Wiki Wednesday #305 - Suzu iFone / iFo音スズ

 it's tempting to only Cover one bank utaus forever, but that would be silly.

Wiki Wednesday #305 - Suzu iFone / iFo音スズ

Suzu is a twenty one year old man who may not actually be human.

Who is iFone Suzu?

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If you're extra, you can buy a mochi making machine. Thanks to the magic of Amazon, an American can just pay like $400 and get a real mochi machine. 

I've read that mochi machines were actually the basis for the bread machines that were so popular like twenty years ago! 

But even if money isn't an issue, counter space and storage are a much bigger issue that is harder to fix. That's why I was so excited when I learned about miniature stand mixers!

At minimum, to make mochi from rice, you need a way of cooking rice and a way of pounding the rice. My mom and I did buy a rice cooker after failing to correctly cook rice on the stove in a pot. This is a skill issue on our part.

If you don't have a stove, you actually can cook rice in the microwave! I had a super cool microwave rice cooker that was actually really cheap. It was just a microwave safe container with a special lid. I can't say how well it cooks sticky rice, though. I messed up and used too little water once and melted a hole in the thing! 

We ended up getting a rice cooker from Amazon. It's not too large, but it cooks rice really, really well.

KitchenAid mixers are pretty giant and really, really expensive. There's just no space in my kitchen for one. However, Walmart sells miniature stand mixers for like $60. I cleared out a space to store it, but it's legitimately small enough to just stay on the counter. Even though it's smaller with less room in the bowl, it's still large enough to process everything at once when we use three cups of dry rice. 

The recipe we were following the first time almost killed the poor mixer, though! It said to beat it with a dough hook for twenty minutes. 

The way that worked the best came from a recipe from KitchenAid. Beat with a dough hook for three minutes. Stop it and scrape down the sides of the bowl. Do that about three or four times until it looks like mashed potatoes.

Switch out the dough hook for a flat beater. Go for 30 seconds at a time. I don't think it will ever end up actually coming together like a bread dough and I don't know how to describe when you should stop.

You'll need to coat your hands in corn starch or potato starch. Then, just rip off balls and roll them up! If you're making daifuku, you can flatten them to wrap up the filling. 

Making mochi from rice was a huge dream of mine for so long. Fifteen years later, I made it happen! It makes me really happy that I was able to do it. 

That's really all I have to say about mochi! It's a lot of fun and tastes amazing! I would love to read comments about if any of you have made mochi.

How Are Suzu iFone's banks?

Suzu has three banks, but one of them is just an improved version of one of the other ones. We'll only look at the improved version.

Suzy's first bank is a CV-VV bank. He has a natural pitch and a soft pitch. He has a wonderful and nostalgic voice!

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Next Is his CVVC: Holy. It is two two pitch CVVC banks, natural and soft. His voice is still absolutely lovely!

Where Can I download iFone Suzu?

You can find him on his wiki page. He is so lovely!