/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I like to eat Indian food because it seems exotic, and makes me feel like I have personality.

Nah, there's some really good Indian food. I think you just have a shit palette.

>>12708066
>implying there's no such thing as smoked chicken wings in India
Nigger, you dumb.

>>12708066
>Indian Food is Overate-it!

Ftfy

Indian cuisine is an attempt to hide spoilage with spices. There is not much to be gained with superior ingredients or technique because of this. India below average tier.

>>12708066
Pleb
>>12708071
Cuck

Completely and objectively wrong.

>>12708170
That's true of nearly every cuisine on earth, you dumb faggot. Except our Scandi and Anglo-Saxon ancestors used to pickle, culture, and ferment shit to hide spoilage, and in some cases, they didn't even fucking bother hiding spoilage, since they didn't have access to all those spices until the 11th-12th century or so. You're so fucking uneducated and ignorant, it's painful.

>>12708170
except Indians tend to use far more fresh ingredients than any western country.

>>12708170
The incorporation of spices requires technique in itself, and the use of superior quality spices makes a huge difference.

There's Indian Food, err, middle eastern food I've come to like, but man, I gotta agree. A little too funky for my taste. Not a fan of lamb desu. I'm just some stupid half breed Asian American though. So.... there's that.

>>12708188
Americans don't eat enough lamb, and so a lot of people "don't like" it, because they're not used to the taste. Also, since lamb's wool has so much lanolin in it, if the butchering facility isn't a good one, and they let the wool touch the meat, it will give it a bad flavor. Tbqh, the best place to buy good lamb is halal meat markets, no fucking joke.
t. American lamb producer

>>12708071
I like to reject it out of hand because I hide my autistic picky eating behind a thin veil of contrarianism.

>>12708177
Not true, preventing and hiding aren't the same, it isn't the 12th century. Modern western cuisine isn't hiding the freshness of ingredients due to ingredients not being fresh historically.

>>12708178
Sounds blatantly false. The third world aren't big on refrigeration. Besides I am discussing Indian cuisine, not India itself.

>>12708180
In regards to the former I have found spice usage to be pretty dogmatic, as for the latter it may be true but I have either not noticed or have not found an establishment using higher quality spices (besides the use of saffron at all, for example).

>>12708066
palak paneer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> any other indian dish

>>12708474
>Not true, preventing and hiding aren't the same, it isn't the 12th century. Modern western cuisine isn't hiding the freshness of ingredients due to ingredients not being fresh historically.

Indian food isn't hiding spoilage in this modern age, either, you dumbass. There's no cuisine on earth left that has to seriously worry about that, except for possibly Amazonian tribes, or Arctic circle tribes. If you seriously believe that, you need to go back to fucking class, moron.

>>12708481
Palak Paneer is really good, but so is Baigan Bhartha. And Paneer Makhani. And Navratan Korma.

>>12708225
> the best place to buy good lamb is halal meat markets

>Eating babies
>Supporting arabs

>>12708514
Go back to your containment board, fucktard.

>>12708487
>There's no cuisine on earth left that has to seriously worry about that
I swear you're retarded.
The tradition of spice usage did come from worries about spoilage.
Indian spice usage today is based upon historical spice usage even though the concerns regarding spoilage are moot. Which negatively impacts the cuisine.

>>12708539
YOU FUCKING MORON. You just reposted my exact points, fucking idiot. Seriously, you have comprehension issues.

>>12708559
>If you seriously believe that, you need to go back to fucking class, moron
>>12708170

>>12708071
>I only eat the same six foods I've ever eaten to avoid being labeled as a hipster, which would be my worst fucking nightmare
just enjoy things you piece of shit

>>12708170
Who are you retards trying to gaslight by repeatedly posting this shit? Have you ever actually had rancid meat with spices on it? Shit makes it even taste even more putrid since most spices are bitter when overused. Back then, "spices" meant salt and pepper, the two things your ancestors actually coated rancid meat with. Pepper masked the foul odor of the meat, while salt overpowered the rotten taste while also preserving the meat from further decay. Salt and pepper also were the cheapest and strongest spices, and thus most suitable for this kind of food preparation. If you think people wasted expensive cinnamon and cloves on rancid meat, you are retarded. Salt and pepper are spices for the serf class. Cumin, cinnamon, fenugreek, etc. came from the middle-east, the most economically wealthy region during the early 1000s.

Have fun scrambling for another excuse for how you and your mother don't know how to cook for shit.

>>12708825
>expensive cinnamon and cloves
Obviously what is meant here is hot/spicy seasonings like onions, garlic, chiles, look at Thai cuisine for an example

>>12708835
>indian food
Sorry that English is your second language, anon. Also, literally everyone uses garlic and onions.

>>12708066
The only dish worth trying is Tandoori chicken, everything else is garbage tier.

>>12708825
>Have fun scrambling for another excuse for how you and your mother don't know how to cook for shit.
Indian chefs obviously.

>>12708177
And like most other cultures, the most heavily spiced indian dishes are the most overrated while the tastefully spiced dishes are underrated, at least by most plebs.

>>12708170
Wrong. It's to hide the poop. They wipe their butt with their bare hands and don't wash. That's why their curry smells the same coming in and going out, so you can't tell you're eating some that's been predigested.

>>12708225
Majority of the Indians don't eat lamb. It's goat or baby goat

>>12708066

is there an Indian version of Jollibee?

>>12709309
subway

>>12709309
I'm actually surprised that indian street food snacks haven't taken off in the west yet. I think they will. But there's an image problem because people just think indian food is rich meat curries but these are light.

pic related, fried crisp shells of thin pastry, with spiced chickpeas, onion and potato inside, covered in yogourt, green chilli chutney, and fruity tamarind chutney, coriander, and more crispy bits. Eat them in one bite.

Fucking delicious, but has to be made fresh to order or it goes soggy and does take some skill.

There are a lot of dishes like this 'chaat' which i think will be the next big food trend in the west one day.

>>12709369
What on Earth does that have to do with Jollibee? Are you a recording that just replays whatever you have on your track regardless of relevance?

>>12709369
Indians do make good food but they are disgusting, oddly boring, and socially retarded. Thus, no indian really takes risk, no American really trusts those that do, and they havent been here long enough to make white friends to help them.

>>12709409
Jollibee is a fast food franchise and you can't eat curries quickly in your car. I'm just suggesting what indian fast food in the west could potentially be.

Or do you mean do they have Jollibee in India?

>>12709837
A popular fast food franchise akin to Jollibee. It's such a simple question. I'm going nuts here.

>>12709843
the answer is no
answering other questions like:
>why not?
or:
>what might an indian fast food franchise in america be like?
are not really much of a tangent from your question but i'm sorry for giving more than 2 letters in reply as that was obviously upsetting and confusing to you

>>12708066
He's right you know.

>>12708170
No it isn't you fucking moron. No cuisine in the world is meant to fucking "hide spoilage" because if it was it, whichever culture was doing it would have died 1000 years ago from eating fucking spoiled food. God damn retard.

>>12708170
People who say this don't realize that Indians rarely eat meat.
Just because Indian food in the west is a series of meat curries doesn't mean that's what their cuisine is mostly focused on. They mostly eat pulses and vegetables and dairy, with their spices and rice.