My mother would make kirimochi for every New Year and we would have it with miso soup. She had that very same machine. That buzzer is so penetrating! This of our first year without her. It was very nostalgic to watch you make it here.

@erdiaz13

7 ай бұрын

My condolences. I've purchased the kirimochi from Amazon and it's quite tasty as long as it arrives intact. You can honor your Mother still even though it may not be homemade. 🥹💕

@laurabooth6752

7 ай бұрын

I'm so sorry for your loss. I'm hoping that you learned to make it so your mother will live on

@chrisa2735-h3z

7 ай бұрын

I’m so sorry for your loss😢 but I’m happy that the video brings nostalgia of some of the good times you had with her❤❤

@vzmkitty

7 ай бұрын

I’m so sorry for your loss. This must be a difficult year for you.

@paullsmith1867

7 ай бұрын

Thank you for your kind remarks. Cancer of any kind is a painful thief that steals indiscriminately. It took the lives of both of my parents. All I can say to that is that for the sake of your loved ones DON’T write off ailments as things that will pass when they seem to linger. Get them checked out. Death is inevitable but it doesn’t have to be take down the ones you love.

A friend of mine who lived in Japan for a while, taught me how to make a version where you fry the squares of mochi with a bit of soy sauce, maybe a touch of sugar, and sesame oil, and brown it on both sides, and then scoop it into nori. the texture is startlingly like a grilled cheese sandwich. Really good with a few toasted sesame seeds....I now have to make this again XD

@theclimbingchef

7 ай бұрын

I remember grilled mochi at a roadside market. It was so good!

@rabbit3235

6 ай бұрын

Now I need a tutorial on this too 👀

If anyone wanna try to do this but don't have the Mochi machine, you can use your bread machine/maker. It can also "pound" cooked rice but I think you might need to cook the rice in your rice cooker first because I don't think you can use bread machine to cook rice.

@kasondrapace1585

3 ай бұрын

Thank You

I love that for a unitasker it comes with EVERYTHING you need other than the perishable products. I mean just including a rolling pin got me! I have a real pet peeve for products the require me to have an endless supply of other utensils or items just to be able to use the basic function of their item.

The mixer with a dough hook works beautifully😊

@auntied4950

7 ай бұрын

Yes, I've made plenty with my Kitchenaid, works like a charm!

@farahpawanteh1797

7 ай бұрын

Hi! So do we just put the cooked sticky rice in the mixer and let it go till it's smooth? Thanks!

@princessmariposa828

7 ай бұрын

Thank you I was just wondering if it would work

@silentshadow867

7 ай бұрын

I was coming to the comments section to ask that.

@dkp28

6 ай бұрын

@@silentshadow867 It does work with a dough hook, but make sure the quantity of rice you put in does not over-tax your machine. We had to make "mov ci" for my mother's funeral (tons of it) and it started to emit a strange odor. Took a long time for it not to smell when I used it, so it does the job, just be careful.

I'm Hmong. Preparing and eating rice cakes is also a new year tradition for us. A popular preparation for the mochi is to fry it up until golden on the outside and dip into cane sugar syrup! That's my comfort food.

I’ve been in Japan the last few days for a personal vacation, and one of my tour guides was telling me she loves to make Mochi Pizza! It seems like a great yummy concept that I’ve never heard of until speaking with her! She said it was as simple as putting mochi in a pan and after it’s browned, adding topics!

Thanks Emmy, I just tested Covid positive so stuck eating my ozoni alone in a separate room from my family. But watching this video helped cheer me up while eating the tasty savory mochi ❤️ Agemashite omedoto gozaimasu!

I once got kirimochi made of black rice. Was delicious, had an additional nutty flavor.

just made mochi for the New Year. I made Kagamochi Japanese alter piece, anko (red bean paste) mochi, and regular mochi. Now where my grandparent came from we made round mochi patties instead of the rectangle mochi. Even had my ozone soup, The way I cook my mochi is in a cast iron frying pan. Love mochi with shoyu and nori strips like you.

