/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18046858
Its good

>>18046858
American mexican food is good. The food in mexico is shit. They have no concept of food safety.

>>18046858
Corn tortilla > flour tortilla

it's really easy to make their seasoning
chili powder, cumin, cayenne, salt, pepper, paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, red pepper flakes

just fuck with that, find cilantro and a lime, youll be close enough

>>18046908
Yes

>>18046858
It rarely is spicy unless you add sauce or chiles explicitly to make it spicy though

>>18046916
Hot spicy. Mexican food uses spices frequently.

>>18046916
yeah there are only a few things that are really hot by default, regular salsas and tacos or whatever are are usually mild to medium, some asian food and vindaloo curry and stuff in default form is way hotter

>>18046923
yeah exactly what I said. most mexican food isn't traditionally hot unless you want to make it hot (most mexican want their food hot though)

>>18046858
>I've heard it's extremely spicy.
you're thinking of new mexican food

>>18046929
>yeah exactly what I said
Except for the part that wasn't, yes. "Spicy" doesn't refer solely to heat.

>>18046936
Are you mentally slow pal

>>18046947
It sounds like you're the one with the problems, you don't seem to understand the words you use.

>>18046954
Did you read the OP

>>18046957
I did read it. I didn't reply to OP, I replied to you. Keep up or leave.

>>18046964
go be retard and obtuse to reddit brother

>>18046974
>n-no u leave...
I'm not being obtuse at all, I've had no problems keeping up. I explained your mistakes and all you can do is cry about it.

lol
>>18046947
>>18046936
i've heard someone refer to well-spiced food as spicy before. he was from nigeria. honestly, many people interchange spicy and hot in the us if that's any consollation

>>18047048
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spicy
He'll still probably suck your dick, though.

>>18046858
You say
>what is Mexican food like
or
>how is Mexican food

>>18046858
it's good, they have endless varieties of dishes just called 'mole' which is comparable to curry in its various components and serving style (usually as a sauce or stew served alongside rice
they are masters of grilling and slow cooking meat and usually season heavily with cumin, paprika, cayenne, chilis, garlic, citrus and onions.
people tend to overlook how much they love potatoes, they have countless preparations for corn and they have great produce and seafood.
they're lacking in the bread department, but their sweet breads and coffee rolls are good, but it is imperative that they be served with coffee because they are dry as fuck in spite of containing an equal weight of lard to flour

>>18047359
Are Mexicans overweight like Amerifags?

>>18046858
What is this recipe? Some kind of béchamel and bacon roll?

>>18046979
The phrase you are looking for is "well seasoned"

>>18046858
mexican food is great. ground beef, cheese, rice, tortilla. you can assemble it in any order or add whatever you want to it. if it has a tortilla its mexican food

>>18046878
>food safety

>>18046858
>I've heard it's extremely spicy.
I've heard the opposite.

>>18047379
I recall reading they may have even surpassed us in obesity. They love their lard and coke.

I've never had a Mexican dish that was hotter than a hot jalapeno. not saying they don't use hotter peppers but they balance it out. even their candy is covered in chili powder but it's not really hot chilis

>>18047379
often moreso

>>18047060
I'd say most mexican food is unlikely to be scandalous

Here's stuff that's not spicy:
>Carne Asada (lime&cilantro heavy skirt steak)
>Carnitas (Fried Pork, can be cooked with Mexican Coke and evaporated milk)
>Rice (orange color but not spicy at all, tomato and cumin heavy, usually cooked in chicken stock)
>Beans
>Mexican Ceviche (shrimp, lime, cucumbers, tomato, cilantro & avocado)
>Horchata (cinnamon rice milk)
>Fajitas (bell peppers aren't spicy, cumin isnt spicy and neither is a lil bit of chili powder)
>Tortas (mexican sandwiches)
>Guacamole

>>18048349
Good guac is spicy.

>>18046908
The worst flour tortilla is borderline inedible and corn tortillas are basically always okay. But the best flour tortillas are godly and I'd have them over corn any day.

spicy = hot, capsaicin
heavily spiced = lots of spices
well seasoned = salted and spiced appropriately

Boiled and stewed-for-days slop that's scooped up with fragments of cheap, unleavened, innutritious flatbread. Cooking that was evolved from a need to kill the germs from the unsanitary conditions.

