Hangiri 半切り
Wooden tub for cooling cooked sushi rice. If you buy Japanese rice with acceptabel quality, measure the right amount of water, cook the rice with rice cooker, you hardly make mistakes. However the most critical thing at the preparing sushi rice is that the cooked rice can be muddy at the mixing with vinegar and cooling rice. Hangiri helps to avoid that the rice will be muddy, because wood soak the moisture. It is recommended for sushi lover, but it is not essential.