Learning to make Sushi | Gordon Ramsay

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i absolutely love japanese food and it's

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something i've always been dying to know

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how to make properly so i'm a sushi

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version until today i'm going back to

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the floor to get the ultimate lesson in

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the perfect sushi here we go in the deep

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end

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i've come to the award-winning aya

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restaurant in the west end

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the sushi chefs here have trained for up

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to 10 years and are all experts

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hand-picked from japan

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teaching me today is

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quinn

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overseen by sushi master karasan

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hi how are you

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good to see you okay i'll be tackling

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three sushi classics dragon roll scallop

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nagiri and spicy tuna roll

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but first it's back to basics rice so

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how long would you wash rice for when

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you first arrived in a japanese kitchen

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for three years minimum three years

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three years just washing rice

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cauliflower he did rice for six years

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was a naughty boy

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the rice is washed three times leaving

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it soft but sticky enough to mold

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and this is the most important thing for

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sushi because we say the sushi rice is

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the part for sushi yes yeah

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i've been fast tracked through years of

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rice washing and now it's time to learn

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how to make my first dish

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a real work of art

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the dragon roll avocado eel cucumber and

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salmon row intricately wrapped in

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seaweed paper called nori and rice but

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there's one big catch

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you have to do within two minutes they

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have to do it within what within two

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minutes in two minutes but it's

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impossible to have two minutes

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i've been told to copy karasana's every

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move

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it's an amazing way of fanning out an

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avocado jesus christ huh everything's so

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precise everything's so

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it's almost like it's in military

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fashion

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next step for karasun the eel but i'm

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still struggling with the basics

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the rice sticks to your hands so quickly

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yes

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karistan's almost finished

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he's so precise

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this is for one portion one person yeah

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i'm uh i'm just i'm feeling slightly

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nervous because i

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i feel for the first time in my cooking

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career after 21 years in the kitchen i'm

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at my depth jesus christ in under two

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minutes karasand's done and i've only

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just begun

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it's incredible

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the level of concentration oh

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amount of work that goes into it

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so underestimated

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13 minutes later dragon roll eventually

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done

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oh my worries the timing 30 minutes in

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two minutes