Judging people based on how they like their steak makes me think less of you
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I used to be a picky eater.
The older I get the more I can't stand picky eaters.
I was wrong when I was a picky eater.
It's so annoying. People base whole chunks of their personality on not liking tomatoes or cilantro or whatever. Grow up. Pathetic.
Cilantro tastes like bug spray to me and no amount of eating it anyway has helped and any significant amount ruins whatever I'm eating. That said, the only time I bring it up is in conversations like these.
I used to be picky too, I learned it from my mother. At some point I realized that if a restaurant is serving it, that means people are buying it, and its worth trying. It turns out that most food is delicious, even if I think its a little weird at first.
Exactly! If millions of people are eating something, then it probably tastes good! You just haven't really tried it yet.
You're not a special unique flower because you don't like something. You not liking avocados doesn't make you more interesting, it makes you boring.
I genuinely don't like eating steak.
I'll eat it if it's put in front of me but I genuinely just don't get the appeal of a giant slab of meat that's that chewy (even after being tenderised) and fights you when you cut it.
Steak chunks that have marinated in a sauce for a long time until they melt apart in your mouth is devine.
But a giant hunk just slapped on the plate isn't my thing at all and I don't understand why people like it.
Steak is amazing when properly cooked and seasoned (salt, pepper, garlic powder). If its chewy its likely a cheap cut, cooked too long, or cut the wrong way (cut against the grain, not with it).
Since we're doing hot takes, I disagree. This one's gonna piss off a lot of people.
I'm also not a huge steak eater, but I find medium well and well done are less chewy than the other options. Rare and medium rare are like eating gum. I can't get them down.
I do love a slow cooked meat that can fall apart with a fork
There's nothing special about red meat.
Uh, pro tip for the budget constrained:
Buy some packs of instant ramen.
Get a rice cooker.
Get a rotisierre whole chicken.
Get some mixed leafy greens, or bean sprouts.
(Optional) Get some kind of ramen seasoning.
(Optional) Get some kind of seasoned oil meant for noodles.
Water into pot.
Carve off or even just tear off some of the chicken, put in pot.
(Optional) Add seasoning / seasoned oil.
Turn pot on, bring to full boil.
At full boil, add in instant ramen for about 5 minutes.
After 5 minutes, turn pot off, stir a bit, add in veggies, stir some more, re-cover pot for another 5 minutes.
You now have hot pot.
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Oh, this was supposed to be hot 'takes' not hot pot.
Oh well, you have hot pot.
Spicy food challenges are doing everything to ruin spicy food for everyone. They focus entirely on heat, not flavor.
If you want a spicy hot challenge and only care about the heat, there's pepper spray.
But super spicy hot foods should be intentionally made to also taste great. The challenge he should be the allure of the spicy food conflicting with the pain it puts you in. If you're gonna struggle with the heat, you should be equally tempted by the taste.
Da Bomb, for example, is a fucking abomination and shouldn't ever have stayed in business, nor be promoted by Hot Ones.
For some of us who like spice, it can be tough to get that across. “No heat challenge, but spice it like it should be. Spice it as if I weren’t white”
also balut looks tasty mfs just have no class
I tried balut in the Philippines. Definitely something you should try at least once.
It's just another food that people eat everyday that someone tried to make sound scary. Not sure why people do that.
When I was a kid they told me that Koreans eat cabbage that they bury in a jar in their backyard for a month. OH MY GOD SCARY.
Now I eat kimchi 2-3 times a week.
Car dependency is bad for food culture. It encourages massive chains and drive throughs and makes it harder for mom and pops to thrive
cold take my man
Good lol
I like. Steak. Well. Done. Because. That is how. I. Like. It.
it's not because I can't tell truly unsafe undercooked meat from rare
it's not because I don't like steak at all
it's not because i fantasize about eating leather
IT'S HOW I PERSONALLY ENJOY THE TEXTURE AND FLAVOR OF A STEAK
now that's out of the way I'll be ordering the veggie burger because i have overwhelming ecological guilt lol
Bacon is fine, it's not incredible and it doesn't belong on everything always
Food culture only exists because people aren't hungry.
No chef or restaurant can beat the satisfaction of eating whatever you have when you're truly hungry.
Personally I don't care for "Mexican pizza". I mean I like the flavors, but together I just don't.
One day I started a job at a warehouse as a picker, walked like 15 miles that day pushing a cart around climbing up and down shelves, I was exhausted. Stopped by my GFs house, she asked if I was hungry, I was but all she had was a frozen Mexican pizza. It was at the time, the greatest food I have ever tasted.
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Tradition and authenticity is bullshit.
Food from good ingredients prepared well matters more than if the cheese was stared at for two hours by the sheepwife of the mayor of Scrumthrorpeshireffield.
For example: Wine tasters were clear that French wine just tasted better than Californian wine. They were extremely convinced. Then they tried a blind test and hoo boy did everyone get pissed when they couldn't tell the French wine was better without knowing it was French first. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_of_Paris_(wine)
Traditional and culture are good if you like the food as it was originally. Here in the us, too much ethnic food is Americanized, sometimes for the worst. After experiencing a few more authentic Chinese restaurants, I’ve come to realize the many I don’t like are because they’ve been Americanized. Badly. A lot more sweet, milder flavors, everything fried.
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Peas are a shit vegetable and only get used a lot because they're easy to freeze and just throw into a meal at the last moment. But they pollute the whole dish with their noxious flavor.
If we are talking about cuisine, then mine is that intensely spicy food (e.g. Indian, Korean, Laos, etc.) is heavily overrated.
I prefer a taste bouquet of a carefully crafted meal. Hotness should be a nice touch, not a dominant agony. Food should not require a built tolerance to it's ingredients in order to be enjoyed.
Those foods are good, not just because they are spicy, but because of their flavor profiles.
I like a small proportion of what I eat to be very very spicy. Not everything, and not every day. But sometimes it's exactly what I want and some foods are so good that way. Lots of other flavors are sort of learned too - wine, bitter greens, there are foods I tried every year until I could like them (mango and raw tomatoes, and wines, also Swiss cheese) and I am glad I did develop a palate for them. Spicy I've always liked, only one of my kids was like that but all of them like it now.
I guess my hot take is that just because I like milk and/or sugar in coffee, doesn't mean I don't like coffee. Most people who like chocolate don't like unsweetened baking chocolate and nobody is gatekeeping that like they do with coffee.
people in western countries look like like bowling pins when they hit 40 because their eating habits are fucking intense
Its more important to enjoy what you are eating than it is to follow someone else's food "rules". Put ketchup on hotdogs, pineapple on pizza, smear wasabi on sushi, coffee with pasta.
smear wasabi on sushi
There is nothing wrong with this. Sushi cehfs put it on the underside. If you want more, put it on top. It's generally considered bad manners to mix soy sauce with wasabi and dunk but, to be honest, I see that fairly frequently here in Japan as well. Mixing soy sauce and wasabi to pour over chirashi is fine.
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It's no longer a sandwich if you make a sandwich unable to be bitten into without dislocating your jaw.
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Gastro pubs are the definition of "doing too much" and people only visit for the novelty, so you see them pop up and then shut down within a year or two. Kinda like electronics for rich people
the overwhelming majority of restaurants shutdown within a year or two, mainly because unless that shit is truly your life's dream....running a restaurant (small businesses in general really) fucking sucks.
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