Unpopular opinions about food

[AnOminous]

70-85% is the range where they are good and also can give the good mood kick, but between that, it's usually just cocoa powder mixed with disgusting fat uncovered by the milk taste.

I do sometimes like the 90%+ ones, although it's mainly for a little hit of bitterness. I wouldn't sit and eat a whole bar of it. It would be more something to eat over the course of a few days a bit at a time. Your range is exactly where you can eat a bar of it almost like a more flavorful cup of black coffee.

I don't actually think Hershey's tastes like puke, despite the puke ingredient, I just think it tastes drastically inferior and insipid. I like more than a little bit of bitterness in chocolate.

 

[Martys_not_smarty]

Not really about food itself but fuck movies and TV about the smug faggot too cool for the room good will hunting chefs and the celebrity chef persona in general.

 

[TheSaltySpitoon]

Limeaid is far superior to lemonade in 99% of cases. Lemonade is only better if you take the extra time to get all the lemon oil in there.

 

[Neighborhood Janny]

There's nothing wrong with using preprepared items while cooking. I have a huge jar of minced garlic that I bought at the grocery store that I use for all my cooking. I invited some friends over for hibachi and ended up getting roasted for not having fresh garlic. Despite everything else being fresh, my use of jarlic was apparently a problem.

Fuck you if you're like this. It isn't that serious.

 

[AnOminous]

There's nothing wrong with using preprepared items while cooking. I have a huge jar of minced garlic that I bought at the grocery store that I use for all my cooking. I invited some friends over for hibachi and ended up getting roasted for not having fresh garlic. Despite everything else being fresh, my use of jarlic was apparently a problem.

Fuck you if you're like this. It isn't that serious.

Jarlic sucks and is evil. It has a vile chemical taste to it and is not remotely tolerable. It is the sort of shit Jack Scalfani uses.

 

[Dyn]

Jarlic sucks and is evil. It has a vile chemical taste to it and is not remotely tolerable. It is the sort of shit Jack Scalfani uses.

Jarred garlic tastes like normal garlic in countries that don't routinely pump all their processed food full of chemicals and HFCS.

 

[Squanto Airi]

There's nothing wrong with using preprepared items while cooking. I have a huge jar of minced garlic that I bought at the grocery store that I use for all my cooking. I invited some friends over for hibachi and ended up getting roasted for not having fresh garlic. Despite everything else being fresh, my use of jarlic was apparently a problem.

Fuck you if you're like this. It isn't that serious.

I'll stock up on the prediced mirepoix, pico de gallo, peppers, etc., when I'm in that burned out phase and I can't be assed to prep for myself. At that stage, the mirepoix is used for chicken soup and I add the pico to eggs I'm scrambling.

 

[Adamska]

There's nothing wrong with using preprepared items while cooking. I have a huge jar of minced garlic that I bought at the grocery store that I use for all my cooking. I invited some friends over for hibachi and ended up getting roasted for not having fresh garlic. Despite everything else being fresh, my use of jarlic was apparently a problem.

Fuck you if you're like this. It isn't that serious.

I won't critique someone for not bothering to make their own stock or broth given that shit takes hours and can be based on you having bones and material to render down anyway. Using a bouillon cube or pre-made is not the end of the world if you're making a stew. Just factor in the salts and need for new aromatics as it goes. Sometimes you can't be fucked, and the short cut will work.

Sometimes it doesn't, or you sacrifice taste for convenience. I may enjoy good food, but I also sometimes can't be arsed.

For example, I love making my own fries and pub taters, but I won't be fucked all the time setting up the pot and tray to deal with that shit every time. Sometimes I'll just skillet fry them with butter. Or hell, if I really can't be fucked, the bag of pre-mades will do as needed.

 

[Caddo Cobgang]

Stereotypically Millenial Burger establishments like Five Guys are almost as good as your usual fast food Goyslop like McDonald’s or Burger King

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

I won't critique someone for not bothering to make their own stock or broth given that shit takes hours and can be based on you having bones and material to render down anyway. Using a bouillon cube or pre-made is not the end of the world if you're making a stew. Just factor in the salts and need for new aromatics as it goes. Sometimes you can't be fucked, and the short cut will work.

You can go further than that. From time to time I use a pack of cream sauce powder as a starter for a sauce and then add things to it. Spices, blue cheese, regular cheese, herbs, whatever I want. It's during the time I just don't want to cook and reduce heavy cream etc for my fucking lunch box. It's good considering the amount of time it takes to prepare.

