This video was a “things you tell yourself to justify buying stuff” video. That being said I loved it! It’s interesting to see ALL the different things people use for cooking.
I also try to minimize my kitchen stuff, but as in this video, I am able to buy too much Japanese bowls and ceramics, and knives, and kitchen ustensils ! and I am French, so here we don't really need those things, but they are so beautiful ....
Proxies like Zenmarket had made buying japanese stuff way easier. Now when I go to Japan I just spot the things I want and buy them afterward. I remember one day having send from Japan to France a medium size box of japanese curries and paying more than 150dollar fro the shipment ahahah
I think the turned handle on that copper clad saucepan is supposed to evoke the French country aesthetic, to appeal to the Euro-fancying Japanese consumer, you know? These are some interesting cookware items, but I gently suggest that your goal of minimizing your kitchen stuffs runs in opposition to your preferences, and that this is OK. It's once you start storing kitchen items in other rooms of the house, like dresser drawers, that it's gotten out of hand. Ask me how I know ; ) Thanks for posting!
I think you're right in your post about the "French country aesthetic" of the wooden handle, though traditionally those copper saucepans have a metal handle here in France. It has to be handle with care because it can be very hot, almost burning ! Generally people don't use that anymore, it is very heavy and expensive. But in some serious restaurants they use them for sauces but also people use them to do fruit jam, in very big copper basins ....
You can just keep the unsightly handle off the copper yukihira . If I'm not mistaken, yukihira often come with the handle detached intentionally as many users opt to just use a yattoko (gripper thingy) on such pots (yattoko nabe). Handles tend to get in the way of other pots and can easily find themselves over burners.
The ginger graters also work perfectly for turmeric and nutmeg!! I have a much older one from Japan that is quite a bit larger than that one. Scored it for $1 at a second hand store!!
I ve got most of your imported Japanese kitchen gadgets at Liberty London a long time ago. A round ZARU is much larger version and very handy when I cut a whole salmon to drain water or partial drying mushrooms for freezing etc. Also I have a grater half of your size for ginger or garlic cube which is amazingly very efficient. Two multiple sized lids which replaced individual lid. Next time you need to design your kitchen for your larger accommodation. 😄
The handle should be easy to find at any hardware store. As long as it has a slight taper ( take the current one to match) and a shovel handle or even a tapered rolling pin would work. You may have to cut them down and sand but that's easier than shipping from Japan.
The multilid looks great! I have a bunch of silicone lids that work for most stuff, but sometimes I just want to not worry about steam escaping everywhere.
@@EastMeetsKitchen So they fit fine, but yeah they'll generally have one escape point for steam. For most things I cook that's not an issue, but I still keep a few metal lids around for when it does.
I bought a bunch of Japanese kitchen tools and utensils when I moved into my apartment last year. Your channel is growing, it's getting to 100k! Last, what do you think of a video of vegan foods in Ukraine? Borsch is easy along with other foods that are similar in Eastern Europe.
This was a fun video, watching someone with a different kitchen equipment/gadget’s addiction than mine, justifying the indulgent purchases. Totally love & understand the enjoyment. As for the pan handle you’re unhappy with. You might look for a wood turner that would make you one. You could look for a wood turner association, shop that sells supplies, or even a community college that teaches it. They’re usually excited to find an opportunity to make something for someone that will appreciate & enjoy it like you would.
Also, it should me noted that the leaching of aluminum may be small per time you use it but aluminum does not get expelled from the body so the more you use it the more it builds up in the body. That is why people worry about aluminum cookware and aluminum in foods.
stainless steel is better for the health, I think also that aluminium is not very good, at least if we don't know for sure, it is better to avoid it ...;
Just get some sandpaper and sand that awful orange off the handle. Start with maybe 100-120 grit, then 180-200 grit. If you want it smoother try a larger # on the sandpaper. Make the handle work for you. I agree plain wood is best.
