what's the deal with small Japanese cooking pot.?

[boomchakabowwow]

looks like a fun pot, but I don't need one. but fun. I like how you can scoop with it. but my cooking for huge groups is not a thing anymore.

any use one? maybe I am just watching too many Japanese cooking vids. hahah.

 

[Justinv]

I had one like that. Can’t remember the size but I never use it. No reason to use it over quality clad pans.

 

[dchang21]

this is a yukihira pot. it's good for many things, one of them being the only pot you will use in college. like cooking instant ramen and eating it out of the pot..

 

[parbaked]

No reason to use it over quality clad pans.

I have a small, 1L stainless and use it often for things like making dashi, reheating soup or warming milk and butter for mash.

Benefits over my quality clad pans are:

1. it heats much faster on induction
2. pour spout is useful
3. the internal volume markings are useful
4. has a handle sticker like a TFTFTFTFTF

 

[boomchakabowwow]

the pour spout is the part I am considering. looks like a pouring genius

 

[mengwong]

It has two spouts, so it can pour twice as fast.

 

[ptolemy]

looks like a fun pot, but I don't need one. but fun. I like how you can scoop with it. but my cooking for huge groups is not a thing anymore.

any use one? maybe I am just watching too many Japanese cooking vids. hahah.


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IMO, it's only good for liquid based preparations, where even heating, stickiness, cleanup is not an issue (in general) but yes, beefly handle that doesn't get hot, fast heating, pouring spouts, are likely it's benefits - probably cheap too.

 

[Cliff]

I use it all the time for oatmeal. Heats quickly, perfect size.

 

[Ochazuke]

It's super useful in commercial Japanese settings. Having the measurements also is a plus. It's much easier to get the dashi ratio right when making tsuyu without having to use other utensils. I guess if you're a western home cook there's no real reason to use one.

I second the benefit that they're cheap and also lightweight.
I'll add the benefit that they're virtually indestructible. If you get the handle-less versions they also stack well.

The rapid heating was also a benefit in many ramen restaurants where you might not be busy enough to just keep a giant pot going and only bring enough stock to boil rapidly for what you need.

 

[Michi]

It has two spouts, so it can pour twice as fast.

There is a famous old church in the centre of Munich, called "Der alte Peter" (the old Peter). A disintiguishing feature is that it has eight clocks on its four-sided spire, two on each side.

Karl Valentin, a famous Bavarian comedian, once remarked that there are eight clock faces so eight people could check the time simultaneously…

 

[DitmasPork]

looks like a fun pot, but I don't need one. but fun. I like how you can scoop with it. but my cooking for huge groups is not a thing anymore.

any use one? maybe I am just watching too many Japanese cooking vids. hahah.


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Use mine all the time, more than the pricier European pots and pans in my kitchen—light and fast.