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AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

Randaconda posted:

i've never had Passover Seder

can you explain a little?


cause I can't see it being worse than the time I threw up Bacardi 151 through my nose

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passover_Seder#Overview

quote:

...drinking of the first cup of wine...
...dipping of the karpas in salt water...
...drinking of the second cup of wine...
...eating of the maror...
...eating of a sandwich made of matzo and maror...
...the serving of the holiday meal...
...eating of the afikoman...
...drinking of the third cup of wine...
...drinking of the fourth cup of wine...

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AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006


I don't know the latest guidance on raising children, but at what age is it ok for them to handle a knife that can make precise cuts in a carrot but not turn on an oven?

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006


I have a hard time not running into the same problem at Mod Pizza. The final result is always disappointing.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

Roundup Ready posted:

Also keto is like, super bad on your body. My lady is t1d and dipshits always seem to tell her she should try it. It would literally kill her. Putting you body into ketosis is super rough on basically every organ.

Not nearly as rough as obesity. Sure, long-term a calorie appropriate balanced diet is the healthiest option. But there's a reason doctors will okay pretty much anything short of smoking amphetamines for weight loss for sufficiently fat people. A keto diet is still way less drastic than medifast or phentermine but all of the above are healthier than excess visceral fat.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

The Moon Monster posted:

Why are there straws poking out of it.

I was so disappointed when I found out that multitiered cakes got their structural integrity from inedible elements.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

monkeytennis posted:

That looks like someone shat a tapeworm into a wine glass.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

SlothfulCobra posted:

American cheese does taste like cheddar because it's literally made out of cheddar. And colby, which is cheddar's weird cousin that doesn't go through the cheddaring process (it's pretty mild). They melt it together, add a few chemicals and milk to control its chemical balance and then remold it into its new form.

Unless you got something like these, which are actually mostly composed of vegetable oil, whey, and gelatin.



There's as much cheese as they say there is.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

SlothfulCobra posted:

In Europe, they don't like eating grapes, so the purple color is blackcurrant. We don't have much blackcurrant in America because they were banned for a long while for being a disease vector for a specific disease that killed pine trees at a time when lumber was much more of an important industry.

Rasberry flavor is great and once the idea of making it blue caught on, it's just a thing now. I think I remember when I was a kid, a bunch of companies figured out a new apple flavor where they add in some more citric acid and all the candy companies put out green apple variants at once. There's a weird power to the conceptual idea of a flavor all on its own.

Similarly, the idea of banana flavor persists even after the true banana has gone extinct.

Color aside, where does the flavor come from though? I'm assuming they're not distilling raspberries or something.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

spankmeister posted:

I had a Russian army ration once.

Apart from the serving of straight lard, it was actually pretty decent food. If not a bit too salty.

You're describing Russian food, not just army rations. Some good flavors, but too much salt and lard all around if you're not trying to preserve your food through the winter.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

https://twitter.com/MountainDew/status/1305853912575029250

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

boar guy posted:

here's a great "dump' recipe. get a pork shoulder. rub it with paprika, pepper and salt, then sear it. put it in the crock pot for 6 hours on low with a quarter cup of chicken broth. bam. awesome pulled pork.

Buying achiote paste is the real answer here. It's easy mode for delicious slow cooked pork, just don't bring anything you don't want permanently stained near it.

Content:


This is surprisingly normal for an old-timey recipe ... a WHAT liver?

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006


Nothing wrong with some chopped meat in white gravy :colbert:

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

Brawnfire posted:

are made of these?

Well, who am I to disagree?



aka poo poo on a shingle. most versions look appropriate for this thread, but it is delicious if done right.

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AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

MREs are engineered for a very specific use case, and they're never going to be the lightest, cheapest, or most delicious emergency rations.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

yeah I eat rear end posted:

The thing I don't like about the top down things is how much tiny glass bowls people seem to have to put all the herbs and stuff in to before pouring them in. Cooking from scratch is enough mess as it is, I can't imagine wanting to intentionally give myself an individual dish to wash per ingredient.

...do you not have a dishwasher? The little glass bowls are cheap enough, and having all your ingredients measured out and available is super handy when you're multitasking.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

LordSaturn posted:

mise is always a wise practice to ensure you don't, like, loving forget the garlic again, but my current kitchen is too small for that poo poo

Your kitchen is too small for these things?



No argument with combining ingredients going in at the same time during prep, but it's worth the effort.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006


What's going on with that bottle's nipples?

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006


https://twitter.com/knockturnal/status/1044791998320799745





I mean I would readily eat any of these, but it is pretty ridiculous.

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AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

OwlFancier posted:

You, a big racist, will only eat food native to white countries, everyone laughs.

Me, a chef, will only cook foodobjects native to denmark, #1 restaurant.

Locally sourcing ingredients has nothing to do with nativism.

https://www.eater.com/2017/4/11/15259192/rene-redzepi-noma-mexico-tulum-open

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006


Because by all accounts Redzepi knows what he's doing and those things, while looking weird, are likely delicious.

