Unpopular opinions

[DitmasPork]

For home use never buy bulk curry powder it doesn't stand up to shelf life. Know this from experience.

Buy packets of Hawaii Ka'iulani Curry then add fresh ginger, garlic, tumeric, cinnamon, cloves. Love curries it's unpopular esp. in Hawaii but Japanese curry is my least favorite too blended smooth & sweet for my taste.

Like oily spicy Indian Lamb curry. Middle eastern & southeast Asian curries.
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Oysters are underated most people I know won't eat them.

Haven't tried that one!
Hey, you'd love the spice shops in Little Pakistan—a short walk from where I live in Brooklyn. The boxed spices on the left, are what a lot of the restaurants (and home cooks) in the area use—good stuff.
Even though they come in a box, they still require a much cooking—often adding green chilies, caramelizing onion, chopping fenugreek leaves, using mustard oil, cooking for hours, or frying up spices, etc.

 

[MattPike4President]

Haven't tried that one!
Hey, you'd love the spice shops in Little Pakistan—a short walk from where I live in Brooklyn. The boxed spices on the left, are what a lot of the restaurants (and home cooks) in the area use—good stuff.
Even though they come in a box, they still require a much cooking—often adding green chilies, caramelizing onion, chopping fenugreek leaves, using mustard oil, cooking for hours, or frying up spices, etc.

One of the very few things I miss about living in cities is access to stores like this. I spend a few hundred dollars restocking my pantry at Asian and South Asian stores whenever I visit my parents.

 

[DitmasPork]

One of the very few things I miss about living in cities is access to stores like this. I spend a few hundred dollars restocking my pantry at Asian and South Asian stores whenever I visit my parents.

Definite pros/cons of city life—the occasional being assaulted on streets (being serious), is balanced out with a vibrant food scene and access to ingredients.

 

[spaceconvoy]

Sous vide
Supply and demand
Ketchup
Soy directly onto rice
Gyutos under 48mm in heel height

"... these are a few of my favorite things"

 

[spaceconvoy]

Yes that's from last week

My unpopular opinion is if I don't see it on the first page of What's New then it's not worth looking at

 

[stringer]

I see you're in denial about your enjoyment of cake. Just accept it! Banana cake happens to be good cake. It's terrible bread though. Because it's cake, not bread.

I would classify it as more like a muffin than cake. But I've always thought (North American) muffins were closer to cakes than bread. English muffins are bread. But I already have a banana nut muffin on my menu so that would get too confusing. I also sometimes make banana bread pudding out of the banana (muffin) bread.

 

[Heckel7302]

I guess it depends on if you classify "quick breads" as bread. Is cornbread bread or cake? Pancakes are technically a quick bread, but are they bread or cake?

 

[HumbleHomeCook]

Sweetbreads are definitely not bread. Or cake. Or good.

 

[Heckel7302]

Sweetbreads are definitely not bread. Or cake. Or good.

Like offal sweetbreads? Hard disagree. Fried up they are so good. Right up there with Rocky Mountain Oysters.

 

[ethompson]

Katos are heinously overrated. I really enjoyed mine - felt special, good performance, nice grind, but didn't offer anything that I couldn't get for half the price or less somewhere else. Steel is middling, fit & finish was no good, had a geometry that wouldn't be straightforward to maintain over years of use. I'd say it was fairly priced at $600, but $1500... gimme a break. As a tool, the Kippington work pony I had in the same size at the same size was superior in every respect. I'd get a Mazaki hon-sanmai if I wanted something with that Sanjo flavor again.

 

[esoo]

It's probably called banana bread cause it rolls off the tongue better than banana cake. But it's called carrot cake so

I never had banana bread growing up, but my mom made something similar with zucchini.

 

[blokey]

Bill beat me to it. But I was just typing the same thing:


Artificial banana flavor actually comes from the old banana that succumbed to fungus. It was replaced by the Cavendish which doesn't taste like much.

I read in a book that the artificial banana flavor DOES taste like a banana; it’s just that nobody has eaten that particular banana in over 70 years. It died out due to bananas susceptibility to disease.

Very interesting, I did some search and seems there are still some of the OG bananas left, got track down some of these.

 

[parbaked]

I never had banana bread growing up, but my mom made something similar with zucchini.

Zucchini bread is a vegetable…

 

[esoo]

Zucchini bread is a vegetable…

Can I count it as a vegetable portion?

Although she did put pineapple in it as.well.

 

[Justinv]

Zucchini is a fruit

 

[blokey]

Zucchini isn’t real

 

[parbaked]

Although she did put pineapple in it as.well.

That makes it a pizza...

 

[Michi]

That makes it a pizza...

Begone, foul fiend!

 

[tostadas]

Flippers that know how to keep their mouths shut are no fun. We need more of the ones that are willing to double down and keep me entertained. Unfortunately all my favs have been banned.

 

[enrico l]

I prefer the cutting feel of the Kato 210 WH I just got to Yanick and Kip.

Just works for me. Although I probably don’t need 2 so will have to re-home the 240.

 

[enrico l]

I also got the WH for much cheaper than recent pricing. Not sure I’d be making these statements at the $1500 price range

 

[ethompson]

I prefer the cutting feel of the Kato 210 WH I just got to Yanick and Kip.

Just works for me. Although I probably don’t need 2 so will have to re-home the 240.

If you need to re-home a Yanick you know where to find me lol

 

[enrico l]

If you need to re-home a Yanick you know where to find me lol

Only one left. Might have some plans for it

 

[HumbleHomeCook]

Only one left. Might have some plans for it
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Oh pleeeeeeease start a thread about this mod!

 

[Barmoley]

I also got the WH for much cheaper than recent pricing. Not sure I’d be making these statements at the $1500 price range

That's the thing, they are good knives and work for many, but at current prices

I also prefer Marko workhorse to Yanick and to Kato standard, never tried workhorse. The Kipp I have is great and different enough from the others to make comparisons difficult. Depending on which Kipp you have preferences might vary. I've had a few Kipps and all were excellent in their own right, but all different enough that making blanket statements would be difficult for me.

 

[enrico l]

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That's the thing, they are good knives and work for many, but at current prices

I also prefer Marko workhorse to Yanick and to Kato standard, never tried workhorse. The Kipp I have is great and different enough from the others to make comparisons difficult. Depending on which Kipp you have preferences might vary. I've had a few Kipps and all were excellent in their own right, but all different enough that making blanket statements would be difficult for me.

I prefer a stiff spine and my Kip came out a little long. So it was pretty flexy towards the tip which messed me up on push cutting with the front end.

I plan on getting a Marko soon as well.

 

[captaincaed]

Yanick doesn't cut _that_ well.

There. I said it.

 

[Michi]

Yanick doesn't cut very well.

Yeah, I wouldn't want to cut my food with Yanick either. Besides, he would probably object to getting used that way.

 

[Naftoor]

Fried shallots frankly taste like the bags of fried onions you can buy from Indian/Pakistani stores for topping Haleem. Not worth the exorbitant cost of shallots or the messiness of frying.

 

[Michi]

Fresh milk is overrated. It's so much easier to keep a big bag of milk powder on hand. Just add water…