Home made sushi? Any advice?

What Jones said. That is the one thing that's just so much easier and just as cost-efficient to eat out. We started out thinking it was going to be a fun date night. It ended with both of us pissed off and sitting on opposite ends of the couch and me secretly plotting to smother her in her sleep

I haven't tried, but I'm sure that you could find the requisite materials along Buford Highway

To add, I probably wouldn't make this for just me and another at home. My two best friends are cooks and along with our wives and GFs we could get together and do this once a month or so, so it's not like we would waste a bunch of stuff.

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Surely we could make 6 rolls and buy 2 beers for less than 75 dollars

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Yeah, probably, but if you start talking about rolls with a variety of different fishes, sushi-grade stuff actually adds up a lot quicker than you might expect. And again like Jones says, you start adding in all the ingredients you'd need to give any kind of diversity to a few different rolls and that adds up too.

But that's not really the kicker. The kicker for me is that you're gonna stand in the kitchen for too damn long, you're gonna bust your arse prepping all of the ingredients, and when you finally put them all together odds are good it's gonna come out looking like the late Christopher Reeve was your sushi chef the first time, and possibly even the next few as well. But at least you probably got more than two beers to mellow you out

If you want to give it a shot nothing we say will stop you, I just personally think it's far more trouble than it's worth. By a large margin.

I've made crawfish sushi and some with the fake crabmeat and cooked shrimp, but never anything completely raw. I don't think you're supposed to eat shrimp raw, due to parasite risk. For anything raw, it needs to have been deep frozen for a while, as stated above.

You could probably make 5-8 rolls with One slab of fish and the other ingredients for about 20-25$ at the very most. Probably half that if you use crab stick or boiled shrimp. Making your own sushi is so much cheaper it's not even funny .

It's very easy once you get used to rolling. I would start with some boiled shrimp or crab stick to test first, you don't want to buy a beautiful piece of fish just to butcher it in your first try. I've made quite a bit recently and just used a salmon steak from Whole Foods. She recommended I pan sear it so that's what u did. Got a pan screaming hot, dropped it din fr a few seconds in each side.
Also the biggest key is having a very sharp knife. You'll end up smashing the roll more than cutting it if not.


The main reason I started making it is Bc my GF can't eat it so I hardly ever get to go unless its by myself for lunch. Also, it's a pretty cool party idea to invite a couple friends over.

I've done it too. Not that hard. You need a bamboo roller. Most of the paraphernalia and ingredients (excluding fish) can be found MUCH cheaper at the Asian market - like Vin Phat.


As for fish, just get the freshest you can get. I've never seared or cooked anything. Just raw baby.
Never did shrimp though as I don't care for it with sushi. I stuck with fresh tuna, salmon and grouper and the fake crab sticks. Start with California rolls to get the hang of it.

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You could probably make 5-8 rolls with One slab of fish and the other ingredients for about 20-25$ at the very most. Probably half that if you use crab stick or boiled shrimp. Making your own sushi is so much cheaper it's not even funny

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Cheaper but the quality isnt as good and the diversity of the rolls is going to be minimal. 5-8 rolls with one slab of fish. 6 different types of tuna rolls doesnt sound that great and there is now way you are making 5-8 rolls for $10-12 unless you have most of the ingredients already.

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I've made quite a bit recently and just used a salmon steak from Whole Foods. She recommended I pan sear it so that's what u did. Got a pan screaming hot, dropped it din fr a few seconds in each side.
Also the biggest key is having a very sharp knife.

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Why did she recommend you cook it first? Is there fish not up to the FDA recommendations for eating it raw?

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Ingredients really aren't that expensive at all. Fresh veggies are dirt cheap.

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They might not be expensive by themselves but when you need a dozen different things it can add up.

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Short grain rice is dirt cheap. The seaweed is probably 5$ for a pack of 10 sheets. I mean really the only "pricy" thing is what you decide to put in it. A pack of 8 crab sticks is like 3$ but a salmon steak might run you 11$.
Hypothetically you could make rolls for like 2$ or less a pop.

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Hmmm

Sushi rice-$2
Seaweed-$5
Crab-$3
Thats $10 and would make 5 rolls?

Add the salmon in and you are at $21. Youre still missing a lot of stuff to even make the most simplest of rolls.

Bamboo roller($2)
Rice wine vinegar to make the rice.($3)
Avocado($1)
Cucumber($1)
soy sauce($2)
wasabi($1)

Just made up some prices of the items. Went cheap on the items but if youre shopping at Whole Foods, nothing is dirt cheap. Add those few items in and we are at $31. Basically we have a california roll and a salmon roll. Kinda boring

To really make some good rolls with this base set of ingredients, you would need to buy another $30-40 of stuff. Hopefully he also has an extremely sharp knife already.

The experience would be fun(could be really frustrating also) and something new to try but I wouldnt think of it as eating cheaper. Over time the price could even out a little because you would have all the core items already(rice, rice wine,rollers,soy sauce, wasabi,etc). Sounds like you have all the necessary items besides what you want in the rolls so your trips to the grocery probably arent that bad

I've read salmon can be risky cause its partly a fresh water fish, so that's probably why they recommended to sear it.

If me and my friends try it, I'll let y'all know what it costs, what we made, and posts some pics. It'll probably be January at least before we do it though.