>>18048349
What are the spiciest Mexican foods?

>tortillas
>meat
>cheese
>beans
>red chili sauce
>green chili sauce
there, you've now tried 90% of mexican dishes

>>18046858
>How is Mexican food like? I'm Romanian
There is a Mexican restaurant called El Torito in Bucharest (Apollodor street) which makes , or at least tries to make traditional Mexican food.
Or you can go to Taco Bell in Afi Cotroceni, it's decent and contrary to all the memes I've read, it has never given me the shits or diarrhea .

>>18046936
>"Spicy" doesn't refer solely to heat
so you mean well seasoned you fucking retard.

>>18049255
>it has never given me the shits or diarrhea
then it's not authentic Mexican food!

Why aren't any Mexicans here?

>>18049910
Michelin tier Mexican

>>18049910
World's 50 best tier Mexican. Appalling.

Mexican food is horrible to look at. It has no personality (avocado and corn) and is aimed at American tourists. Aka "sloppa".

Mexicans know this. They know there are over 10K tomato varieties, 1000's of chili varieties, 100s of chocolate, corn and vanilla varieties and a cuisine to match. They know Tabasco is a place in Southern Mexico. They know the difference between Olmec, Aztec and Maya cuisines.

Why on earth do you expect them to chime in here? You just want fajitas, tacos, nachos, enchiladas, mole, chilaquiles, tostadas and the rest of the god awful garbage you've been spoonfed on the internet, anyway.

If you want to learn about Mexican cuisine, learn Spanish, or at least use google translate. And travel!

>>18049978
I meant Mexicans in this thread.

>>18046858
Its ok but its massively overrated. Most Mexican dishes are just spicy sloppa in a tortilla

>>18046858
lots of tomatoes and beans and shit
the vehicle of tortillas was a culinary turning point

>>18048349
>Cochinita pibil
>Carnitas
>Barbacoa
>coconut shrimp
>Papadzules
>pescado zarandeado
>pastes
>ensenada shrimp tacos
>marlin pate
>Queso Relleno
>jaiba a la frank
damn...i forgot how there's many dishes that call for little to no peppers in mexican food. this is what happens when you live in a flyover town and not in california

>>18047379
As a Mexican living in my country, I would say no. When you walk down the street and just observe everyone, you almost never see morbidly obese people, let alone scooter-riding whales (I've seen those only at the US). People in general have appropiate weight or are a few kilos away from it, but folks around 35/40+ tend to be consistently chubby without being built like a beached creature. It is also worthy mentioning that people here have an obsession with coke as another anon mentioned and some families are lazy, so instead of cooking they just go get street tacos, tortas, pozole, etc. This is detrimental to children, as I see chubby kids more often than I remember. Most people have healthy BMIs in general because we tend to cook a lot in our households and work included with other physical activities keep our weight at a normal level. Whenever I visit other states within Mexico I see the same pattern, little to no morbidly large bodies, but consistently chubby guys in case they don't count with appropiate BMIs

>>18049910
Because we usually avoid this kind of threads, they're mostly stupid opinionated Americans, i only enter cuz OP is romanian

>>18049910
Look >>18049978
You see? He barely knows what he's talking about, Tabasco is indeed a place but the sauce it's American same as Tampico juice (from Illinois) that happens to be the name of my hometown as well. Is this type of self entitled mongoloids that we don't bother to read

>>18049910
because they're shy or self conscious for some reason. whenever i see "post pics of your country" I NEVER see mexicans post in there, but they're everywhere on 4chan.

>>18052148
I meant post food pics from your country*

>>18046908
northern mexico uses flour tortillas, even for tacos

>>18052263
It's honestly very good. I feel like corn works better on certain types of tacos, but flour wins majority of the time

>>18046858
>I've heard it's extremely spicy.
It was not to my surprise. The salsas are always on the table and they vary from place to place. In my two and a half weeks across Mexico there were only salsas that actually were hot, in the /ck/ meme sense of the word.
The food is great, but you must like corn and corn accessories, frijoles and sloppa. I miss it so, hermanos.

>>18046936
ESL or just autism?

