus, no matter what, a cable will always be more stable than wifi

NPC,

and playing video games. No offense, but did you read the whole comment? I need good latency for my games and I need it while downloading a bunch of other stuff. Idk if you’ve ever tried downloading a few torrents while gaming, but it’ll definitely have an impact. Especially if you’re on WiFi.

NPC,

You’re probably right, but I’m not a power user and nor do I care to be. I can make all my problems go away by just plugging in a cable and making sure I have good Internet otherwise. That’s my point and what matters to me in this discussion

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