In the Kitchen

Kitchens in Japan are not equip with an stove top and oven like you would find in North America. Instead they generally consist of a two burner gas stove top, a small rack under the burners for grilling fish or meat, a rice cooker, microwave and fridge. Most meals are cooked on the stove top with meal grilled.

There a a few different ways food to prepared here -  grilling, frying, deep frying, simmering, steaming, dressing, pickling and then raw. With it being summer, most of the food is cooked and then cooled, so you are eating is cold or cooler. Some items are still served hot.



Rice cooker



The majority of the food is cooked on the burner stove top. Rice is made daily in the rice cooker and left over rice is rolled into individual rice balls and wrapped. These can then be eaten cold or warmed up for another meal.

A typical Japanese refrigerator is different than what you would find in North America. It has six doors: two French doors for the regular fridge compartment on top, two small drawers, one for ice cubes and a fast-freezing drawer for fish, a large zero-degree vegetable drawer and, on the bottom, the freezer drawer.

The kitchen are is generally very small. All the storage and appliances in the kitchen are compact, making the most of the small space.

fridge

stove