/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>said op while choking though tears and struggling to hold back vomit

>>16178247
wrong

>>16178250
nope. really enjoyed it. gonna make it again on friday probably.
>>16178261
whats wrong?

>>16178261
>said op while choking though tears and struggling to hold back cum

think im gonna invest in one of these spiralizers and eat zoodles every other day. fucking BASED. fuck carbs. im feeling great.

Did you cut them fresh or buy pre-cut? What tool or brand?

>>16178284
bought them fresh and just cut them manually cause i just wanted to try it. thinking about buying a spiralizer now.
i used a normal peeler. mine were thinner than in the picture but more fettuccini like than spaghetti like but not bad and worked well with the shrimps, sauce/garlic, lemon etc.
i put some salt on them and let the water drip out then dried them with a paper towel before putting them into the pan with the shrimps and mixing them in.

>>16178247
Have you tried cauliflower rice? Do you think zoodles will hold up to longer cooking times, like as a substitute for macaroni in casseroles?

>>16179430
>Have you tried cauliflower rice?
no i havent tried it cause i dont have a mixer to make it but i guess i can just cut it or whatever. gonna try that next for sure on my keto journey. i obviously eat cauliflower before i can only assume that its good.

>Do you think zoodles will hold up to longer cooking times, like as a substitute for macaroni in casseroles?
i don't think so. probably would be too dry cause of those extended high temperatures. i think it would taste great as a substite though especially with the sauce and everything you wont notice much difference compared to pasta cause it gives you some of the texture and feeling of eating pasta. if theres some meat and spices, cheese its probably barely noticeable that its not pasta. definitely something worth trying but the process has to be adjusted. i like making Ziti for example and im not sure how I'd do it with zoodles especially the baked cheese part.

>>16179453
My local grocery store sells frozen pre-riced cauliflower.

I've been mixing 48-72 hour fasts with keto for about 2 years now and its worked great. It's just that i've really only been eating baked chicken thighs, bacon, and steak. It gets boring.

>>16179476
>It's just that i've really only been eating baked chicken thighs, bacon, and steak.
i dont think thats a keto/low carb problem tho. theres so much you can do. carbs are mostly sides anyway or compllimentary on a lot of things. just make the same food just minus the carbs.
so much seafood you can experiment with. vegetables, salads. nuts.
i do IF as well even before cutting out carbs. it really simplifies life too cause i don't have to worry much about what to eat or when. i have my set times and i know i don't have to overeat some trashy carbs and move on with my day.
i also don't have a lot of issues with eating the same things a lot like when i ate mostly carbs i ate a lot of pasta with pesto, or baked zitis and stuff like that cause it was easy and i had plenty of it at home.
i made it my goal to buy fresh food every day this summer and stick to it and see how it goes. not sure how id feel after 2 years.
only thing i truly miss is ice cream. i fucking love ice cream man and nothing can substitute it.

>>16179497
the only strict rule i've followed is if it has an ingredient label, I don't eat it; as a result its been vegetables and whole cuts of meat.

Do you know any good resources for keto alternatives that are natural? It seems like the keto community just tries to make a shittier version of the carb dish, e.g. almond flour "keto cake", rather than making new recipes. I suppose cauliflower rice and zoodles are somewhat like that as well, but at least it's just a clever way of cutting up the raw vegetable rather than processed food.

>ice cream
my itch is Dr. Pepper

>>16178247
>cut out carbs
You know there are carbs in there, right?

>>16179528
its not enough to kick someone out of ketosis dumbass
>>16179522
>the only strict rule i've followed is if it has an ingredient label
dang thats pretty rough then.
>Do you know any good resources for keto alternatives that are natural?
no like what? i mean theres nothing more pure than meat and low carb veggies or fish and veggies. there are also shirataki noodles. maybe you can find them. as an anime poster and weeb you probably enjoy jap food. looks very pasta like but i havent eaten it.
>the keto community just tries to make a shittier version of the carb dish
i think thats mostly marketing to get people to move over with the classic "hey you won't miss out on anything trust me" bullshit.
im not delusional. nothing beats pasta, or a burger or fries or lasagna or all that sugar but i can go without it and if its close enough in taste like my zoodles + shrimp dish i made today the trade off is even worth it. id eat that even if i wasnt on keto.

>>16178247
Here's something I made a while ago with zoodles. I used to eat it almost every night. Very tasty.

>>16179588
based and zoodle pille

>>16179567
I meant ideas similar to zoodles and cauliflower rice; i.e. preparations of raw vegetables that mimic the textural qualities of common high carb ingredients.

>no ingredient labels
Eventually I want to get to "if i didn't grow it, I don't eat it", but I don't have the acreage for that.

only dyels think carbs are bad and here they come thinking you cant bulk and have abs

>>16179567
>its not enough to kick someone out of ketosis dumbass
>hurr, one size fits all for everyone
that depends entirely on the individual

>>16179609
If you want to lose weight quickly, carbs are bad. If you want to gain weight, CICO. If you want to gain weight quickly, combine carbs with alcohol or fat and eat multiple times per day.

>>16179599
where the heck do you live? looks pretty based. when you google "keto alternative to X" you gonna find plenty of suggestions for substitutes you can give a try. i dont know any.

>>16179610
average zucchini has like 3 grs of carbs. the entire meal has probably less than 10 if you count all the tracecarbs of all ingredients. pretty much every food has some carbs even if its not much. its unavoidable. its easy to tell when you are in ketosis anyway and you can adjust if a single carb kicks you out which is unlikely.

