/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I've met this one guy from Australia in Italy this summer and the only thing he could say was something called vegemite.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=australian+cuisine

Pavlova

Although not a cuisine macadamias are pretty cool guy.

You smear it on bread. People outside of Australia think it's disgusting, but it's to an Aussie what Guinness is to a Mick.

vegemite
pavlova
shitty white bread with sprinkles on top, fairy bread

fucking terrible

but it's more than murrika has which is hamboigas

>>4741709
>Kraft

Welp, that's enough to steer me away.

>>4741719
America invented apple pies. Don't underestimate them.

Pavlova is legit, roadside meat pies merit a mention, and fried saltwater crocodile tail.

>>4741698
Bloomin' Onion
Shrimp on the Barbie
Wallaby Pie

>>4741719
>pavlova
Get out of here. Everyone knows pavlova comes from NZ.

>>4741719
>hamboigas

>bad

fuck up.

>>4741734
only thing NZ can cook is hungi and it tastes like warmed up dirt but NZ stole it from Fiji.

>>4741732
>Shrimp

Confirmed for not Aussie

Also we've only been around for a short while. Fuck. Give us some time. But kangaroos is probably as uniquely Aussie as our food gets.

Pavlova is kiwi though

Kangaroo is actually pretty nice.

>>4741698
Yabbies, m8

>>4741719
>ignoring bbq, cajun/creole food, etc

Doesn't aboriginal food deserve some credit? I have no idea what it would be, but they must have some food traditions.

the whole fucking country is an oven the people don't need to do shit

i've been on holiday there 3 times and i could probably be legally considered a pasteurised product

>>4741834
10/10 post

>>4741831
if it move, fucking kill it and eat it
actually, I did a report on this in culinary school
they had some pretty good ground oven techniques

>>4741852

I've had roast goat Peruvian hot rock style - it was dry as hell and not very impressive.

>>4741875
depending on the skill and tradition, it can be done any number of ways that can lead to moist, safe, tasty game food. Wrapped in leaves, more succulent, fragrant ones on the outside. Butchered/layered on wood slats with leaves and various other foods to be cooked, the whole package wrapped in leaves. Some have even been discovered where the oven pit had a more permanent kind of a structure to it, where slats were incorporated to the sides of the oven, with apparently finished sides (primitive kind of a plaster).

>>4741831
Witchetty Grubs motherfucker. They taste like oysters, kind of. Less gross than they sound, if you like oysters.
Kangaroo, emu. Goanna. Goanna is tasty, but like most reptiles is a bit oily. Don't eat snake, super oily.
Possums, kangaroos and wallabies and other mammals of a decent size would be baked in their skins in ground ovens, or butchered and laid over a coal fire. Fish, also cooked on a coal fire. Eel prepared in a similar way, or smoked.

As far as colonial-through-modern food:
Vegemite, of course (despite being purchased by Kraft.)
Damper (a simple fire-baked bread)
Sausage rolls (possibly technically British I think but far more popular here)
Pavlova (arguably NZ, but they're our Canada. Or possibly our Mexico.)
Lamingtons.
Moreton Bay Bugs (Shellfish similar to lobster. See pic. Was originally used by whitey as a cheap alternative to lobster, but people came to prefer it so now it's expensive as fuck.)
MUDCRAPS MOTHERFUCKER
Yabbies (think crawfish)
More in next post, will include some more pictures.

>>4741923
Pie Floaters are popular in South Australia. They consist of an Australian meat pie (loose ground or diced beef and sometimes finely ground vegetables in a thick brown gravy, in a pastry crust and fillo pastry lid) submerged in a thick pea soup. The traditional topping for pies is tomato sauce (as in ketchup) and this is pretty common for a pie floater as well. Pic related. Mashed potato optional.
We've also got a great number of fantastic packeted confections but that doesn't really count.

Australia's full of immigrants, so all their food recipes are sourced from somewhere else. Plus they're one of the youngest countries, so you can't blame them for not having developed their own cuisine yet.

>>4741944
Oh, Peach Melba. Can't forget Peach Melba.

>>4741923
>Don't eat snake, super oily.
>not having eaten snake sausage

Also, when I can get my hands on it, I love to make what I call "swamp gumbo," which has seared snake, frog, and alligator meat in it., and uses beer instead of stock for the cooking liquid.

>>4742027
That looks good but what is so special about it? It just looks like fruit and yogurt in a glass.

