/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11156096
i'm an american and i've eaten up to a pound of broccoli with a meal, it's pretty good just steamed with a bit of vinegar

>>11156096
The thick skins on the lower stem are bitter. The skin can easily be removed with a paring knife.

Americans generally don't use bitter foods in their cooking, unlike Russian or Filipino cuisines, so they are generally averse to some flavor profiles.

The meme comes from moms boiling or steaming it into a mush. I didn’t know I liked broccoli until I had it stir fried.

>>11156124
>Americans generally don't use bitter foods in their cooking
That's true, the extent of bitter foods most Americans consume is just coffee and chocolate (which are both usually sweetened anyway). Kind of wish bitter and sour foods were more popular here.

>>11156134
Good coffee isn't very bitter, but should be fruity and floral.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liGwcuFyaNY

>>11156134
That’s bullshit though. Bitter greens are become more popular in the yuppie mom crowd. They put kale in everything now. Most salad mixes have a bitter green in them.

>>11156096
*vegetable

It's because apparently gay people really like broccoli, and liking it would impose some sort of deficiency in manhood.

>>11156096
I'm a 'Murican and broccoli is my fav cooked veggie.

>>11156154
>Bitter greens are become more popular in the yuppie mom crowd.
Yes, but they are prepared in a way to lessen the bitterness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dLkxboZXsI

Meme from old cartoons. Same reason people think liver and onions are bad.

Why are Europeans unable to distinguish television from reality?

>>11156096
People that don't like broccoli or cauliflower are fucking weird.

>>11156129
Good god, nearly every restaurant still does this. It's horrendous. Broccoli only needs a light cook, whether steam, pan-fried, or roasted. It should retain a moderate crunch.

What's the best way to cook broccoli? I've been lightly roasting it in olive oil and that's been pretty tasty

i'm sure it's similar all the world around but when it gets sold here, you typically only get the florets and for some reason the texture and "farty" smell/taste it gets when you cook it pushes people away. little do they know the stalk is some of the best eating when prepared properly and where most of the fiber is actually at.

basically americans are on average retarded when it comes to health and food

>>11156259
lightly steamed, then salt and grate parmesan
boiled in soups, but ruins texture
pan-fried/stir-fried, but broccoli rabe/rapini is better for this preparation

>>11156108
>not baking it with a bit of minced garlic soysauce and ground pepper
You had one job anon.
>>11156173
That's sprouts and yams anon.
>>11156245
This.

>>11156129
This, and it's basically true of all vegetables. I can remember my mom boiling fresh corn on the cob for fucking 15 minutes until the kernels were flavorless mush. Same with fresh english peas and she'd boil brussel sprouts for an hour until they were just mushy sulphur bombs that made me literally vomit into my plate when she forced me to eat them. Green beans, too, she'd boil for a couple hours. After I left home and learned how vegetables should be cooked, I love all of them now. Midwest mom's can't cook for shit and she's why I hate womyn to this very day and joined MGTOW.

Stop steaming your fucking vegetables you retards. It makes them tasteless and removes a lot of the minerals and healthy shit.

>>11156096
>Do americans have some kind of genetic defect

"Americans" don't have a singular, homogeneous gene pool. They're a very very diverse people.

>>11156096
broccoli is delicious, I just boil them lightly and stir fry them with garlic

>>11156096
Conservatives do, oddly enough. There's a chemical called phenylthiocarbamide which makes vegetables like broccoli and arugula bitter to varying degrees. The ability to detect it is somewhat associated with social conservatism.
http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/5/7/1/5/1/p571518_index.html
There're probably multiple genes involved and there are a bunch of other relationships with stuff like alcoholism, diabetes, and schizophrenia.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3349222/

>>11156377
So the 56% isn't just a meme after all?

>>11156096
Thread theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIs5StN8J-0

>>11156154
Kale is no better than other cruciferous vegetables and several other greens, but people have been memed into believing unpleasant = healthy so its bitterness enables them to eat only one or two leaves every few days and feel like they're doing a good thing. That's why kale is popular. It has just the right bitterness and texture for one leaf to feel as health promoting as a whole pound of broccoli.

>>11156447
Not at all.

>>11156352
pretty sure you're thinking of boiling

steaming is the healthiest way to prepare veggies

>>11156096
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-aRtroBuU4

>>11156486
IT'S A FUCKIN EMYU