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I was curious what the paste was. According to Brave search AI (whatever LLM that is): The paste used on dried bonito (known as katsuobushi) is made from the fish’s own head and…
by christophilus · Oct 25, 2026
Curious why they painstakingly arranged the frozen bonito into the truck, only to then toss them into the water at the destination. Why not just empty the cart into the truck in…
by dskhatri · Oct 25, 2026
My wife is also allergic to fish. She can have bonito and fish sauce, and (most strangely) canned tuna. Any fresh fish makes her violently ill. She had to learn the hard way tha…
by aidenn0 · Oct 25, 2026
Or to a protein that is sufficiently insoluble protein that there isn’t much of it in dashi. One could (but maybe shouldn’t) eat a bonito flake or two as an experiment.
by amluto · Oct 25, 2026
It’s very easy to make dashi at home with bonito and kombu (dried kelp). From there you can use it as a base for different soups or to cook with. There are different kinds of da…
by nkrisc · Oct 25, 2026
So everyone promptly forgot how to make bonito that way because the Edo was over? Or you've studied the intricacies of bonito production by hand, and you can see all the mistake…
by Walf · Oct 25, 2026
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Bonitos are a tribe of medium-sized, ray-finned, predatory fish in the family Scombridae, which it shares with the mackerel, tuna, and Spanish mackerel tribes, and also the butterfly kingfish. Also called the tribe Sardini, it consists of eight species across four genera; three of those four genera are monotypic, having a single species each. Bonitos closely resemble the skipjack tuna, which is often called a bonito, especially in Japanese contexts. Read more on Wikipedia