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Nigari

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Solid bittern drained from wet salt on the draining bed; it sets soy milk into tofu.

Obtaining

Usage

Setting tofu

With soy milk, nigari makes yose tofu in the curdling tub or silken tofu in the silken mould. Salt making supplies the nigari, connecting tofu making to work on the shore.

As an ingredient

Related guides

Advancements

Pantry MasteryChallenge

Get one of every preparation the provisions maker can make, from salt to stock

Making it step by step

Each step shows one batch. Where recipes differ, the route with fewer processing steps is shown.

Process flowchart

Arrows connect each output to the matching ingredient in the next step. Scroll horizontally to explore wider diagrams.

Step 1EquipmentBrine Vat
Ingredients
Step 2EquipmentSalt Kettle
OutputWet Salt
Step 3EquipmentDraining Bed
Ingredients
OutputSalt
ByproductNigari

In the real world

The Japanese word 苦汁 is read nigari. It is the mineral-rich remainder after salt crystallizes from seawater and is used to coagulate soy milk into tofu.

Differences in game

Real nigari comes as liquid or solid flakes; satoyama represents it only as a solid, obtained by draining wet salt.

References and sources