>>18053125
Oh, and the only time I had the shits was when I wandered into a tourist trap, because I needed a burger and a margarita for reasons unspecified. Both of which were horrific. As was the following night spent on the shitter.

>>18053142
Six months later I read that the cartel shot the place up along with two tourists randos. Felt weird to see it like that. Thanks for reading my travelogue.

Mexico is mild compared to thai, indian and korean. it's more for flavoring than anything. the only dishes i can think of outside of side salsas is aguachile

>>18046929
The spices are used to cover up the "off" taste of rotting meat.

See for example the great Mexican book "I'll Sell You a Dog" by Juan Pablo Villalobos, which is all about grinding up random stray dogs to use for meat in street tacos. No I'm not joking, and no it's not racist the author is literally Mexican you stupid SJW fucks.

>>18047759
To me it seems like puff pastry with bacon, some shredded cheese. My variant was using spicy sausage, bacon and cheese. Though i also used yeast dough. But the idea is similar.

>>18053142
>>18053151
At least you didn't launch yourself into an SUV with your motorcycle, breaking both your wrists, right? Right?!

>>18052148
probably cuz REAL Mexicans only speak gardener and the ones that learn other languages are globohomo fags that know their country sucks or spawns of their migrant worker parents that no longer live in mexico

>>18053627
Who told you?

Going to Tijuana/Valle/Ensenada next week. Anyone got any recs? Thinking of going to la cocina de dona esthela and finca altozano

>>18052004
c'mon because of this my whole view of Mexican food is from the yanks. thought you guys were like second after Italians on on getting butthurt of not cooking it your way or mispronouncing things. just yesterday someone here recommended me a recipe with like a pound of lard and sweetened evaporated milk and I thought it was a joke but apparently you guys actually use it.. not very sure about but I might try it

>>18053613
schizoid

>>18055943
It's what happens when you have a neighboring country bastardizing your cuisine. god i loathe the thais and vietnamese who never had their cuisine ruined by americans

>>18046858
literally just different combinations of meat, cheese, chili peppers, and tortillas

>>18056192
that's tex mex and you're always wrong

>>18048624
>But the best flour tortillas are godly and I'd have them over corn any day.
hmmmmm. i never realized this. very true
t. spic

>>18056238
cope

>>18046858
>I've heard it's extremely spicy.
It really depends. As others have already pointed out, not everything is. That said, I have been living in mexico for the last 8 months and I can say it is hard not to eat anythign without some chile in it. This doesn't mean it is extremely hot, but if you have low chile tolerance you will get bit quite often. There can be chile in pretty much any kind of food from sweet candies to the savory. Then there is the condiments. Where I am at these delicious blazing hot red pickled onions with habaneros are found everywhere - and easy to make pic related.

>>18047379
the ones in the US working or otherwise tend to be strongfat because they eat a shitload to manage working labor jobs 18 hours a day on four hours of sleep. i've never been to mexico, but i know they eat a fuckload of refined sugar and lard and obesity is a growing issue there especially among children, but they are a lot less sedentary than Americans, so even if they are fat, i dont think any of them are gonna be in scooters or getting crain lifted out of their apartments for an emergency triple bypass

>>18057505
It really is the sugar. I am >>18057480 and I actually lost weight here eating traditional foods. A memela with black bean paste, cheese and chorizo - and do not skimp on the asiento - is pretty filling. It is all those empty sugary drinks and pan dulce that is everywhere. There is around 6-8 bakery trucks that drive through my neighborhood all throughout the day.

Mexican food is relatively basic.

-Corn
-Manteca (Lard)
-Beans (often refried)
-Rice
-Pork

Corn is turned into Masa, which is their flour.
Their Chiles are roasted which impart upon a slightly bitter flavor.

The most famous Mexican dishes come from outside of Mexico:
1. Burrito from California
2. Al Pastor from Lebanon
3. Bolillos from France

It's corn with beans and beans with corn, plus some meat
Each dish tastes exactly the same as a result

>>18057588
burrito came from mexico. was in mexican cookbooks before the mission burrito existed
al pastor is not from lebanon. tacos arabes was the grandpa of al pastor
bolillos is not a dish
why is /ck/ always wrong?

>>18056192
you forgot the limes and cilantro

>>18058443
>tacos arabes
uhh..

