/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.12294577]

Now that the dust has settled, what's /ck/'s final verdict on soy sauce?

[Anonymous No.12294580]

for me it's china lily

[Anonymous No.12294582]

I still don’t understand why numales drink it.

[Anonymous No.12294584]

>>12294577
VERY umami

[Anonymous No.12294586]

>>12294577
Based and also tastypilled

[Anonymous No.12294588]

>>12294577
combined with chink mustard and a dash or four of hot sauce, it's the best condiment for the end of the west

[Anonymous No.12294592]

>>12294577
Are you so fucking butthurt by jannies that you're just going to make complete shit threads in some weird passive-aggressive attempt at having a tantrum?

[Anonymous No.12294593]

>>12294577
La Choy is the best brand, but holy fuck is it high in sodium.

[Anonymous No.12294595]

>>12294593
La Choy does not sell soy sauce.

[Anonymous No.12294607]

>>12294595
Pic related, kicks the shit out of kikoman's.

Kikoman makes better sweet and sour sauce than they do, la choys is red and really sweet.

[Anonymous No.12294609]

>soy sauce

[Anonymous No.12294611]

>>12294609
Um... I already made the joke.>>12294582

[Anonymous No.12294613]

>>12294609
soyjack became stale in 2018

[Anonymous No.12294620]

>>12294611
>

[Anonymous No.12294625]

>>12294607
That shit taste nothing like soy sauce and is garbage.

[Anonymous No.12294653]

>>12294595
>La Choy does not sell soy sauce.
>>12294625
>That shit taste nothing like soy sauce and is garbage.
lol, what the fuck? Just because you don't like something doesn't mean it isn't what it is.
>>12294582
>>12294609
I don't understand why people feel the need to try to extend the vegan / soy milk mockery to soy sauce which has nothing to do with soy milk.
>>12294577
>verdict on soy sauce
It tastes good and goes well with stereotypical Americanized Chinese food or with sushi, but it's also very easy to overdo. It helps to have it in packet form so you know you're adding an exact amount that isn't going to be too little or too much. When I use it at home in bottle form I almost always feel like I'm either not adding enough or else adding too much and kind of bounce back and forth between making myself feel sick with too much vs. being too worried about making myself feel sick to add enough.

[Anonymous No.12294666]

>>12294653
Its literally not soy sauce, its a sauce that has some soy product in it along with corn syrup and food coloring. The term isn't regulated in the US sadly. It can not be legally sold as soy sauce in Asia and will ruin any Asian dish you put it in that isn't American Chinese

[Anonymous No.12294678]

>>12294666
>its a sauce that has some soy product in it
How is that different from other soy sauces? Is it because the other ones don't have these?:
>corn syrup and food coloring

[Anonymous No.12294683]

>>12294678
The process is completely different and the taste is also different.

Grape juice mixed with vodka is not wine.

[Anonymous No.12294775]

>>12294683
>Grape juice mixed with vodka is not wine.
Random humor belongs on /b/. This thread is about soy sauce. Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.12294780]

>>12294577
My thoughts on the matter are that it really doesn't get much better than kikkoman, la choy stinks, aloha is worth a mention though

[Anonymous No.12294784]

>>12294780
>la choy stinks
La Soy is literally just high fructose corn syrup and rotten soybeans.

[Anonymous No.12294789]

>>12294577
for me, its Pearl River

[Anonymous No.12294907]

>>12294577
Right now I mix Igeta Kanro and Kikkoman Tamari Naturally Brewed soy sauce. The first one looked fancy so I bought it, and it has a very rich, almost smokey flavor. It's also very salty. The Kikkoman just tastes like regular soy sauce. The mixture was still a bit too strong flavored for sushi, but for Chinese food it works great.

[Anonymous No.12294914]

>>12294577
Kikkoman, despite being the classic, isn't my go-to by any means. But I've tried multiple Japanese dispensers and they all leak, so I still use Kikkoman bottles but put different brands in them. Life is suffering sometimes.

[Anonymous No.12295035]

>>12294683
>Grape juice mixed with vodka is not wine.
Vodka is fermented potatoes instead of fermented grapes though. Enzymatic hydrolyzed soy protein through the traditional method for soy sauce and acid hydrolyzed soy protein through the quicker alternative method for soy sauce are both instances of hydrolyzed soy protein. So I don't think that analogy really works.