💛...my five uncles and one auntie and their spouses (spice?) would get together at this time of year for the mochi making at gramma's place...it was an uber-labor-intensive operation that we all looked forward to... nowadays, even with store-bought mochi, it invokes cherished memories of a bygone era...the rice was steamed over a kettle of boiling water, stoked by an oakwood fire, which was used to roast our wienies after the rice was done... whenever i sense a oak log burning, this is where i go...

3:54 Yes, I saw the traditional process several times. The anxiety that the hand ✋️ of the second one got pounded with the mallet is always high. The two persons must have rithm and synchronization ❤🍡👏👏👏

I used to buy a brand of mochi that had a couple of different flavors. My favorite was garlic. The brand is defunct and I miss having a slight garlic flavor in my toasted, seaweed wrapped mochi. Seeing it made this way has me thinking I ought to make my own.

Thank you!!!!! I never really understood why in fruits basket kio said that toru would be the kind of girl to choke on her mochi. I thought maybe it was just because she was silly and a little clumsy. Now that you have explained it though, it adds even more depth and understanding to the show.

It’s always fun to watch emmymade videos. I’ve never made these from scratch, but have eaten them.

Breadmaker works to knead the rice, My family also eats this with a little honey and it's tasty as well or we pan fry it with the smallest bit of oil and soy/salt.

@RashmiSaid

7 ай бұрын

Cooked rice placed in breadmaker... what setting do you use to beat it?

@sandyxiong43

4 ай бұрын

Knead function should suffice. You will have to watch it though, when the mochi be comes stretchy and the rice grains are no longer visible u are good.

@RashmiSaid

4 ай бұрын

@@sandyxiong43 Thank you, I will try it!

It is such a joy to see your demonstrations, Emmy! I learn so much and my wife is delighted about how much I've been able to expand my culinary repertoire.

That buzzer scared the crap out of our cats. 😂

That buzzer reminds me of my granny's old dryer back in the 90's 😂😂

I so want to make some not so traditional though. We bought some from the supermarket they where mixed chocolate, vanilla, green tea, black sesame (unusual) mango, strawberry. My 14 yr old loves things about Japan so we got them to try and loved them. The chewy flavour and the cold was and avour is so good. For his birthday he got a bix of mango, lime coconut and melon

@KurtOnoIR

7 ай бұрын

I've recently become addicted to those.

I would LOVE this see an episode on how to make miso !

I've had mochi with ice cream inside many times. Sooo delicious. Have a healthy and happy 2024 🙏.

I have the same mochi maker. I've had it for over 30 years. It's awesome.

That buzzer has one job and does it thoroughly and proudly. :D

This machine is awesome, would LOVE to see miso next !!! 😍

Wow it's so cool to see how mochi is made! Mochi has been a mysterious treat for me, since I didn't grow up eating it. Now that I'm an adult, I love learning how to make my favorite foods.

I LOVE Mochi so much, I named my kitty "Mochi"...and her identical baby is MJ (Mochi Jr)😊

You are always such a joy to watch. Thank you for continuing to bring us the world thru your kitchen!😊

@emmymade

7 ай бұрын

Thank you for the kind words. 🧡

I would love to see you make these sweet!!! Warm & toasty sweet mochi sounds WONDERFUL. Happy New Year Emmy!!! Xoxo

Nami at Just One Cookbook has a KZread video where she makes mochi in a stand mixer and yup, it works. Looks a little rustic but seems to work pretty well.

@futuramabender2078

7 ай бұрын

Define rustic also how is kirimochi different from standard mochi?

I like to bake it and then stuff it with little pieces of sharp cheddar. Love the stuff!

Happy New Year! This took me back to childhood in my grandmother's kitchen 🩷 My favorite way to eat it was always in soup with mushrooms and nori.

My mom taught me us kids how to eat mochi the way you and I love to eat. And ozoni and sweet with kinako powder!! I love mochi too!!

Nostalgia. I can almost smell my Grandmas house watching this!

My goodness now I’m craving something I’ve never even had!

I also highly suggest this with a little salt, sugar, and kinako (roasted soy flour--tastes very nutty). So good! What a neat machine!

Grilled mochi is my very favorite way to eat mochi! Yum!

