/ck/ - Food & Cooking

If you cooked me a meal and put disgusting anchovie paste in it without telling me and I ate it and found out I'd beat you senseless until you were bleeding and begging me to stop. Disgusting freak

>>18243626
Anon, the secret is in putting just enough so that your guests can't tell that there's pureed fish in their food.

>>18243579
This, but Red Boat fish sauce.

>>18243579
Have you tried colatura di alici? It's excellent and probably a little easier to use than anchovy paste.

>>18243672
>>18243668
Is there a meaningful difference in flavor between Thai/Vietnamese fish sauce and the various garum-style fish sauces from Italy?

Because Asian fish sauce costs about one-tenth as much as Colatura di Alici.

>>18243579
Looks interesting. Maybe I'll order it online.

>>18243717
Sort of. The spanish and Italian fish sauces aren't quite as pungent or stinky. I have a spanish anchovy sauce that almost doesn't have that stinky. It just smells slightly musty, and deeply savory.

Adding asian fish sauce to a spaghetti sauce wouldn't be nice where european would make it amazing.

If you like fish sauce and want to use it for non asian dishes it's worth trying, definitely.

Oil
Lard
Butter
Ghee
MSG

>>18243736
Never seen a recipe that used med fish sauce. Is it used in marinades?

>>18243777
it's fish paste and you add it to the sauce when you boil it. the asian stuff isnt thick

>>18243777
One of my favorite ways to use it is to do a good hearty dashi broth and season maybe half the salt with anchovy sauce instead. Incredible base for any savory soup or stew.

Works amazingly well as a replacement for a portion of the salt in anything you want savory.

I'll add about a tsp to a steak instead of salt when sous viding a steak and use the juices to make a pan sauce.

Here's the traditional pasta sauce recipe:

400g pasta, cooked unsalted water

Mince and mix parsley,garlic,hot peppers(if you like), 8 tbsp evoo, 4 tbsp of anchocy sauce.

Mix into hot pasta.

Amazingly delicious and basically no fishy funk typical to asian fish sauces.

Now imagine 4 tbsp of thai fish sauce in the pasta.

>>18243803
Yeah, I love asian fish sauce but wouldn't use it in a pasta sauce. It would more than likely too overpowering flavor.

>>18243829
Exactly. I think european fish sauce is more refined.

Love asian fish sauce as well. It always bums me out when it's missing from thai food. Papaya salad is a perfect example. The pungency of asian fish sauce makes it much more difficult to use in western cooking.

>>18243736
>Adding asian fish sauce to a spaghetti sauce wouldn't be nice where european would make it amazing.
Lol no.
If you add so much sauce that you’re tasting the sauce, you added way too much.
I add Red Boat to marinara sauces all the time, and it’s incredible.
Just don’t buy cheap shit like 3crabs and you’re fine.

>>18243659
I do the same with tomato paste. Maybe I need to rethink anchovy paste.

>>18243896
My sister is a picky eater and I made her puttanesca one day when she came visiting. She loved it. I think people hate things when they know what it is more than the taste.

>>18243912
I'm the same way with bell peppers. If they are cooked well and only a small amount like in home fries with onions and peppers they taste great.

>>18243579
I mean it's ok in moderation. Enjoy your heart disease.

>>18243882
is that better in the pasta than simple anchovy paste, though, or do you just use the fish sauce because you like it and have it on hand?

I'm not familiar with the fish sauce you;re talking about, but I use oyster sauce in some stir frys or fried rice, and that at least has some sweetness that I wouldnt want in my pasta sauce

>>18243579
cento paste

goes with a midnight grilled cheese

>Anchovy BUMP.

>>18243579
water

>>18244953
Disgusting.

>>18244985
Brits have great flavour water though. They even use it for breakfast.

>>18245057
Prove it.

>>18243579
>For me, it's pic related.
it is if you're a red neck peasant

Sugar

creative use of stock cubes

Table salt. There's nothing this stuff doesn't improve. I even put a little pinch in my coffee.