[Anonymous No.12295202]

>>12294666
>1 tblsp
>1300mg of sodium
This is why I hate asian food, everything is salt

[Anonymous No.12295299]

>>12295202
>This is why I hate asian food, everything is salt

[Anonymous No.12295352]

>>12294577 (OP)
I like it

>>12294582
assuming this is a joke but just in case, no one "drinks" soy sauce. It's a condiment

[Anonymous No.12295381]

>>12294580
Kikkoman is based, China Lily is cuck tier.

[Nicholas Parry (Orlando, FL) No.12295387]

>>12295352
Speak for yourself, bub.
I drink soy sauce straight from the bottle.

[Anonymous No.12295390]

>>12295381
konichiwa homo-san

[Anonymous No.12295396]

>>12295390
Only a retard gets Chinese soy sauce instead of superior Japanese soy sauce. Kill yourself you stupid mutt.

[Anonymous No.12295413]

>>12295396
wii-aboo supah gay, wii-aboo love nipon soy

[Anonymous No.12295417]

I’m in Okinawa for a few more days and want to bring home some good soy sauce. What should I look for at the local grocery store?

[Anonymous No.12295491]

for me, its salt and pepper

[Anonymous No.12295528]

>>12295491
how do I like this post?

[Anonymous No.12295530]

>>12295528
perhaps your white genetics are screaming to be accepted and realized

[Anonymous No.12295560]

>>12294577
If it wanted liquid salt I'd just drink seawater

[Anonymous No.12295729]

>>12295202
I'd rather have slightly high sodium than have everything filled with corn syrup. Theres a reason the women over there are more attractive and skinny.

[Anonymous No.12295777]

>>12294577
japanese soy sauce goes well with heavier foods like creamy sauces, chicken and shrimp. while sweet soy sauce goes well with lighter foods like couscous.

[Anonymous No.12295824]

>>12295729
>slightly high sodium
It's a lot more than slightly. And I say this as someone who really likes salt.

[Anonymous No.12295846]

>>12295824
Even if its high according to western doctors, it seems like it doesn't effect people's health. Life expectancy is much higher when you compare similar income brackets

[Anonymous No.12295870]

>>12295846
>it seems like it doesn't effect people's health
>Life expectancy is much higher
That doesn't mean it doesn't affect health. If two different people are heavy smokers but one of them is shot in the face and dies at 40 while the other one lives until 60 but then dies of lung cancer, does that mean smoking didn't affect their health? Not having other problems doesn't mean the problem you do have isn't a problem.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1860129/
>The incidence of gastric cancer in Japan is four times higher than in the UK.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9209018
>Epidemiologic studies indicate that consumption of salt or salty foods is associated with increased risk of stomach cancer, in concert with the results of experimental studies in rodents.
>Accumulated evidence is strong that a reduction in salty food intake and an increase in vegetable and fruit intake is important to primary prevention of stomach cancer.

[Anonymous No.12296016]

Never liked it. Just use salt, if you want your food to taste salty. Salt is cheaper.

[Anonymous No.12296050]

>>12294577

For me, its Lee Kum Kee

[Anonymous No.12296078]

>>12296016
>Never liked it.
>Just use salt, if you want your food to taste salty. Salt is cheaper.
This doesn't make any sense at all. You make it sound at first like you're aware soy sauce and salt don't taste the same since you like one but not the other. But then you proceed to argue salt should be used instead of soy sauce to get the same taste for cheaper.

[Anonymous No.12296082]

>>12294577
kawaii

[Anonymous No.12296172]

What are some other essential Chink condiments and sauces?

[Anonymous No.12296189]

>>12296078
I don't like the taste of soy. People say they use it instead of salt, but I just don't like the taste that soy brings. Salt on it's own is okay, but soy doesn't taste good. Have I made myself clear?

[Anonymous No.12296214]

>>12296189
Why would you tell people they should use salt in place of soy sauce when you know they don't taste the same? Obviously people who use soy sauce like the flavor.

[Anonymous No.12296220]

>>12296214
Yeah people can ruin their food whichever way they want. I just use salt to get the salty effect without the soy taste.

