Steve Ritter wrote:
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 20:10:23 +1200, Daisy
Interjected.. :

Can anyone on the group please suggest a viable alternative for rice
wine vinegar when creating sushi rice.

It's going to be almost impossible to tell the difference if you took
regular white vinegar, and added a small amount of sugar. Some people do
use vinegar and add a bit of Sake. Any will do.

I was just looking for sugar content in rice wine vinegar,
because I didn't think there was any, and came upon a URL
to a fairly precise su-meshi recipe:

http://member.nifty.ne.jp/maryy/eng/shari2.htm

The added sugar is going to be the major sweetness component.

I was kind of surprised how little mirin is in there.
I thought that was where most of the sweetness came from.
Makes me wonder if this recipe is standard.

It'd be interesting to taste sushi made with different vinegars.

--Blair
"It'd be more interesting to be
doing it right now..."