Reveal Your Uncool Culinary Beliefs Here

I always use salted butter, even when the recipe calls for unsalted

i just need to go to Fogo de Chao again

Gonna refer you all to the "why can't we ban meat" discussion on the other thread ..

I have a huge appetite for Smartfood.

I always use salted butter, even when the recipe calls for unsalted

Not uncool.

lol it is in my house!

I like overcooked chicken breast. Not more than juicy, properly cooked meat but chicken jerky doesn’t offend me, just reminds me of childhood dinners.

one of my OCD symptoms was being excessively fearful of foodborne illness to where I'd excessively check the meat thermometer and chicken itself and never trust it was cooked, no matter the temp or apparent readiness, until finally I had ruined it and it was the driest garbage alive.

unpopular opinion - who cares, just douse it in sriracha, sriracha goes on everything and improves all terrible meals

(if you can find it)

So according to the thread title salads are off topic?

nah go ham on salad

But I've never had a hot ham salad

No vegetable should ever be boiled. There will always be a better way to cook it that doesn't turn the poor thing into a tasteless mess, leached of all goodness and purpose.

I hate salad. (I am a vegetarian.)
Nutritional yeast tastes like sweaty feet (or so I'd imagine).

I generally am cool with seafood, but lobster and shrimp are garbage

#1 -- jarlic is frequently, in fact, good enough for me. ditto ginjar.

i am sure i will think of others but that is my main one that i know is definitely uncool. i am not a chef. i am not a restaurant. most of the things i make with garlic are just as good with garlic i can keep in my fridge. i have tried it both ways (fresh/jar) and this is the way that works for me if i want to actually make my own food, which i do. no one has ever complained about it either.

No vegetable should ever be boiled. There will always be a better way to cook it that doesn't turn the poor thing into a tasteless mess, leached of all goodness and purpose.

Also not uncool

frozen garlic cubes are useful if you're lazy (I am)

i am not lazy -- i simply choose not to spend my time peeling and dicing things i can scoop with a spoon.

Fuck cancer, I like burnt toast.

ok these threads have made me realize I don't know what ilxors mean by "uncool"

pineapple is good on pizza

https://i5.peapod.com/c/85/8539A.jpg

Not sure I've ever even seen these in the wild, but they must be uncool

what's the verdict on bread bowls?

that's a lotta bread

Don’t like soggy bread

MSG is a vastly underrated and underused home cooking ingredient.

not big into bread bowls, I like dipping bread into stuff, not having the bread be part of stuff.

(flaky crusted stuff like pot pies, otoh, are the best, and I love even the shitty $1 grocery store ones)

MSG was wrongly vilified for racist reasons in the 80s yea

MSG is a vastly underrated

Not uncool at all, it's been used for thousands of years. My dickwad stepdad "BOB" used to have a big Farmers Brothers can of it, he'd put it on everything

In San Francisco, bread bowls are sort of a tourist trap thing that we all sneer at, but I wondered if there was any genuine love for these, guess not

you might want to stock up on MSG before your insane politicians try and ban it!

good point

tbh I think most foodies still look down their noses at MSG

xp Denatured alcohol has been banned in California and there's really no substitute, I use if for all kinds of woodworking projects

Now they wanna ban Skittles

anybody takes my skittles i'm taking their teeth

xp but we're looking down our noses at foodies on this thread

i'm tall i look down my nose at most people

right I was saying MSG was a good post! sorry

and wait what's this about Skittles?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/03/22/california-skittles-ban-legislation-explained/11523314002/

Skittles are the gateway to Fentanyl

You can get perfectly good bagels anywhere in America now.

I like velveeta

It's fine to order your food mild

I kind of like industrial cheeses like Kraft American and Polly-O

McDonald's fries are good

― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Thursday, March 23, 2023 4:15 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

all bougie fries worth a damn are attempting to recreate mcdonalds fries so i'm pretty sure this is a widely held opinion among the pros

“small plates” and “share plates” are just bougie excuses for not giving me a normal amount of food

winco fried chicken is great & cheap

cold leftover spaghetti sandwiches rule (homemade spag bol is good for this but canned spaghetti is best)

pomegranates are better as juice & artichokes are better in jars - too much work in their natural state

eating slices of Kraft American cheese singles one at a time is awesome

ok one i actually believe is small plates and share plates are an excuse for the restaurant to run their service like shit and not course out the meal properly

I love ketchup on nice hot crispy fries, but the smell of leftover ketchup on my kids' plates after a meal nauseates me.

My uncool culinary stance is that balsamic vinegar is vomit-inducing and should never be used in any dish without express written consent. Particularly galling is when restaurants cook you a nice meal and then do 'fun' lattice-work of balsamic over everything, thus ruining it.

I would absolutely drink a sobayu based cocktail tbh

Stoop Crone (Trayce) at 3:34 4 Apr 23

Arrrgh MSG is not an artificial flavour! And it isnt bad for you!

teaspoon of balsamic, some garlic in olive oil perfect when making a red pasta sauce from scratch. Cook it all down, add yr herbs at the very end. Fantastic.