[Anonymous No.12296242]

>>12294577
depends on what you're cooking.
kikkoman is my go to brand when cooking jap food
for indonesian stuff i use pearl river bridge

there's much better soy sauce out there but it isn't available where i live

[Anonymous No.12296395]

>>12296172
Idk what any of it is called but here I go

That chili paste they give you at Thai restaurants

That sweet brown sauce (I know soy sauce is an ingredient) they give you at sushi places or put on the sushi directly

Sriracha Mayo (definitely not Asian at all but if you haven’t mixed those two, mix them)

Horseradish (it’s what they claim is wasabi)

Pickled ginger

There’s a lot of sauces that are incorporated into meals, so finding a definitive sauce would be difficult because every chef prepares it differently (e.g. orange chicken sauce)

[Anonymous No.12298153]

>>12296050
Lee Kum Kee is basically soybeans and headlight fluid. Embarrassingly shitty taste.

[Anonymous No.12298313]

Tamari.
Other answers are wrong.

[Anonymous No.12298894]

>>12294577
Good on everything but only in modest amounts and low sodium variants.

[Anonymous No.12298913]

for me it's yamasa

[Anonymous No.12299471]

>>12298913
based and soypilled

[Anonymous No.12299491]

best cheap stuff that isn't watered down or full of sugar or fake garbage

[Anonymous No.12299493]

>>12294577
REEEEE SOYY SOIIII SOYYY!!!! REEEE!! TRANNY! SOYBOI!

[Anonymous No.12299528]

>>12299493
Excuse me, but we already made this joke in this thread. Please pay better attention next time.

[Anonymous No.12299534]

>>12299491
Yamasasas is same price at the gook mart. Yamassas is much better than Kekoman.

[Anonymous No.12299692]

>>12294577
>not using coconut amino
im not even mad just disappointed
i expected better from you /ck/

[Anonymous No.12299770]

>>12294577
>always buy low sodium because I like the taste more
>every recipe that calls for soy sauce specifically mentions not to use low sodium sauce
Why do they want so much salt in everything?

[Anonymous No.12301112]

>>12296082
i wana show my fat cock into that soy sauce bottle

[Anonymous No.12301146]

>>12301112
>fat
>cock
you got one of them right

[Anonymous No.12301151]

>>12301112
>fat cock
I've got news for you: If it fits through that opening it ain't fat incel.

[Anonymous No.12301154]

>>12294577
For me, it's ketjap medja, very nicely sweet and salty.

[Anonymous No.12301221]

>>12301151
>>12301146
quit bullying me, I was thinking of a human-sized soy waifu

[Anonymous No.12301239]

Aloha Shoyu - accept no substitutes.

[Anonymous No.12301426]

>>12294577
I wanna limit myself to one light, one dark and one tamari(san-j). So is it chinks or japs for light and dark? My initial choice would be pearl river for light and yamasa for dark but if you have any recommendations i'm listening.

[Anonymous No.12302116]

>>12294577
Here’s my favorite. It’s rather... exclusive.

[Anonymous No.12302132]

I honestly don't enjoy the flavor of soy sauce on it's own, meaning I don't use it as a table condiment, but soy sauce is an absolutely essential ingredient when making many dishes, so I always have some. I get the good stuff from the asian market, and one bottle lasts me for-fucking-ever.

[Anonymous No.12302145]

>>12302132
It's great for western dishes as well. I like to add some to slow cooked beef stews.

[Anonymous No.12302234]

>>12294577
Show me
Show you
Kikkoman Kikkoman

[Anonymous No.12302245]

>>12294577
meme sauce

[Anonymous No.12302246]

>>12302145
Use powdered msg for the umami and to reduce sodium intake from soya sauce

[Anonymous No.12303257]

>>12296172
Chinkiang vinegar
Oyster sauce
Shaoxing wine
Sesame oil

[Anonymous No.12303337]

>>12295035
Titos is corn

[Anonymous No.12303363]

I cannot endorse kikkoman soy sauce harder, it makes everything you put it on taste like steak. nothing funnier than a bunch of reactive chumps swearing off the best condiment on the planet because some low-rent glenn beck protege told them it would make them grow tits.

[Anonymous No.12303836]

>>12303363
what are you... about a C cup now, mary?

[Anonymous No.12305516]

Low sodium soy has a superior taste

[Anonymous No.12306905]

kikkoman the best

[Anonymous No.12306919]

>>12306905
>kikkoman
Fucking casuals

[Anonymous No.12306925]

>>12302234
My nigga

[Anonymous No.12306934]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qII5vwqrGUo

I will shoyo the reason why Kikkoman is the best.

[Anonymous No.12306949]

>>12306934

[Anonymous No.12307047]

liquid aminos > onions sauce