/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>14960448
Three days after being 'treated' to sushi by my sister who came home from college, taste buds are still blunt. Tried to eat cerial for breakfast but couldn't even taste the crunch, thanks to these blunt taste buds. THANKS SIS!

wasabi doesnt blunt your tastebuds its just a bit of spicy horseraddish

>>14960448
>ginger
Based and redpilled, good for your gut and digestion
>wasabi
OWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWWWWW oh, that tastes kind of nice. OWOWOWOWOWOWOW (repeat until finished with sushi)

>>14960448
It's delicious, I mash up it up onto the roof of my mouth to really feel the burn in my nostrils

>>14960496
Real wasabi is almost never served in American restaurants. What is served is literally just horseradish dyed green.

The point is, it's a god damned game. Asian meals are god damned games, rules, regulations, bonus rounds, hidden prizes, it's ridiculous.

it's supposed to be a palate cleanser between eating bits of raw fish, just like the pickled ginger they often include with sushi
this is also why slavs eat steak tartare with vodka shots

>>14960563
Based schizo-poster. Tell us more.

>>14960563
He knows too much

>>14960575
Using chop sticks is a fucking martial arts, it's a parlor trick, may as well learn to eat by walking the dog with a yoyo and retrieving the food that way or having to learn stilt walking to reach high placed bowls

>>14960448
Will eating wasabi cure me of my crippling white guilt?

I can't stand being personally responsible for slavery.

>>14960572
I thought Slavs ate everything with vodka shots because they are Slavs.

>>14960448
It gives your sushi a spicy kick that wakes up your senses

>>14960601
Obsessed retards go back to your containment board

>>14960627
well yeah, that's also true
but steak tartare or pickled herring is the most classic pairing

>>14960643
What is your fucking problem racist drumpflet?

>>14960601
But eating wasabi is literally a mouth Parl Harbar!

>>14960460
You sure you don’t have the coof?

>>14960556
thats what wasabi is

>>14960448
>Any more of that and it blunts your taste buds for days
What a fucking wuss. I'm going to shove you into a locker and weld it shut.

>>14960448
Too spicy it makes my butthole burn

>>14960572
No it is not. Good sushi places in Japan put the wasabi inbetween the fish and rice.

>>14960535
based masochist

>>14960572
No it's traditionally put inside the sushi but not everyone likes it so most places give it to you on the side.

>>14960535
>>14961074
Note the there is also makizushi that is just wasabi. It's called a crying roll.

>>14960991
I've been eating sushi for over 30 years and can't say for certain that I've ever had real, freshly grated wasabi, but god-damn do I love to buy stupid shit I don't need and want one of those shark skin graters.

>>14960964
Nah real wasabi looks like this>>14960991
And only grows in certain rivers in Japan.
A knob of wasabi root costs $300-500 because it's an absolute pain in the ass to cultivate and can only be harvested every three years under very specific conditions.
It's rare to even get served real wasabi in Japan. If you're at the kind of sushi place where your bill is in the 100's of dollars then most of your bill would be for the tiny lunch of real wasabi you got mixed in with dyed horseradish.

>>14961116
>If you're at the kind of sushi place where your bill is in the 100's of dollars then most of your bill would be for the tiny lunch of real wasabi you got mixed in with dyed horseradish.
That's just not true. I posted the pictures in
>>14960964 and >>14961087.
They're from this restaurant, where pretty much everything has real wasabi in it.
https://www.tamaruya-fs.co.jp/blank-4
Now maybe I'm lucky because I lived in Shizuoka, an area famous for wasabi, but it certainly wasn't scarce or violently expensive in restaurants.

>>14960448
Wasabi is a preservative. It was used to keep fish fresh in Japan. Because of this they figured out ways of working the flavor into how they ate sushi so that now that it's no longer needed it has become an additional optional flavor.

As others have said, real wasabi is expensive and hard to find. Most wasabi in the world is just horseradish dyed green, even in japan it's used as a cheaper substitute.

You don't have to like it and you don't have to add it.

>>14961116
>>14961172
ah so so its not real wasabi unless its snobby expensive wasabi. gotchya

>>14960448
>NNNNNNOOOOO, I DON'T WANNA BE WASABI!!!

>>14961492
No retard it's not wasabi unless it is actually wasabi, an entirely different species of plant.

>>14961492
Actual wasabi = reading comprehension
Everything else = what you did

>>14961651
>>14961660
Wasabi or Japanese horseradish is a plant of the family Brassicaceae, which also includes horseradish and mustard in other genera. A paste made from its ground rhizomes is used as a pungent condiment for sushi and other foods.

it is horseraddish. you are jew snobs

>>14961963
You'd have to be blind as a bat and a tastelet to think two species from opposite ends of the planet that look only vaguely similar and do not taste remotely alike are the same thing.

Brassica also contains fucking kale and wild cabbage and fucking mustard. You're retarded if you think those are all the same thing.

>>14961511
lmao

>>14961094
Ignore the shark skin grater part, that's for weeb fags. There are easier options to get what you want.

I've had real wasabi only once. Lots of flavor without the same burn. Very good but nothing that I go out of my way for. I would try growong it if I lived in the right climate.

>>14960448
>>14960460
Do you just pick up the whole pile of wasabi and shove it in your face?

It adds good flavor and can even just be mixed into the soy sauce for a more even distribution.

>>14961172
shizuoka anon can you make a food pics from japan thread sometime

>>14960563
>Hidden prizes
I'm intrigued

>>14961963
>it belongs to the family so it's the same thing
You're not your brother.

>>14960596
You're right. Ban sushi now.

>>14960448
I never have enough. They put less and less cause of faggots like you

>>14963230
I suppose, if you're good.

>>14960596
I learned to use chopsticks when i was 10. If you're not a literal retard you can do it as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSHxFSaOV-o

>>14961172
what does real wasabi taste like, is it even similar to the colored horseradish? i've never had it i don't think

>>14961511
kek