equipment and supplies

How to take care of your rice cooker (video)

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A handy video from a top rice cooker maker shows how to take care of your rice cooker.

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American kitchens: Why cups, and not weight? Where's the kitchen scale?

Where I ponder the question: Why do American cooks do things with cups, not weight?

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Pressure cooker love

(This is the web elf. This article is one of the articles Maki instructed to post while she's on the disabled list.)

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If there's a kitchen appliance that needs a serious image makeover, it's the pressure cooker. Old myths abound about how dangerous and scary it is to use. Horror tales linger from the olden days of exploding lids and contents getting stuck on the ceiling. I'm not even sure if those stories are acrophyal, but I do admit that I sort of believed them too.

But then I inherited a 20 plus year old pressure cooker a couple of years ago. It belonged to Martha, Max's mom, and she used it all the time until she wasn't able to cook any more. It seems that pressure cookers are as ubiquitous in Swiss kitchens as rice cookers are in Japanese ones. (Incidentally, pressure cookers are getting more and more popular in Japan too.) Martha used to use hers for everything from soups to cooking potatoes. After my initial fears, I've grown to absolutely love the cooker.

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Japanese grocery stores in Germany

Submitted by maki on 29 January, 2008 - 12:35

General notes on Germany: The biggest Japanese expat community is in the Düsseldorf area.

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Japanese grocery stores in France

Submitted by maki on 29 January, 2008 - 12:09

Japanese grocery stores and Asian stores that carry Japanese products in France.

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Japanese grocery stores in the New York - New Jersey - Connecticut area

Submitted by maki on 25 January, 2008 - 14:12

This page lists stores in New York, North New Jersey and Connecticut - the NYC Tristate area, plus upstate New York. South NJ area stores are listed on the main page.

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Family Market 29-15 Broadway, Astoria Tel: 718-956-7925 10:00am〜1:00am (7 Days)

生鮮食品、一般食料品、雑貨、レンタルビデオ

JAS Mart 35 St. Marks Pl. (bet. 2nd & 3rd Aves.) Tel: 212-420-6370 11:00am〜11:00pm (Sun - Thu)

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Japanese grocery stores in California

Submitted by maki on 25 January, 2008 - 14:04

General notes on California: Due to the large Asian-American population and sizeable expat communities, Japanese grocery stores are quite plentiful, especially in the Los Angeles area, but throughout the state generally, and there are even more Asian groceries.

I've tried to organize the listings by general area, but if I put a town in the totally wrong location let me know!

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Mailorder merchants that ship Japanese goods worldwide

Submitted by maki on 25 January, 2008 - 09:40

Merchants that ship worldwide, plus shipping services.

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Food related shopping places in Japan you should visit

Submitted by maki on 25 January, 2008 - 09:05

Please limit your suggestions to stores and places that are food-related: edibles, supplies, equipment, etc.

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