/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.12497666]

Does MSG really add flavor to food? Whenever I go to a Chinese restaurant that doesn’t use MSG, the food doesn’t taste much different from ones that use MSG.

[Anonymous No.12497680]

>doesn't use msg
You mean they don't add pure MSG. Soy sauce is full of glutamates.

[Anonymous No.12497681]

>>12497666
>chinese restaurant that doesn't use msg
Begone with your foul lies, satan

[Anonymous No.12497684]

>>12497666
>E621

[Anonymous No.12497711]

Just buy a package at your local Asian market or online and try it out in your own cooking. You cook yourself, right?

[Anonymous No.12497717]

>>12497680
same with fish sauce

[Anonymous No.12497736]

>>12497666
It makes it more savory. It's sold in stores under the brand name "Accent" and it improves a lot of boring dishes.

[Anonymous No.12497743]

>>12497680
>>12497717
And tomatoes, cheese, mushrooms, breast milk, etc.

[Anonymous No.12497843]

>>12497666
Nice dog whistle anon. You make me SICK

[Anonymous No.12498029]

>>12497843
>dog whistle
>dog

Heh

[Anonymous No.12498101]

I bought a bag and honestly didn't notice the difference on burgers or steaks.

[Anonymous No.12498782]

>>12497666
>E621

[Anonymous No.12498784]

>>12498101
Those things are already savory so it won't make a noticeable difference. Try putting it on some vegetables or noodles or something that isn't savory like meat already.

[Anonymous No.12498788]

>>12497666
It’s only a subtle difference. I make sure not to eat MSG because it turns me off sex. It practically caused my breakup with my last boyfriend.

[Anonymous No.12498802]

To anyone that hasn’t done this, I highly recommend you buy some straight msg and taste a tiny bit of it. It will clear things up for you. Personally, I thought glutamate was a meme until I did this. It’s not just salty, it’s a very distinct sensation.

[Anonymous No.12498817]

>>12498802
This. I used to think that savory and salty were the same thing but they really are not.

[Anonymous No.12498884]

>>12498788

[Anonymous No.12498889]

>>12498817
It’s honestly jarring. Salty and umami are so closely associated in our brains that when you taste just isolated umami with zero hint of salt, it’s pretty trippy.

[Anonymous No.12498941]

>>12498889
Yep, there's almost a sweet component to it. I mean, it's not really sweet but... yeah it's hard to describe.

[Anonymous No.12498951]

>>12497666
make scramble eggs

put msg in one, don't put msg in the other

see the difference, you mouth will water and smack more with the msg eggs

[Anonymous No.12498981]

>>12498884
HS

[Anonymous No.12499109]

>E621

[Anonymous No.12499129]

>>12497666
that's because both actually use msg, one just says they don't

[Anonymous No.12499147]

>>12498951
my mouth doesn’t smack when i eat are you a nigger or something?

[Anonymous No.12499150]

>>12497666
>666
>e621

[Anonymous No.12499169]

>>12497684
>>12498782
>>12499109
>>12499150
Yes, it's the European additive code for MSG and also the name of an ironic sellout furry porn site. Is that all?

[Anonymous No.12499205]

>>12499169
shut the fuck up furry

[Anonymous No.12499209]

How do so many people know e621 is a furry website?
I've never heard of it before.

[Anonymous No.12499256]

>>12497666
Yesterday I've read an article that glutamate isn't especially unhealthy nor a bad indegrient to cook with. Apparently lots of foods contain loads of it. Was it a hoax all along?

[Anonymous No.12499358]

>>12499147
I smacked your mother in the mouth last night. With my cock.

[Anonymous No.12499394]

>>12499256
It's true. The human body makes no distinction between natural glutamate in food and MSG additives. Just a bunch of anti-vaxxer theories saying it's linked to cancer when there is no scientific evidence to suggest this

[Anonymous No.12499397]

>>12499256
This is like years old news at this point bud.

[Anonymous No.12499398]

>>12499394
I just know from experience that it has given me headaches and made it hard to sleep. It’s no good for you.

[Anonymous No.12499474]

>>12499394
it was straight up an unscientific news article where a journalist claimed eating at chinese restaurants gave him headaches
that's literally it.

[Anonymous No.12499484]

>>12499398
Yes eating extremely, salty, greasy, carby foods will do that to you

[Anonymous No.12499485]

>>12497666
it doesn't have a huge effect if the food is half decent. mainly i only notice if it's clear they put too much in a dish. i went to a korean place that used it on bulgogi beef. it didn't taste bad but was kind of sickening after a few bites

[Anonymous No.12499489]

>>12499398
You're retarded. Do you avoid all packaged and processed food and cook everything you eat from scratch? Do you ever eat at restaurants?

[Anonymous No.12499505]

>>12499474
Retard. It was a Chinese medical researcher in America (Dr. Robert Ho Man Kwok) who started the "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" myth way back in 1968 by writing a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine stating;
>I have experienced a strange syndrome whenever I have eaten out in a Chinese restaurant, especially one that served northern Chinese food. The syndrome, which usually begins 15 to 20 minutes after I have eaten the first dish, lasts for about two hours, without hangover effect. The most prominent symptoms are numbness at the back of the neck, gradually radiating to both arms and the back, general weakness and palpitations...

[Anonymous No.12499529]

>>12499505
are you fucking braindead?
how does that refute anything I said?
my entire point was that it's made up... which apparently you agree with

[Anonymous No.12499531]

>>12497684
OwO

[Anonymous No.12499539]

>>12499529
>unscientific news article
It was a letter. The New England Journal of Medicine is very well regarded. You make sound it like the CRS myth came from the Daily Mail
>journalist
He was an actual doctor

[Anonymous No.12499551]

>>12499539
yes, it was an unscientific news article published by an otherwise reputable news source, furthering the blind acceptance of the myth
>He was an actual doctor
and a journalist/activist who had zero (0) evidence for his claim
why do you think these things are exclusive?

[Anonymous No.12499562]

>>12499551
It wasn't an article. It was a letter in the letter section. Writing a letter doesn't automatically make a person a journalist.

[Anonymous No.12499579]

>>12499562
being published for your investigative journalism in a news outlet does you autistic fuck

[Anonymous No.12499587]

>>12499579
It wasn't investigative journalism. The man wrote a retarded letter. Jesus, you're dense.

[Anonymous No.12499590]

>>12499484
I want chemical shills to leave. I bet you think aspartame is beneficial too.

[Anonymous No.12499597]

>>12499587
>investigative journalism is only real if it's done well
what's your problem? please tell me you have a diagnosis for this disorder.

[Anonymous No.12499636]

>>12499597
You don't just get to title yourself an "investigative journalist" because you write a letter to the editor of a journal. Are the people who write letters to the New York Times all "investigative journalists"? Are you a dietitian because you post on /ck/?

[Anonymous No.12499646]

>>12499636
Yes.

[Anonymous No.12499698]

>>12499636
if the people who wrote letters are writing a conclusion to an investigation, then yes
and I'm free to call myself a dietitian if I consider myself to be an expert on diet and nutrition

[Anonymous No.12499709]

>>12499698
based retard

[Anonymous No.12499744]

>>12499709
I don't know what kind of dystopian shithole you're from, but in America you don't need a license to be called a journalist

[Anonymous No.12499787]

>>12499744
I wrote a letter to Nintendo Power in 1997. That means I can put "22 years of journalism experience" on my resume.

[Anonymous No.12499822]

>>12499787
have you continually written in those 22 years?
do you know how a resume works?