Food

Just read the new Cheese & Biscuits review and it's got me thinking about the big round deep trays of moist, turbo-charged rotisserie chicken and thick coins of soft potato cooked in the chicken juice I had in Spain, absolutely stunning

I only really bought it to test it out, I'm a hardened meat eater, veggies are completely misguided

Roll the cubes in seasoned cornflour and then fry in a decent depth of groundnut oil to get awesome crispy coatings. mmmm.

mix up dashi, mirin & sho-yu and you got agedashi tofu

meanwhile, falafel. In egypt, they were amazing. They used green fava beans. Is there anywhere in London which does them with green fava? They're far better than the dry brown grainy stuff I have seen around.

Roll the cubes in seasoned cornflour and then fry in a decent depth of groundnut oil to get awesome crispy coatings. mmmm.

Exactly that, with something good to dip it in, or coat it with.

Alright, alright, good veggie burger reciper then?

Black bean burgers from *Veganomicon.
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Very good.
Recipe is here.
This involves gluten flour / "vital wheat gluten" (for people in the USA).
You have to like the kind of 'chewyness', some love it some hate it.

Other than that you can basically make vegetarian / vegan burgers out of anything.

Obviously, you will not be making something tasting like meat!
If you want to taste animal, eat animal.
If you're okay with eating something else that is fucking delicious, learn to cook another way.

Using beans or rice for example as a base, add vegetables and suitable herbs,
and figure out a way to hold that stuff in form of a patty, that's basically the trick with veg burgers.

There's a veg/vegan "fast food restaurant" here in Berlin that does superb seitan burgers (they look like a Schnitzel).
I have to ask them how they do them, so far I suck at making good seitan things.

Falafel is the only alternative.

Dumbest thing I've heard today.
No offence man, but learn to cook or check out some good veggie places to eat!

Hippy bollocks

Less chat, more pics....this is the Food Thread FFS!

#weakpage

Hungry now

^ +1

Mmmmmm, meat!

Dumbest thing I've heard today.
No offence man, but learn to cook or check out some good veggie places to eat!

I am a seasoned chef and I'll stick to meat, thanks Kio Tinto.

Do what the fuck you want, dude.

Alright guys, we've all had a few

has anyone got the pitt cue co book? tempted to pick it up.

Do you have to wait an hour for that too?

Just to make things clear -
Fahrgestell I did not want to piss you off, sorry, and everybody else please really do what you want of course;
I meant it when I said that* If you want to taste animal, eat animal.
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I used to love eating meat too, and I still enjoy it on some occasions;
like when it's really well done, and when I know the person who brought the animal up, and killed it.

There's no room for debating the ethics of growing meat like tomatoes nowadays in here,
but, excuse me -
this thread is 90% about meat, everything else is shot down as "hippy bollocks",
it should really be called "meat appreciation".
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Food* is very much more, and it really is sad that apparently so few realize this, on a cycling forum, ffs.
When seasoned chefs tell you you have no alternatives to a burger but fucking falafel,
it sadly doesn't help the situation, as it - achtung - *
beefs up* the myth that you're the loser who's abstaining willingly from the ever supreme meat for idiotic hippy reasons or whatever, and are missing out on something.

Alright, sorry to interrupt - now back to your programme..

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The last couple of pages have been about veggie burgers and tofu, and the comments about "hippy bollocks" have all come across pretty tongue in cheek.

The majority of people eat meat, and a lot of people don't consider something a meal unless it contains meat. Otherwise what's the point? So it's not surprising that there will be a lot of meat talk.

I agree that food is far more than just meat. But meat is part of food and something that a lot of people enjoy cooking because of the many variations in cooking methods and the differing textures and flavours you can achieve. Also a lot of the more "trendy" cooking methods are becoming more accessible. How many people have a food thermometer nowadays? How many people have tried cooking sous vide at home?

And what you said about knowing where your meat comes from, I agree. However for a lot of people that sort of meat isn't affordable or obtainable.

Plus without meat where do you get your protein from?

FP on this thread sure wasn't about burgers.

I like burgers. But come on, there is a lot more on the food world. A lot more that is less fashion driven too. Three years ago, burgers wrought have had a mention in a thread like this.

On veggieburgers - Dracula posted a really good Sweet Potato and Halloumi burger a coupla years back which we did with success.

The last couple of pages have been about veggie burgers and tofu, and the comments about "hippy bollocks" have all come across pretty tongue in cheek.

The majority of people eat meat, and a lot of people don't consider something a meal unless it contains meat. Otherwise what's the point? So it's not surprising that there will be a lot of meat talk.

I agree that food is far more than just meat. But meat is part of food and something that a lot of people enjoy cooking because of the many variations in cooking methods and the differing textures and flavours you can achieve. Also a lot of the more "trendy" cooking methods are becoming more accessible. How many people have a food thermometer nowadays? How many people have tried cooking sous vide at home?

And what you said about knowing where your meat comes from, I agree. However for a lot of people that sort of meat isn't affordable or obtainable.

Plus without meat where do you get your protein from?

Oh noes. 2 pages out of 301 are talking about non meat food.