/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.6199931]

Post foods that people only eat because they are expensive.

[Anonymous No.6199942]

>>6199931
Tried it for the first time about 2 years ago. It tasted like bile.

[Anonymous No.6199950]

>>6199942
Never had it like that but seared foie gras is godtier

[Anonymous No.6199953]

[Anonymous No.6199960]

>>6199931
ive never had sturgeon roe, but all the other roe ive ever had was wonderful so yeah
fuck you

[Anonymous No.6199971]

>>6199931
That shit is delicious. i don't eat it BECAUSE it is expensive.

the taste is unique and people get all arrogant over it but it is great imo, i just can't stomach the price and only have it at special occasions.

>>6199953
this is also insanely delicious and i grew up eating it, and it was cheap. i only stopped after learning how the sharks are treated. i could care less about if you want to eat dolphins, whales or sharks, but if you overhunt or treat them horribly, as sharks almost always are in this fashion to get fins, then i just can't go along with it.

[Anonymous No.6199979]

Gold leaf is fucking stupid. People ONLY eat it because it's expensive. ONLY. It probably doesn't even have flavor.

[Anonymous No.6199981]

>>6199971
I thought sharkfin soup was just a really good broth with a chunk of gelatinous shark goo thrown in to trick Chinese yuppies into thinking they're emperors.

[Anonymous No.6199982]

>>6199971
soulless chink pls go. you probably think dogs taste good, too.

[Anonymous No.6199988]

>>6199979
I eat it because it makes my dookies shine

[Anonymous No.6200012]

I eat raw unbrined salmon eggs (with skein) all the time. They're a great source of LCPUFA enriched phospholipids.

[Anonymous No.6200013]

[Anonymous No.6200016]

>>6199931
>lumpfish roe
>expensive
No

[Anonymous No.6200018]

>>6199988
dubs don't lie

[Anonymous No.6200021]

>>6200012
You sound like you shop at Whole Foods.

Do you activate your almonds too?

[Anonymous No.6200031]

>>6200021
Go away, redditor. We don't want your retard memes.

[Anonymous No.6200065]

>>6200031

[Anonymous No.6200073]

Literally everything at any 5 star restaurant, or any other place that boast about it's "fine dining experience".

This shit is not food or "cuisine", it's edible artwork.

[Anonymous No.6200086]

>>6200031
U MAD BRO!? U JUST GOT MEMED!

[Anonymous No.6200093]

I'm not sure if this will fit under the "i eat it because it's expensive" category. It's more of a cultural food.

[Anonymous No.6200097]

>>6199950
Foie gras is absolute shit tier cat food!!!

[Anonymous No.6200101]

literally dirt

[Anonymous No.6200102]

>>6200093
This too.

[Anonymous No.6200104]

>>6200013
Came in here to post Swallow's Nest soup or whatever the fuck it is.

[Anonymous No.6200114]

>>6200102

[Anonymous No.6200129]

>>6200114
you are wrong

[Anonymous No.6200142]

I love lobster, it's cheap as hell here (nova scotia) when it's in season and tasty, but I will never understand how someone landlocked in the middle of the country would ever pay like 40$ or whatever for the most overrated bug in the sea.

If you want to blow your wad on seafood at least get crab legs or something

[Anonymous No.6200149]

>>6199981
no, there are real fin in a lot of shark fin soup served in china and many overseas places, though i think in europe and usa they have been banning it. retarded people like some of my family feel like they have 'made it' if they can eat it, and i find that mentality disgusting. i have no qualms with hunting, eating meat, none of that. i have a problem with butchering animals and leaving them to die a slow death, and i hate the idea for killing for fun.

>>6199982
my first post should have been very clear, but just to be sure, read above. as soon as i learned how it was made, i felt horrible and gave it up forever. i have had imitation and even that bothers me because i think about it still sometimes. i'm not sobbing like a fucking pantload, but i hate it.

and yes, dog meat is delicious. i had it by accident once. i was horrified when i found out. and i guarantee you would have no clue if you were eating it unless told.

[Anonymous No.6200151]

>>6200102
Fuck you prosciutto is amazing

[Anonymous No.6200156]

>>6200102
>>6200114

[Anonymous No.6200158]

>>6199950
it's shit

[Anonymous No.6200159]

>>6200073

how the fuck is it not food?

