cornstarch reminded me

[jinian]

Last week I also went to a mochi-making workshop at Jigsaw Renaissance, which has made clear to me that "workshop" does not always mean the same thing. Here it meant "let's mess about overconfidently with internet recipes we haven't tried before" rather than the "let's learn from someone who knows what they're doing" I was hoping for. Unsurprisingly, we made the worst mochi ever. (Uncooked rice flour, water added was not hot; result should have been used to hang posters.) This was followed by a strange pancake that actually did seem to be decent mochi. (The right amount of water, not "oh, it looks okay now!", plus five minutes in the microwave.) Overall kind of an annoying experience, but I can see it as echoing America's Test Kitchen if I try hard enough.