View Full Version : Homemade warishita versus bought?
Mark77
Apr 11th, 2012, 08:27 PM
I am going to be using warishita (わりした) in my cooking. There's various recipies online to make it yourself, or you can buy pre-made mixes at the grocery store (ie: for すきやき).
Which is better? Does it really matter what brand of Sake and mirin you use?
0xffff
Apr 11th, 2012, 08:49 PM
I am going to be using warishita (わりした) in my cooking. There's various recipies online to make it yourself, or you can buy pre-made mixes at the grocery store (ie: for すきやき).
Which is better? Does it really matter what brand of Sake and mirin you use?
In European cooking, some people say that they would not cook with a wine (rum, vodka, etc) that they wouldn't drink, so the same can apply to making your sukiyaki sauce.
With regards to mirin, I'm not really sure of the differences between brands. I have one bottle that I almost never use.
ippon
Apr 11th, 2012, 10:03 PM
just use whatever is cheapest. wouldn't matter that much.
Mark77
Apr 12th, 2012, 02:34 AM
just use whatever is cheapest. wouldn't matter that much.
Well here's the problem, a bottle of mirin and a bottle of sake will cost me at least $20, and that's assuming I go with the cheap stuff, plus I still have to buy the brown sugar, dashi, and soy sauce. I can buy sukiyaki sauce at the grocery store for $5, pre-made.
Is home-made really that much better than the grocery-store pre-bottled sukiyaki sauce? That's my question.
ippon
Apr 12th, 2012, 08:42 AM
Well here's the problem, a bottle of mirin and a bottle of sake will cost me at least $20, and that's assuming I go with the cheap stuff, plus I still have to buy the brown sugar, dashi, and soy sauce. I can buy sukiyaki sauce at the grocery store for $5, pre-made.
Is home-made really that much better than the grocery-store pre-bottled sukiyaki sauce? That's my question.
ever make pizza at home?
by the time you are done buying up the ingredients, you learn that it's cheaper to pick somethijng up.
you aren't going to use all the ingredients all at once.
jayt90
Apr 12th, 2012, 09:55 AM
I am going to be using warishita (わりした) in my cooking. There's various recipies online to make it yourself, or you can buy pre-made mixes at the grocery store (ie: for すきやき).
Which is better? Does it really matter what brand of Sake and mirin you use?
You should be fine with a reliable Japanese-bottled sukiyaki, as long as it doesn't have 10 chemicals in the ingredient list.
My bottle of aji-mirin tastes like corn syrup, and there is no real mirin listed by LCBO.
It depends on how fussy you are. I make my dashi from scratch but the prepared versions are OK too.