[Anonymous No.6200160]

[Anonymous No.6200162]

>>6200013
Why can't they just gather the sticks themselves for the soup?

[Anonymous No.6200167]

>>6200149

That's a bit how I felt after trying whale meat.. Felt bad, but you wouldn't have known if no one said anything, before! It was fucking amazing.

[Anonymous No.6200170]

>>6200162
fucking idiot

[Anonymous No.6200174]

ITT: pleb overload

[Anonymous No.6200177]

>>6200167
you know it was probably just a pilot whale
no biggie
if it was sperm/blue/humpback its a different story

[Anonymous No.6200191]

>>6200177

You're probably right. I can't remember what kind of whale it was, but damn it was tasty!

[Anonymous No.6200200]

>>6200129
No entirely.
Jamon iberico de bellota is not different than 'basic' jamon so yeah it's more of an elitist thing.

[Anonymous No.6200208]

>>6200200
oh, I thought the post was implying that all jamon iberico is only eaten because of the price

[Anonymous No.6200219]

>>6200208
Not the one who posted the pic but if he really meant all jamon then he is indeed wrong since jamon is not expensive (or at least isn't in Spain)

[Anonymous No.6200272]

>>6199953
There's a restaurant in town that serves it and I've always wanted to try it. I just doubt it could be real, fresh shark, plus it's like $10 bucks for it and I hate buying food an not eating. Also, it's supposed to be for two and all of my friends are pussies who won't eat exotic food.

>>6200013
Just sounds like it would taste terrible

[Anonymous No.6200280]

>>6200160
>: Fleur-de-Sel-Camargue
I found some online for less than $3 an ounce.

[Anonymous No.6200283]

>>6200280
That's still fucking expensive for fucking salt.

[syn !!5auGoPfbzhy No.6200500]

>>6199979
>People ONLY eat it because it's expensive.

It actually isn't expensive at all. Most deserts have about $0.25 or less on each of them.

>>6199953
Also really cheap. Had a bowl of it in Singapore. Really pretty gross, too.

>>6200101
I think that's a matter of taste. I've had it over and over again and never enjoyed it much.

[Anonymous No.6200542]

>>6199979
THis is the shit that makes me want to raise taxes on the one percent
by force if necessary

[Anonymous No.6200546]

>>6200272
don't think of the name when you are eating it; sure bird's nest soup sounds crazy but it is amazing, though i have only had it once, and probably never again. insanely expensive and even in china they are cracking down on harvesting methods just like with shark fin soup, though I won't try holding my breath til it's stopped.

curious if it can be found outside of china, i have never heard or seen it myself in usa/cali-nyc.

[Anonymous No.6200551]

>>6200500
shark fin soup can get pricy in china at least, and like others said, it is a status symbol; that bolsters the price up more too.

[Anonymous No.6200569]

>>6200219
Yeah but if you're gonna import something from spain instead of just getting a regular ham you're gonna want to get the good stuff in the first place plus you're paying to ship it.

[Anonymous No.6200898]

>>6199931
Salmon roe is actually pretty cheap when you can find it.

[Anonymous No.6200947]

>>6199981
It is. Shark fin is cartilage and almost completely flavorless by itself.

[Anonymous No.6200964]

>>6200086
Missingthepoint.jpg

[Anonymous No.6200966]

I'm asking in this thread since it's active and I don't want to create a new one:

Does /ck/ have some kind of document anywhere with cheap, fast or easy recipes and ideas for stuff to cook? It seems to me this questions probably gets asked a lot here, but there's no sticky or anything.

[Anonymous No.6200969]

This thread is dumb

[Anonymous No.6200972]

>>6200500
>Also really cheap
considering the main ingredient is illegal in any western country I assure you that no, it's not cheap. Just because you can get it cheap in 3rd world places doesn't mean shit.

[Anonymous No.6200975]

>>6200969
it's just poorfaggots trying to make themselves feel better

and it's for the best really, peasants need to be mollycoddled

[Anonymous No.6200986]

>>6199942
>>6199950

I've seen foie gras being posted so many times in the last couple of months, what is even going on, did people on here just heard of it or did something happen to that shit that made the news or something?

[Anonymous No.6200989]

>>6200975
>it's for the best

Guess so, just to think they would cook instead of going to McDonalds all he time, they could actually afford some of the good stuff. We wouldn't want that, would he haha.

