Like a “dry brine”. Aka “rub”. Just more salt. A rub with salt.
… you cook your veg.?
Got kale? Best cook 'em, cause no way your digestive tract breaking down those cell walls on they own… Just gonna shit out all that untapped iron 'n vitamins
Ya, I don’t mess with kale.
Ah damn, I feel sorry for you, bro
Don’t worry tho you gonna be okay. Some of my best friends don’t mess with Kale. They still living life like everyday. Must be hard fr fr
were they just frying everything in bacon grease before?
Like a good, patriotic 'MERCAN
That kinda looks like sinigang, a Filipino sour soup.
Where is the seafood?
I tend toward pork spare ribs, though I’ve done some runs with shrimp.
what did they use before? sewage?
Alcohol. They were just boiling it.
Probably oil
Yeah my parents have decided oil is the root of all evil and cook everything in water now lol. They love their soggy food.
My brother-in-law considers it frankly offensive that there’s an actual thing called “New England boiled dinner.” My sister and I love it, but he can’t get past the name.
I had to look it up…
A New England boiled dinner is a traditional, one-pot comfort food that originated in the northeastern US. The dish typically includes corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, and carrots, all boiled together in water to create a broth. Other root vegetables like turnips, rutabagas, or parsnips can be added. The corned beef is cooked until tender, and the root vegetables become so soft they can be cut with a spoon. The dish requires little attention and no extra seasoning
🤦🏼♀️
With just a smack of ham!
So, in defense of this, the corned beef in question usually has a pretty complex seasoning profile. It’ll have a big packet with peppercorns, cloves, bay leaves, dill, mustard seed, coriander, and a few other things. (Sometimes mace or nutmeg? It varies with the seller.) The “corned” in the name comes from all the spices (it’s “corn” like in peppercorn). And at the table it’s often also served with mustard or Worcestershire sauce, which brings a whole additional suite of spices, as well as pickled beets. So it’s not as flavorless as that description makes it sound. But it’s true that the corned beef does contribute a salty, savory note, especially to the cabbage.
It is legitimately a very mild, comfort food kind of dish. Vindaloo this isn’t. And we like that too! This just fits a different kind of mood.
I guess I just think it’s hilarious how much of an anti-advertisement the name is. Like, it’s so emphatically not going to appear on the menu of any fancy gastropub. Caramelized pear and arugula flatbread with candied walnuts and gorgonzola? Nope. Boiled dinner. Deal with it.
lol, this ironically looks like what Americans who’ve never left their county think British food is.
Is that why they call the unmodified thing “raw sewage”? Is it because it’s used in cooking?
It’s because the bottled sewerage market demands that their product be called “refined sewerage,” or sometimes “sparkling sewerage” if carbonated.
But it can only be called “le fizzy shitz” if it’s from the Shitz region of France.
Not even good soup. Real soups use some kind of broth to give a lot of base flavor.
What do you think a broth is?
My brother in christ, what do you think we use to make the broth?
You guys aren’t using ammonia based stocks?
Hominy intensifies.
Only for special occasions
Well it could be a stock
It’s not soup if they discard the water after cooking, leaving only the vegetables.
The alternative, btw, would be to fry everything in butter or some plant oil, i believe. That’s what they’re opposing.
Making soup and then dumping out the soup seems like a very stupid way to make soup.
Maybe they feel better from not eating all of those simple, delicious calories.
Have you ever cooked pasta?
If you’re throwing out the pasta water, you’re wasting some very good stock to make the sauce you’ll put on said pasta.
I wouldn’t call it stock, but Italians do indeed use pasta water in many of their sauces. Makes sense because it’s basically just starchy water, which helps to bind the sauce.
That said, you generally don’t need more than one or two cups of it, the rest is still thrown out.
Pasta doesn’t lose the majority of its vitamins to its cooking water though. (Mostly because pasta doesn’t have many vitamins to begin with)
Considering your username I give you a pass, but still:
There have been many debates about the differentiation between vegetables and fruits. Genetic testing has mostly revealed it to be a human made distinction without any biological basis.
