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Using just 5 simple ingredients that you likely already have in your kitchen, you can whip up this delicious, thick and fruity homemade okonomiyaki sauce in just a few minutes!

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Okonomiyaki sauce (also known as okonomi sauce) is thick and fruity sauce that you apply to the famous Japanese savoury pancake called "okonomiyaki" (お好み焼き). In Japan, most people use pre-made packaged okonomiyaki sauce, but you can easily make it from scratch too!

It's actually heavily based on Woucestershire sauce but a lot thicker and sweeter. That being said, it's a very fruity yet a little bit sour sauce.

You might wonder if there are any differences between okonomiyaki sauce and yakisoba sauce. Simply put, they are actually quite similar but there are still a few differences.

Ingredients vary somewhat from manufacturer to manufacturer, but tomatoes, onions, apples, vinegar, spices, salt, and oyster sauce are commonly used. However, if you compare these side by side, you will definitely notice okonomiyaki sauce is sweeter, thicker and yakisoba sauce is more savoury and thinner.

Other than yakisoba sauce, takoyaki sauce is also quite similar to okonomiyaki sauce, but unlike okonomiyaki sauce vs yakisoba sauce, they are actually very similar and interchangeable. If I have to name some differences, I would say takoyaki sauce is often slightly sweeter but not as thick as okonomiyaki sauce.

I know this is kind of breaking the essence of this post, but seeing as we often just buy okonomiyaki sauce in supermarket, I thought it would be helpful what kind of brand has the most authentic flavour.

I would have to say, more than 99% or even higher of people in Japan buy Otafuku's okonomiyaki sauce. It's the kind of okonomiyaki sauce in Japan without a doubt. You can actually forget about other pre-made okonomiyaki sauce because Otafuku is the one.

Otafuku also operates in US, so you can buy their wide range of products from their own website directly. Their signature okonomiyaki sauce is called "Okonomi Sauce".

Other than that, you can find Okonomiyaki Flour (if you wanna make it from scratch, I have a homemade okonomiyaki recipe), Okonomiyaki Kit and Okonomiyaki value pack.

Even though I'm going to explain easy way to homemade okonomiyaki sauce soon, you might be looking for substitutes. Maybe you wanna look for easier alternative or change the flavour a bit. Here are some popular examples of alternative okonomitaki sauce in Japan:

Of course it's best to use okonomiyaki sauce for okonomiyaki, but sometimes it's good to change things up!

In my recipe, I use following ingredients to make okonomiyaki sauce:

However, if you want to know the ingredients in general sense, these ingredients are used according to Otafuku:

Basically to avoid this long list of ingredients, I use Worcestershire sauce, which already contains a lot of fruit and vegetables instead.

I recommend keeping homemade okonomiyaki sauce in an airtight container in the fridge and using it within 2-3 weeks. Because it's made of condiments that contain preservatives, it would probably last longer in theory, but you might as well make a fresh batch as it uses typical condiments that most people already have at home.

Homemade okonomiyaki sauce works great with a number of my recipes!

Ten automakers report equipping more than half of the vehicles they produced between Sept. 1, 2017, and Aug. 31, 2018, with automatic emergency braking (AEB), the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) announced today. This is the second update of manufacturer progress toward equipping every new passenger vehicle with the crash avoidance technology by Sept. 1, 2022.

The 10 manufacturers include many high-volume automakers such as Honda, Nissan and Toyota. Three manufacturers — Mercedes-Benz, Tesla and Volvo — report 93 percent or higher conformance with the voluntary commitment, with Tesla at 100 percent.

Based on reporting by the 20 manufacturers that made the commitment, about half of the vehicles produced during the period were equipped with AEB. This is an increase from less than a third for the previous year, according to reports that included sales figures for both years. Toyota remains the frontrunner in terms of the total number of vehicles produced with AEB. The automaker equipped 2.2 million (90 percent) of its 2.5 million vehicles with AEB. Nissan has the second-highest number produced with AEB — 1.1 million (78 percent) of 1.4 million vehicles. Honda is third-highest with 980,000 (61 percent) of 1.6 million vehicles produced with AEB.

These data are reported as part of a voluntary commitment by 20 auto manufacturers to equip virtually all new light-duty cars and trucks with a gross vehicle weight of 8,500 pounds or less with a low-speed AEB system that includes forward collision warning (FCW) and crash imminent braking (CIB) to help prevent and mitigate front-to-rear crashes.

Brokered in 2015 by NHTSA and IIHS, the commitment is intended to get the safety technology into the vehicle fleet faster than requiring it via a federal rulemaking. Manufacturers submit yearly progress reports to the public docket until they fully conform to the voluntary agreement. Consumer Reports supported the commitment and agreed to assist in monitoring automaker progress.

"Technologies like automatic emergency braking can help make cars safer on the roads, which means Americans are safer when traveling," said NHTSA Deputy Administrator Heidi R. King. "This update on the status of the voluntary AEB commitment demonstrates how collaborative approaches to advance safety technology can be an effective way to advance our shared safety goals. Working together, we can reduce crashes and prevent injuries."

IIHS estimates that the commitment will prevent 28,000 crashes and 12,000 injuries by 2025. AEB systems with both FCW and CIB reduce rear-end crashes by half, while FCW alone reduces them by more than a quarter, IIHS research indicates.

"Getting AEB on the road as soon as possible was the main aim of the commitment, and this latest report shows that a significant proportion of vehicles left the factory with AEB on board," says David Zuby, executive vice president and chief research officer of IIHS.

NHTSA, IIHS, and Consumer Reports credit manufacturers for honoring the commitment.

"When it comes to being on track for the 2022 targets, most manufacturers are ahead of the curve, but far too many still need to kick their efforts into gear," says David Friedman, vice president, advocacy, for Consumer Reports. "It is also encouraging that more than half of models now come with AEB standard, and a third already have more advanced capabilities like pedestrian detection."

There is room for improvement. Fewer than 10 percent of vehicles produced during the reporting period by Ford, Mitsubishi and Porsche were equipped with AEB. Jaguar Land Rover didn’t report any vehicles with AEB conforming to the commitment.

According to additional data tracked by Consumer Reports and IIHS, 13 of the 20 manufacturers offer AEB as standard equipment on all trim levels on at least half of their 2019 models. Inclusion as standard equipment ensures all consumers interested in a new vehicle will get this important safety technology.

The participating automakers include Audi, BMW, Fiat Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Jaguar Land Rover, Kia, Maserati, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi Motors, Nissan, Porsche, Subaru, Tesla Motors, Toyota, Volkswagen and Volvo. These companies represent more than 99 percent of the U.S. automobile market.

Passenger vehicles with automatic emergency braking

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