>>18058608
>The most famous Mexican dishes come from outside of Mexico
there is no dish like al pastor in lebanon.

>>18047048
*constellation

>>18051814
interesting post, as someone who has visited mexico I would agree. The mexican goblinas living in the US are not found as frequently within mexico

>>18047877
>>food safety

>>18046858
The real Mexican food is fucking amazing, American Mexican food is a disgrace.

>>18046929
>most mexican want their food hot though
Bullshit, most if not all mexicans i've known (and i live somewhere where it's basically all mexicans) have been the biggest fucking pussies when it comes to spicy food to the point they think habaneros are too spicy to even be in food

>>18046858
just make some and try yourself cabron

>>18046911
fr fr no cap

>>18060535
You live in a border town?

>>18046858
Keep your hands in your pockets you thieving little gypsy shit.

>>18047379
They are the only country fatter than the US

>>18060535
I don’t know where you live gringo, but most Mexicans like spice.

>>18060490
That’s not true

>>18057588
>boillios
Nobody outside of Mexico even think about bolillos. Most don’t even know they exist.

top tier food on par with indian.

>best restaurant in the US is Mexican
>taco tuesday
>birria trend all over the US
why are americans so obsessed with Mexican food?

>>18046911
Fuck off that's American seasoning not Mexican

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>>18060954
Chilis are not spices

>>18047359
>usually season heavily with cumin, paprika, cayenne
Americans do that, not mexicans

>>18061214
>on par with indian.
oh well

>>18061503
>Chilis are not spices
t. retard

>>18061506
Cayenne is a variety of capsicum frutescens, not capsicum annuum. It has fruity undertones which go great with fish and seafood. Most Americans don't know this and neither do most French, even though Cayenne part of France. Neither use it, ever.

the key to mexican cooking is lard

>>18061665
Mexicans don't use lard anymore

>>18061479
>why are americans so obsessed with Mexican food?
can't think of a reason

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>>18061496
yeah, you forgot the oregano

>>18046858
>how is Mexican food like?
how is Mexican food*

The "like" is redundant. ESL.

>>18061983
i wish morisqueta was more popular

>>18046908
Corn totrillas are not good. Flour is better.

>>18061983
Thanks, I been looking for this pic for the next time a co/ck/ sucking zoomer complains about Mexican food cus all he knows is burritos and Taco Bell.

>>18062064
nah they're pretty good but flour is better. most mexicans agree with that

>>18046858
Just like their peoples. Brown, stinky and greasy.

>>18061983
this image btfos /ck/

>>18051814
Mexico is fatter than the US and its been that war for a while. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexico-takes-title-of-most-obese-from-america/

>>18058638
Shawarma

>>18046908
I think it depends how you use them. I used to think corn tortillas were inedible shit because I’d just heat them up in the oven like flour ones. But then I tried pan frying them for quesadillas and they were excellent.

>>18046858
Depends on where you go. When I lived in Louisiana my family and I would regularly go to this little hole-in-the-wall Mexican restaurant that was near our house. Really nice place owned by a Mexican family. They had excellent fajitas. Sadly I heard they closed down because one of the owners had to go back to Mexico or something. Could be wrong though, might still be open. Place was called Taqueria La Noria if anyone in the Mandeville, Louisiana area wants to check it out.

>>18063983
>no pork
>no corn tortilla
>no pineapple
nah

>>18046858
The sauces (salsas) are spicy. Typically made with red tomatos, tomatillos, chile de arbol, guajillo chiles and chipotles. Im a blue eyed white guy and love everything about mexican food. I can cook some things but its not the same. Mexican cooks just do it perfect.

>>18046908
It tastes the same to me. Also carnita and tortilla tastes the same to me

>>18046929
>most mexicans want their food hot though
Idk about that. I know they squeeze tons of lime on their food for some reason, it doesn't make it taste better imo

>>18063983
Wait do mexians make tortilla because the Spanish brought it and do the Spanish make it because of the Arab conquest period where they introduced shawarma to spain?

>>18064819
Spanish just brought the word - tortilla. People in the americas have been making tortillas for 1000's of years.

>>18064806
>carnita and tortilla
are you an idiot?

>>18061479
The same reason euros are obsessed with rag head food