I'm a little disappointed that you didn't spend more time on the non-copper pot, which on Amazon is now called "304 Stainless Steel Saucepan Yukihira Milk Pot", and I was dying to find out how the name "milk pot" applies. For Hot Cocoa? Does is resist scalding? Or does it even induce scalding? I'm curious, but I don't drink milk, lol
I don’t think its traditionally used for cooking milk. A Yukihira is designed to fulfill a similar need as the cheap korean ramen pots that are yellow coated aluminum pots. The goal is to make a pan that boils water quickly primarily for soups but especially important for ramen. To do this you have to make the pot really thin and lightweight, because as the metal gets thicker it takes longer to heat up. The koreans went for a cheap disposable route, the benefit of this is that you don’t need a separate bowl for plating, they are so cheap that people usually have multiple and just eat directly out of the pot, especially because aluminum cools down almost instantly when its off the burner. The con is that there is no handle to cook with (a common trope in korean dramas is an old lady getting distracted and then trying to take a pot off the burner when it starts burning and bubbling over causing them to burn theirself). Some koreans adopted a hack to avoid using a potholder where they put a their metal rice spoon in between the handles to pick it up and carry to the table, then they use the spoon to put rice into the soup to finish off the meal with carbs. The Japanese Yukihira can be somewhat similar, since some of them use aluminum or tinned copper as their metal primarily for how fast those two metals transfer heat. The main difference is that Yukihiras are built to be even thinner than korean pots. This is achieved by striking the pot with hammers to harden it, and a nice side effect is that these imperfections increase the surface area of the inside of the pot making the pot even better at heating liquids quickly. Okay, but why do they call that stainless steel one a milk pot? Probably because it just happens to be something that a Yukihira is really good at doing. Some recipes call to boil milk like some rues or beschamel or a rose sauce where the goal is to evaporate some of the water out to make it creamy and closer to a cheese flavor. The problem with boiling milk is that it is really hard to do. If you go too high on the heat it will separate and the sugars/proteins in the milk will burn on the bottom of the pan. So its ideal to have a pan that transfers heat quickly because you’ve got to boil it at a low-medium heat, which can take forever with a thicker pan. Another reason why this stainless steel one in particular might be ideal for boiling milk is because it is really annoying to clean burnt milk out of a pan, and if you use an aluminum or copper pan, you run the risk of scrubbing off the tinned coating when you are trying to scrape the milk off. Stainless steel doesn’t have this issue. In exchange for being more durable, stainless steel will be slightly worse at transferring heat quickly, but when considering that yukihira pots are designed to be very thin, it shouldn’t be a massive difference. In my opinion if you can find a stainless steel yukihira that has a metal handle you should buy that if you live outside of Japan/Korea. Wooden handles are notorious for breaking so if you can’t easily and cheaply replace the handle, don’t buy a pot with a wooden handle. Shipping really ruins the price on cheap items like the aluminum yukihira/korean pots so treating them as disposables isn’t viable when you have to pay at least $10 extra for shipping every time you replace it.
Do you just like to buy everything you see online? 😂 No worries, I've $2M worth of Amazon stuff... ... in "save for later". Stuff that I'll never be getting but it's therapeutic to press that "add to cart" and "save it for later".
Just Call it a Day! You are so damn cute, passionate, exasperated… every video I add another adjective attatached to you… your so OC … and I am too… I love it! Nobody I know calls strainers…pretty! You have a Love affair with your kitchen… so do I!
This video was a “things you tell yourself to justify buying stuff” video. That being said I loved it! It’s interesting to see ALL the different things people use for cooking.
I also try to minimize my kitchen stuff, but as in this video, I am able to buy too much Japanese bowls and ceramics, and knives, and kitchen ustensils ! and I am French, so here we don't really need those things, but they are so beautiful ....
Those pan grippers should be available at stores with camping equipment, at least they are here in Sweden!
Loved being introduced to your special interest bc I didn’t know much about this subject! Really cool!!! 💖
Thanks for the video. If you sand the varnished handle, it will look much more like the un-finished handles, and it will save you buying another .
Proxies like Zenmarket had made buying japanese stuff way easier. Now when I go to Japan I just spot the things I want and buy them afterward. I remember one day having send from Japan to France a medium size box of japanese curries and paying more than 150dollar fro the shipment ahahah
This was so fun! I love kitchen equipment hauls! Especially new bowls, and little tools! So fun!
