/ck/ - Food & Cooking

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>>10430889
>why people tried eating in the first place
Most likely they werent basement dwelling degenerates with facebook-atrophied brains and only tried a tiny, tiny amount first.

I suppose a lot of dogs were involved in culinary discoveries.

for anyone wondering what this is it is nutmeg

This shit is godly in soups. Couldn't make one without it.

>>10430889
i have no idea how ancient people figured out how many mushrooms were safe when there are so many lethal lookalikes
i guess over the years a bnunch of people died and they learned to appreciate the subltle differences before mycology became a thing

>>10431230
Not to mention most inedible mushrooms look, smell and taste disgusting.

>>10430889
It smells great though.

>>10430898
Monkfish is only marginally less appealing than other fish. King salmon, for instance, are covered in a thick coat of slime that smells like ozone and rotting semen and has the consistency of mucous.

>>10431230
Oral traditions and hands-on instruction are easy to underestimate. Plus you can always feed some to an animal or a human guinea pig.

>>10430987
Literally no one was wondering

>>10431246
no fuck you seriously fuck you

>has spikes
>poisonous
>can only be eaten after a careful procedure by some japanese samurai surgically cutting the flesh with a glorious nippon bisturi folded 1000 times
Who instructed the first fugu cook anyway?

>>10431282
Japs are the original edgelords

These mushrooms taste great but can only be eaten after youve boiled them four times.

>>10431448
False morel?

>>10430889

Nutmeg sucks as a drug. It makes you delirious, then you're absolute shit in the following day(s) as well. It lasts way too long and the experience sucks anyway.

>>10430889
Some things come out of desperation. Other things are discovered specifically because someone was looking for a spice or ingredient for their cooking. Still others happen by accident.

>>10431448
Acorns and buckeyes are also toxic, but both can be ground to flour then placed in running water for several days to leach out the toxins/tannins to make them safe for eating.

>>10431457
Gyromitra esculenta

>>10431589
You rinse/boil acorns BEFORE grinding.

>>10431282
back in feudal times they probably had plenty of prisoners to experiment and practice on.

food was so scarce for the majority of human history that people tried to eat literally everything

>>10430889
Because eating just the right amount gets you high.

>>10431282
>>10431303

Funny because true

>>10431514
How does it compare to say, getting incredibly high on weed? My dealer got busted and I've been sober for 3 months straight.

>>10431253
:^)

>>10431833
Huff paint like a normal person.

>>10431823

What is just the right amount?

>>10431833
It’s a waste of time.

t. Used the ‘meg when I was a little shit

>>10431833
>3 months without weed
I'd kill myself.

>>10431872
>no different than any other junkie
you should probably do that anyway

>>10431889
>the edgiest instrument on /ck/

>>10431872
>>3 months without weed
>I'd kill myself.

That's probably the most pathetic thing I've heard in a while. Like how much of a waste of space do you have to be in order to be a fucking bud junkie?

>>10431230

They ate the ones the pigs were eating. Common practice in the wild is eat with the mammals, don't eat with the birds.

>>10430889
Get the fuck out of here before "someone" puts a minié ball in your head, OP.

>>10431903
yeah the truth stings, junkie

>>10431589

Acorns aren't "toxic" as we'd imagine it, they contain the bitterant tannin, the stuff that makes tea bitter, which is poisonous at very high concentrations. You can eat raw acorns just fine just like you can drink tea, but eating lots of the stuff without rinsing it out will make you sick as fuck.

>>10431448

Rinsing is a common practise, also used to make spoiled meat edible.

>>10432009
>Acorns aren't "toxic" as we'd imagine it, they contain the bitterant tannin, the stuff that makes tea bitter, which is poisonous at very high concentrations. You can eat raw acorns just fine just like you can drink tea, but eating lots of the stuff without rinsing it out will make you sick as fuck.

I'd also imagine it would be quite bitter and wouldn't taste very good on its own.

>>10431245

maybe if you get some bunk-ass salmon?

i lived and cooked in seattle for a while, never had any king salmon like that. and brother we worked with A LOT of salmon. king, coho, sockeye, etc from all the different rivers.

On the other side of things, I seriously have no idea why the fuck no one eats bugs. They're the one fucking thing that no one eats.

Like sea roaches are fine, boiling poisonous tubers until they're barely edible is fine, eating literal shit is fine, but OH GOD BUGS

>>10432177
>eating literal shit is fine, but OH GOD BUGS

Name one culture that routinely eats poop but won't eat ants. Also, name one culture that routinely eats poop.

>>10430889
Alcohol?

>>10432195
Niggers in africa eat cow chips and bugs

>>10432195
Indians literally eat cow shit and drink cow piss

>>10432308
subhumans do not have culture. they have instinct.

>>10431514
Me and high-school friend ate a couple massive spoonfuls. Basically chilled in bunk beds and fell in and out of sleep for like three days. Wouldn't do it again, but it was really weird to feel like you were unironically dying but not dying at the same time.