{"id":10119,"date":"2025-12-04T02:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/?p=10119"},"modified":"2025-12-03T22:19:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T06:19:49","slug":"dueling-hot-pots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/dueling-hot-pots\/","title":{"rendered":"Dueling Hot Pots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/main-copy-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10111\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/main-copy-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"eating hot pot with chopsticks\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/main-copy-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/main-copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/main-copy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/main-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/main-copy-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHot Pot! Hits the spot! What foodie magic is this?<br \/>\nSo yummy, for the tummy. When it\u2019s cold, it\u2019s bliss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Uhh\u2026OK I\u2019ll stop now. Sorry, there\u2019s nothing like a good hot pot on a cold winter\u2019s day; it\u2019s the kind of relaxing meal that feels better at home than out at a restaurant, you know? Although the long lines of young Asian kids at the popular place in our town tells me the dish is still king around this time of year.<\/p>\n<p>Zojirushi sent me their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/app\/product\/eppfc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>YinYang Hot Pot <\/strong><\/a>skillet just in time for the holidays so I jumped at the chance to use it and show everyone what it can do. Just like at the restaurant, the divided pan allows you to have two kinds of hot pot at the same time, so that\u2019s what I put to the test.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Yosenabe vs. Sichuan<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nThis was so much fun from beginning to end\u2014we all went out to shop for the ingredients first, and for the most part they were the same for both dishes. You can see them laid out here. My wife and daughter both like the spicy Chinese kind, but I prefer the Japanese kind, so this was perfect for satisfying everybody. The one ingredient that they used that didn\u2019t go into my side of the pot was cilantro. Sheesh, cilantro in a hot pot?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ingredients-copy-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ingredients-copy-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"ingredients for hot pot laid out\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ingredients-copy-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ingredients-copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ingredients-copy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ingredients-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ingredients-copy-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re new to hot pot, just go to any Asian market and buy the pre-packaged bags of soup stocks. They come in dozens of flavors and all you have to do is pour it in your pan, boil it and start cooking. And when I say dozens, I mean it\u2014anything from traditional Japanese styles like <em>yosenabe<\/em> to traditional Chinese tomato-based style. There are also <em>kimchi<\/em> flavors, curry flavors, <em>miso<\/em> flavors and yes&#8211;vegan options too. They make it so easy these days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/two-kinds-copy-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10112\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/two-kinds-copy-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"two kinds of soup stock in YinYang pot\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/two-kinds-copy-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/two-kinds-copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/two-kinds-copy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/two-kinds-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/two-kinds-copy-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just a word on how to use your Yin Yang skillet; the pan is made fairly thick so it took almost 10 minutes to bring the stock to boiling. When you start to add the ingredients it cools down so you\u2019ll have to find the temperature you prefer cooking at. The temp dial works well, but the response time is gradual so allow for that. You can literally cook with the pan over an open flame, so you know it\u2019s durable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hotpot-done-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10114\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hotpot-done-copy-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Yin Yang pot with 2 kinds of hot pot\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hotpot-done-copy-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hotpot-done-copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hotpot-done-copy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hotpot-done-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hotpot-done-copy.jpg 1745w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was a lot of food\u2014the pan is deep! We had plenty of leftovers so we added the <em>udon<\/em> and had it for lunch the next day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jalape\u00f1o Corn Dip vs. Meatball Marinara<\/strong><br \/>\nJust in case you thought this kind of skillet can only be used for Asian dishes, you would be wrong. If you wanted to do a fondue for example, you could easily do two different kinds and have your party guests choose whichever they preferred, like cheese and chocolate. Or like we did, make one side party dip and the other side meatball appetizers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/chip-dip-copy-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10115\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/chip-dip-copy-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"cheese dip and meatball marinara in Yin Yang pot\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/chip-dip-copy-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/chip-dip-copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/chip-dip-copy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/chip-dip-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/chip-dip-copy-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The great thing about the Yin Yang Hot Pot was that the temperature-controlled heat kept them warm all the time.<\/p>\n<p>The Jalape\u00f1o Corn Dip recipe is an American favorite and easy to make with minimal ingredients. We used this one from the <a href=\"https:\/\/cooking.nytimes.com\/recipes\/1025763-jalapeno-corn-dip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>NY Times<\/strong><\/a>, but there are so many of these on the internet. Once it starts to bubble you can immediately turn the heat down. And every once in a while you might want to stir it up so the bottom doesn\u2019t brown from the pan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/dip-on-stove-copy-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10116\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/dip-on-stove-copy-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"cooking cheese dip on stove\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/dip-on-stove-copy-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/dip-on-stove-copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/dip-on-stove-copy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/dip-on-stove-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/dip-on-stove-copy-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We used the other side to make meatballs in marinara sauce that could be eaten with bread. Who doesn\u2019t love meatballs, huh?? Seriously, if you think about the fact that both of these appetizers can be made <u>and<\/u> served in the same pot, you\u2019d have to admit it\u2019s genius.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/party-ready-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10117\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/party-ready-copy-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"party ready with chips and bread\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/party-ready-copy-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/party-ready-copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/party-ready-copy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/party-ready-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/party-ready-copy-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are some features of this skillet that I should point out that make cooking with it easy. The fact that it\u2019s nonstick is of course great, but we liked that it\u2019s ceramic enhanced, which means the surface is BPA free. That\u2019s important with cookware these days; you don\u2019t want toxins getting into your system. The other feature that\u2019s kind of subtle is the angular hex shape of the knob. My wife thought this made it very easy to grip for smaller hands like hers, and the flat sides actually keep the lid from rolling around when you lay it down. Pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/collage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10118\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/collage-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"showing hexagon handle knob of lid\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/collage-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/collage-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/collage-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/collage.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So whaddaya think, guys? Know anyone that might want an awesome Christmas gift?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Products used in this post: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/app\/product\/eppfc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Gourmet d&#8217;Expert<\/em>\u00ae Electric Skillet for Yin Yang Hot Pot EP-PFC20<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Please note that these recipes were not tested by Zojirushi America<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">All images by Bert Tanimoto \u00a92025<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHot Pot! Hits the spot! What foodie magic is this? So yummy, for the tummy. When it\u2019s cold, it\u2019s bliss.\u201d Uhh\u2026OK I\u2019ll stop now. Sorry, there\u2019s nothing like a good hot pot on a cold winter\u2019s day; it\u2019s the kind of relaxing meal that feels better at home than out at a restaurant, you know? 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