I can’t stand the overpowering taste of celery when cooked. Raw with hummus or a dip it’s ok.

If anything, I’d argue ketchup is underrated, and deserves more than “on fries”. I’ve had ketchup on sub sandwiches (in addition to mayo and mustard) and it’s great. I’ve had it on burritos and it’s great. In both contexts it’s a contributing flavor but it works.. it even works alongside curry-based dishes as a quasi-chutney.

Ketchup does not belong in pad thai, tho, that is some bullshit that must end

I know plenty of people who use a squirt of ketchup when they can’t be arsed to go and buy tamarind.

Make your own ketchup, it’s just fruit/veg, sugar, vinegar and spices. Made rhubarb ketchup and it’s my go to with cold meats.

I make my pad thai sauce with light soy, lemon juice, sugar and chili powder

My uncool culinary stance is that balsamic vinegar is vomit-inducing and should never be used in any dish without express written consent. Particularly galling is when restaurants cook you a nice meal and then do 'fun' lattice-work of balsamic over everything, thus ruining it.

With you on this 100%. I'm reminded of animals that have evolved to taste horrible so predators won't eat them. Balsamic vinegar destroys everything it touches.

I just put balsamic vinegar and olive oil on my salads at home and find it to be better than most more elaborate salad dressings I have made or bought.

My mom used to make a spaghetti dish that was cooked spaghetti drained and thrown into a bowl with ketchup, fried onions and pepper, grated cheddar cheese and bacon and I cannot tell you how goddamn delicious this dish is, you need to try it for yourself, it is witchcraft

A skewer of toadish olives slouched against the side of the glass, blue cheese innards oozing grease across the surface of the drink. It reminded me of nothing so much as the swampy vat of froglike critters that Jabba the Hutt kept nearby for snacking.

I hate this kind of food writing.

A half a teaspoon of balsamic vinegar, grated Parm, and black pepper on arugula is my daily salad.

Are sundried tomatoes still uncool? I love those things.

it's what I use to make my martinis dirty.

love sundried tomatoes

MSG somehow fucks with my brain chemistry or something ... idk ... it might not be as horrible as some people say, but it isn't healthy. I also won't eat turkey because of the depressing turkey chemicals.

It can be healthy because it allows one to cook with less salt. It's also in a lot of stuff unheralded, so could be interesting to look at context under which your brain chemistry is fucked with or not.

Salt is not bad for most people either. :)

Although I use kosher salt like a fiend, so I've been taking iodide supplements since I'm not getting it from my salt.

I like sun-dried tomatoes! I just used them in my last dinner.

I did just sprinkle some chicken makhani with knorr caldo de tomate to finish instead of adding more salt. But that stuff also has sugar, etc, so probably no net health benefit. Lowering salt just helps with high blood pressure? Certainly not suggesting it is bad for most and searching for anything to defend my knorr jars.

looked around for a few summaries, this is the best one I found

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/msg-what-the-science-says-about-its-safety

xp Sufjan -- yeah, it probably is the other stuff in the MSG additive foods, which are mostly snack foods so ... thanks thread! I learned things!

One knock against artificial sweetners in diet soda is it can cause cravings for real sugar later. I do wonder if MSG doesn't do something higher order but harmful like that in a snack food context.

umami makes one feel satisfied or full, so I could see a real effect on a body experiencing that feeling from these enhanced but not substantial snack foods.

Dad joke: how do communion wafers taste?

Saviory.

A kid 1 grade ahead was expelled for stealing a bin of communion wafers to snack on at home.

transubstantiated foods are uncool right now

Taking sides: Host vs. Hostess

Christwinkies

I like so-called bland trad vegetable soups like French Onion and Leek and Potato made using boring unreconstructed recipes, that probably is uncool.

A kid 1 grade ahead was expelled for stealing a bin of communion wafers to snack on at home.

― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton),

we sacristans used to munch on these after we'd sent the priest off to Mass

iirc they aren't jesus until the priest temple of dooms them just before communion anyway.

One knock against artificial sweetners in diet soda is it can cause cravings for real sugar later. I do wonder if MSG doesn't do something higher order but harmful like that in a snack food context.

This is something that I've read about the 0-calorie fake sugars too (stevia et al). Not only does eating sweet things make you want to eat more sweet things, I've heard that the brain registers the sweetness but not the attendant caloric boost and so it gets hijacked into eating more. I'm definitely not food scientist though!

I've always been against drinking my calories, and was anti-smoothie until recently. Maybe this is uncool? I like to chew.

But lately I've been having smoothies for half my meals for health reasons, and it's a weird feeling to consume this thing that I know is very calorie-dense but goes down so quickly and uh smoothly, and not feeling very satisfied mentally/emotionally but then feeling quite full in a bit.

This one has grossed a few of friends out over the years: Heinz Ketchup is a great- maybe the best- thing to dip egg rolls in. Especially SysCo egg rolls, like what Jack in the Box makes. Which taste good.

++ on the sundried tomatoes. Sure they are a very 90s thing along with risotto and paninis but I still like using them diced up and tossed thru pasta with tuna and caramelised onion as a mega simple dinner.