 

[AnOminous]

I'll stock up on the prediced mirepoix, pico de gallo, peppers, etc., when I'm in that burned out phase and I can't be assed to prep for myself. At that stage, the mirepoix is used for chicken soup and I add the pico to eggs I'm scrambling.

Prepared ingredients aren't per se terrible, but some are. Jarred garlic is one. A much better alternative to jarred garlic is the minced garlic they sell frozen in tiny little ice cube trays preserved in olive oil. This is almost as good as fresh. Same for cilantro and basil and other leafy herbs. You can also reuse the trays they come in to preserve your own surplus fresh herbs.

I've saved basil like this for over a year and still had it taste fresh.

One of the best prepared things I use fairly often is those blocks of curry roux.

 

[Squanto Airi]

Would making your own jarlic (dicing garlic cloves in the food processor and jarring it with olive oil) be better than buying it premade? Or is that still a big nono for you?

 

[Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown]

There's nothing wrong with using preprepared items while cooking.

When I used to cook exclusively with fresh garlic cloves, they would dry out constantly.

I also dreaded all the finickiness of taking the skin off, trying to mince the clove into small enough cubes that they would melt and be imperceptible in the final product. It was largely futile in the end as I'd often still be able to perceive garlic pieces after cooking.

Agree with OP, jarlic is the way to go. A couple of teaspoons out of the fridge & I can get on with my life.

 

[AnOminous]

Would making your own jarlic (dicing garlic cloves in the food processor and jarring it with olive oil) be better than buying it premade? Or is that still a big nono for you?

I'm not sure, but it couldn't be worse. I don't think it would last as long. Who knows, though, it might. I think it's the artificial ingredients in most jarred garlic that make it so terrible. There are some organic jarred garlics that only contain garlic and nothing else and possibly those would be okay.

 

[Zeftax]

I avoid jarlic for the fear of botulism alone. I never needed to conserve garlic but if I did, the frozen cubes would probably be my go-to choice. I use that for basil pesto and it works great.

 

[Return of the Freaker]

That or some "italians" or actual wops who take their cuisine way too seriously.

Italians are worse food snobs then the French. Every youtube vid about some Italian-American restaurant or sandwich shop, or Americans making Italian/Americanized Italian food, a bunch of dagos show up either complaining about how it's not proper/they don't put all those meats together in Italy/Italian-Americans aren't real Italians and their pronunciation is double plus ungood/etc. Or they glaze their nuts for being super autistic and doing it the Perfect Italian Way

 

[The Ugly One]

Proper English food--not WWII ration chow--is really good. Various ways to pile meat and carbs together will never be unwelcome on my plate.

 

[Slap47]

There's nothing wrong with using preprepared items while cooking. I have a huge jar of minced garlic that I bought at the grocery store that I use for all my cooking. I invited some friends over for hibachi and ended up getting roasted for not having fresh garlic. Despite everything else being fresh, my use of jarlic was apparently a problem.

Fuck you if you're like this. It isn't that serious.

Garlic powder is the best garlic.

 

[Super Guido]

Would making your own jarlic (dicing garlic cloves in the food processor and jarring it with olive oil) be better than buying it premade? Or is that still a big nono for you?

That's essentially a confit, but with minced garlic instead of whole cloves. Minced garlic in olive oil is good stuff, so I approve, personally.

Italians are worse food snobs then the French. Every youtube vid about some Italian-American restaurant or sandwich shop, or Americans making Italian/Americanized Italian food, a bunch of dagos show up either complaining about how it's not proper/they don't put all those meats together in Italy/Italian-Americans aren't real Italians and their pronunciation is double plus ungood/etc. Or they glaze their nuts for being super autistic and doing it the Perfect Italian Way

The shit-flinging Italian Americans have in Philly over stuff like red sauce vs gravy is baffling. It's going to make me sound sheltered, but I guess it's not exclusive to that area.

I realize the irony of that statement, considering my username.

 

[Return of the Freaker]

That's essentially a confit, but with minced garlic instead of whole cloves. Minced garlic in olive oil is good stuff, so I approve, personally.

The shit-flinging Italian Americans have in Philly over stuff like red sauce vs gravy is baffling. It's going to make me sound sheltered, but I guess it's not exclusive to that area.

I realize the irony of that statement, considering my username.

I've seen Italians in Italy shitting on videos of Italian-American pizzerias and sandwich shops in NOO YAHWK. Lots of complaining about putting a bunch of Italian deli meats on a grinder or calling mozzerella "mootz" or fucking shaming a pizza with, for lack of a better description, cheese and stripes of pesto, red sauce, and vodka sauce because it's not authentic. Just the most petty Europoor bullshit