Our sweet of the week is mitsumame, a Japanese dessert featuring agar (kanten) jelly. You’ll find its silky texture and mild sweetness delights your taste buds. We used caster sugar to make its ...

This week’s water-based agar jelly is a dessert that make the most of Kumamoto’s clear water. It is composed of “iced persimmon” made by freezing sweet persimmon that has fully ripened on ...

Read more: The 20 Best Olive Oils For Cooking The discovery of agar was a rumored 17th-century mistake involving a discarded ...

Why don't more chefs use agar agar as a setting agent? So many cooking programmes have the chefs on tenterhooks because they don't know if their jelly dessert is going to set. If they used agar ...