/ck/ - Food & Cooking

They taste good

>>16360713
>It doesn't add flavour
Tastelet.

>>16360751
>>16360739
At best they add a sickly sweet flavour which I can kind of understand with tomato, but in most stir fries or curries just doesn't go?

>>16360760
What are you talking about
Plenty of stirfries incorporate sweetness, as well as bitterness which green provides

>>16360760
...If you think sweet doesn't go in Asian cooking you're delusional.

>>16360713
For the colour too.

>>16360760
where do you think the sweet in sweet-and-sour comes from?

most asians cant handles spicy food

>>16360713
A bell pepper contains more than three times the vitamin c of an orange. You should basically eat a pepper per day.

>>16362868
What if I don't want to eat bell peppers? What's a good pepper to eat instead?

>>16360713
>bell peppers don't add flavor
bro, your covid diagnosis???

>>16360713
Bell peppers aren’t even that common in Chinese cooking what are you going on about?

>>16362849
Sugar, mate

>>16362868
An orange is like 30mg Vitamin C while a pill is like 3000, and you need even more than that to stay healthy. Modern food leads to starvation because of how nutrient deficient they are.

>>16363062
What, you think they just sprinkle sugar onto the chicken and call it a dish? fuck outta here lmao

>>16360713
and fuck you

>>16362982
>getting magnesium deficiency after being very sick which is normal since a lack of magnesium causes loss of taste and smell
>MUH TERRIBLE VIRUS PERMANENTLY REMOVES YOUR TASTE BUDS
Fucking moron. Just fix your deficiency and stop spreading this dumb meme that corona causes loss of taste and smell.

>>16363077
If you think Chinese takeout places are not adding several tablespoons of sugar to your takeout, you're sadly deluded. Sweet'n'sour sauce is primarily made from sugar, vinegar and food coloring.

>>16363108
Alright, go ahead and make a sweet and sour sauce with nothing but sugar and vinegar. Idiot.

>>16363117
https://youtu.be/HHY1x-tzCNQ?t=13

>>16360713
>it doesn't add flavour
they're sweet, and bitter, and add bell pepper aroma
this is worse than tastelets complaining about celery

>>16362856
t.brain damaged idiot

>>16363046
That's exactly my point, but why the fuck do Chinese restaurants in the west keep adding them to almost all their dishes where they don't add anything but mass?

I base this partially on a teriyaki dish I once got from a Chinese restaurant and it was very unappealing. it was green peppers which is worse than red peppers. I can understand the flavour of red peppers actually being good in some food, but green is just unripe flavours and that only works in it's fresh rendition.

>>16363836
Bell pepper tastes great while celery is just disgusting.

>>16360713
bell peppers are trash, its a shit vegetable for white people
the only reason its in asian takeout is because all the takeout is actually westernised garbage

>>16360713
>in almost all asian cooking
>doesn't add flavour

did your mom smoke when you were in her belly anon

>>16360713
I know exactly what you mean
I guess it's because they think that people expect it and want it. And since everyone does it that way it's a proven fact.

>>16360760
how sweet are your bell peppers

>>16360760
I agree. I don't really like the taste of bell peppers in most things. It's kinda sickly sweet. I like fajitas, green peppers in cajun trinity, and green peppers on pizza. Also stuffed peppers are great. Everywhere else it's just kinda gross.

>>16366473
Celery is the best aromatic vegetable. Chicken soup wouldn't taste the same without celery. It gives a wonderful crunch to chicken salad.

>>16360713
It's because of the color. Amateur chefs are like "let's add pepper for contrast of color so the dish looks pretty" without giving any heed to the flavor it adds. Kinda like using paprika or dried parsley for garnish

>>16367282
What I remember as chinese food growing up as a young kid in Hong Kong

>turtle/shark fin soup
>fried chicken feet
>pig uterus noodles
>fried rice with pork knuckle gristle
>unidentifed fish balls on a stick
>boiled dog meat
>one time, monkey brains

Americans have no idea how bad it really is. No one in china knows what the fuck beef and broccoli is or sweet and sour pork. Chinese food is disgusting. Literally the worst parts to eat of any animal. Makes sense because chinks are the race of humans closest to animals. They make disgusting noises when they eat, slurp everything, men in the streets lift their fucking wife beaters over their sweaty stomachs while laughing and chewing with their mouths full of food. Like what kind of idiot decided 2 sticks is the most practical way to eat grains of fucking rice. Starving Nigerians who eat grass have a better diet than the average chinese.

>>16363117
I did, tastes just like the stuff from the restaurant.

>>16363368
>nothing but sugar and vinegar

onions, carrots, oranges, apples, ginger, tomato paste

>>16368417
Primarily, not solely

>>16360713
>It doesn't add flavor and only works as a bulk up
That's exactly why it's common in Asian takeout. Those places operate on tight profit margins, and filling up the takeout container with something cheaper than meat that mostly just takes on the flavor of the sauce it's cooked in is good for business.

>>16368475
It's disappointing. Guess I'll have to improve my Chinese cooking so I don't need to get take out.