[Anonymous No.6201004]

>>6199931
Your picture says it all.

Eating caviar is like chewing lumpy cod liver oil.

[Anonymous No.6201008]

>>6199931

expensive because you lose your soul if you eat it

[Anonymous No.6201019]

>>6200986
California repealed a ban that had disallowed foie gras to be produced/consumed. So it has reopened a debate by making it relevant again in California.

[Anonymous No.6201031]

>>6199953
This shit's delicious.

[Anonymous No.6201035]

>>6200093

I use saffron in Indian cuisine, I made a sour berry chicken pulao the other day and used saffron in it, it adds an earthy flavour. I also use it in nimish for the same purpose.

It is expensive by weight, but thats only because they weigh so little. A small vial costs approx £3, I uses that much saffron to make 18 nimish and the chicken pulao which had 1kg of dry rice and 2kgs of chicken in.

[Anonymous No.6201043]

Salmon and lobster

They both used to be cheaper than dirt figuratively.
And after a while you got laws that made it illegal to give your slaves salmon more than a few times per week.
I love salmon though, but it used to be peasant food and the rich only started eating after it became more expensive.

[Anonymous No.6201051]

>>6201043
In Maine they had seriously nasty prison riots because they kept feeding the poor bastards boiled lobster

[Anonymous No.6201055]

>>6200283
its not just salt
>>6200542
its not that expensive

[Anonymous No.6201056]

>>6201051
ya ever have rotton lobster before? id riot too

[Anonymous No.6201057]

>>6199931

Roe is great and you're a faggot

[Anonymous No.6201061]

>>6201056
they were getting it about as fresh as one can m8

[Anonymous No.6201064]

>>6201061
ya
no

[Anonymous No.6201092]

>>6199942


As a french, I eat foie-gras quite often (10-12 times a year) and it's god tier.

Fuck the gooses and the ducks, they are delicious

[Anonymous No.6201095]

>>6201092

The plurals are geese and dicks

[Anonymous No.6201098]

>>6201095

Okay, geese and ducks.

[Anonymous No.6201106]

>>6201095

oh you..

[Anonymous No.6201132]

Anything I can't afford (I am poor btw)

/thread

[Anonymous No.6201272]

this thread is idiotic

[Anonymous No.6201333]

>>6200142
>cheap as hell
Unfortunately you've gotta get it yourself or find someone selling it on the side of the road, otherwise it's just as expensive as in-land.

Lobster dudes know that they can get more money by exporting it to richer cities/provinces.

[Anonymous No.6201351]

>>6199931
There are many foods people eat as a show of wealth/opulence, usually at celebrations, when trying to impress others or just as an indulgence because they can afford them. A bunch of these have been listed in this thread already:

Caviar
Truffles
Foie gras
Shark fin
Sea cucumber
Gold/silver leaf
Prime beef
Any top quality seafood
Grand Cru Burgundy
Vintage Champagne (or any aged vintage wine)
Grana Pardano cheese

Even though these foods are eaten as a display of wealth that is not the only reason people eat them. People eat them because they have complex flavors (or in the case of shark fin and sea cucumber textures) that are difficult to reproduce in other foods. Their scarcity made them expensive, then the luxury prices they commanded made them symbols of prestige.

But that doesn't make these foods entirely Emperor's New Clothes. I've been to a few parties thrown by wealthy people, and I've had Beluga caviar (in Switzerland), vintage Champagne, dishes with shaved truffle, Grana pardano cheese and foie gras. A short stint in the wine business allowed me to sample some outrageously expensive vintage wines. I have eaten Kobe beef and high end sushi on the company dime in Japan a couple of times. I've eaten at 100+ year old steakhouses in NYC. These things are all delicious. Absolutely fucking delicious. Delicious enough to command the obscene prices they go for? Nofuckingway. A good chunk of the cost is prestige and scarcity. But that makes them no less delicious.

[Anonymous No.6201377]

>>6200283

You only use fleur de sel in small quantity, so a jar can last for month if you live alone.

You don't use it to salt your pasta.

[Anonymous No.6201397]

>>6201377
>a jar can last for month if you live alone.
I've had 6oz jars of finishing salt last me three years. I've got some sel gris kicking around my kitchen that's at least that old.

[Anonymous No.6201816]

>>6200500
fuck you.