>>4742088

The Peach Melba (French: pêche Melba, pronounced [pɛʃ mɛl.ba]) is a dessert of peaches and raspberry sauce with vanilla ice cream. The dish was invented in 1892 or 1893 by the French chef Auguste Escoffier at the Savoy Hotel, London to honour the Australian soprano, Nellie Melba.[1]

it's not really australian. it is delicious though

>>4742088
Peaches poached in sweet wine, then served, chilled with a syrup made from the reduction of the wine, lemon-raspberry sauce, and served over ice cream.

Most contemporary Australian cuisine is just riffing on Asian influences from our surrounding countries, although using some more European ingredients.
It's not exactly great.

>>4742108

your masterchef, on the other hand, is the best iteration of the series ive ever seen

>>4742083
I've not had alligator, but crocodile is nice so I imagine that being okay.
Never had snake sausage, just...filet isn't really the right word, but you get what I mean. Strips of the meat. Oily as shit. Emu is too, but it can be used for some decent stuff (goes okay in a pie)

>>4741923
Croc is a reptile and they're not oily. They're tasty as fuck

Ok, I browsed through this thread and it seems Australia has not invented a single dish. You can't call croc or kangaroo to be an Australian dish because you're not making it in a specific way that was invented in Australia. Just like in Canada we don't say moose is a Canadian dish. It can be a specialty, I guess but unless you cook that kangaroo in some amazing Australian way that other countries didn't come up with it's not an Australian dish.

>Australians didn't invent BBQ

>>4742314
>Just like in Canada we don't say moose is a Canadian dish.

Maybe it should be. You should do your part to help your country's culinary legacy by inventing a great way to cook moose. Now that I think of I don't know of any Canadian cuisine. Poutine doesn't count.

>>4742360
How does Poutine not count? It's fucking magnificent.

>>4741852
They didn't even invent the wheel, I doubt they developed any cuisine beyond "put meat over fire/in hot ground pit."

Isn't fairy bread an Australian thing?

>>4742360
>Poutine doesn't count.
I'm American, and even I think those are fighting words.

>>4742314
Lamingtons motherfucker.
Y'all ain't got shit on lamingtons.

>pinnacle of australian cuisine

>commonwealth
>cuisine
Unless it was from natives, all they had to go off of was the culinary stockholm syndrome of shit-tier british cuisine. Don't expect much from them except for them handing you a vegemite sandwich.

Australia's barely been around for a few hundred years.
There's not much that can be done with food that wasn't done a thousand fucking years ago already

Prison food and kangaroo droppings

Our pies kick the shit out of british pies. Does that count?

>tfw no timtams
Arnott's is the GOAT biscuit manufacturer

>>4742485
>ketchup on a cracker in a sea of relish

Yummy.

>>4742516

>beef pie with ketchup in pea soup

>>4742528
Where's the beef? I've had Oreos thicker than that.

>>4741698
>lamingtons
>pavlova
>bush tukka
The real question is, what is "american" cusine?

>>4742531
You have had Oreos an inch and a half thick?

I am Australian and the only things I can think of are

ANZAC biscuit (Oats + Flour)
Damper (Flour + Water)
Fairy Bread (Bread + Sprinkles)
Vegemite (Yeast extract)

What the fuck are we even doing

>>4742539
You haven't?

>>4742546
'murica (but gd i love it)

>>4742531
That's just the lid of the pie bro, it'll normally be about three and a half inches deep or so.

>>4742537
>The real question is, what is "american" cusine?

This, apparently >>4742546

Australia, being slightly over 200 years since European settlement, has not really had enough time to develop a unique cuisine that sets it apart from any one of the other 1st world western countries.

That being said, 'Australian' Food tends to take a lot of influences from what is seasonably available but with a European or SE Asian twist. A lot of the local pubs will have more traditionally European fare...lamb shanks, beef and guiness pie, etc. But one thing that not many people outside of Australia know how to do well is 'Chicken parmagiana'

Basically, you take a breaded chicken schnitzel, top it with napolitana sauce, a slice of ham, and then cheese before grilling it. Serve with hot chips and salad/veggies.

Other traditionally Aussie food includes all of our bush cuisine, and a lot of people now are only just starting to explore this largely untapped culinary wonderland.

Wattleseed is extremely fine and can be added to most desserts, tasting like a cross between coffee and chicory.
Finger Limes are delicious, and have tiny little sherbet flavoured 'balls'. Bush Pepper is a berry, and is piquant.
Quandong, Hyacinth flowers, Bush tomato, Native Passionfruit are all great. The single most widely recognized Australian bush food though, is the macadamia.

