Sushi chefs are highly over rated and anyone with moderate cooking skills can make equally high quality sushi.
I keep hearing about how sushi chefs must go through potentially decades of training, sometimes years of menial tasks such as washing rice and that in japan sushi chefs are by far the most prestigious.Don't get me wrong, I can appreciate that top sushi chefs are very talented but I fail to see what's so difficult about making even the best sushi.
While a professional can obviously work much faster, what exactly do they do that makes their end result any better?I have seen pastry chefs make complex dishes that require incredible dexterity yet the most complex of sushi still seems like nothing more than combining cold ingredients step by step so what am I missing here?
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>ometimes years of menial tasks such as washing rice
YOU RINK WASHING LICE A JOKE WHITUU PIGGU?
>YOU RINK WASHING LICE A JOKE WHITUU PIGGU?
That is chinese people. Japanese people make sure their onion sauces and eggs for example fit for consumption.
It's just bullshit gatekeeping and protectionism for a job that most can do.
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same goes for steak
Japanese food has only become more like takeout food in recent years. Like buying a tray of pre made sushi from a store.
Personally I prefer Jiro Nightmares of Assrape
based normposter, came in to post literally this
For me it's Pulp Fiction, a gritty urban satire
>dude I just LOVE Pulp Fictionarino it's so GRITTY and SATIRICAL
>no you don't get it, it's le funny because le heckin based black man says "motherfricker"
I thought we were talking about a different film beloved by autistics, not Pulp Fiction.
I didn't even know he was sick.
fricks sake
This movie just proved that the secret is top quality ingredients. There is next to no skill other than good knife control
300kg American hands typed this
It’s self masturbatory
Like all Asian things
>Here is your raw fish with rice
>Pay 300 dorars gaijin
>dude just do nothing but wage slave until you drop dead so much so that you even dream about working
You're absolutely right.
>Japanese cuisine is the new French Cuisine
>Highly overrated and full of pretentious pseud marketing nonsense.
>Tiny proportions on often oversized plates
>More emphasis on presentation that the cooking
>huge emphasis on the training and time it takes to do something that realistically doesn't need to take that long but is there just for gatekeeping
>Mexican, Chinese, and Brazilian cooking are also delicious
>and full of time consuming preparations and methods that require a lifetime of mastery.
>The difference is that they're affordable and filling to the average diner
>and don't cater to pretentious rich suckers looking for "experiences" instead of a good meal that sates hunger and nutrition.
Italian, Russian, and Peruvian cuisine are the right amount of fancy nonsense mixed with no bullshit to satisfy both snobs and the average Joe.
The thing about Mexican and Chinese restaurants is that they pay employees out of pocket with cash to evade taxes. And they often underpay and stiff them out of tips. That's why they're so cheap.
t. Uncles work in Chinese restaurant and dated a girl whose family owned a Taqueria. There have also been local scandals of Chinese restaurants being charged by the DA for tax evasion and not paying workers.
>evade taxes
>underpay and stiff them out of tips
>cheap
>tax evasion
>not paying workers
if they didn't hire illegals they'd be Based
>>not paying workers
>if they didn't hire illegals they'd be Based
All of the workers AFAIK are legal in the Taqueria and Chinese Restaurants but don't have many skills and have poor English and/or criminal records which limits their opportunities. The restaurants offer paying in cash and free food as a perk as well as flexible hours.
I believe it's the Japanese style finding ways to work harder, not smarter. Like climbing those 4000 step stairs instead of taking a lift. This movie has good photography and color palettes anyway, and serves mostly as appetizer introduction to the subject of Jap cooking, but yes 200 petrodollars for a small number of sushi amuse-bouches, while he's staring at you judging, is unsettling on many levels. You're the fish here, clearly
>jesus Favreau its just a grilled cheese
exactly, same reason productivity in japan is so low in spite of how 'hard' they work sitting at their desks just to be seen as working
Regular people can't get top notch ingredients.
>i could play in the NBA if I gave a shit
why are laymen so stupid bros?
frick you c**t
>*pay hundreds of dollars for nothing but a single slab of meat that's barely even thermally heated*
>oh yeah it's probably that good stuff
>*pay three hundred dollars for a 20 course meal with the very best fish selection in the world*
>OMGGG IT'S JUST FISH AND RICE!!??!????
>go to sushi restaurant
>pay $20 for 1 roll of nice sushi
>go to local grocery store
>same exact roll of sushi is $8
>they taste exactly the same
Expensive restaurants are a scam.
If you think they taste the same, then either (a) you're an idiot or (b) the restaurant that's charging you $20 is ripping you off.
What do you feel is the difference
You may also just have dull taste buds. I've served two dramatically different versions of the same dish (different quality ingredients, proper sauce vs canned soup with a very vaguely similar flavor profile, etc.) to friends/family and some have been able to taste the difference while others haven't.
>Expensive restaurants are a scam.
Some are. Jiro's isn't. Jiro charges what the market will bear for sushi from the most renowned sushi chef of all time. That's how capitalism works, and it's the only system that produces Jiros. In communism, all the sushi is shitty.
I prefer the sequel "Jiro nightmares of assrape"
>anyone with moderate cooking skills can make equally high quality sushi
So then why haven't you started a sushi restaurant and earned your Michelin stars? Jiro proved you can make a fortune doing that. Why haven't you done it?
>implying anything can be mastered
diminishing returns is real. you wasted your life washing rice, soon to be replaced by automation
It's likely because the masters are VERY anal about the texture of the rice
If you've got enough connections to get top ingredients you might as well already be a chef or work as a procurator.
>Be me
>Be Electrician with 10+ yrs of experience
>Someone calls me that their bathroom plug doesn't work
>Ask them if its a gfci
>"I don't know what it is."
>Ask them if it has buttons
>"Yes"
>Tell them to push the reset button
>"Nothing happened."
>Ask if the breaker tripped
>"No"
>Drive 20 mins to their place
>Push the reset button on the plug
>It works
>"That will be $100" (plus tip)
>"I'm not paying you, all you did was push a button."
Better answer is tell them to wait an hour and try pressing the reset button again, call again if it isn't fixed. Especially true if it's a woman who spends hours in the bath making the whole room into a sauna or splashing water around carelessly in an hour-long cosmetic routine.
Saves headaches.
this movie wasn't about jiro or sushi, it was about jiro's son
>spend your entire life
>your ENTIRE LIFE
>learning how to not cook fish
amazing, truly incredible