The Modernized Production Of Best Rice Balls

By Steven Carter


One of the favorites of Japanese people when it come to food is the onigiri, which is considered very popular. This is a special kind of rice formed in either triangle or cylinder and wrapped in sea weeds or the nori. Onigiris are often filled with salted salmon, katsuobushi, kombu, tarako, pickled ume, and other ingredients which are salty or sour for its preservatives.

Nowadays, many stores are already putting up some stocks of different varieties of flavors and of fillings since it became much more popular in many different places. The popularity has grown into many parts in the world, most especially best rice balls in Long Island. Even those small stalls and stores are now offering and selling take out for onigiris.

There are a lot of people who have made misconceptions about onigiri, in which they said is one type of sushi, but it is actually not. An onigiri is made of plain rice that is lightly salted and a sushi is made of rice containing salt, vinegar, and sugar. An onigiri also can make rice portable and easy to eat while a sushi is made originally as a way for the preservation of fishes.

Ever since in the history, many have said that the onigiris cannot be mass produced because hand rolling techniques are used in making it, and this kind of technique is considered to be very difficult for a machine to perform. However, in the later years, machine manufacturers have successfully made a machine which will make rice ball in a triangular form. In this kind of manufacturing, instead of rolling the filling inside, flavoring was simply placed in a hole which is hidden by the seaweed.

But there is just one disadvantage when machines are used, the nori often becomes sticky and will moist easily because it is wrapped to an onigiri even before placing in the machine. But improvements have been produced for packaging to separate rice form the nori. So before eating it, the diner will be opening first the packet of nori and will wrap the onigiri.

Making the production of the new flavors much easier is one of the good advantages of machine limitations because of filling it through holes. And another good advantage is the easier production since cooking processes may not include anymore the changing of ingredients over time. Onigiris made in modern times are wrapped in specially made plastics to avoid moisture.

Usually, these rice balls are boiled white rice and some of its varieties are the okowa or the kowameshi. This is a type of glutinous rice that may be cooked or steamed with vegetables, and one popular vegetable is red beans. Another variety is the mixed rice or mazegohan that may be mixed and cooked with ingredients according to preference.

People before believed these food is originated in samurai rice balls that are wrapped with the leaves of bamboo. And they also believed that most of Japanese food also is originated in the samurai innovations. But from the historic battlefields, it became available in stores.

A lot of convenience stores right now are making onigiris available. It may be in other countries and cities like Long Island. A lot of people also are love to make these foods at home. Other popular variations are mentaiko, tsuna mayo, salmon and mayonnaise, ikura, nikumaki, etc.




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