As someone who writes about how to make delicious food, I am all about DIY-ing your own versions of tasty, trendy dishes. In a lot of cases, a homemade version of something will taste better and cost you less money, but this is not the situation with the poke bowl.

Rice is the most important component of sushi. In fact, the word "sushi" refers to the vinegared rice used for the Japanese dish. If you want to make decent sushi at home, you need to know how to prepare the rice first.

Raw fish is pretty tasty if you like sushi, but eating other raw meats is a terrible idea. The parasites and bacteria in some raw meat, like pork or chicken, are a lot more dangerous than the bacteria in fish. SciShow breaks it down.

Some foods are easy to pick up and munch on, while others would benefit from simple, easy-to-understand how-to guides. These are those guides.