>>16179609
>>16179647
i don't even do it cause i want to lose weight. i just got disgusted by myself for eating carbs and gravitating towards them automatically like a robot. when you stop eating them you notice that 90% of the food in grocery stores is nothing but empty carbs.
side effect is that i feel much better and i can explore food in some directions i haven't gone before like how i discovered zoodles today.

>>16179651
I don't live there; I want to live there.

>>16179665
>90% of the grocery store is trash
Yep, and you can see it in the fucking floor plan too. The milk and eggs are at the opposite corner of the store as the vegetables and meat, so you have to walk through all the horseshit just to buy ingredients for steak and eggs. And when you inevitably start suffering from diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and insulin resistance from the 40-50 year-long insulin spike, the (((doctor))) will just put you on pills to treat those symptoms instead of just telling you to stop eating dogshit.

>>16179688
>I want to live there.
same
>Yep, and you can see it in the fucking floor plan too.
yeah literally designed to make us sick and turn us into disease ridden animals so the pharma industry can profit from us once the food industry has wrecked us. i always check out what other people are buying and i see those pre diabetes cases buying notihng but shit processed food or fatties with their tubs of ice cream huffing and puffing. absolutely degenerate. people like that should get arrested and put in diet camps.

>>16179430
Not OP but I make cauliflower "mac and cheese" all the time.
Really good and keto.
I use this recipe and change up the chesses from just cheddar https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/cauliflower-mac-and-cheese-casserole-recipe-2013849

Have you tried making zapple pie with them?

>>16179719
no i dont even like normal apple pie or sweets/baking in general. only sweet thing i like is ice cream. not sure how a zapple pie would work especially keto. do people use these 0 calorie artifical sweeteners?

>>16179706
>walking pre-diabetes cases
For me the most ironic part is:
>why do you eat such trash, fatty?
>i don't have time to make healthy food, anon
>wouldn't you have more time if you didn't spend so much time eating? And then you could put time into eating GOOD food.
>fuck off, anon

>>16179711
checked and thanks

>>16179735
my biggest gripe with this is
>"eating healthy is more expensive"
cause it direcly translates to
>"eating LESS is more expensive"
it doesn't make any sense and i get mad when i hear it.

>>16179735
No problem. Also, buy an actual real head of cauliflower, not frozen. Fresh is always better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1cp8H2hmmU

that looks nice as well. zucchinis are based.

>tfw no keto milf mommy to make me some zucchini fritters

>>16179739
It's cause they're literally addicts; if their blood insulin levels drop too much they get hangry, the same way people have nicotine and alcohol withdrawal.

>>16179748
>cauliflower mac and cheese
Reading the recipe it sounds almost exactly like caulifower au gratin, can't believe I didn't think of that. Do you know if its possible to get the rice texture without a food processor? I was considering buying the frozen rice only because I wanted a rice replacement for things like fried rice, rice bowls, and gumbo.

>>16178247
I got a hand-crank spiralizer recently too and it's a genuinely better purchase than I thought it'd be
as long as the sauce is good, you really don't find yourself missing the regular noodles, the less carbs I eat means the meal is arguably better for me, and there are other uses for mine

I'd like to try making homemade chips or curly fries with some of the blade-attachments

>>16179779
>almost exactly like caulifower au gratin, can't believe I didn't think of that. Do you know if its possible to get the rice texture without a food processor
Just use a box grater. The cauliflower naturally comes apart as rice-like granules.

Konjac noodles are better, if you know how to cook them.

Spoiler:
> Drain and rinse
> Boil for several minutes in salty water
> Drain and use in recipe

>>16178247
Or you could just buy a spaghetti squash?
It has a much closer flavor profile to noodles, doesn't need to be dehydrated, already comes as strands, and you can save a pot by just keeping it in the shell and stuffing it with your sauce.

>>16179711
Isn't this just cheesy cauliflower?
I already liked cheesy cauliflower.

>>16180277
>hand-crank spiralizer
think im gonna buy one of these.
>>16180572
hard to get where i live i think (never looked for them at least) but im gonna order them online
>>16181315
>spaghetti squash
seems like its too high in carbs

Why do people on restricted diets eat shit that is low / 0 calorie and attempts to mock the things they're avoiding? I can never understand why vegans think eating animal products is inhumane yet go out of their way to make EVERYTHING look and taste like animal products. Pick a lane, assholes.

>>16182556
>millions of years of evolution
barely any carbs in a human diet and if its from fibers, fruits
>150 yrs of industrial evolution
sugar, carbs everywhere. makes up 90% of the calorie intake of the average 2021 human.

really makes you think why people dislike carbs.
Ketones are the original fuel for the brain. Not carbs.

>>16182556
I've never understood why vegans, who adopt their diet for ethical and moral reasons, insist on LARPing as the unethical and immoral persons they claim to despise.

zoodles don't look like noodles though, and they don't really taste like noodles (they actually have a taste unlike flour noodles). the only noodles you might be able to claim they're copying are those spinach noodles, which kind of kills your fake-argument, since they're pale attempts to get that nice vegetable flavor into otherwise tasteless noddles, whereas zoodles and spaghetti squash actually do it right.
>reee why do ketards make veggie noodles that look like other veggie noodles but taste better?
see? that line of criticism doesn't really work.

>>16181315
spaghetti squash is sky-high in sugar which is why it has that "closer flavor profile to noodles". zucchini noodles have a somewhat different flavor than flour noodles, but its better imo - it actually has a *taste*, whereas noodles have no flavor of their own other than the bit of sweetness from the starch; they're really just sauce horses.