>>4742573

bush spices are fantastic, I don't know why more places aren't taking advantage of them or selling them. Lemon myrtle in creamy pasta or on fish is to die for, bush tomato relish is gorgeous.

>>4742573

>cross between coffee and chicory

I need to go to Australia now.

>>4742573
i'd tend to say they have a big influence from greek and Mediterranean cuisine due to the high population of wogs

also, they have fruit and veg all year round that most countries can only dream about which they take full advantage off

>>4742573
We stole parmas from the Italians.

>>4742626
This is true, but the original Italian parmigiana is served on a slab of gross-ass eggplant, not delicious fried chicken

australia invented the bbq

we invented bbq culture

then faggot obese americans came and claimed it, which is false

the VERY FIRST BBQ WHICH IS ACCTUALLY A BBQ AND NOT JUST COOKING ON FIRE WAS CREATED BY A FARMER COOKING FOOD ON HIS TRACTOR

HE THEN CUT OUT THAT PART OF THE TRACTOR AND PUT A FIRE IN IT

HE CREATED THE BBQ

>>4742680

BBQ originated in the South with slaves.

>>4742680

>>4742110
> best iteration of the series
Jesus Christ, how horrifying

>>4742510
As a brit living in aus, the pies here that I've tried are relatively mediocre. I'm used to pies full of slow cooked chunks of beef, game, vegetables etc. The only aussie pies I've had so far have been small and had the smallest amount of shit tier mince in them.

>>4741923
>Sausage rolls (possibly technically British I think but far more popular here)

I don't see how that can be possible. Sausage rolls are a basic staple in the UK.

>>4742687
By a guy who was a tractor.

>>4741944
>The traditional topping for pies is tomato sauce (as in ketchup)
I now love Australia.

>>4742765
are you okay anon?
I'm worried about you. Can I order you a pizza or something?
Are you going hungry becuz no munny?

>>4742778
Ketchup can be a lovely condiment on the right foods, meat pies being one of them. Gorgeous.

>>4741708

what the fuck did you just say bro?

>>4741708
Cunt you are well off base here

>>4741923
>australian crawfish
don't they have the world's largest crayfish?
I mean, their size is comparable to a lobster

>>4742807
That's probably the Morton Bay Bug, yeah. Moreton Bay Bugs are also called Flathead Lobster, it's a kind of slipper lobster/Thenus.
Yabbies are crayfish technically, but I dunno about world's largest.

>>4741708
Say that to my face fucker, not online
See what happens

>>4741708
/thread

dingo spitroast

>no mention of fairy bread
/ck/, I am disappoint.

>>4742862
See
>>4741719
>>4742396
>>4742540

>>4742819

As a brit, I really want to try ANZAC biscuits

McOz! get it inta ya, cunts!

>>4742877
Well I stand corrected.

>>4742897

There are plenty of recipes online. Here's one:

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/3803/anzac-biscuits

Can Vegemite even be considered Australian? It's it just their version of Marmite?

>>4742926
This is not a question you would ask had you tried both.

>>4742680
Grilling =/= BBQ, and I really doubt cooking food on a grate over an open flame originated in Australia.

>>4742926
Although the flavour is similar, Marmite tends to have more of a syrupy consistency compared to Vegemite.

>>4742929
Oh so the similar sounding name and the both being made of yeast extract is just a coincidence then.

excellent seafood

>>4742952
Try both, then come back.

>>4742952

and they both taste different to promite, which is yet another yeast based spread.

>>4741727
I thought that was the dutch.

the Melbourne shuffle.

>>4742510

>Our pies kick the shit out of british pies.

bullshit

>>4742980
America invented bastardizing european cuisines and claiming them as their own.

>>4742706

wut

>>4742965
Does all three taste shitty?

>>4743030
I've gotta say, having lived in both countries, Australian pies are far superior.

u fuckin wot m8, british pies r da shit bruv.
seriously, anon if you think you like sausage rolls more than the british then you've never been to british.

Also Neither of you amerifats or ausfags invented the BBQ because grilling food outside has been around since we started grilling food in the fucking stone age.

>>4743110

i'm skeptical, but i'll give you the benefit of the doubt. what;s better about them>

Australian pies are better because we haven't really mastered the art of consistently serving them with pea soup and ketchup.

We have pasties, however. So it's pretty one sided in the world of savory pastry.

>>4742510
So all the retarded GOAT shit I've been seeing on /ck/ has been from Australians.