Sushi at home, minus the mystique

Sushi Beginner

Discover easy sushi-making tips and tutorials for beginners. Learn where to buy fish, how to prepare rice, and start creating sushi at home today.

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The beginner path

Get the rice right, find fish you can trust, then make something delicious without turning dinner into a ceremony.

Making Sushi Rice

November 10, 2025

Making Sushi Rice

Wanna know what’s great? You can screw up most of the steps in this guide and your sushi rice will still be okay! The 4 essential ingredients you need is: Short-grain rice You can buy it at most American grocery stores i

Minimum Effort Nigiri

July 24, 2025

Minimum Effort Nigiri

There are a ton of videos about the right way to make nigiri, so I’m not going to talk about it in here. In this post you’ll learn how to make nigiri the “wrong way,” but it’ll be easier and still very delicious! It’s so

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Latest sushi life notes

Experiments, fish sourcing notes, product opinions, and little lessons from making sushi in a normal kitchen.

The Problem With Sushi YouTube

July 13, 2025

The Problem With Sushi YouTube

There’s a YouTube short I recently watched: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zvIIuZWmj5I It got me thinking about the ways that media about sushi makes it seem like this super fancy inaccessible thing. The title of that vi

Meal Prep with Poké

January 28, 2025

Meal Prep with Poké

Poké always felt like one of those things I could only order at a restaurant, but really, it’s extremely easy to make at home. In fact, if you have a vacuum sealer and some vacuum seal bags, you can make a whole bunch of

My first time making sushi

August 5, 2024

My first time making sushi

I’d watched the videos. I’d read the instruction guides. I was ready to make sushi. The problem is, I didn’t know where to find sushi fish. The only straightforward-looking website that came up for me was www.wagyuman.co