/ck/ - Food & Cooking

It's because, like cabbage, they fucking stink and taste disgusting when grandma cooks everything green for three fucking hours for some fucking stupid reason.

I like brussels sprouts.

>>5719102
On a similar note, why do people think collards need to be cooked for hours? I find it is sufficient to steam them in hot water for a few minutes. That's all it takes to make them tender.

I actually like my collards to be mushy. I don't know why. I can only imagine its because my great grandmother cooked them that way so she didn't have to use her teeth

Just grew up eating them like that

Mushrooms. This guy I know has told me he hates mushrooms but then he tried one way we cook them in my country and he likes them like that. He's since grown to like them stir-fried and sautéed as well.

>>5719233
The same guy worked in a place with an attached kitchen. The kitchen part of the business cooked collards. He's never had them cooked any other way other than how the kitchen made them and they were, as I told him, "quite horrid."
He tried how I cook collards and loved them. Same with cabbage. He hated cabbage until he tried them the way I cook them.
I don't boil either of them. I stew them in their own humours for 30-40 minutes.

>>5719255
>I stew them in their own humours
Verily?

Cochayuyo. My mom always hated it so I never tried it when young. One day I said fuck it, bought some, prepared it properly (it has a very sea water taste if done wrong, it's seaweed after all, and most people cook it wrong so yeah) and cooked "charquicán de cochayuyo". It was great, we both loved it.

>>5719377
>charquicán de cochayuyo

tiraflechas as fuuuuu

>>5719387
It's so tasty, though. Merkén too.

>>5719262
Indeed. Is that not the proper English word? I add no water when I cook them.

>>5719255
>>5719262
that is hilarious, holy shit

>>5719404
humour means something is amusing, say juices or liquid

>>5719404
Humour would be correct, just very archaic. Use juices.

>>5719404
As an educated person, I didn't have a problem understanding your post.

>>5719415
>Not getting it this hard

>>5719404

What >>5719435 said. "Humors" is an archaic concept, but I'd add that I don't think it's an appropriate word when you're talking about a plant. I'm a medieval scholar and I've rarely seen it refer to something non-human. You'd be better off using a more general word with less medical/alchemical connotations.

>>5719632
>I'm a medieval scholar
lol do you wear a robe and a staff

>>5719233
that's how they're traditionally cooked in southern cuisine iirc

collards kind of suck anyway though

>>5719632
>I'm a medieval scholar

>>5719709
>i use le hatman maymay

>>5719632
My native language uses a cognate of 'humours' to mean any liquids leeched from something during cooking. I assumed English would use the same word.

>>5719700
Right, but why? I love southern cooking but even when I make "traditionally" collards I don't cook them for hours. Maybe 30-45 minutes. I just like my vegetables to have some texture left. Am I doing it completely wrong?