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Shutō is the stomach and intestines of skipjack tuna, washed, packed in salt and left to ferment and ripen for half a year to more than a year. Kōchi has made it for at least 300 years, and the name, "sake thief", says it makes the sake disappear.
Fully documentedFish and seafood6 months
Recipe
No fixed amounts recordedThe tradition has no published fixed amounts; makers set their own salt level, and lower-salt products are also sold (MAFF).
Fresh skipjack tuna viscera (stomach, intestines and the organ where they meet)
What changes:The fresh stomach and intestines of skipjack tuna are washed well
Step 1 of 4
Wash the fresh viscera
Time
Not documented
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
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
At a glance
Shutō is the stomach and intestines of skipjack tuna, washed, packed in salt and left to ferment and ripen for half a year to more than a year. Kōchi has made it for at least 300 years, and the name, "sake thief", says it makes the sake disappear. Made in 4 steps over 6 months. The longest step, ferment and ripen, takes at least 6 months (MAFF Japan).
Shutō uses the bonito's guts alone, while shiokara uses flesh and guts together. It also ripens far longer, 10 to 13 months against 10 to 20 days (MAFF).
Salt in a commercial katsuo shiokara (1955)
14.0 % salt and 89.3 mg volatile basic nitrogen in one commercial katsuo (skipjack) shiokara analysed in 1955. The paper does not say whether it was made from guts only, so this is not shutō's own figure.
Amakuchi (sweet) shutōA lower-salt kind made for modern tastes (MAFF).
Shutō from other fishSome makers use tuna or sea bream guts, or add chilli or yuzu (MAFF).
Safety
Heavy salt and the long ripening preserve shutō. Anisakis larvae can live in skipjack and are not killed by salting as used in ordinary cooking. We read no test of shutō's long salt cure. MHLW advises not eating raw viscera, and freezing at −20 °C for 24 hours or more, or heating to 70 °C or above, to kill them. Shutō is itself raw viscera, and no step on this page freezes or heats it. Skipjack is a tuna, a fish FAO and WHO name for histamine poisoning. Histamine can form during salting and fermenting, and heat does not remove it (FDA). The FDA also says botulism spores live in fish viscera and advises gutting fish before salting or fermenting. This product is made of those viscera, so it depends on heavy salt, and no source here shows a lower-salt home version is safe.
Thought to have begun around the Enpō era (1673–1681), when katsuobushi making was improved. The name is said to come from the 12th Tosa lord, Yamauchi Toyosuke, who found that with it the sake vanished as if stolen (MAFF).
Starter
The sources we found do not say how its fermentation begins.