But I think your comment is the first time I see somebody trying to argue that pasta are vegetables.
I did not argue that. I was just pointing out a funny edge case in the previous poster’s argument.
That said, even actual vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, or potatoes are often boiled in water without the intention of making soup.
my favorite part of spaghetti is drinking the spaghetti soup :3
You mean Saturn tea?
It’s like when somebody throws out the white rubbery thing after drinking their mozzarella
It’s called “boiling”.
Yes, boiling is how you make soup.
Yeah ofc, but boiling isn’t always making soup, sometimes it’s just boiling, and what you’re “dumping out” isn’t soup
It’s not soup if they discard the water after cooking, leaving only the vegetables.
Then it’s a waste of vitamines.
I mean, I definitely boil things like broccoli or potatoes and drain the water after. Not every meal calls for soup.
Please stop boiling broccoli.
Fry it up, or get yourself a steamer basket.
We usually steam it or bake it with some olive oil, but I still boil it occasionally. I don’t have a steamer for my little pot~
Blanching it for 60 seconds and then shocking it in ice water is a great middle ground. Then let it dry and sear it in a hot pan with some olive oil and garlic. Add butter if you are feeling naughty.
Too many steps, got bored
Acceptable.
I’m just having flashbacks of squishy broccoli from my childhood. No child should ever have to go through what I did.
The sad, grey, little trees.
My momma used to say “The broccoli is done when it can run through a colander”
It’s not soup if they discard the water after cooking, leaving only the vegetables.
So… boiled vegetables. That’s still already a thing. Not a particularly good thing (to my tastes), but been a thing for a long time.
We are not talking about a specific food here, but about a way to prepare food. It does not matter what you cook - meat, vegetables, whatever. It’s about cooking it in water instead of sharp oil-based cooking.
And no, it is not new at all.
It’s not new and also nobody calls it “water based cooking” because that’s stupid.
So, it’s still just boiling.
Surely there is some third way
I read in popular science that it might be possible to use a variety of different kinds of gases to carry heat, or perhaps some kind of radiant heat or even radio waves to cook food. But sadly this fantastic technology is still just fiction. I hope I get to see a form of cooking that doesn’t involve immersing food in hot liquid. I wonder what it would taste like.
radiant heat
So some kind of nonconductive heat? How would that even work? I will stick with putting the pot in the fire.
no! water or oil only! no grill!
Real men cook in motor oil.
During the siege of Leningrad they actually did have to resort to cooking in machine oil, among other awful things. Of course they were almost all women, because the men were fighting the war
Now that’s a proper meal
Agreed. I always cover myself in motor oil before I flambé my crêpes suzette!!
This reminds me of when I was doing chi gungs with a YouTube monk, until he started making bizarre claims that I’d never get sick again and my body would magically heal itself. It did not.
Potagers hate this one weird trick!
It looks like the post was made by a Cambodian. Pov translates to ‘young brother/sister’ and is commonly used as a term of endearment. So the odd terminology could have been lost in translation. … and that looks like a typical Cambodian soup.
It’s probably not the real caption. It’s likely fake like every other one of the social media memes.
I thought this post was a nod to our ancestors who figured out the power of soup-life.
These mother fuckers getting nutrients from hitherto inedible plants and just chillin as all the others got the runs and fever from eating uncooked game with worms n shit
And now you’re water-based pooping.
Something tells me it dont taste like soup
That’s clearly a stew and not a soup. I will die on this hill.
It might be a stew when it’s done, served as pictured, I’d call it a soup. Sorry bout it
What’s the difference?
Stews are thicker with big chunks and soup is thinner with small chunks
For me it’s more about solid-to-liquid ratio, soups are often “thick” but still liquidy overall. Stews are cooked down until there’s basically no broth, essentially just a gravy. My personal distinction is that stews can be eaten on a plate, soup can’t be.
