Unohana Nonochi Makes Three Sweet Potato Dishes, Then Sings Five Songs to Close

VARIUM — Unohana Nonochi of Varium’s 4th Generation cooked three sweet potato dishes on a camera-on cooking stream on Friday, then sang five songs, beginning with the one she had promised viewers at the start. The stream ran about 176 minutes.

She opened by saying it was the last stretch of autumn and that sweet potatoes, rich in sugar and fiber, were the way to warm up from the inside. She made *suitopoteto*, the baked sweet potato confection, from two Beni Haruka sweet potatoes, which she said suit sweets because of their stickiness. They were cubed and microwaved ahead of time, then mashed with butter, an egg yolk and about 20 grams of sugar, shaped into eight pieces, brushed with yolk for shine and baked at 200 degrees. While they baked she fried skin-on slices about half a centimeter thick, soaked in water for about ten minutes beforehand, in canola oil at 180 degrees. She turned off the background music so viewers could hear how crisp they were. The third dish was sweet potato rice, cooked in a rice cooker with mirin and a little seasoning.

“Once I’ve stepped up on stage and picked up the mic, I want to sing to the end without running away.” — Unohana Nonochi, on finishing every song she starts

She plated all three, joked that it was a night of carbohydrates on carbohydrates, and ate on camera. Her ranking put the chips well ahead, with the sweet potato treats and the rice roughly tied behind. She said the treats could have used a little more milk, and that they tasted better once cooled.

Afterward she sang “Bling-Bang-Bang-Born” by Creepy Nuts, saying she knew mostly the chorus. Chat filled with rabbit, cherry blossom and music note emotes, and she read the praise back afterward. Prompted by viewers, she went on to “Caro mio ben”, “Itsumo Nando Demo” and “Kimi o Nosete”, plus another song viewers asked for, and said she had planned only one. After the singing she read the stream’s Super Chats.

She said her next stream would start at 8 a.m. the following morning: a PlayStation 2 game from the budget Simple 2000 series, set around forensic investigation, which she may spread over the weekend. She also said a Final Fantasy VIII stream was planned for Tuesday.