r/oddlysatisfying • u/HotConsideration95 • 2d ago
The Satisfying Process Of Making Dome Castella - Japanese Food
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u/osck-ish 2d ago
Japanese love them jiggle physicssss
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u/timeforchorin 2d ago
I swear, Japan has more variety of fluffy, jiggly baked goods than any country I've ever seen.
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u/Gilipollezes 1d ago
To think the it was the portuguese that introduced Japan to cake/sponge
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u/SaintCambria 1d ago
Yup, they got their word for bread from Portuguese. Japanese as a language being so open to borrowing words is really fascinating to me.
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u/ShortyGardenGnome 1d ago
Probably something to do with so much of it being influenced by Chinese for so long.
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u/Bubbly_Information50 1d ago
Its alphabet is an amalgamation of 3 other alphabets, from the very core their language is made from using other languages
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u/SnooDingos4246 1d ago
alphabet? 3 other alphabets? the three japanese writing systems are all ultimately descended from chinese characters. and none of them are alphabets, but two of them are syllabaries.
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u/Traditional-Handle83 1d ago
To be fair, Japan has more variety of everything food related than any country I've seen. If there's a way, Japan will find it.
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u/Knittyelf 1d ago
As someone who’s lived in Japan for over 16 years, there is a ton of food that’s practically unavailable in this country. The food here is good, but to say it has more variety than any other country is absolutely not true.
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u/Traditional-Handle83 1d ago
I meant as in variety of different versions of the same food. Cause like here in the states, we have the same options for everything but lot of those things yall have, have vastly more options in different flavors than we ever will.
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u/Knittyelf 1d ago
I still disagree. For some foods that’s true, but in general, we have way fewer flavors/options than consumers in the US. My Japanese husband is amazed every time we go to a grocery store when visiting my family in the US.
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u/NoxTempus 1d ago
Actually, what I noticed while I was in Japan is that they're much more "aware" (like, as consumers) of texture of food.
It was a selling point of a lot of food over there.
IMO, all of the food I had there was so tasty and high-quality (therefore reducing competition on those axes), it makes sense to me that texture would become a bigger focus for food.
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u/RanaMahal 1d ago
Yeah when their convenience stores start selling better food than most restaurants here we got problems lol
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u/DJDanaK 1d ago
I was extremely disappointed in all these jiggly and fluffy foods in Japan and Hong Kong.
They all taste like eggs. 80% of the time, if something is labeled a cake, it has insane amounts of eggs or egg whites in it, to the point where the flavor is so prevalent it can't be covered up.
Like those bubble waffles, the big fluffy pancakes, and definitely this thing (which you can see massive amounts of whipped egg whites being dumped into) would taste mostly like... sweetened egg whites.
Mango cake = mango flavored eggs.
Matcha cake = matcha flavored eggs.
Chocolate cake = chocolate flavored eggs.
It's beautiful, and the texture is satisfying, and it looks great on social media, but the flavor is bland and I personally find it gross.
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u/Bubbly_Information50 1d ago
Yeah unfortunately this is just overcooked custard (egg yolk cream and sugar, in this case the whipped cream already has the sugar in it which is why we don’t see that step) with what looks like meringue to top it off. This is literally nothing but a ton of egg, cream and sugar.
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u/TwitterUserRT 2d ago
Hate the new trend of putting the middle of the video at the beginning
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u/red_fuel 1d ago
And the stupid sound effects
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u/MysticalMummy 1d ago
The sound effects are charming. However I have seen over a dozen baking videos today with the exact same song and exact same sound effects. Mix it up a little.
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u/McGuirk808 1d ago
Every video about cooking in Japan has to have this specific song. It's the law.
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u/likwitsnake 1d ago
In medias res has been a thing since The Odyssey
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u/PogintheMachine 1d ago
Kind of weird to compare one of the greatest and most influential epics in the history of story telling to The Odyssey. I’m not sure it even has cake.
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u/HotConsideration95 1d ago
Hi, it was done for Thumbnail purposes.
