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Barton Explores... Sushi with Kazumi Wickenkamp

Barton Seaver & Kazumi Wickenkamp - Barton Explores... Sushi with Kazumi Wickenkamp

This event was on Tuesday, August 24, 2021 at 11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern

One of the most popular yet most difficult styles of food to master is Sushi.

Join Chef Barton Seaver and his special guest Chef Kazumi Wickenkamp for this special event exploring… Read More.

Recorded

Question:

Any tip on how to make sushi look more appetising/beautiful? What are the important techniques to master?

— Ingela Bjork Loch

Answer:

Yeah, that's that's the presentation is really important as well. And then they when we present sushi. And in a typical way in the Japanese way, we keep it simple and the color contrast is very very important. But then that's not always the case for the Western roles. That's that's those roles itself are very colorful as a little different story. But if you want to do it in a little bit of Japanese why traditional way we keep it simple we use the dark dark color plate, but it's better than white color because the sushi rice itself is white and if you put a white thing on the white pride doesn't look very standing out. So we recommend to use a darker color play. And then the square shape is easier to handle that the decoration and then allocation of the sushi. So that's another tip. And then other thing is they can put something green underneath and then we use a lot of bamboo but Bamboo Leaf often, but then anything green underneath like in the some leaves from your garden or something like that. It is already good enough and wash it well and put it underneath it. And that green color pleases their eyes of your guest and then that makes the sushi stand out more and then they're in at the end the how neatly you lay out. The sushi pieces is again, very very important that line needs to be aligned. Every line needs to be aligned. If you put in the sushi rolls, like a jigsaw. It doesn't work just like it make alignment perfectly then your sushi already looks much more professional and then neatly. Awesome. Well, and as you learn through the techniques earlier that when you make the rice, right when you use the right amount of rice when you roll it it, you know the right tightness and sort of thickness and all that and then when you use a sharp knife, Those are really the techniques to prevent the mess rather than trying to you know, make it better afterwards, but you know, what if you just go ahead and make a mess. I'm just gonna be an American here. Cilantro leaf on top of it if it's that much of a mess that you know, you don't really want to present it as is. Yeah just put a garnish on it. Maybe this is Blasphemous. Well, I know it's Blasphemous to traditional sushi, but if it if it comes down to you enjoying it and feeling proud of it and wanting to serve it or not and hey, you know just take some liberties with it sure.
Barton Seaver & Kazumi Wickenkamp

Barton Seaver & Kazumi Wickenkamp

Chefs

Master of Japanese Cuisine Academy