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Home » Cooking Tips

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 5 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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Slicing the block of the ribeye and filet mignon thinly.

How to Slice Meat Thinly

4.89 from 18 votes

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Slicing the block of the ribeye and filet mignon thinly.

How to Slice Meat Thinly

4.89 from 18 votes
3 easy bento boxes filled with delicious meals.

Food Safety Tips For Bento

How to Deep Fry Foods

How to Deep-Fry Food at Home

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

A display of Authentic and Creative Ramen Toppings

Best Ramen Toppings: From Traditional to Unique Twists

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

How to Cut a Kabocha Squash (Japanese Pumpkin)

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
Cheese board filled with cheese, cold cuts, dried fruits, bread sticks, olives, grapes, and condiments.

How To Make a Cheese Board

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.

Guide to Japanese Cooking Methods: Simmer, Grill, Steam & Fry

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)

4.70 from 10 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
5 different types of dashi in a jar and their ingredients.

How to Make Dashi (The Ultimate Guide)

3 easy bento boxes filled with delicious meals.

Meal Prep Bento Recipes Ideas: 3 Dollar Bento Challenge

Orange chiffon cake served on a cake stand.

How to Make the Perfect Chiffon Cake

Glass airtight containers with steamed rice in them.

How to Store Cooked Rice

5 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

Containers filled with freezer-friendly bento dishes.

How To Freeze Food For Bento

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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
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
Gyoza

How to Fold Gyoza

4.60 from 10 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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