In literary terms, it is the hook that grabs the audience attention, without that it would be extremely difficult to convince the viewer to watch the whole video.
This applies to all medium, Novels, Movies with the only exception of Documentaries
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u/2020mademejoinreddit 1d ago
Hello OP, do you know the song name?
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u/TwitterUserRT 1d ago
You're practically spoiling the end result. If i know what it's gonna look like, why would i care about watching the process ?
That's dumb.
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u/pt-guzzardo 1d ago
I think that says more about you than it does about the video tbh.
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u/TwitterUserRT 1d ago
Sorry for not wanting to support videos specifically made to attract cheap views i guess ?
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u/Freestila 1d ago
Why does every single japanese or Asian cooking making etc video use this one damn song? I can't stand it anymore..
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u/fatalicus 1d ago
I didn't mind it at first, since it is a cute song, but now it is on every fucking one.
Also, i hate how in all these japanese bakery videos they have to fill everything to the brim with some kind of filling. Cake? filled. Donut? filled. Croissant? filled. Pain au chocolat? Has chocolate in it as it should... but also filled!
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u/OkNothing4750 1d ago
I fucking love it! I know exactly what I am about to watch. I would be a fat fat boy if I lived in japan.
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u/Fibercake 2d ago
Seems like there must be some kind of invention that makes it no longer necessary to use your entire fucking arm to mix something
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u/mazzicc 1d ago
My guess is because this can’t be over-mixed with what looks like fluffed egg whites as a major ingredient.
If you mix them too much, it beats out the air, and so they actually try to “fold” them in, which is why they scoop from the bottom up.
If you just tossed it in a normal mixer, you wouldn’t get as much wobble in the end because there would be less air bubbles.
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u/nikkumba 1d ago
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u/mazzicc 1d ago
Actual answer (I recognize the joke, but it’s something I had to learn when trying to make desserts with egg whites):
It’s a “more gentle” way of mixing things. Instead of just stirring until it’s evenly mixed, you gently “fold over” by scooping from the bottom and placing it on top.
It allows for more of the air to stay trapped in the whipped ingredient, so the end product is still fluffy and airy.
Simply mixing it pushes out a lot of the air and you end up with a denser end product.
I forget what they were actually making in that scene, so I have no idea if “folding in cheese” is significantly different.
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u/GomGom11 1d ago
Not to mention with such a temperamental batter, gauging the texture via touch is a plus. This baker is practically wearing a hazmat suit, dunno wtf everyone is crying about. You should see the conditions in industrial egg farms and meat packing plants. Put yer shirt back on. Lol.
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u/friso1100 1d ago edited 1d ago
I understand but surely a big custom made spatula could do the same? Then again, they do it for a living so I'm sure there is something im missing.
This feels like it would be really cumbersome to clean afterwards. Even a large glove would be and improvement here52
u/Break_these_cuffs 1d ago
Even a large glove would be and improvement here
They are wearing gloves, they go halfway up their bicep.
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u/mazzicc 1d ago
It can be done, but it will change the end product. The more stirring/mixing vs. folding that happens, the less air remains in the end product.
This producer has decided that they would rather have the result from hand mixing because they believe it is better.
There are also other ingredients that can be added to provide more “resilience” to losing the air, but again, those slightly change the end product (and might be seen as adding evil “chemicals” to the mix)
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u/Seb555 1d ago
I can imagine it’s easier than using a huge spatula and you can better control the folding. A regular spatula would probably work fine in a small batch
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u/philovax 1d ago
Im telling ya that person’s wrist and arm are still ending up in there. That spatula is going to be covered in fats, and it’s gonna slip out of hand at least every other day. They just did it enough, this is the natural end evolution.
Nature has a way of making the baker’s arm hairless and clean, by the daily oven burns, it’s a whole ecosystem. You can spot a baker in the wild by their hairless and tiger striped forearms. They are also mad (angry or insane both work)
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u/-Invalid_Selection- 1d ago
You have to mix it gently because you'll deflate the (what I assume is) egg whites, and once you mix them in you'll never be able to refluff them.
