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For a Cleaner Grater, Grab the Tea Whisk

NEW YORK — As I dined at the counter at Shuko Beach, the East Hampton, New York, summer pop-up of Shuko restaurant in Greenwich Village, I noticed that the sushi chefs used a tea whisk — the implement designed for frothing matcha — to clean their little ginger and wasabi graters. I tried it at home after tasking my Microplane with the zest of a lemon, and now I will keep a bamboo tea whisk right near the sink. “I learned it from Masa,” said Nick Kim, one of the chefs and owners of Shuko, referring to Masayoshi Takayama, the renowned sushi chef for whom he once worked, when I asked him how he came up with the idea.

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For a Cleaner Grater, Grab the Tea Whisk
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Florence Fabricant
, New York Times

NEW YORK — As I dined at the counter at Shuko Beach, the East Hampton, New York, summer pop-up of Shuko restaurant in Greenwich Village, I noticed that the sushi chefs used a tea whisk — the implement designed for frothing matcha — to clean their little ginger and wasabi graters. I tried it at home after tasking my Microplane with the zest of a lemon, and now I will keep a bamboo tea whisk right near the sink. “I learned it from Masa,” said Nick Kim, one of the chefs and owners of Shuko, referring to Masayoshi Takayama, the renowned sushi chef for whom he once worked, when I asked him how he came up with the idea.

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