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It should be noted that the term Sushi actually means sourish and refers to the vinegared rice not the raw fish, so great sushi starts with making great rice. Sushi rice is the most important ingredient in your sushi, without well-cooked rice, the best sushi making can go very wrong.   To sushi connoisseurs, the quality of the rice is as important as the freshness of the fish. The rice must be properly cooked and expertly seasoned with salt, sugar and rice vinegar in the right proportions. Cooling the cooked rice quickly helps give it a sought-after sheen. In Japan, an assistant often fans the rice manually as the sushi chef dresses it.   It is essential that you use the correct variety of rice when making sushi to ensure that perfect consistency and the ‘sticky’ quality so important to good sushi. When the rice is of high calibre, the sushi will be too, that’s why Californian sushi rice is ideal for all types and styles of sushi making.   Also, as rice is the cheapest of the sushi ingredients, as well as the most important, it is worth paying a little more for the best premium Californian rice. This will ensure the highest quality sushi for you and your customers.

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