I've been watching cooking shows lately, trying to learn to cook and get ideas, and almost every dish they make they do that zigzag olive oil thing across the top. It's always in one of those bottles with the spouts on the top and seems like it's a meme now.
Is there a reason for this??
They may try to convince you its olive oil but its actually guy fieri's flip flops rung out into a glass bottle.
t. flavortown resident
>>7626853
It adds flavour? In any case, better a decent olive oil than that "balsamico" sugar syrup. Horrible.
>>7626888
Balsamic vinegar is good in a lot of dishes.
What's your favorite kind of dumpling?
I love momochas.
Does ravioli count? I love a good cheese ravioli.
>>7626823
cheesepotato filled
pierogi is a dumpling, right?
Greasy as fuck pan-fried dumplings filled with questionable looking meat from the local chinese place
GOAT chinese takeout appetizer
When did people stop eating Wonder White Bread? Wasn't this shit popular for several decades? Think about it the second pre-sliced factory mass produced bread became popular everyone wanted all their sandwiches made with the stuff
Now Wonder White Bread is stereotyped as "Shitty Redneck Autist" bread
whole grain is hip
>>7626806
Its because of the whole High Frutose Corn Syrup/Vegan insanity
I get it. Wonder Bread is hardly as nutritious as its nutritional labels try to dictate it. However Wonder Bread has so many alternative uses for it it basically makes it the best kind of bread
The stores near me stopped selling it years ago
I didn't even know they still made it
why is 'food critic' even a legitimate profession? such a worthless waste of oxygen. I could do better than these privileged fat fucks
>>7626795
The same reason any other critic exists, people like to hear other peoples opinions on things.
A lot of the threads on here are "hey what do you guys think of x".
>>7626798
Cool. My point is, how can anyone actually make a living out of it? EATING AND CRITIQUING FOOD! meh
>>7626803
People want to read reviews and newspapers/websites are willing to hire people to write reviews.
Anyone try this ?
>>7626785
It's terrible for you and only hipster yuppie new age whores thing otherwise
Good cooking properties though, but at that point you should just go all in and use lard
>>7627144
*think
How does this man not die?
>>7626762
he pukes.
Is he a spic or an asian? This question haunts me every day
>>7626768
Proof of pukage? He said in the past he never has never puked
Hey Americans! Europoor here. Should I put peanut butter in fridge or not?
>>7626759
I never do.
You should put it in the trash where it belongs.
>>7626766
It's tasty with banana or jam, energy in the morning 5-6 hours , fuck off.
Is this a meme herb?
>>7626747
I hate bay leaves. They taste like shit and cut my gums when I get them in my mouth. My wife puts bay leaves in everything, from soups to pasta to salads, which is why I stopped eating the shitty food she cooks.
>>7626751
You're supposed to take the bay leaves out of whatever sauce when you're done cooking it.
Its just easy to go overboard with them. I cant think of any reason to put more than one medium dried leaf into a whole pot of stew.
Thoughts on the Michelin rating system and other ones like the Zagat? Have you ever eaten at one before?
I've heard that even having just one star makes your restaurant part of the elite, the best of the very best.
how true is this?
You have to keep in mind that Michelin stars are for fine dining and any fine dining that isn't poorly done will taste good purely due to the simplicity. In terms of the elite and the best of the best, that's just in the fine dining world.
I ate at a 2 Michelin star in Saint malo once, "a'la duchess Anne", the main thing noticeably different is the impeccable service, but also the food was pretty fucking good. So yeah I think Michelin stars do make for a good insight into eating experience. If you ever go by the way get the steak, best steak I ever ate.
What are your thoughts on mineral and/or sparkling water?
I've started drinking it instead of soda and juice because I'm trying to cut out as much sugar as I can so I don't get diabetes and get fat, and I hate diet soda because of the taste that shit probably gives you cancer
Anyways...I like it, I used to think it was pretentious faggy stuff, but I like the carbonation of sparkling water and it tastes better than just plain water imo
>>7626700
its for fags
Dude most definitely. San Pellegrino and Perrier are top tier, with my preference being towards Pellgrino's mineral profile. They've been producing it since 1395, and it is even said that Leonardo da Vinci visited the province where it's produced, Bergamo, in 1509 to write a treatise on its miraculous powers. In short, this preconceived notion of homosexual vibes surrounding mineral or sparkling water is mostly illusory.
I love juice and coffee but I feel you on wanting to cut down on sugar, and so a rule I only have water or sparkling water with meals to balance it out.
flavored sparkling water is fantastic when it's done right, but the marketing and design is a clusterfuck.
flavors from the same line/company can vary wildly in quality. did you like that peach-pear la croix? well follow it up with their chalk-tasting cran-raspberry!
kroger's store brand raspberry and mandarin orange were literally the best fruit flavorings i've ever had in any drink. now they've quietly redesigned their line with the cheapest flavorings and raised the price to near la croix levels.
it's all overpriced and consistently swathed in awful graphic design like it's a "brand statement" or something.
stymieing
One of my family members who works at whole foods gifted me a bunch of cheese. I know absolutely nothing about cheese. What the fuck do i do with an entire wheel of brie, a brick of roquefort, and a block of black truffle cheddar?
>>7626415
Fry it in breadcrumbs
eat it
Eat it. Brie is good if it's baked with almond slivers and dried fruit. Put it on bread or crackers of your choice.
How do you feel about ceramic coated pans?
>>7626396
first time posting so forgive me if i am doing anything wrong. Speaking as a former member on the executive board at a very well known tomato ketchup brand (begins with S and sends with R) i can tell you that the tomatoes and chafe declue used in our products is grown mostly in canada and the pacific northwest. some other brands (mostly those of con-agra and Dakwell) also use crops raised by some of our farmers. in 2008, the administration for agricultural safety had shut down nearly 1,400 farms we sourced from. S _ _ _ _ _ R nearly declared bankruptcy because of the shortages. strangely, demand grew 200% still after we were back at full production even after knews was public of the shutdown. i resigend from the company in 2013, and know they were planning on using canadian hydroponic tomatoes exclusively for all products. burger king also uses hydro tomatoes which have (scientifically proven) 70 to 73% less flavor than a tomato grown in clay/clump earth or even paper dairy method farming. I'm not sure if this helps but maybe the answer is the canadian water-exclusive raised tomatoes having less flavor, combined with the possible introduction of flavor contributed by fracked /leaked "natural" gas into water reservoirs. in 2015 nearly 800,000 river samples from new mexico to alaska had tested trace to toxic levels. toxic was only reported in a few small towns that were eventually permanently closed.
sidenote: these hydro tomatoes are also strangely the only tomatoes the faa has approved for use in meals (fresh).
>>7626403
tl;dr
I'm about to make a ham sandwich, but I don't want to use mustard, miracle whip, or ranch... Is there anything else I should try? French dressing? Garlic powder?
gravel from outside of course
Quinky sauce.
My vote goes for aged fish sauce. Good luck op.
/ck/, why the fuck do people like meatloaf?
>>7626211
cause it is glorious you toolbag
kill yourself
If made right it fucking tastes good.
meatloaf is one of those dishes that every region can put their own twist on it. even at its most basic, there's something comfy about it.
> TFW you will never taste the old style McDonald's fries.
Why live?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF31qCrclC0
that's ok. cajun style five guys fries are da bomb hermano
>>7626198
Plenty of reasons to live when you aren't American
Vegans would never allow it
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