So glad you mentioned using flour at the end. I bought a bag this past year for a recipe that only used about a 1/4c & didn't know what to do with the rest. Seeing comments that the Kitchenaid works, I'll have to give it a try! Thank you! I love mochi !

I use kirimochi as a glutefree pizza dough option. I put a few pieces in a oiled pan, fry them until they start to puff, and then I flatten them with a wet wooden spoon so they'll stick together and create a tortilla-sized ring. Then when the bottom gets crispy, I top it with pizza sauce and topping, pops it under the broiler for a while, and boom! Perfect Pizza.

Store bought mochi never tastes as good as the one you make at home. I just finished making mochi at home. I made 32 cups.

@annbrookens945

7 ай бұрын

You should be stocked up for a while! That makes subsequent snacking quick and easy!

@avariceseven9443

7 ай бұрын

That must be why I hate those things. My sis sent us some directly from Japan. Tried toasting them and tried the shoyo and nori combo..it was just too flavorless!

@-Reagan

6 ай бұрын

We need your home address so we can test your mochi. Not to worry, we are professional mochi testers who must ensure quality control. Really, it’s standard procedure. ;)

6:39 that killed me 😂😂😂😂

@dragonbutt

7 ай бұрын

Yeesss OMG

This is by far my favorite Mochi Maker in the US and I use the same rice! Woohoo! Go Emmy!

Hi Emmy- hope you have a Happy New Year! thanks for a year of fabulous videos!!! Fingers crossed that next year I will see Campbelled Eggs!!!

I love them with butter and honey 🤤

It was always a great day whenever I woke up to fine that my mom had busted out her mochi maker. She always had to make so much because she gave a lot away to her friends.

Wishing you and your family a happy and awesome New Year!

You could make mochi with glutinous rice flour, cook it in the microwave or steamer. Texture of the sticky rice is the best part.

Thanks to you Emmy I also have made dark chocolate from the bean. I loved it. I love dark chocolate. I love all your videos .

thank you for this detail. was wanting to buy this exact machine. i'll know what to do now.

Would love to see that mochi machine take on fufu! Happy new year, and thanks for the video. :)

I used to buy Grainaissance kirimochi. I was si sad when they stopped producing it. It came in a few flavors, and my fave was the raisin cinnamon. The texture was everything.

We just made ours today!!

I replayed your impression of the MEEEEEEEH! a few times. That was so funny!

Hi Emmy! I steam my sweet glutinous rice in my rice maker and then use my bread machine to knead the rice into mochi. It's works out well! ❤ from 🇨🇦

Hope you have a great New Years Emmy! Absolutely love your videos. Always makes my day better 😊

Perfect for new year

Adorable! Happy New Year's Eve Eve! 🥂

Every year, my parents ordered our Kiri-mochi and Kagami-mochi at the local Japanese sweets shop, and they deliver late December for the new year. We put up Kagami-mochi in our alters, ate Kiri-mochi in O-zoni, grilled and dipped them in soy sauce and sugar, or cover them with the mixture of soybean powder and sugar (Kinako-mochi). Kiri-mochi with a slice of cheese and Nori wrapping is also delicious. By the middle of January, the exposed mochi get harden much. My grandmother used to make Okaki with them.

Fascinating! I never knew rice could do that!

Thank you for this tutorial video on how to use the mochi maker and making the mochi.

Happy New Year!! Thank you for all you videos from this year and i look forward to all the videos next year! All the best to and your family in the coming year!!

Lol! The buzzer sounds like my dryer. 😆 The fact that it only takes 10 minutes to pound the rice into a soft, sticky dough makes that machine worth its weight in gold. 👍🪙 I've made mochi only once and to say it's a laborious process is an understatement. It's delicious and really appreciate how much work went into creating it. 😋 Happy New Year Emmy! 🎆🎉

“Puff, the Magic Dragon lived by the sea…” :P

The buzzer sounds like a ferry going into a port!

Happy New Year Emmy. Warm wishes for a safe, blessed and prosperous New Year, from Gayle in Oklahoma

6:37 it goes MEHHHHHHHhhHhhhhH!