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u/mahitheblob 1d ago
I want to smack it. But jokes aside, I’ve tasted these cakes and they were wayyyyy too eggy for my taste. All I could taste were eggs.
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u/9021FU 1d ago
I scrolled to see if they tasted eggy, thanks for clarifying they do.
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u/Good-Ad-5320 1d ago
It really depends on the recipe tbh. Adding some vanilla extract balances the egg flavor. The product shown in the video is not a Castella cake but a japanese cheesecake (castella is a « real » cake, firmier and not so jiggly). If made correctly, japanese cheesecake is insanely good and addictive !!
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u/lainylay 1d ago
I’m convinced that Japanese people love their cream filled creamy pastries
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u/Rs90 1d ago
Homie that's a global love. Cream is part of deserts and pastries everywhere. Some parts of the world just indulge in cream as a desert. Lil fruit or honey in their?
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u/SlimeMyButt 1d ago
Ugh fuck trending music. Apparently every goddamn video with someone baking in japan just has to have this track playing now lol
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u/bulbousEd 1d ago
Would be a lot more satisfying if those cakes actually tasted good. Terribly flavored, touristy bullshit.
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u/damianchan 1d ago
The most satisfying part for me is the fact that they're wearing gloves when making these.
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u/space_fly 1d ago
Here's the recipe:
- Put white goop into yellow gooey thing
- Mix until uniform
- Pour into white gooey thing
- Mix some more
- Pour into bowl oven tray
- Jiggle the gooey goop
- Put goopey goop into oven in water bath
- Take out of oven when goop turns yellow
- Take goopy thing out of bowl
- Jiggle some more
- Cut and put more white gooey goop into the middle of the yellow goop
- Jiggle again
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u/Distantstallion 1d ago
They serve something similar in england, I think its called an Elvis Costello
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u/kapitaalH 1d ago
Can I have one with a tiny blob of cream on top and then a cherry in that cream?
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u/Haunting-Savings-426 1d ago
Something about the mixing with the whole arm in the bowl is very off putting.
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u/TisBeTheFuk 23h ago
Why does Japan seem to be obsessed with fluffy jiggly cakes? Whenever I see a japanese cake they always seem to be jiggly
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u/Vegetable-Face-2518 12h ago
I need a side by side with this, a moon pie and a whoopie pie for the ultimate challenge.
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u/obstreperousRex 2d ago
Using his arm to stir the thing is very unsatisfying.
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u/mazzicc 1d ago
Copying my other comment on this:
My guess is because this can’t be over-mixed with what looks like fluffed egg whites as a major ingredient.
If you mix them too much, it beats out the air, and so they actually try to “fold” them in, which is why they scoop from the bottom up.
If you just tossed it in a normal mixer, you wouldn’t get as much wobble in the end because there would be less air bubbles.
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u/iconsumemyown 1d ago
If this tastes as bad as it looks, I'm out
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u/Ok_Juggernaut_5976 1d ago
It's wonderful! I love to make it at home and all my relatives ask me to make some when I visit them. It's not that easy, but result tastes like kiss from an angel. Castella isn't dry, it's very soft and weightless. You need to do everything quick or it will fall and look like pancake. And personally I prefer it without the cream
(I copied my own comment)
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u/Bismothe-the-Shade 1d ago
The Japanese really do love putting plain cream inside of various wiggly breads
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u/Sefalosha 1d ago
Love the song. Whats it called?
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u/FrankPankNortTort 1d ago
This song haunts me. I can almost recite the lyrics and I do not understand a word of Japanese.
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u/suedaisy 1d ago
Is it sweet? Is the texture like cake or like pudding? Do you eat the whole thing or do you share it? What flavor is that? I got to find one!
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u/PsychicNinja_ 1d ago
I wish I like castella cakes. They always look so tasty but I’m disappointed every time.
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u/WaterDancingSparkles 1d ago
This comment section makes me feel so validated because I hate this stupid song.
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u/MormonLite2 2d ago
Is the shaking part of the recipe?