right|thumb|A , with its blade cover removed and the collection drawer ajar A is a traditional Japanese kitchen utensil, similar to a wood plane or mandoline. It is used to shave , dried blocks of skipjack tuna ().
right|thumb|A , with its blade cover removed and the collection drawer ajar A is a traditional Japanese kitchen utensil, similar to a wood plane or mandoline. It is used to shave , dried blocks of skipjack tuna ().
The technique used to prepare the cooking ingredient is pulling and pushing a block of across the blade in the device in a back-and-forth movement. The resulting shavings are captured in a wooden drawer at the bottom of the instrument, and retrieved by opening and emptying the shavings that are roughly sorted into two sizes for different uses.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).