I think the turned handle on that copper clad saucepan is supposed to evoke the French country aesthetic, to appeal to the Euro-fancying Japanese consumer, you know? These are some interesting cookware items, but I gently suggest that your goal of minimizing your kitchen stuffs runs in opposition to your preferences, and that this is OK. It's once you start storing kitchen items in other rooms of the house, like dresser drawers, that it's gotten out of hand. Ask me how I know ; ) Thanks for posting!
I think you're right in your post about the "French country aesthetic" of the wooden handle, though traditionally those copper saucepans have a metal handle here in France. It has to be handle with care because it can be very hot, almost burning ! Generally people don't use that anymore, it is very heavy and expensive. But in some serious restaurants they use them for sauces but also people use them to do fruit jam, in very big copper basins ....
You can just keep the unsightly handle off the copper yukihira . If I'm not mistaken, yukihira often come with the handle detached intentionally as many users opt to just use a yattoko (gripper thingy) on such pots (yattoko nabe). Handles tend to get in the way of other pots and can easily find themselves over burners.
Great haul! Regarding the ugly handle, maybe you could try to remove the varnish with some fine grit sandpaper?
They have standalone inductive (plates?) that make it so you can use regular pots and pans with induction heating elements.
I have so many mortar and pestles and surabachi’s too but I don’t have a white one… I’m envious! I agree… how Pretty!
They make disks for induction burners to make any pot induction compatible. They heat up and you can use your non conductive pot on top.
I dare say, in needing to bleach that one strainer, you were on the verge of being (wait for it . . .) bamboozled.
(I'll be letting myself out now.)
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The ginger graters also work perfectly for turmeric and nutmeg!! I have a much older one from Japan that is quite a bit larger than that one. Scored it for $1 at a second hand store!!
These pieces will make cooking all the more enjoyable!!
I ve got most of your imported Japanese kitchen gadgets at Liberty London a long time ago.
A round ZARU is much larger version and very handy when I cut a whole salmon to drain water or partial drying mushrooms for freezing etc.
Also I have a grater half of your size for ginger or garlic cube which is amazingly very efficient. Two multiple sized lids which replaced individual lid.
Next time you need to design your kitchen for your larger accommodation. 😄
Beautiful hammered pots, do you want to share a link where you bought these beauties?
I'm here for this! Just started watching!
The handle should be easy to find at any hardware store. As long as it has a slight taper ( take the current one to match) and a shovel handle or even a tapered rolling pin would work. You may have to cut them down and sand but that's easier than shipping from Japan.
The multilid looks great! I have a bunch of silicone lids that work for most stuff, but sometimes I just want to not worry about steam escaping everywhere.
@@EastMeetsKitchen So they fit fine, but yeah they'll generally have one escape point for steam. For most things I cook that's not an issue, but I still keep a few metal lids around for when it does.
i read somewhere that the handle burns off so maybe thats why theres the option of changing it
I bought a bunch of Japanese kitchen tools and utensils when I moved into my apartment last year. Your channel is growing, it's getting to 100k! Last, what do you think of a video of vegan foods in Ukraine? Borsch is easy along with other foods that are similar in Eastern Europe.
@@EastMeetsKitchen Of course I respect your position though I think now is the best time given recent events.
💜💜👍👍💜💜👍👍👍👍. Cool kitchen stuff ....I got your cook book last week👍👍👍👍👍 did hope to see your book in the background of the video😀😀😀😀
This was a fun video, watching someone with a different kitchen equipment/gadget’s addiction than mine, justifying the indulgent purchases. Totally love & understand the enjoyment.
As for the pan handle you’re unhappy with. You might look for a wood turner that would make you one. You could look for a wood turner association, shop that sells supplies, or even a community college that teaches it. They’re usually excited to find an opportunity to make something for someone that will appreciate & enjoy it like you would.
Also, it should me noted that the leaching of aluminum may be small per time you use it but aluminum does not get expelled from the body so the more you use it the more it builds up in the body. That is why people worry about aluminum cookware and aluminum in foods.
stainless steel is better for the health, I think also that aluminium is not very good, at least if we don't know for sure, it is better to avoid it ...;
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I found that ginger grater at TJmax in the US. 😅
What sizes are your products: the colander and strainer? I was trying to purchase them, but I'm confused on the sizes so it's still in my cart.
