/ck/ - Food & Cooking

no it's tasty, just shouldn't be a staple of anyone's diet

>>14598818
Spam is the ideal food

I prefer spunk.

its absolutely exilent when cut into thin slices then made into a kind of bacon, till its crispy. maybe as an alternitate for a BLT. I dont care for it cold.

>>14598846
For me, it’s Spunk.

>>14598818
It's good grilled

Try a few fried slices on a peanut butter and jelly. So fuckin good.

>>14598923
I'm sorry but this sounds disgusting. And i love spam.

>>14598818

Have PTSD from Spam, ate it out of the can with a spoon quite regularly when I was 8 or so. Genuinely surprised I didn't get fat or come out with any kind of medical issue from it.

The smell of it & that rank lube around it when you slap it out of the pack it nauseating.

>>14598857
I can't imagine eating it cold.

>>14598951

*is nauseating

>>14598951
I'm sorry your parents were trash
>>14598818
Spam and eggs is great as is sliced and grilled spam. Not the ideal food but not a bad one at all.

>>14598933

It’s crazy good man.

>>14598952
Well this little nigga did
>>14598951

>>14598951
i think you're supposed to cook it first, gross fuck

>>14598976
and it clearly scarred the poor bastard for life.

>>14598818
spam masubis are the shit

>>14598818
It's only good cooked.

>>14598818
Spam is the quintessential Chef food. If you can make a meal out if, you can make a meal out of anything. Yes, even the juice that forms at the bottom of the garbage sack after two days of REAL cooking. If you don't love spam and turn it into an actual meal then you don't deserve to browse this board, no the internet.

Remember, tastelets will HATE this truth. Only true master race culinary artists can turn this into a 6/5 star meal. Ever wonder how Gorden got famous in the first place?

Spam. Then he gave up on the true food of the poor/common/rich man. Have you seen him cook that grilled cheese? He probably buttchugs soylent now with how he cooks now.

>mfw that Anglo forgot his roots.

TL:DR - Spam is the past/present/future and only those with true skills and high T can use it. I'll fight anyone on it.

>>14598988

oh yeah looking back on it now it's feral as hell, my family likes to bring it up to bully me about it haha.

>>14599008
Eh, 3/10. Your last post was pretty epic, but this one lacks the solid pacing and punchline.

>>14599008
This is probably a pasta but come round mine and ill fix ya a breakfast, lunch or supper with some spam and ye be asking for more. Its really not a difficult meat to work with, just a bit on the salty side.

>>14599021
I'm pretty drunk right now desu.

>>14598818
It's something that should always be in the pantry for one of those nights when nothing really sounds good. Spam 'n eggs is fine but my favorite is to slice the loaf in half. I then take the half and slice it into 4 pieces and fry them in a skillet until browned. I then throw some sliced onion into the skillet and quickly saute them until softened. Take shitty white bread, place 2 slices of spam, slice of chz of your choice, two more slices of spam, another slice of chz, onions on top of that, lots of mustard on top. Absolutely delicious.

>>14598818
It's tasty but too expensive compared to actual meat.
A nice treat once in a while though.
Great for outdoors shit, long term storage, emergencies etc. I always take a can in multi day camping trips so I still have fresh meat on the last day and I always keep a can in my car's emergency kit in case I break down somewhere remote and have to camp on the side of the highway.
Other than that, not worth $6 a can when you can get 2kg in of sausages or smoked chicken for the same price.

>>14598951
wtf man. i know some guys that did have weird canned food quirks.

It's mostly an issue of perception. It's good, but pretty fatty, salty, and full of preservatives.
I fry up a couple slices and put it in my instant ramen with a soft boiled egg and green onions because I'm a filthy fucking weeaboo.

>>14598951
I had spam for the first time maybe a month ago. I sliced it and grilled it on a pan and ate it with some rice and fried eggs. I found it quite delicious.

>>14598818
Tastes worse than deli meat/real meat, and often more expensive. I really don't understand it. Asians also seem to love it for some reason.

>>14598952
>>14598976

I've eaten half a can of it uncooked, if that's what you mean by cold. It's pretty tasty actually, kinda like lunch meat, but I prefer it cooked.

i like it. fry up a couple slices, put it in a sandwich with cheese and then make a toastie. fucking delicious

>>14600781

I also sometimes eat singles once in a while.

I've made spam musubi before.

>>14598818
Only good for musubi, which is pretty tasty. Spam fried rice should be illegal.

>>14601074
That's some nice looking musubi, anon.

>>14598818
It smells like canned tuna but crisps up pretty good.

>>14599294
>spam more expensive than meat
What fucking planet are you on?

>>14598923
The sinners sandwich.

>>14601986
Don't forget the cornflakes and strawberry jam.

>>14598988
It's good cooked or raw, desu

>>14599294
>I always take a can in multi day camping trips so I still have fresh meat on the last day and I always keep a can in my car's emergency kit in case I break down somewhere remote and have to camp on the side of the highway.
Where the fuck do you live? You know phones exist right?

>>14599294
$6 a can

What the fuck? It's like $2 here. Are you Hawaiian or something?

There’s really nothing weird in spam, it’s just pork shoulder, ham spices and preservatives.

>>14598818
bought a bit of this at the start of rona. i should cook some up why not

What is spam made out of anyway?

>>14599008
it's the quintessential chef food because chefs spend all day cooking fine cuisine then go home to eat spam alone

>>14602721
Some questions are best left unanswered.

