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Soy and legumes from Shizuoka, Kyushu

Lightly sweet light miso (e.g. Shizuoka aijiro)相白味噌

Aijiro is a lightly sweet, pale yellow rice miso of Shizuoka. Mostly dehulled, boiled soybeans are packed hot with rice koji into large vats and left about 10 days, with no added heat and no turning. Made in 6 steps over 10 days. The longest step, ripen about 10 days, takes 10 days (Japanese Wikipedia). Salt is 7–12 % (Japanese Wikipedia). Aspergillus oryzae does most of the fermenting.

Key numbers
Main step10 daysReported[JA-WIKI-相白味噌][INAMORI-1965]Ripen about 10 days
Temperature40–50 °CReported[JA-WIKI-相白味噌][INAMORI-1965]Mix and pack hot into large vats
Salt7–12 %Reported[JA-miso]Mix and pack hot into large vats
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Recipe

Amounts from a sourceOne factory example from Japanese Wikipedia (相白味噌) and Inamori 1965.
660 kgSoybeans · About 80 % dehulled[JA-WIKI-相白味噌][INAMORI-1965]
450 kgRice (for koji) · Polished about 10 %[JA-WIKI-相白味噌][INAMORI-1965]
220 kgSalt[JA-WIKI-相白味噌][INAMORI-1965]
15 ppmRiboflavin · For the yellow-white colour[JA-WIKI-相白味噌]
Starterwhite, low-spore tane-koji (Aspergillus oryzae) on rice

Total time across the recorded steps: 10 days

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What changes: Lightly polished rice is soaked, then steamed

Step 1 of 6
Polish, soak and steam the rice
Time
3–4.5 h
Reported
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Moulds
Aspergillus oryzae

Output: steamed rice.

Flavour
Not documented
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented

Microbes at work in this step

Not documented for this step.

Method

Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source

What makes this one different

Between white and red miso: less koji and more salt than Kyoto white miso, but packed hot and ripened only about 10 days, so it stays pale yellow and lightly sweet.

Related ferments

History and sources

Every number is labelled with how it is known. How this atlas is made

  1. [JA-WIKI-相白味噌] Japanese Wikipedia, 相白味噌wiki
  2. [INAMORI-1965] Inamori M. 1965, 相白 (あいじろ) みそについて (on aijiro miso), J. Brew. Soc. Japan 60(10):869–871, doi:10.6013/jbrewsocjapan1915.60.869paper
  3. [JA-miso] Japanese Wikipedia, 味噌 (miso; type table of koji ratio, salt and ageing)wiki