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Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2024
Easy to make ongiri with. Just put the rice in, press down, and flip it over.It can be a little difficult to extract sometimes, but generally, it cleans easy and works well. Mine didn't come with the brush as shown and I occasionally had some difficulty extracting the ride from the mold. But this is a great start to expanding my kitchen
Hank Hill
Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2024
This device seemed rather gimmicky when I first saw it, but it turns out that it produces nice, uniformly-sized onigiri, I’ll tell you what. In the past, I would typically form triangular onigiri (rice balls) by wetting the palms of my hands, sprinkling some salt on them, then taking a handful of rice and forming the triangular shape by cupping my hands together while shaping the steaming hot rice. So using this mold eliminates any scalding of your palms. Nice!I also like to add a small “surprise” inside my onigiri, either a small amount of umebushi (pickled plum) or takuwan (pickled radish). So what I did with this mold was to fill the bottom half with rice, slightly packing it down, using a spoon so as not to have to touch the rice at all. Then I added the umeboshi or takuwan, positioning it with chopsticks. I followed this up by adding rice on top. I wasn’t sure how much rice to place so I added enough until it was slightly above the top edge. Lastly, I pressed the cover on top to pack the rice down and voila!, six nicely formed onigiri!Removing it was not as simple as inverting the top/bottom assembly and then lifting up the bottom and having the six rice balls sitting nicely on the inverted top as is shown in the product images. I actually had to take a butter knife and run it along the edges of the triangular rice balls to gently coax them out of the mold, but it didn’t ruin their shape at all so that was good. I then manually placed them on the inverted top piece and sprinkled some nori furikake on them since I did not have any seaweed to wrap them with at the time.As you can see from the photos, the results were pretty good. When I do it by hand they’re usually a variety of sizes. These were very uniform and nice to serve to guests.Clean up was very easy as nary a grain of rice was stuck in the mold. But just to let you know, I did not receive a brush like what is shown in the product images. I give it four stars due to the lack of the brush (maybe it’s not included but if so it should be removed from the images) and the fact that the rice didn’t simply plop out of the mold when inverted.
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