[Anonymous No.6201837]

>>6201092
>foie gras
stfu french man, i bet if you had to fist fight those brids you would immediately surrender and give them your country.

[Anonymous No.6201879]

>>6199979
>most expensive "dessert" ever, worth $35k
>It's mostly gold leaves
>champagne jelly center
>Has a completely inedible diamond ring on top of it, included in its value
>Also comes with a 4-star hotel stay with dinner included and a $600 bottle of wine

Why is this allowed?

[Anonymous No.6201908]

>>6201879
Rich people with nothing better to spend their money on.

[Anonymous No.6201935]

>>6200542
>wanting to take money from people just for the sake of taking money away from them

[Anonymous No.6201944]

>>6201935
>not doing everything out of spite

[Anonymous No.6201962]

>>6201879
It's just shit to bump up the price so they can claim it's technically the most expensive
Kind of like in Ace of Cakes when they make amazing "cakes" that are just cardboard with fondant on them

[Anonymous No.6201977]

>>6201879
>Why is this allowed?
i wish all europeans would just die already

[Anonymous No.6202207]

>>6200102
>>6200114
>hating on ham
how much of filthy fucking pleb can a person be?

[Anonymous No.6202973]

>>6199953

If given the chance I would never try it because of what it stands for. Disgusting.

[Anonymous No.6203197]

>>6201043
Salmon is great. I think food items from the sea were seen as poor fat food, historically, though.

[Anonymous No.6203251]

>>6199953
Even without the sharkfin it will still taste the same. It is cartilage of a shark and has not flavour of its own. It is the texture of the slight crunch and the bite of it that gives it its appeal but many chinese restaurants that serve this now use the fake stuff for years and that has brought down the price. But why anyone wants to pay a high price for something that taste like nothing is even beyond Michelin chefs.

[Anonymous No.6203265]

>>6200013
If you have seen what is removed from it in the cleaning process you would not eat it ever again. It has heaps of bird poo, rodent bones, fur, hair, small twigs, different types of feathers. It is expensive because of the lengthy and manual process it has to go through to be fit for human consumption.

[Anonymous No.6203300]

>>6200073
You and I could not think more differently about this. I work in fine dining, and the cuisine is on a level you'd not understand. Food prepared so excellently deserves to look beautiful as well; this is what we do once the food's flavor cannot be improved upon.
People do not eat this food because it is expensive, they eat it despite that fact. Half of the servers I work with are foodies who work there partly because they get a discount on the food.

[Anonymous No.6203312]

>>6200142
This.
Yo pay an entire meal's worth and get next to no food. Two, maybe three bites of tail, two small claws. It's good, but inferior to snow crab as far as taste. It's difficult to get it cooked right; underdone and it's gluey and bitter, overdone and it's tough.

[Anonymous No.6203323]

>>6203312
its because you get different lobsters outside new england
you get the hard shell because they ship
we keep the softshell

also lobster is so beyond easy, maybe its a local thing but anyone who cant boil a lobster is borderline retarded imo

[syn !!5auGoPfbzhy No.6203325]

>>6200972
>Singapore
>"3rd world places"

get out.

>>6200542
>THis is the shit that makes me want to raise taxes on the one percent
>by force if necessary

How else are taxes raised? Don't worry, no matter how high they are set, they will still evade them and enjoying Chef Redzepi and you'll still be enjoying Chef Boyardee.

[Anonymous No.6203326]

>>6201879
>Literally just adding random expensive things to it to make it as expensive as possible

[Anonymous No.6203331]

>>6203323
Probably, I only tried to cook it myself once after a restaurant gave me one that was almost completely raw.

[Anonymous No.6203364]

>>6203325
>you'll still be enjoying Chef Boyardee

Chef Boyardee was originally introduced to expose americans to the most accurate possible canned version of fine italian cuisine.

True story, look it up.

Having visited Italy, and toured the Ferrari factory while accepting delivery, I can confirm that most italian food is right on par with Mr. Boyardee.

[Anonymous No.6203502]

>>6199953

Nowadays where we go for Shark fin it is mostly imitation since some of the places cant affordto reliably stock shark fin. it does have crab meat though

[Anonymous No.6203543]

>>6203325
>dat adams apple

[Anonymous No.6203575]

>>6203543
Everyone has them, boys just have deeper voices so they're more descended. If she wasn't exposing her neck like that then I doubt it'd be as predominant.

