KITCHEN PRACTICE 2 — Plan a Different Meal Combination
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TASK
Write your own timing plan for a different combination of dishes -
swap the main for karaage (Chapter 6), or the vegetable side for a
different nimono. Work out which dish needs to start first and why.

WALKTHROUGH

Step 1 — Pick your substitution.
Example used here: karaage (Chapter 6) in place of the teriyaki main.

Step 2 — List every dish's real time requirements.
  - Tsukemono: needs standing time, but little active attention
  - Rice: 20-30 min soak + ~25 min simmer/rest, mostly passive
  - Dashi/miso soup: quick to make, but must finish last (never boiled after miso goes in)
  - Karaage: needs a marinade (at least 20-30 min), then two separate fries with a resting gap between them

Step 3 — Identify the new longest-lead-time item.
Karaage's marinade time is comparable to the rice soak, and its own
two-stage frying needs active attention right before serving - unlike
the original teriyaki main, which only needed a quick glaze at the
end, karaage needs real hands-on time close to serving.

Step 4 — Reorder the plan.
Start the marinade for karaage early enough to run alongside the rice
soak and the tsukemono. Plan the two fries to land just before the
miso soup's own final step, since both need real attention right
before the meal is served.

Step 5 — Write it out as a numbered plan.
Same shape as this chapter's own timing plan, just with karaage's own
two real time requirements (marinade, then two fries) slotted into
the correct places.

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WHY THIS MATTERS
The specific plan in this chapter works for that specific set of
dishes. Being able to rebuild the same kind of plan for a different
combination - correctly identifying which dish has become the new
long pole - is the actual transferable skill, more useful long-term
than memorising one fixed meal.