On TV Asahi’s “Yoko Oshita Wide! Scramble,” the habit of dripping soy sauce onto a sashimi pack’s lid and using it as a makeshift dipping dish was introduced as part of the “skip-the-dish scene,” and after announcer Hiroki Yamazaki brought it up, a veteran commentator scolded him: “No, don’t do that… it’ll make you go senile.” The segment had originally been covering the time-saving trend of “knife-cancel” cooking — preparing meals with kitchen scissors instead of a knife — and touched on the lid habit as an offshoot of that. On 5ch, reactions split between defenders (“it’s just practical, what’s wrong with that”) and critics (“that’s cheap-looking,” “you shouldn’t do that in public”), and the discussion spread well beyond the lid itself — to people who pour soy sauce directly onto sashimi with no dish at all, and to gripes about conveyor-belt sushi places not providing soy sauce dishes in the first place.
9/15 (Tue) 17:17
On the September 15 broadcast of TV Asahi’s “Yoko Oshita Wide! Scramble” (weekdays, 10:40 a.m.), while covering the growing trend of people cooking without a knife — dubbed the “knife-cancel scene” — announcer Hiroki Yamazaki’s comments about a related “cancel scene” drew a rebuke from a veteran commentator on the show.
The show covered how, as part of the broader “cancel scene” phenomenon — deliberately dropping everyday habits — more and more young people are cooking without a knife at all, a trend known as the “knife-cancel scene.” It’s believed to be driven by a desire to save time and boost efficiency (“taipa,” or time-performance), and the segment noted that a wide variety of kitchen scissors have emerged as knife substitutes, with scissors actually cutting cooking time compared to using a knife.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
Less stimulation makes your brain go soft.
The reasoning is that prepping food, cleaning up, chatting with people — all of it stimulates the brain, so less stimulation means your brain deteriorates.
I only do that with squid sashimi.
Apparently the original method was brushing soy sauce on with a basting brush, so that might actually be the "correct" way.
Before soy sauce could be mass-produced it was a precious commodity, so people probably didn't use dipping dishes that would leave sauce going to waste.
You'd better make sure the clay pot lid doesn't have a steam vent hole before using it as a plate.
Maybe it's meant to come off as down-to-earth, but it just looks cheap.
It still snaps shut fine even with soy sauce on it.
Just flip the lid upside down and snap it shut, problem solved.
Nobody said anything about the flavor going dull, did they?
Even for filleting fish, ¥1,000–2,000 kitchen scissors can be easier to use than a knife.
I still use a deba knife for cutting a whole fish apart and a sashimi knife for skinning it, but
for an ordinary household, isn't a knife really only essential for cutting whole big vegetables or fruit?
Kitchen scissors… for filleting fish??
Scissors struggle with root vegetables.
It's not an all-or-nothing thing — just use whichever tool fits the job.
LOLwww
Now that you mention it, yeah, they don't.
Wonder why.
I always just pour soy sauce onto an empty plate after I'm done eating off it.
They don't?! That's shocking.
Exactly.
The people complaining about extra dishes to wash — are they just tossing their plastic trash out dirty? That's not okay either.
That's giving yourself way too much credit.
Buying pre-packaged sashimi already puts everyone on roughly the same level.
If you want to point to someone actually "beneath" that, it's the guy who opens the pack and eats some before he's even paid.
Background and Talking Points
“Knife-cancel scene” refers to a time-saving mindset among younger people who finish all their cooking with kitchen scissors instead of a knife, and the show introduced this “dish-cancel” habit as an offshoot of that trend. It’s worth noting that using a sashimi pack’s lid as a makeshift dipping dish isn’t actually new — some people have been doing it for a while. Where the thread split was over whether to prioritize the practicality of having fewer dishes to wash, or the concern that it looks cheap and bad-mannered. The veteran commentator’s “you’ll go senile” remark was meant in the context of reduced sensory stimulation dulling cognitive function, but some replies in the thread misread it as being about food losing its flavor. There’s also a decent contingent who skip dipping dishes altogether and pour soy sauce directly onto the sashimi — a nuance that the headline alone, focused just on the lid, doesn’t really convey.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “TV Asahi Announcer Drips Soy Sauce on Sashimi Pack Lid — “Dish-Cancel Scene” Draws Rebuke from Senior Coworker: “No… Do That and You’ll Go Senile”“.