Not for $440 or whatever, but if that's in front of you why wouldn't you be interested in trying it?

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

OwlFancier posted:

I can eat raw asparagus and squirty cream at home if I want to. But unaccountably I don't want to. Nor do I want to eat raw burger meat covered in ants or live prawns.

I'm sure it's cool to be contrarian, but if I were to have Michelin star chef food in front of me, it's going to get eaten. Maybe it's a practical joke or collective hallucination and this is the lesson, or maybe it's legitimately delicious. Either way it's not poison.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

Mymla posted:

Yeah we're dropping such nuclear takes as "I wouldn't want to eat the ants or live prawn" just to be contrarian.

I guess it's just a matter of trusting experts, when the worst thing that could happen is that it tastes bad? This isn't fear factor, the consensus opinion is his stuff is delicious. Flippantly writing off odd ingredients as pretentious is, well, pretentious itself. If Bob Ross asked me to add hot pink or safety orange to a nature painting, I would give it a try.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

OwlFancier posted:

The consensus opinion among people paying $600 is that they definitely weren't ripped off when they were served a plate of ants.

Which I am more inclined to attribute to the power of paying $600 for ants than I am to the culinary value of ants.

Also chefs, food critics, and others who aren't just paying customers. Again, perhaps it's all some sort of mass self-hypnosis, but the far simpler answer is that he can recognize flavors and cooks food that people enjoy.

All haute cuisine is far more expensive than the ingredients involved and there's a measure of prestige in the price tag. No one is telling you to make a reservation tomorrow, it's just the presumption that there's some convoluted conspiracy hiding that the food doesn't taste good is farfetched.

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AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

Facebook Aunt posted:

Do live animals in ice water even count as cooking though? Maybe it does. Maybe he feeds them something for week that makes them taste different from randomly scavenged animals. Or maybe he doesn't feed them for a day or two before serving so they poop out all their poop and you aren't eating poop.

I don't want to eat poop.

Y'all are honestly sounding way more pretentious than the people you're trying to mock

quote:

In Tokyo, Rene Redzepi's team have used different prawns depending on what is available. When I sample the dish, it is made with a plump botan ebi, about the size of a langoustine but much creamier. The 10 or so dead ants that stud its body, billed on the menu as "flavours of the Nagano forest", are from the northern prefecture where there is a tradition of eating insects. They add a citrus-like tang.

But the main difference here is that these crustaceans aren't actually alive. They are dispatched with a spike to the brain just before serving. The twitching antennae and jumping around are just electrical impulses; Noma's "live" prawn is actually just a piece of food theatre that cleverly short-circuits the crustacean's nervous system.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

DariusLikewise posted:

l love finishing dinner at a restaurant then waiting 8 hours for the chef to create his tiny fiddly little basket dessert waiting 15 minutes for the chef to take one of his fiddly basket desserts out of the fridge for me to gulp in one bite.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

RoboRodent posted:

I know that "fill container with chocolate, then dump out the insides and let the thin layer left harden" is just how you make little chocolate cups, but I always find it an upsetting waste to watch.

The dumped contents can be reused. It's wasteful at home if you're making one batch, but fine at a restaurant.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

uber_stoat posted:

i'm not against eating salmon skin chips, i have eaten pork cracklins, it's mostly the ad i'm reacting to, the way it implores me to "eat skin."

EAT... SKIN... EAT... BONES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa1gPxDOt8I

Boneless I get even if it's less flavor, but skinless fried chicken? What's even the point?

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

What is this, drinkable ink from Hewlett Packard?

ed: Oh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Sauce

I'd rather have this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XO_sauce

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

Pookah posted:

Edit: I am plotting to have curry chips for dinner and that is 100% anti food porn, based on looks so I might post that later if it looks exceptionally bad. The 'curry' involved comes in powder form and is mixed with hot water to make a kind of gravy.

How did Brits get to calling julienned fried potatoes "chips"? What you people call a potato crisp actually looks like a chip off a potato, and a french fry definitely does not.

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AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006


Sorry, wrong thread

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

Butterfly Valley posted:

Wtf is an individual serving guacamole

avocado and preservatives in too much plastic

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

Android Apocalypse posted:

My friend's girlfriend is a food writer and they got a Thanksgiving meal from Taco Bell.










AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006


This is actually a really good idea. Why not done?

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

bob dobbs is dead posted:

whole shrimp and mussels or chicken w bone in are considered essential for some stupid reason

also colonialism goes only the one way dontyaknow

If sushi burritos can be a thing, so can paella burritos.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006


Context:

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

LifeSunDeath posted:

that's radical

I'm jealous of his specific, remembered dreams.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

If you get into hardcore alcoholism and then withdraw enough to be miserable but not enough to get DTs or seizures, you'll get some crazy memorable dreams. Don't ask how I know.

Supposedly you can recreate that with like 400mg of diphenhydramine.

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AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

postfixincrement posted:

It's never been easier to not eat meat.

For most of human history since agriculture, meat was an occasional luxury to almost everyone.

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