Sake Vessel Series: Masu
Sake Revolution
English - August 11, 2022 16:00 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MBFood Arts sake sake revolution nihonshu japan Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Episode 116. Week in and week out, our standard gear for tasting and evaluating sake is a simple wine glass. This works really well and almost everybody has one nearby. But in Japan, there are a wide variety of shapes, materials and sizes used to make cups for drinking sake. That got us wondering if we should take some other cups out for a test drive and compare them to our usual stemware. This week we are exploring a real square in the world of sake cups - the masu. Born as a box-shaped measuring cup for rice and re-imagined as a fragrant wooden cup for drinking sake, the masu is a totally unique vessel and one that you will find in Japanese sake bars and izakaya across the world. Have you tried drinking your sake out of a square box? And how does that masu stack up against our trusty wine glass? Listen now to our third sake vessel smackdown! #sakerevolution