Binging with Babish: Brock's Onigiri from Pokémon

Okay, it's April 2nd, fun's over. This week, for reals this time, we're making onigiri: the breakfasty-lunchy-snack, ubiquitous in Japan, and virtually unheard of here in the US. As such, some committee of suits saw fit to Americanize their portrayal on Pokémon, and a generation of these United States grew up thinking they were donuts...and the bastards made ten hundred billion dollars. Was it worth it, 4Kids Entertainment? Oh, it was? No yeah you're right.

Music: "Juparo" by Broke for Free

Check out my playlist of preferred cooking tunes, Bangers with Babish:

[babishculinaryuniverse]

Gosh I just can't apologize enough for the mix-up.

[JustSomeDevKid]

"onigiri" what a weird way to say jelly-filled donuts

[dylanchouinard]

Instructions unclear: made jelly filled doughnuts instead

[khaimuramata]

As a Japanese person, I've never eaten or ever seen onigiri being made with sushi rice. It's made with just regular plain white rice with no flavoring/seasoning to the rice itself.

[BugsyFoga]

"These donuts are great jelly filled are my favorite nothing beats a jelly filled donut"- Brock

[deidjera]

'Gets struck by lightning'
"I'll use my frying pan,




As a dying pan"

[congabonga]

Babish, you were clearly mistaken.

Those are *delicious jelly-filled donuts*

[pandaiscool]

“I’m using my frying pan as a drying pan” best line in television history

[JaxBlade]

With yesterdays video this is How to make peace offerings to Both the Dub and Sub sides xD

[kewoolDude]

Is this the announcement of the new series - Blazing with Babish?

So jazzed.

[the_guy_with_a_shitty_mic]

These doughnuts are great
Jelly filled is our favorite

[littlegloom]

And you're telling me that Brock was just casually carrying a pressure cooker around in his backpack?

[BANANA-sodx]

*“Man I do love my Jelly Filled donuts!”*

[icyboi]

*I‘ll use my trusty frying pan*




*_as a drying pan_*

[bnkrazie]

So surprised when you played the original Japanese track.

[apeckx]

This video is a year old but still, here's a tip: instead of applying rice in two parts and squishing together, make a ball of rice and make an indent with your thumb, then add your filling and fold the rice over to close the rice ball back up.

[QuincyKane]

I really appreciate the "frying pan/drying pan" reference at the end! Thanks the the jelly donut tutorial!

[atomicseiko]

Brock: "These Donuts are great! Jelly filled are my favorite. Nothing beats a Jelly Filled Donut."

[Nautilusan]

I don't know why Americans thought "yeah let's call them doughnuts" in the latinamerican version a they were just called rice balls

[BestBoyPatrick]

I still didn’t understand why they called the incredibly obvious rice dish “jelly filled donuts”.