>>14602721
See
>>14602617

>>14602963
Totally missed that post, thanks. I assume the meat is blended into a fine paste, then canned and cooked.

>>14598818
Uncooked (no frying) spam is the true underrated food.

>>14602721
Its literally just ham
Ham with sugar, salt, water, potato starch (to bind it), and sodium nitrate (to help preserve it)
The gel it seems encased in is just natural gelatin. Its mostly preserved so long just thanks to salting and the canning process.

>>14602975
No problem anon, I’m glad I could be of assistance. Have a good night.

>>14601984
Australia

>>14602155
Australia. Unless you have a satellite phone you dont have signal anywhere further than 4 hours inland.
If you go properly into the outback and your vehicle breaks down it's not uncommon to have to camp on the side of the road for a day or two until another car comes to help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1uDTbb-VfI

>>14602525
See above.

>>14598952
Cold, it's a reasonable approximation of lunchmeat.
If you use too much, your guts and toilet will hate you. The salt will trigger an evacuation.

>>14601984
SPAM around here is around $4/lb.
Bacon and 80/20 ground beef are under $3/lb.
Whole chickens are around $1/lb; chicken parts like drumsticks are around $1.30/lb.

Sure, SPAM is a bargain compared to prime grade ribeye or strip steak, but it's expensive compared to a lot of refrigerated meat.

>>14598818
Way too salty. I know there is a low sodium version and a dozen other types..... but still too salty

I grew up in a pretty affluent area, but some of my friends were from the more lower-middle class area of town.

I had a friend who was 1 of 5 siblings, and his mom made spam and cheese sandwiches on toast for dinner. I was super intrigued by this; I'd never even heard of Spam. I had a bite and fell in love. Granted, I do have a thing for salty food.

Had a similar experience with Vienna sausages. Funny how we want what we don't have.

>>14598818
Why the fuck are Koreans obsessed with spam?

>>14601984
>>14602525
Even at $2/can that's $2.67/lb
That's more than any cut of chicken and most cuts of pork, which makes it a pretty easy choice. You're paying for the shelf stability, but still you can get fresh pork cheap enough that smoking/curing/canning it yourself is worth it and you'll get a higher quality product in the end.

>>14598923
Elvis is that you?

>>14604869
US army rations.

>>14604869
Because of the wars, Koreans were sorely lacking meat in their diet. They were able to get some from burgers stationed there.

>>14598818
Pan fry some spam slices, fry some eggs, serve over white rice. Simple but delish.

>>14598818
Fucking love spam. I didn't want for much growinh up but my parents both grew up dirt poor and my dad would always eat spam and I thought it was disgusting. A year ago I bought some on a whim and now I think it's delicious. Fried spam, egg, and cheese sandwich. Spam fried rice, cold cubed spam on crackers with mustard, scooping it out of the can when you're drunk, it's all good. Salty as fuck but who cares, definitely too pricey compared to just getting fresh chicken or ground beef though so I try to only bust open a can once or twice a month.

>>14605234
my go to simple meal, that a long with some sliced up cucumbers and kimchi

>>14601986
>>14605052
These two posts made me kek

>>14598818
It's just mashed up ham and pork shoulder with a buncha salt.

It's awesome and pretty healthy - I usually wash it after slicing it to get rid of a bit of salt.

>>14598951
The "lube" is just congealed fat. It's perfectly fine to eat out of the can because it's already cooked. It's actually one of the healthiest tinned foods you can eat other than tinned fish.

>>14603061
spam goes on sale for half price in woolies all the fucking time, just stock up.

They got the cheap version in aldi's thats the same thing too.

It's not as cheap as devon but its way better, drink a cup of cement and harden up cupcake.

>>14605579
>one of the healthiest tinned foods you can eat
>Spam
You’re a fucking idiot, son.

>>14605587
yeah all the canned corn and canned peas that have all the fucking vitamins and minerals long gone are so much healthier.

In WWII Russians would trade almost anything for tins of spam because it kept them alive.

read a book smooth brain

>>14605593
>spam
>vitamins
>some off topic rambling shit about Russian soldiers
Retard confirmed.

>>14605593
Meat is always the best option for men in war because they need as much calorie dense food as possible, a can of veggies would shoot straight through you

>>14605601
Starchy carbs are more calorie dense than meat.

>>14605601
He gets it
>>14605599
Yeah tinned food is shit but you get decent protein from spam. Ya dense fucking cunt.

Tell me what's a better tinned food, tinned doughnuts?

>>14605606
fat chicks have bigger tits than healthy chicks

>>14605601
Clearly never had a military ration pack.

>>14605606
If you go right now and eat potatoes or rice and then eat the same weight in meat I can gaurantee you the meat will fill you up longer every single time. Don’t make stupid claims.
>>14605609
Yeah but you’re not a soldier in wartime that desperately needs electrolytes and protein so you’re just a fatass

>>14605615
I’ve had an MRE faggot and they’re literally full of the densest foods possible, even the bread is basically hard tack instead of normal bread, and even the jalapeño cheese is (deliciously) thick. Even the desserts are obviously partially blended to hide some of the stuff they add specifically for nutritional reasons.

>>14605611
Maybe the only ones willing to interact with you do, uggo.

>>14605617
fatass confirmed

still love me spam

>>14605631
muh feelings :<

>>14598818
Underrated? I dunno, maybe where you're from. Folks fucking love that shit in Hawaii.

>>14598899

>>14600786
The single is the perfect amount of Spam for one person. It's a bit of marketing genius.