Sushi-Rolling Machine
Having a sushi party? Check out this cool toy that came out this summer from toymaker Bandai Namco. It's an automatic sushi roller--just put seaweed, rice, and your ingredients of choice in the little orange machine, turn the rollers, and voila! You have perfect, tightly rolled whatever-makis in a matter of seconds.
Press release (Japanese)



A buddy of mine used to work the sushi counter at a Daiei near university and had an industrial-sized one of these. Oddly, he never let me have a go :(
By the way, you need to increase the bottom padding when it asks you to sign in to add a comment :D
Posted by: Rog | September 13, 2007 at 07:42 PM
ya know, that's actually not unlike an antique cigarette roller....
Posted by: Greg | September 13, 2007 at 11:16 PM
definitely gotta get me one of those, my sushi rolling sux :P
Posted by: PapiGiulio | September 14, 2007 at 03:22 AM
I prefer temaki. Just throw out the cut nori sheets and the various ingredients with a bucket of sushi rice and you're set.
Let your friends roll their own favorites, or try new ones.
I enjoy hand rolls more, probably because of the crisp nori.
Posted by: vagrant | September 15, 2007 at 03:46 AM