/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Most store-bought tomatoes don't have much flavor to them anyway, and blending them like that will really break down the cell walls and turn them into mushy white noise. If you didn't get on the vine, try those, or next time try some cherry, pear, or heirloom miniature tomatoes, those tend to hold better flavor.

Also, pico really shouldn't be blended. Make some salsa roja if you just wanna check everything into your food processor.

>>15567528
I bought the expensive one that is locally produced and sill attached to the stem, and they looked very ripe and nice. Was it the blender that fucked it up? Could it maybe be too much lime?

cutting something with a knife is much different than throwing it into a blender op. when you dice shit with a presumably sharp knife youre retaining the integrity of the produce which will keep the juices from spilling out and mixing with shit in concentrations it ought not to. my guess is some chemical reaction from the acidity of the tomato juice with something in your pico assuming you didn't throw in any weird shit. maybe how finely you diced your pico ended up releasing more chemicals like sulfur from the onion.

>>15567590
Is it possible to save it? Would giving it a quick boil remove some of the bitterness?

>>15567618
add sugar.

tomatoes aren't going to make it bitter you're probably a tastelet, OP, and describing the flavor of cilantro

>>15567741
You know, I think you're right. I think actually I'm allergic too it because when I chopped it I felt it was harder to breath and my eyelids felt like they did swell a little. Can I substitute it with something else next time or just skip it?

>>15567765
i used to replace cilantro with mint and cumin

>>15567765
parsley

>>15567559
>buy expensive ingredients
>be too lazy top treat them properly
>wonder why they don't taste good

Shut the fuck up about blending the tomatoes you fag.

What can we sub the cilantro w/ if that's the culprit for bitterness? I like pico, but nothing more disheartening than all that chopping and it came out bitter as shit.

>>15568140
I don'treally understand what you are on about. Do you hate me or love me? Do you have the same problems I have or not?

>>15567623
>add sugar.
I tried this and it actually saved it somewhat. Does the sugar neutralize the bitterness or does it just mask it?

>>15567507
Put it in some sort of covered or closed container and leave it out on the countertop for a few days so it can ferment.
Fermented pico de gallo is good af.

>>15567507
>But the biggest problem was that it was very bitter. Why did that happen?
I snuck into your house and added quinine to it. Sorry bruh. It was just a prank.

Did you have garlic in it?

>>15568915
Bitterness isn’t really from tomatoes, although higher quality tomatoes make a large difference in flavor.

Probably was either garlic, cilantro, or maybe even the onions if you’re a huge pussy. Sugar masks it, sugar can’t neutralize anything chemically. There isn’t any weird reaction or any funny business going on chemically. Your shit tastes like shit, fix it.

>>15567507
tomatos are high in antioxidants, so they absorb oxygen
>when you blended them, they got stirred up with air
>you basically spoiled them super fast

>>15568140
>>15567590
>>15567528
He shouldn’t have blended it but assuming that blending a tomato magically made it bitter makes you all mentally handicapped turbo-fags pretending to know how “cooking” works because you flipped burgers you retards

>>15567765
oregano or majoram