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If you want to make some easy money - you could write a "water based" cookbook. (hexbear.net)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I don't know if anyone in here needs to hear this, but: eat a variety of foods. Pay attention to how you feel after eating different foods, especially as you get older. Eat less of the ones that affect you negatively. Barring specic allergies, ignore fads and bullshit about seed oils, carbs, gluten, etc. Get some kind of regular exercise. This next part really sucks for some of us, but your genetics are the most important determining factor for your overall health and longevity. Enjoy your life the best you can.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

American discovers soup

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

We need to stop Americans from posting food until we figure out what's going on

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

I’ve lost weight by switching to an all-physical matter-based edible materials diet! raiden-source

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You aquashills aren't going to trick me again. VodkaGang for life!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

They have played us for absolute fools

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago

Soups and vegetables? You discovered soups and vegetables…

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago (4 children)

New bit idea: a normal cookbook but the deeper in you get the more deranged the recipes become

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

are we talking like "gruel spiced with cardamon", "casserole concoction straight out of the hellgate of Fort Worth, TX" or "doing molecular crimes to pineapple to make it be a meat" here

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

why not all of the above?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

~~rabbit hole~~

cooking hole

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

“Honey, do they have eye of newt at Whole Foods? I guess we’ll have to go to trader joes”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Tofu Apple pie was something that popped into my head

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

They woud have it. I am pretty sure eye of newt was just the fancy name for mustard seeds

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

American diets are so full of soft drink and fast food that simply adding water to a dish is considered novel and original.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Well you see, she was making the stew with coca cola before and just couldnt figure out why it wasnt quite right /s

No joke though, a little citrus soda is actually great in a chicken marinade. I tried it out of desperation once because I had no actual citrus (best chicken marinade base is always good oil+citrus) and boy is it fantastic. Especially with a little soy sauce as well

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Ginger ale also works great for that if you have no ginger

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Yeah, it's great for marinades and things. Sugar really helps bring out savoury and spicy flavours well. I always add a bit of brown sugar to any sauces I make, just a tiny bit goes really far.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I feel like this needs a special kind of content warning all it's own.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

[CW: modern life]???

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I really don't know. Possibly. Rebranding soup as "water based cooking" just somehow filled me with a nameless existential dread.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Ditto. I thought to myself... "That's so stupid. But what's that chilly feeling I have in my soul?"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It's a healthy trend that goes back decades, the way this is framed makes it seem weird but it's about not frying or baking but steaming veg, cooking with 'water based' methods or eating more raw unprocessed veg.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Ahh, well that makes a bit more sense. Definitely weird out of context, lol!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Not just soup is water based. Stew too!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

damn, i need to learn this tech, im still out here foraging for berries

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

pov we live in a broken society that demands we come up with stupid bullshit trends to make money from engagement

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

The year is 14500 BCE. A very clever woman has been experimenting with putting lots of random things in the fire, and she has just invented water-based cooking.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm not putting water in my food like a chick. regolith from the moon is all I eat

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What has went wrong in American cuisine and food culture that it came to a point where eating soups and stews is considered subversive and transgressive by these health enthusiasts?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

IDK where (outside my own kitchen) you can get a good soup that's not 100 cal and 200 sodium for less than $10.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well yeah, who the hell buys soup out

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Me. Not at a restaurant or whatever, soup should be sold by like hot dog cart standards. give me soup

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

true

respect

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

soup/stews are rarely eaten in average american cuisine, sauce buckets or soggy casserole is the closest that come near it. I was surprised myself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Depends on the poorness of the people lol the continuum of saving money by making soup etc from scratch vs time saved from slopping together canned items. Only reason I can make the fuck out of a soup with whatever scraps and pantry items are on hand. I am an outlier though - I’ve long thought of opening a soup restaurant - or as these schmucks would call it a “liquid based dining experience” haha

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (2 children)

All cooking is water based. Managing water is half of what cooking is, next to heat.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Psh, you've obviously never had my meemaw's anhydrous dextrose chews, lovingly cooked to perfection in dichloromethane

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm partial to carbon based cooking myself

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

Bwaaa Now doncha wanna taste the meat and not the heat?!

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