/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13281025
>don't think you can beat the humble walnut
Try me.

>never opened a walnut so I thought I never had one
>buy a bag full of them excited to try something new
>crack one open for the first time
>turns out I've been eating them my entire life
It's not fair.

>>13281025
Yes pecan.

>>13281095
Statistically and categorically the worst nut.

>>13281025
for me, its good old peanuts in coca cola

>>13281111
kill yourself

>>13281111
wasted quads, kys
>>13281025
peanuts are cheap and good

>>13281095
My grandmother puts pecans on fucking everything. Meat with pecan sauce, salad with crushed pecans, pie with ground pecan in the dough. It's so good.

>>13281095
Do you pronounce it "pee-can" or "puh-cawn"?

>>13281025
Pistachio, macadamia.

>>13281025
the chinese think it gives you brain powers because... wait for it... it looks like a brain

>>13282291
pie-shawn

Worst bad nut you've had?
If you eat a bad walnut, it's the fucking worst. A bad pistachio is up there, too

>>13281025
Peanuts beat everything by a mile.
They're cheap
They're delicious
They're versatile
And they're good for the environment because they're nitrogen fixers and require less water than other nuts, and have higher yields per acre.

>>13282291
Pay-khan

>>13281025
I think I can take it. I've been working out.

For me it's the almond.

>>13282309
Chinese medicine is a scam.

>>13282309
It's true, it has very healthy and good brain fat. The brain is very picky for which fats it wants.

It's important to have a balanced fat diet. Saturated fat is good as a "basis", the same applies to olive oil. The heart only uses saturated fat for it's functioning, since it's the most stable energy source that exists. But the brain wants the good shit.

A balanced diet with olive oil, butter and animal fat from grass fed animals and wild fish fat as basis with included seeds and nuts (walnuts might be the best nut and flax the best seed) will ensure proper functioning of the whole body.

The worst that can happen is to eat so much bad fats like partly hydrogenated vegetable oils, that the brain has no choice and has to use bad fats.

Walnuts are awesome. A few of them every day can perfectly fit into a healthy balanced diet.

Have a nice day, everyone, haters and lovers alike.

>>13282366
>Chinese medicine is a scam.
I think chinese medicine is still a thing because their writing system is impossible to use so most chinese people end up functionally illiterate.

>>13282370
Western medicine isn't exactly good either. People start using a medication or two, then have side-effects and get new medications for for the side effects. Old people can often end up with 10-20 different meds. Experiments on elders where they gradually reduce these ridiculous amounts show that the elderly have it much better on less medication.

There is a lots of scams going on in alternative medication. But the research money goes into mainstream western medicine.

Yet's it's proven that thyme is just as good expectorant as the commercial western medicine-alternatives. Imagine what could be obtained if science could benefit humans instead of corporations. But it would break the pharmaceutical companies if things you can pick in nature or grow at home is proven to be just as effective or better, with less side effects, than the big pharma alternative.

>>13282476
That's because boomers don't value their health and are generally hazards to themselves and those around them.
You're supposed to regularly check in with your doctor if you're on any medication at all. Even a Wal-mart pharmacist can help you get off pills, or figure out which ones are in conflict. That's what they went to school seven years for.
Medicine works if you invest the bare minimum of effort into it.

>>13282348
>not even a nut

Is this the worst of all nuts?

Nut tier list:

God tier: macadamia, pecan
Great tier: walnut, pistachio, hazelnut, brazil nut
Fine tier: peanut, almond, pine nut
Not so great tier: cashew

>>13282837
Those are crunchy, hearty and delicious. You have shit taste.

>>13282367
>The heart only uses saturated fat for it's functioning
"The majority of fatty acids undergoing β-oxidation are not saturated fatty acids, but rather mono- or polyunsaturated fatty acids."
"At equivalent, noncompeting concentrations, in isolated working rat hearts, the oxidation of unsaturated fatty acids such as oleate (Table 1) or arachidonic acid (540) occurs at similar rates to that of the saturated fatty acid palmitate. Similar fractional β-oxidation rates are observed for palmitate and oleate in the human heart (688)."

AFAICS we don't need saturated fat for anything really. The only major dietary source of relatively harmless saturated fat is Shea butter, for the rest better for your health to avoid it or eat in trace amounts.

Partial hydrogenation of oils for food use is entirely banned in the US, no exceptions. Has been for a while now.

>>13282837
What's their name again?

>>13282951
Saturated fat is so important for the body that it can make it itself if it has to. That's why you can be technically correct if you say that "we don't need to eat saturated fat". But claiming we don't need it for anything, is pure stupidity. The heart uses saturated fat because it's the most stable energy source the body has.

>>13282962
nigger toes

>>13282980
"The majority of fatty acids undergoing β-oxidation are not saturated fatty acids, but rather mono- or polyunsaturated fatty acids."
"At equivalent, noncompeting concentrations, in isolated working rat hearts, the oxidation of unsaturated fatty acids such as oleate (Table 1) or arachidonic acid (540) occurs at similar rates to that of the saturated fatty acid palmitate. Similar fractional β-oxidation rates are observed for palmitate and oleate in the human heart (688)."

>>13283002
The advertisers don't tolerate that kind of language on 4channel, bigot.

>>13281025
Man I miss having a walnut tree. Had one for the longest but had to move. Used to love this time of year because I'd use the walnuts I gathered up to make persimmon cookies

>>13282291
pe-can

>>13281025

>>13282859
>cashew not in top tier
>saying that others have shit taste
Biggest redpill is that there are no bad nuts, every nut is unique and tasty in its own way

>>13282291
peh-canne

i like filberts a lot

>>13284451
This really activates my almonds

>>13282797
This is a food board, so the culinary definition of a nut is used, smarty.

>>13283002
Toes? All this time i thought it was toads, i guess toes makes a lot more sense

>>13282859
whats wrong with cashews?