2015/12/10

Sushi and hygiene issue

It's been taken so many years for becoming a proper sushi chef 「板前 Itamaei」in Japan, traditionally. 
Yes, off course, you can make some tasty nice sushi at your home maybe after you attended a couple of sushi classes. The sushi is so popular in the western countries nowadays, isn't it? The quality of those sushi ,,,,,?

The hygiene issue, it would be the core of the sushi making. Did you know that? Especially for the professionals, when you offer the raw fish or fresh dish to your customers at your restaurant, the hygiene would be very important. I think that even at your home, it is a must to keep the good hygiene. 
Sushi restaurant in Japan, an apprentice have to learn to clean the restaurant every day for years and years, until the sushi master permit to touch the rice or some ingredients, but still not fish yet!! (Actually even in most of schools, we do clean the whole school every day!!)
You wonder why, because the sushi use some fresh raw fishes, so you have to very careful for the health and safety. All the process of making sushi basically in the strict hygiene environment. And also treating all the ingredients properly is the key to succeed to make the good sushi to eat safely. So you have to learn this issue before you start to make sushi.



 Te-zu

Sushi chef and cooks don't use any gloves in the process of making sushi at a sushi bar or restaurant in Japan. But here, you see at a food stand in this country.
Most people believe that using gloves for preparing food would be very hygienic. The fact is not. If you're using gloves more than 10 minutes, the bacteria will grown very quickly! Instead, sushi bars and fishmongers in Japan use a lot of water all the time in their kitchen and before and after their work again use a lot of water to clean. And using「手酢 Te-zu」a half water and a half vinegar for making nigiri and sushi every single piece. That's the way to keep the good standard hygiene level.      



This site is my sushi catering company just has lounched recently, but still in the middle of the establishment. Taking off is quite slow, but it'll be fine.
Chew Valley TAKUMI Sushi  
If you're interested in the sushi business, please contact me. 
I'll try to use the local ingredients as possible as I can and inevitably some from Japan or Asia.