Making onigiri

[Kitalpha Hart]

Or rice balls, if you'd rather call them that
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQEIE94Dgv0/
At the beginning
Following cooking instructions on the rice bag, but otherwise I am following this one, sans sesame seeds

Anyone ever make any? How'd they turn out? Did you use bonito like I am, or something else for the filling?

[Polaris]

Ah, I love makng onigiri!

My dad and I used to make them together when I was little, but he would put little crumbled bacon bits as a filling for mine.

[Kitalpha Hart]

Oh cute!
I'm 90% sure I have nowhere near enough onigiri so imma do tuna fish if I'm right

Good god nori smells like fake moss at craft stores

[Kitalpha Hart]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BQEZ3DRjl8x/
The captions LOL

[Diana]

I tried to make onigiri once with my sister. She had gotten a cute little bear mold for her birthday or something. We had a hard time with the consistancy of the rice. It was way too sticky/mushy at the end, so when you unwrapped it from the plastic wrap, most of the rice cane off too lol.

[mdom]

Ah we call those fish flakes 'furikake'! And there are colorful versions too, to make your onigiri look cuter (they sell it in Japanese stores here, not sure if there are any there).
My mom used to do it more often when we were kids, I guess now she's too tired of it |D

[Kitalpha Hart]

There's no Japanese stores here
Dad got all the stuff at Wegmans cuz he passes one to and from work every day, otherwise it's out of the way

I need gallon size ziplocs for my nori

So the rice is sticky as all heck, the larger ones were more prone to fall apart, less so after they sat for a while, and the small ones didn't
The wtfgiri one obviously didn't fall apart

[Lemon Cheesecake]

I wonder if the type of rice and temperature of the rice when you shape it would make a deciding impact on how it turns out?

[Kitalpha Hart]

Recipe called for short grain, so we used short grain
And they do say to let it cool for a bit, 10+ minutes
But now that they've chilled in the fridge, they're sticking a lot better. But I only tried one of the rice balls with tuna, not any of the onigiri (with bonito) yet

[Watery Star]

Did it taste good?

[Kitalpha Hart]

Kinda chewy, prolly too much rice, but it was one the roommate made, not one I made

[Lemon Cheesecake]

or they handled it too much?

[Kitalpha Hart]

If I'm feeling munchies later imma try one I made, but I think the rice:filling ratio was off

[Lemon Cheesecake]

you'll know for next time - or maybe you discovered a better recipe!

[Kitalpha Hart]

I doubt I'll make any ever again, tbh