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Question: Can you use flour sticky rice? or only whole rice? how do you make the mochi paste?
Document: The machine shakes and jiggles and after about 15 min the rice starts forming into a ball. When the ball starts bouncing around it's done. (It's quite cute, like a fat kid dancing)Put some mochiko (the mochi flour) on the tray that doubles as a top and then smooth out your mochi. The rolling pin isn't exactly necessary, but you can use it.
The Mochi cutter is better than doing it by hand. Best of all, the freshest and best mochi I ever had.Cons:  Cleaning the mochi cutter is somewhat a pain. When mochi cools down or runs out, it begins to stick to everything, especially the innards. Although I use rice flour to help prevent the mochi from sticking to everything, it eventually will stick when the flour runs out.
If you have the patiences, this mochi maker and cutter is  great. To make mochi, you have to let mochi rice soak in water over night and drain water completely. After steaming (about 40 minutes) and pounding which takes about another ten minutes, you have to immediately roll or cut mochi (with rice flour)while it is warm.Pros:  Mochi is great and no strained muscles from hacing to pound it the old fashion way. Also no more store visits to find stale or frozen mochi.
Need more detail or better instructions . some of instructions is wrong. EXAMPLE  You don't use flour. You use cornstarch. Water? 5C rice about 2.5C water.
6) The lid doubles as a 'pan' you can dump your mochi in or use to form a mochi cake, if you're doing blocks. Make sure to starch it well before dumping your mochi in it. It also cleans up well with hot water and a soapy sponge. Do NOT use a sponge with a scouring pad, as you do not want to scratch the surface of the plastic. 7) If you've got doubts about this making good mochi, perish the thought.
This appliance makes mochi making easy and produces great mochi. It is so easy that we now make mochi for our daughter's family too. Since it arrived just before the New Year, we were able to enjoy traditional Japanese New Year's dishes with our family. This is a great product and I would recommend it to anyone who misses mochi. There is nothing like eating freshly made mochi! This unit is easy to use, easy to maintain, and is compact. It is very well designed.
I love mochi and was really looking forward to getting this as in TX it is hard to buy it in the stores, will have to juggle with the amounts and also wonder if they use white sweet rice I use organic brown sweet rice and maybe more difficult for the steamer to cook it so have ground the rice a little before cooking it but will keep trying
OK that's probably an overstatement. But if you love mochi as much as I do, then it's pretty accurate. I may use the toaster or the microwave more often, but nothing gives me more pleasure than whipping up a fresh batch of mochi.Basically, you wash and soak 5 cups of mochi rice over night, then put it in the machine with some water. It *steams* the rice for about 30min then beeps.
I love it. It makes good rice cakes. You can either use cooked or uncooked rice. Great item for it's price. Thanks.
We have so much fun, every time we use this machine.Like another reviewer suggested, we used 2.5 of the little "cups" to 5 cups dry rice. The rice steamed perfectly. One time, we forgot to pour in the water! The machine buzzed right away, and I figured it out, let it cool, and added a little more water than the 2.5 cups, to account for having "toasted" the soaked rice.
Answer: Use only sweet rice, wash very good till white water's gone and soak 12hrs before cook.