Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Dried Shibi

CQ's gonna borrow my dehydrator so this will be the last dehydrator post for awhile.  I can't wait to see what she comes up with! 

Wendell's friend gave him a small shibi (yellowfin tuna - I had to look it up).  He put a little Hawaiian salt on it and let it dry for 8 hours.
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Sorry, I don't really eat fishy stuff, so can't tell you how it tastes, but looks good huh!
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After the fish was done, I washed the trays (which is a bitch btw) and put on some li hing powdered Fuji apples.
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To me, it came out just "okay".  I think it's too soft . . . didn't have the crunch action like the mango did.  At least Les liked it though.
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11 comments:

Betty Townsend said...

Both look good! I always enjoyed eating dried aku when I was home. I suppose the choices of things to dry are endless. I'm interested to see what CQ comes up... :)

jalna said...

I might be the only one in my family who doesn't eat dried aku, Betty.

K and S said...

yum!

Anonymous said...

Da shibi looks so ono. Throw um ova da grill to papa'a skoshi kine mo ono. Do you use a scrub brush to clean da trays? -lance

Dd said...

hummm, I wonder if you salt it like you do for mango "seed" to get all the moisture out...maybe then it will come out dry ?? I still say you should make mango sluuppppp seed .... almost pau..green mangoes...

Erick said...

Yum dried ahi! In the fish markets dried aku is around $25 a pound.

jalna said...

Hahaha, thanks Kat!

Ohhh Lance that sounds good. I'll suggest it to Wendell. I did use this brush once but the bristles that fell off stayed stuck on the tray and ended up on some of the jerkey in the next batch. So now I just give the trays a good soak before I scrub.

Didi, after CQ pau with the dehydrator I'll lend it to you. You can try experiment. I bet you can come up with some good stuff!

I know Erick . . . I heard they were going for $25 a pound!!

Anonymous said...

That japanese brush you use is weak. Those bristles always fall off. LOL!!!! Get some tough bristles ones at Longs. Works great. -lance

Betty Townsend said...

Wow!!!$25 a pound...have to take out a bank loan for that!

Leslie's pics said...

I liked the apples better than the ahi :-)

jalna said...

Ooooh, Lance . . . now you tell me! Hahahaha!

Unreal yah, Betty!

Awww, thanks Les.