[Anonymous No.6203606]

>>6201043
Salmon still is for the poor. Visit any native tribe in southern alaska and they live off of king/sockeye/coho salmon which goes for hundreds at the market. That's not even including the huge supplies of dungeoness, halibut, and other seafoods

[Anonymous No.6203611]

>>6203606
Sarah Palin please go

[Anonymous No.6203642]

oysters

heard it used to be peasant food now it's all expensive and 'foody' and shit

tastes like a seawater logie

[Anonymous No.6203643]

>>6203642
Hnnnnng I love seawater loogies though

[Anonymous No.6203662]

>itt - poor anons try cheap versions of luxury foods and are disappointed

There is really no other explanation, OP. People spend money on food because it's worth spending money on. If you had a bad experience you're either a little kid, had a random bad experience, or are most likely just a troll.

[Anonymous No.6203695]

>>6203662
Keep telling yourself that nonce.

[Anonymous No.6203744]

>>6203662
Truth is a lot of people do really eat and drink stuff just because of what said stuff means status-wise.

[Anonymous No.6203779]

>>6199971
Sharkfin soup is just broth and the fin is a thickener. There are so many better, less abhorrently cruel ways to thicken broth that there's no excuse to eat sharkfin soup.

[Anonymous No.6203893]

>>6199942
i work in a kitchen and and i tried this over priced bullshit. it wouldnt be so bad that the goose had been forcefed if it actually tasted nice.

[Anonymous No.6203967]

>>6199953
The shark fin has absolutely nothing to do with the flavor of the soup. It's only in there since because ANCIENT CHINESE MEDICINE.

That said, if you can find it imitation and not support overfishing, it's fucking great.

[Anonymous No.6203970]

>>6200093
Saffron actually isn't that expensive in a practical sense because a little bit goes a SUPER long way.

[Anonymous No.6203990]

>>6200093


Saffron is expensive because it's a pain in the ass to produce in large quantities.

But the taste is so good, it's perfect with fish. And you don't need large quantities, so a little bit of saffron will last quite long.

[Anonymous No.6204128]

>>6203543

>not knowing human anatomy

Oh well.

[Anonymous No.6204471]

Jeez,

I've had caviar, truffles, foie-gras, prosciutto and that's as far as I got through this thread before I decided it was just a list of delicious things that are "expensive".

[Anonymous No.6204987]

>>6203779

Well we now have dogfish but the allure of eating expensive endanged species is there.

Plus urchin, especially non alum water urchin is a sushi delicacy.

[Anonymous No.6205005]

>>6202207
>eating pork

[Anonymous No.6205020]

>>6199931
Roe is fucking great though.
I mean the price is kinda ridiculous but it's fucking good still
>>6200101
Great as well.

[Anonymous No.6205022]

>>6201977
What the fuck are you talking about?
How do you bring up Europe hate? This has no relation to Europe. You fucking imbecile!
Shit, how can you even look yourself in the mirror and generalizing 742,452,000 people.
Fuck off, you fucking loser.
Sincerely, Theis

[ITT: POORFAGS THE THREAD No.6205032]

BWAHWHAHWHAHWHAWHAHWHAHWAAWAHWAWHHAW IMPLYING ANYTHING IS EXPENSIVE AND NOT RELATIVE TO HOW MUCH YOU EARN.

FUCKING POORFAGS

[Anonymous No.6205118]

>>6205020
>Roe
/seconded
tried it while working at a sushi place i was blown away

[Anonymous No.6205312]

>>6203606
I can vouch for this. The fiance's family and tribe get a shit-ton of free salmon every year, and they live on vancouver island. most of them smoke/jar it so they have enough to last the whole year.
>tfw already don't like salmon
>live with his family for a while
>fucking salmon every night, so much I gave up eating dinner for a while
the roe is nice, though, and good with crackers.

[Anonymous No.6205546]

>>6203662
Or sometimes people just have differing tastes. I remember some actress said she would order foie-gras at restaurants to look good, but would never eat it. A lot of this stuff is about status.

[Anonymous No.6206200]

>>6199931
>caviar
idk if it's just a russian thing but i fucking LOVE caviar. I always ate it with bread and butter or on potatoes when I was a kid, and even now I'll have it when it's available.

The pricey ones do have a nicer flavor, but the big american ones are never a bad thing to have.

>>6199942
literally b8