I was watching that in bed on my iPad with my cat curled up next to me. When the buzzer went off, my cat startled, jumped up and bit me and ran away.

I loved eating kirimochi when I was in Japan! Except I went sweet instead of savory XD I would put it on top of a slice of bread (that was slathered in butter and sprinkled with sugar) and put it all in the toaster oven and have that for breakfast!

My mother and I make this every New Year. It's such a delicious treat.

Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea... Thanks, Emmy ❤ Wishing you and yours a happy, healthy and prosperous new year❤

We used to get a wonderful large bullet shaped dessert green tea Mochi stuffed with red bean paste and wrapped in a non-edible leaf. It was warm. I eat Mochi “ice cream” but it is kind of a joke. Wish I could find that other type

Just want to tell you your sweater is really cute!

Happy New Year everyone!

That noise woke up the two cats in my room, they are not very happy with Emmy at the moment LOL

Buzzer sounds just like the one on my clothes dryer.

Happy new year Emmy! Thank you for creating all these cute, yummy and uplifting videos 💗 How I wish I could taste some of your mochi through the screen 😂

I love the tiny mochi pieces that they have as a frozen yogurt topping. I look forward to a layover at Baltimore airport to get it at Pinkberry!

Just make a New Years killer Mochi movie.

EMMY!! I haven’t seen anything from you in a very long time… so glad to see you again!

@-Devy-

7 ай бұрын

You mean "I haven't watched anything from you in along time". "I haven't seen anything from you in a long time" implies that there was nothing to see, that she hadn't made any videos lately, which is objectively false.

@S.E.C-R

7 ай бұрын

@@-Devy- I mean what I said, it was to her, not to you and certainly not for you to analyze and try to correct. Get over yourself!

Omgawwww!!! That’s the perfect snack or appetizer

I used to hate mochi, until I had a mango coconut mochi and I changed my life! I cannot eat beans, aside from the green ones, because of their texture! I like the ones with fruit fillings and I love the sticky texture

I was eating tteokboki while watching this 😂so fun!

@TheMamamarieke

7 ай бұрын

Now I’m hungry for both snacks!

shiny and smooth and round 😩

Happy holidays and Happy New Year! Definitely going to have to try this out! ❤

they have a mochi pop machine at Mitsuwa that makes the disks that pop out as it puffs,

Happy New Year 2024 Emmy

I usually put a thin layer of cornstarch onto a cookie sheet to put the mochi. I let it cool, then cut with scissors.

Savory mochi is so yummy! Love it grilled!

The sound of that buzzing wasn't pleasant at all when my cat was laying on my chest and freaked out so bad he jumped off of me LOL the mochi does look really good tho!

I learned to bake mochi this way in a private vegetarian cooking class I took with some friends many years ago. It’s delightful dipped in jam! I have only done it with store bought mochi however. The mochi I buy comes in the refrigerator section in a smaller flat slab than you made. You have to cut it yourself.

Yummmmmmm, yes please Emmy😊😊looks sooooo delicious 😊😊😊😊

The sound feels like it's using the motor's coil to make the "buzz" sound, creative if true.

I've only had mochi treats - daifuku I think they're called. Sesame and red bean are my favorites. I just love the texture! I've had My Mochi ice cream balls before, and only like the coconut flavor - I let it get melty first lol.

If you have one you can use a bread machine. Cook the rice and move to bread machine on dough mode.

That looks so interesting! I wonder how they would deep fry. Would they puff up even more? Fascinating!

Puff the magic dragon, lived by the sea ❤

That’s it, that’s your next T-shirt- “Don’t choke on your mochi!”❤

@toxictina135

7 ай бұрын

I have only had mochi once with a bit of ice cream stuff. It was good. I kinda want to make it because I like making things that most people think that they can't make at home, like dark chocolate. I have made that, inspired by Emmy . Sorry if my grammar isn't the best I might be a bit lit.

What a great idea to steam rice. 😊

Happy New Year Emmy! You always display such joy! Thank you. We just made our mochi. After Ozoni, we like to eat it toasted with sugar and soy sauce.

Happy new year Emmy 🎉 🎊