I try to minimize too… but I keep buying stuff. 😣
I really want a Stargazer skillet, but I’ve been holding back.
Just get some sandpaper and sand that awful orange off the handle. Start with maybe 100-120 grit, then 180-200 grit. If you want it smoother try a larger # on the sandpaper. Make the handle work for you. I agree plain wood is best.
You need yakumi yose to clean your suribachi.
I'm a little disappointed that you didn't spend more time on the non-copper pot, which on Amazon is now called "304 Stainless Steel Saucepan Yukihira Milk Pot", and I was dying to find out how the name "milk pot" applies. For Hot Cocoa? Does is resist scalding? Or does it even induce scalding? I'm curious, but I don't drink milk, lol
I don’t think its traditionally used for cooking milk. A Yukihira is designed to fulfill a similar need as the cheap korean ramen pots that are yellow coated aluminum pots. The goal is to make a pan that boils water quickly primarily for soups but especially important for ramen.
To do this you have to make the pot really thin and lightweight, because as the metal gets thicker it takes longer to heat up. The koreans went for a cheap disposable route, the benefit of this is that you don’t need a separate bowl for plating, they are so cheap that people usually have multiple and just eat directly out of the pot, especially because aluminum cools down almost instantly when its off the burner. The con is that there is no handle to cook with (a common trope in korean dramas is an old lady getting distracted and then trying to take a pot off the burner when it starts burning and bubbling over causing them to burn theirself). Some koreans adopted a hack to avoid using a potholder where they put a their metal rice spoon in between the handles to pick it up and carry to the table, then they use the spoon to put rice into the soup to finish off the meal with carbs.
The Japanese Yukihira can be somewhat similar, since some of them use aluminum or tinned copper as their metal primarily for how fast those two metals transfer heat. The main difference is that Yukihiras are built to be even thinner than korean pots. This is achieved by striking the pot with hammers to harden it, and a nice side effect is that these imperfections increase the surface area of the inside of the pot making the pot even better at heating liquids quickly.
Okay, but why do they call that stainless steel one a milk pot? Probably because it just happens to be something that a Yukihira is really good at doing. Some recipes call to boil milk like some rues or beschamel or a rose sauce where the goal is to evaporate some of the water out to make it creamy and closer to a cheese flavor. The problem with boiling milk is that it is really hard to do. If you go too high on the heat it will separate and the sugars/proteins in the milk will burn on the bottom of the pan. So its ideal to have a pan that transfers heat quickly because you’ve got to boil it at a low-medium heat, which can take forever with a thicker pan. Another reason why this stainless steel one in particular might be ideal for boiling milk is because it is really annoying to clean burnt milk out of a pan, and if you use an aluminum or copper pan, you run the risk of scrubbing off the tinned coating when you are trying to scrape the milk off. Stainless steel doesn’t have this issue. In exchange for being more durable, stainless steel will be slightly worse at transferring heat quickly, but when considering that yukihira pots are designed to be very thin, it shouldn’t be a massive difference.
In my opinion if you can find a stainless steel yukihira that has a metal handle you should buy that if you live outside of Japan/Korea. Wooden handles are notorious for breaking so if you can’t easily and cheaply replace the handle, don’t buy a pot with a wooden handle. Shipping really ruins the price on cheap items like the aluminum yukihira/korean pots so treating them as disposables isn’t viable when you have to pay at least $10 extra for shipping every time you replace it.
Do you just like to buy everything you see online? 😂
No worries, I've $2M worth of Amazon stuff...
... in "save for later". Stuff that I'll never be getting but it's therapeutic to press that "add to cart" and "save it for later".
I have the same mug!!!!
Me gustan utensilios de cocina tokio
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maybe too late, when you say bleach, do you mean chlorine? Because you mentioned the smell.. You could get some hydrogenperoxide. It's odorless.
yayyyyyy :D
Just Call it a Day! You are so damn cute, passionate, exasperated… every video I add another adjective attatached to you… your so OC … and I am too… I love it! Nobody I know calls strainers…pretty! You have a Love affair with your kitchen… so do I!
I think they're rattan border.
Oh no why would you ever choose to cook with aluminium! The most unhealthy pan to use