How to BBQ Japanese-style with a Shichirin!
In this video, I’ll teach you about the amazing, compact, affordable, traditional Japanese BBQ – the SHICHIRIN. It’s an entirely different way to grill meat, fish, veggies, and even desserts, and their small size makes them ideal for occasional use or to pack into the car for outdoor adventures. I’ll also share my recommendations for charcoal and other accessories to grill Japanese foods such as yakitori, atsuage, aji-no-mirin, yaki onigiri, and more. I’ll even teach you about how to get a set of stainless steel rods cut to size so you can control grilling and rotate skewers like a master. Where to start? Pick up a shichirin, charcoal, and other accessories at a home center. If you’re in Kyushu or Yamaguchi Prefecture, visit any of the 64 Gooday stores – so, watch the video to see everything I use and how to make yummy yakitori. And as a bonus, I also explain how to use the kakigori machine (shaved ice maker) that I found at Gooday to make a frozen cocktail! Use the chapter index below if you can’t wait.
Chapters
00:00 – Intro
00:39 – Shopping
01:03 – Selecting the shichirin & charcoal
02:22 – Cutting stainless steel rods
03:01 – Unboxing of items
08:22 – Kakigori demo
10:51 – Grilling demo
What’s your favorite Japanese summer food? Have you used shichirin before? Binchotan? Let me know in the comments, and let’s trade ideas and tips!
Items introduced in this video:
Shichirin: ￥6,578
Stainless Steel Rod (purchased at Nish-Fukuoka Store. Cutting fee ¥55)
Binchotan: ¥1,188
Starter & Extinguisher: ¥4,298
Fireproof Mat: ¥1,848
Wind Crank: ¥1,848
Coal Tongs: ¥272
Food Tongs: ¥327
Starter Fuel: ¥294
Salt Shaker: ¥877
Sprayer: ¥165
Food Trays: ¥1,628
Skewers: ¥107
Sauce Brush: ¥932 (purchased at Nish-Fukuoka Store)
Kakigori Machine: ¥2,728
Jinbei ¥1,958 (not available at all stores)
*(prices as of July 2021. Prices and inventory subject to change. Services and items vary amongst stores. Call in advance to check inventory.)
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Gooday x Kyushu Live – Home Center Secrets Episode 003
▼ Filmed in July, 2021 at the Higashi-Fukuoka Gooday Store
▼ Prices and inventory are subject to change.
2021年7月撮影｜ホームセンターグッデイ 東福岡店｜取扱商品や金額は変わることがあります
Gooday Website:
There are 64 Gooday store locations in Fukuoka, Saga, Oita, Kumamoto and Yamaguchi prefectures.
Creator & Producer: Nick Szasz
Manager: Emiko Szasz
Video Editor: Kohji Shiiki
With cooperation from: Gooday Home Center
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Hello. Thank you very much for taking the time to record this video in such a kind way. I know it's been many years, but I hope you can get an answer.
I live in an apartment and would like to know if the amount of smoke that this type of barbecue generates makes it impossible to prepare it here in my apartment.
Or if the only way would be to do it in a park or backyard. Thank you very much
Thank you very much in advance.
Wow this friendly of an employee in a hardware store. That has to be the first.
Anyway nice video but it would be better without the music or at least at much lower volume. Also I wonder do you use this indoor too?
Nice jimbei!!!
I was going to buy this a couple years ago n always mad at myself late to the game while they were on clearance .. bbq always smell n taste better w this type of grill
Wow a backyard!
No where except Japan would a sales guy in such a store cut that steel then be bothered to remove the burrs LOL, I miss that place.
I bought something like this at Odaiba once. More of a "hipster' styled one, that was almost 24 years ago, still gets used, of course the metal grill got replaced a few times over that period, used to use it on the balcony of my apartment in Tokyo LOL. Great video! Will subscribe.
Oh, so that's what those grills are called for robatayaki. I'll see if I can find any at my local Japanese market 👍
Also, I would have used the flat kushi on the larger food items so they don't spin like that when you turn them. Makes it easier to obtain even browning on all the sides without having to fight with gravity.
Great video Nick, makes me want to go to the shop immediately to get this setup!
interesting! How much is the rectangular? the price here is too expensive so I wonder how cheap it is in Japan …
You are a very excellent bicultural foreigner resident in Japan. Also your wife seems very helpful. Maybe you could subtitle her speech for the foreign audience.
Just bought the same Shichirin, I just want to get the name of the starter/extinguisher if it’s possible!
Can you introduce which parks provide bbq facilities without charge.thank you
Thanks for including the prices, I find that very helpful. Great video!
Awesome video! i remember going through the BBQ section at the local shops in japan but i was a broke student back then and had other priorities haha Starting to get into cooking things i ate in Japan back when i lived there and i managed to find a clay grill that looks almost identical to yours. Definitely not as cheap as in Japan tho. almost 3X the price.
This is actually a really good video. Thanks for taking the time to make it.
je l'ai manqué !
je dois la regarder maintenant !
Love the garden set up! It seems like you have a lot of space to enjoy the BBQ in the nature.
Terrific! I can smell the yakitori cooking from here. Now, add hard little wooden stools and speakers playing the sound of densha passing overhead!
Waw good job man ur good in barbecue making
They'll cut pipes and stuff for you? Huh! It's like a deli for construction materials!