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Photo of the Day: O-toro

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My first thought when seeing Jon Cheng's photo of o-toro (fattiest part of the tuna) in Tokyo was, "That's a big chunk of tuna." And then a moment later, "That's a huge-ass knife."

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That is the biggest knife I've ever seen!

That's enormous!!!!

Maybe it's not a big knife or a big slab of otoro. Maybe this person is just very very tiny.

Definitely still makes me hungry though.

i saw the 400 lb. tuna cutting demo at mitsuwa last weekend. the sushi chef used that loooong knife to slice through the skin and all along the edges of the giant spine, then a 45 degree angle cut through the level of the tuna belly and then 2 or 3 chefs lifted the full length hunknormous quarter of the 400 lb. of fish flesh off.

that huge knife seemed like a metal toothpick when it's half buried inside that giant 400 lb. (minus the head) tuna. the sushi chef had to hold the knife with both arms to pull it through the enormous tuna.

Why did the image of John Belushi doing the Samurai deli just pop into my head? Dig that knife.

Both the knife and that huge chunk of fatty tuna are equally impressive. What impresses me even more are the knife skills these sushi chef's have, especially when handling these large machete-sized knives in the kitchen.

i didn't even notice the knife there until i read that last line. gosh, the otoro really diverted all my attention away from the knife.

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