/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13499063
because British cuisine is the best cuisine of the world!

Got that Western civ style umami going on

>>13499063
it's basically a perfect mix of everything used for flavor.

>>13499063
>wooster sauce
it's pronounced war chester shire sauce.

>>13499063
I hate it, which I find funny because I dont know anybody who can pronounce it correctly.

>>13499398
Why does that make you find it funny that you hate it?

>>13499063
because it's fermented fish sauce

>>13499134
no it's not you dumb seppo

>>13499406
Not sure. I guess I'd expect people who like it to pronounce it better than me.

Though then again I only learned to pronounce it because it's fun to say.

>>13499529
It's pronounced Wor-chester-Shire-Sauce, learn English pls

>>13499063
It's like there's a party in my mouth and they invited some old tobacco-chewing cowboys and asian laundromat spinsters!

>>13499945
I like it but that's actually an accurate description

>>13499134
Yeah

>that realization when it's the white man's version of fish sauce

>>13499063
when do i use this?

What can I actually use this stuff for?

I got a huge bottle for a gift a month back and it's just been sitting there.

>>13500317
At 4PM

>>13500334
>What can I actually use this stuff for?
Everything. Do you not eat meat? Put it on your meat, zoomie.

>>13500334
Get good vine ripe tomatoes. Slice . Sprinke sauce over with a little tobasco and salt and pepper.

For some reason humans have always fancied fermented fish sauce. It was extremely popular all over the Roman Empire for example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garum

>>13499078
Worcestershire is KARVM

ROMAN

>>13499063
Try it with bread and sour cream, you will love it.

>>13499063
Am I the only one who thinks this stuff is kinda watery?
Recipes call for a splash, a few drips, maybe a spoonful. I add triple that amount, and still barely taste it.
Am I buying a shit brand, or is this stuff just really really weak?

>>13501276
>>13502133
You can make a better argument for ketchup* having descended from garum. Worcestershire sauce is more similar to garum than modern ketchup but its origin was just a couple of British chemists leaving an attempt at a fish based sauce that was really bad tasting in a cellar and forgetting about it only to rediscover it years later while tidying up and finding it tasted good thanks to the fermentation.
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https://www.ancient.eu/article/1276/fish-sauce-in-the-ancient-world/
>Some historians have even argued that fish sauce, common throughout Southeast Asia today, was introduced to the continental subregion via the Silk Road.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup
>In the 17th century, the Chinese mixed pickled fish and spices and called it (in the Amoy dialect) kôe-chiap or kê-chiap (鮭汁, Mandarin Chinese guī zhī, Cantonese gwai1 zap1) meaning the brine of pickled fish (鮭, salmon; 汁, juice) or shellfish.[7][8] By the early 18th century, the table sauce had arrived in the Malay states (present day Malaysia and Singapore), where English colonists first tasted it. The Malaysian-Malay word for the sauce was kicap or kecap (pronounced "kay-chap"). That word evolved into the English word "ketchup".[9] English settlers took ketchup with them to the American colonies.[1]
>In the United Kingdom, preparations of ketchup were historically and originally prepared with mushrooms as a primary ingredient, rather than tomatoes.[13][14][15] Ketchup recipes began to appear in British and then American cookbooks in the 18th century. In a 1742 London cookbook, the fish sauce had already taken on a very British flavor, with the addition of shallots and mushrooms.
>Many variations of ketchup were created, but the tomato-based version did not appear until about a century after other types. An early recipe for "Tomata Catsup" from 1817 still has the anchovies that betray its fish-sauce ancestry:[16]

>>13499945
fukin kek

>>13500334
everything... chicken stir fry or steak stir fry mostly