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Cooking Tips

Improve your kitchen skills with our helpful cooking tips and learn how to cook rice, fold gyoza, thinly slice meat, and more.

Basic Japanese Cooking Tips

Occasionally skim the scum and foam in the shabu shabu hot pot.

How To Skim Off the Scum and Fat from Soups and Stocks (灰汁取り)

5 from 4 votes
Glass airtight containers with steamed rice in them.

How to Store Cooked Rice

5 from 4 votes
Otoshibuta | Easy Japanese Recipes at JustOneCookbook.com

What is Otoshibuta (Drop Lid) and How to Make It 落し蓋

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DIY Thinly Sliced Meat

How to Slice Meat Thinly

4.89 from 18 votes

Latest in Cooking Tips

3 easy bento boxes filled with delicious meals.

Food Safety Tips For Bento

A plate containing Onsen Tamago (Japanese hot spring egg) made with a microwave.

2-Minute Microwave Onsen Tamago

5 from 6 votes
Perfectly cooked Japanese short-grain rice being served in the Japanese rice bowl.

How to Cook Japanese Rice in a Pot on the Stove (Video)

4.63 from 166 votes
How to Deep Fry Foods

How to Deep-Fry Food at Home

Sushi oke (Hangiri) containing sushi rice made with cooked Japanese short-grain rice, rice vinegar, sugar, and salt.

How to Make Sushi Rice (Video) 酢飯

4.57 from 497 votes
Fresh homemade mochi made with a stand mixer.

How to Make Mochi with a Stand Mixer (Homemade Mochi) お餅の作り方

4.45 from 273 votes
Multiple plates containing sashimi grade fish, including salmon, tuna, and kanpachi, garnished with shredded daikon, shiso leaves, and wasabi.

How To Slice and Plate Sashimi

20 Cooking Gifts For Every Food Lover (2023)

20 Cooking Gifts For Every Food Lover

A rice cooker containing freshly cooked brown rice.

How to Cook Short-Grain Brown Rice in a Rice Cooker 玄米

4.84 from 6 votes
A display of Authentic and Creative Ramen Toppings

Best Ramen Toppings

A white plate containing a Dragon Roll.

Best Sushi Recipes to Make At Home (How to Guide)

4.80 from 5 votes
A whole Kabocha squash is being peeled and cut into cubes on a cutting board.

How to Cut a Kabocha Squash (Japanese Pumpkin)

Japanese Vegetables

Unique Japanese Vegetables

Japanese Herbs

Unique Japanese Herbs and Spices

Japanese Milk Bread (Shokupan) molds

Japanese Loaf Pans: Where to Buy and Care Instructions

Step by step instructions on how to cut half a salmon into thin Japanese-style fillets.

How to Cut Salmon into Japanese-Style Fillets

5 from 7 votes
A plastic bag containing yuzu zest.

How to Store Yuzu Zest (Don’t Discard the Peel!)

5 from 6 votes
A Japanese clay pot simmering chicken meatballs, tofu, mushrooms, and various vegetables in a savory dashi broth.

Nabe: A Guide to Japanese Hot Pot 鍋物

A Zojirushi lunch jar containing steamed rice, mapo tofu, fruits, and salad.

How to Pack Bento in 15 Minutes (6 Lunch Ideas!)

Meal Prep for Bento: Freezer-Friendly Bento Dishes

Meal Prep Freezer-Friendly Bento Dishes

Steamed vegetables on donabe steamer along with dipping sauce.

Quick Guide to Japanese Cooking Techniques

Rice paddle scooping rice out of the kamadosan donabe containing perfectly cooked Japanese rice.

How To Cook Rice in a Donabe 土鍋ご飯の炊き方

4.86 from 28 votes
featured image of japanese vegetarian and vegan cooking

Your Guide to Japanese Vegetarian & Vegan Cooking (Tips & Recipes)

Salmon kasuzuke served on a Japanese plate.

Essential Japanese Cooking Tips for Beginners

Measuring the flour accurately with a measuring cup.

How to Measure Flour (The Right Way)

4.67 from 9 votes
Shrimp and vegetable tempura on a plate along with the dipping sauce.

How to Make the Best Tempura 天ぷら

4.49 from 204 votes
Osechi ryori in 3 tier boxes.

How to Pack Osechi Ryori in 3-Tier Boxes

Osechi Ryori | Easy Japanese Recipes at JustOneCookbook.com

Osechi Cooking Timeline

Thickened sauce after adding adding cornstarch slurry.

How to Thicken Sauce and Soup (Cornstarch Slurry)

4.84 from 6 votes
How to Host a Japanese-Themed Party | Easy Japanese Recipes at JustOneCookbook.com

How to Host a Japanese-Themed Party

Perfectly cooked rice served in a rice bowl along with miso soup.

How to Make Japanese Rice in an Instant Pot

4.66 from 102 votes
DIY Thinly Sliced Meat

How to Slice Meat Thinly

4.89 from 18 votes
Orange chiffon cake served on a cake stand.

How to Make the Perfect Chiffon Cake

Japanese lunch meal set with ginger pork, grilled mackerel and korokke.

Plan a Japanese Meal: One Soup Three Dishes “Ichiju Sansai” (一汁三菜 )

A temaki hand roll sushi spread on the dining table, consisting of plates and bowls containing sushi rice, sashimi, vegetable fillings, and nori seaweed.

The Ultimate Sushi Party Guide: Tips, Recipes, and Ideas

Glass airtight containers with steamed rice in them.

How to Store Cooked Rice

5 from 4 votes
Sushi Skills Seminar SF | JustOneCookbook.com

Learning at Sushi Skills Seminar in San Francisco

How To Make Cute Bento | Easy Japanese Recipes at JustOneCookbook.com

How to Make Cute Bento (Video)

4.80 from 5 votes
How to Devein Shrimp

How to Devein Shrimp and Prawns (Video)

4.80 from 10 votes
Various bento boxes for children.

Your Guide to Bento Box Lunch お弁当の作り方

Shio Koji Karaage in the bento box.

Frequently Asked Questions about Bento Making

How to Make Perfect Hard Boiled Eggs

How to Make Perfect Hard Boiled Eggs

4.84 from 6 votes
Containers filled with freezer-friendly bento dishes.

How To Freeze Food For Bento

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Japanese rice bowls containing perfectly cooked Japanese rice.

How to Cook Japanese Rice in a Rice Cooker

4.54 from 73 votes

How to Make Perfect Soft-Boiled Eggs (Hanjuku Tamago) 半熟卵

4.64 from 33 votes
How To Wrap Wonton | Easy Japanese Recipes at JustOneCookbook.com

How to Wrap Wontons

5 from 9 votes
How To Prepare Shrimp for Shrimp Tempura | Easy Japanes Recipes at JustOneCookbook.com

How To Prepare Shrimp For Shrimp Tempura & Ebi Fry

5 from 21 votes
Clams being cleaned over a wire rack.

How To Clean Clams — The Best Way to Purge Sand

4.74 from 50 votes
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