Friday Filler

WAG'ing

Looks like something to use in the kitchen with that little drawer in front. A truffel shaver?

right room - wrong ingredient

It is a kitchen tool, but not a truffle mandoline.

Darn it! Now I've got a craving for black truffle risotto.

Re: right room - wrong ingredient

Parmesian shaver?

Try another cuisine

Chopstick Plane?

You've got the right continent

Re: You've got the right continent

Is it pickled pink?

Right cuisine, but...

It's not sushoga (pickled ginger).

Garlic??

Nope

Re: Right cuisine, but...

Sushi cutter

Nope

Hint

These are what the shavings look like. Thinner than tissue paper.

Re: right room - wrong ingredient

The shavings are dried bonito and they are produced by a type of box plane.

Re: right room - wrong ingredient

By the way the country is Japan. Dried fish shavings are used to make a soup base used in many Japanese dishes.

Re: Right cuisine, but...

Wasabi cutter? Any slice of wasabi thicker than that wouold take your head off.

That's it.

It is a "Katsou Bushi Kezuri". Katsuo Bushi is the Japanese name for dried Bonito. The fish are filleted, boiled, smoked, fermented and dried until they resemble chunks of wood. Then they are shaved with the "Kezuri" into very thin flakes.

The flakes are used to flavor "Dashi" (soup stock) and other dishes, they are also used as a condiment. My kids like to sprinkle them on Yaki-Soba or Okonomiyaki. The steam rising from the hot food causes the dry flakes to twist and writhe as if they were still alive.