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    Looks like theyre good at it. Even frying with chopsticks. Soft in the middle, crispy at the ends.

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    That particular Teflon cooking pan… I hit mixed feelings on it. I’m using it with wooden utensils only because I didn’t want to eat Teflon anymore but I did want the non stick.

    Anyway, that finish seems to protect the Teflon, but its like a file or sandpaper for any utensil. So I’m slowly eating my wooden spoon.

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      Not like it’s good to eat it or anything, but just to help with the worries, teflon is absolutely safe to ingest, it’s a very stable molecule that don’t interact with absolutely anything, it goes in and out basically intact. Of course it doesn’t mean you can EAT it, but ocasional accidental ingestion due “scraping the bottom” are pretty safe.

      When people say it’s Toxic, they knowing or unknowingly are talking about the chemicals used to make it, mostly PFOA — perfluorooctanoic acid. These are nasty, and are present GLOBALLY, like everywhere, from the sea to the middle of deserts and even on the poles, that also includes our blood.

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        Totally, it’s safe if you take care of the pan; however, if you ever get it above a certain temperature the coating will break down and that’s when there’s risk. Also as you said, how much forever chemicals are released into the environment during it’s production, and might I also add that those bits that go in and out are also in the environment forever.

        I suspect no one wants to hear about cast iron pans anymore lol.

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        Cooking with Teflon pans has loads of evidence of killing pet birds nearby though so I’m not too sure it’s as 100% safe as you say it is.

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      When I first started cooking I used to burn the rice all the time and I had to throw it all away. Then one day I had dinner at a Persian restaurant and they brought me some of the charred rice (called “tahdig”) as a special treat. It was a real eye-opener (tongue-opener?) because that shit is incredibly delicious. They regretted serving it to me because I started begging for it every time I went, which is apparently a rather rude thing to do.

      Korean dol sat bibim bap is similar. It’s a dish served in a massively hot stone bowl with the rice on the bottom, and the longer you let it sit there before mixing everything together, the more the rice chars and the better it tastes. It’s almost crazy how much charred rice is not a thing in world cuisines when it’s actually incredibly delicious.

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        Had a persian friend who would make tahdig all during Covid and I definitely ate more than I needed to.

        And we have places here that serve fried sushi rolls, they are good, but no fried stuff after 40.

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      It really is. There is a growing genre of fusion cuisine buzzing around the mid NA continent that is basically sushi hardware with Mexican food software. Lots of fried dishes, as much flavor in each bite as they can fit (counter to typical sushi philosophy, but highly effective in practice), and a whole lot of staple ingredients of the area (think tons of onions, dairy, peppers, and spices etc).

      Sushi that is confrontationaly tasty is basically the whole idea, and it is easily some of the best experimental cuisine I’ve tried in a long, long time. Can’t recommend it enough tbh

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      I did this once. I didn’t realize it was sushi though.

      I was outnof town, training for work. My meals were paid. I decided "That tuna is $20, but I am not paying it so why not.

      It was raw.

      So I cooked it in the hotel room.

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      Usually that’s done by battering and frying the entire roll before cutting it.

      Doing it with individual pieces is possible, of course, but it massively increases the chance of overcooking the center, which usually is not desired.

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          Sure, but that still adds unnecessary prep time.

          If you’re making a roll from scratch, it’s simply faster, easier, and more practical to fry the entire thing before cutting it. But yes, if you wanted to do this with individual pieces, I’m sure that would probably work.

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            Idk I wouldn’t consider par-frying and freezing french fries a waste of time.

            Michelin quality sushi nuggets take time.

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              You can cut off the ends, and the middle SHOULD be undercooked (raw, in fact), that’s kinda the whole point of sushi.

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                  Honestly, I’ve seen that more often in higher end sushi (i.e. sit-down restaurant) than in the cheap kind (i.e. grocery store takeout). Or perhaps it’s a bell curve, where the center consists of “this is expensive enough already, let’s not waste food by throwing parts of it away”.

                  I think ultimately, it really comes down to presentation. Cutting the roll after frying it exposes the center, which makes it look colorful and appetizing. If you battered and fried the pieces individually, they’d simply be brown on all sides and look like oversized pickle chips. It basically makes every piece into a (double) end piece.

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    Gotta be American, there’s enough oil on the pan to drive you from New York to San Francisco

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      Well, if you’re already going to waste pack of sushi for the purpose of making a shitpost, might as well use the cheapest one you can find

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        There are 3 colors on the avocado parts, a deeper green, a lighter yellowish green, and a light brownish part, which is consistent with avocado cuts and oxidization.