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When I became vegan in college, a guy I knew angrily proclaimed that he would only eat animal products, no fruits, veggies, grains, nada, to prove to me... something or other. So his dinners were just like, beef and milk for a few days until he gave up presumably because making GBS threads had become a daily agony. Meatosis did not become him.
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the raw meat diet is like the veganism of carnivores though
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# ? Apr 3, 2021 03:45 |
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BrianBoitano posted:the raw meat diet is like the veganism of carnivores though The Paleo of carnivores.
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# ? Apr 3, 2021 03:54 |
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BrianBoitano posted:the raw meat diet is like the veganism of carnivores though
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# ? Apr 3, 2021 04:16 |
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I was going from a "less processed" perspective, nothing against vegans
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# ? Apr 3, 2021 04:54 |
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high meat is the real manly man's diet
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BrianBoitano posted:I was going from a "less processed" perspective, nothing against vegans
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# ? Apr 3, 2021 05:16 |
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Is there a general liquor or spirits thread? I don't want to pollute this general thread, but I only saw whiskey, cocktails, and wine threads. I've decided to get into sake as my friend has uptalked the stuff a lot, and--at my local craft alcohol store--I got recommended a dry sake that was only $8, which would be phenomonal if it turns out to be good. It's named "Ozeki" if people have experience. My local AYCE sushi places serve sake, so I assume it pairs well with fish, but what else do people like pairing chilled, dry sake with? What flavor profiles does it enhance?
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# ? Apr 3, 2021 06:31 |
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Don't know much about pairings since I just drink it with any old Japanese food, but I drink a lot of sake if you have any other questions or just want a general overview. This is what I've got going tonight:
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Stringent posted:Don't know much about pairings since I just drink it with any old Japanese food, but I drink a lot of sake if you have any other questions or just want a general overview. I am *extremely* interested in a general overview/where to get started with sake.
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# ? Apr 3, 2021 12:47 |
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TheCog posted:I am *extremely* interested in a general overview/where to get started with sake. Well, caveat that I'm not trained or anything, I just drink a lot of sake, but there's basically two elements I consider when I'm choosing a bottle The first is tanrei versus houjun. I think of this as kinda like a white wine versus red wine distinction, with tanrei being more like white. Tanrei sake is a lot lighter with less of an aftertaste, you'll see the terms sappari and karui applied a lot of times. Another one you'll see for tanrei is kirei. Houjun is often described as having a meatier taste, but the flavor that really comes out for me is mushrooms? It's kind of like a tanrei sake with a strong undertone of something funky and fermented underneath resolving into an aftertaste of the undertone. The main flavor description I've noticed is koku (usually written as コクが有り). The second element is comparatively straightforward, it's just sweetness. This is probably the easiest element to judge since there's a scale called nihonshudo that most bottles will have a value for on the label. The lower the value, the sweeter the sake. That brings in another set of terms though, amakuchi(甘口) and karakuchi(辛口) which just mean sweet or dry. Another that you'll see occasionally is umakuchi(旨口) which is exclusively applied to houjun sake (afaik). Sorry this probably isn't a great overview, and I know there's a lot of stuff that I'm leaving out like アミノ酸度 because I don't understand it, and the various grades 本醸造、純米、特別純米、吟醸、大吟醸 which I've never found to have much meaning except that the 大吟醸 sakes are almost always tanrei. Sake brewing is incredibly complicated and the combination of rice, koji, water, and technique produce incredibly different sake even if they're both 純米大吟醸 or whatever. The wikipedia sake article has a pretty good description of all that stuff if you're still interested tho. Sorry I know this isn't a great overview, but like I said I'm not trained in this stuff. That said, I know enough to consistently find bottles I like so, good enough I guess. *edit* I just realized this also doesn't get into にごり, 原酒, or 山廃, but that can be shelved for a bit I guess, or someone else can chime in. Stringent fucked around with this message at 14:14 on Apr 3, 2021 |
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Stringent posted:Well, caveat that I'm not trained or anything, I just drink a lot of sake, but there's basically two elements I consider when I'm choosing a bottle This is actually exactly what I needed as a primer, thanks! Gonna go buy some sake this weekend, will report back.
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# ? Apr 3, 2021 15:08 |
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Posting this here and the trans chat thread, in CCC F in chat
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# ? Apr 3, 2021 21:47 |
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Congrats!
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# ? Apr 3, 2021 21:54 |
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Manuel Calavera posted:Posting this here and the trans chat thread, in CCC congrats friend! long time coming.
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# ? Apr 3, 2021 21:54 |
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SMH still misgendered by your own hair color what the gently caress
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# ? Apr 3, 2021 21:58 |
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Manuel Calavera posted:Posting this here and the trans chat thread, in CCC Hurrah!
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YES MAAM.
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Manuel Calavera posted:Posting this here and the trans chat thread, in CCC
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How Wonderful! posted:When I became vegan in college, a guy I knew angrily proclaimed that he would only eat animal products, no fruits, veggies, grains, nada, to prove to me... something or other. So his dinners were just like, beef and milk for a few days until he gave up presumably because making GBS threads had become a daily agony. Meatosis did not become him. I was a vegan in college too. Then I realized, animals don’t have an abstract understanding of death—and they taste good. Also, when I started eating meat again I stopped getting chronic headaches, and stopped getting sick all the time. The only people I know of though who ever lived off a 90% raw meat diet were the Inuit. Hard to find plants above the Arctic tree line that are edible, and you have to eat that seal meat raw or you’ll get scurvy; and I somehow really doubt they continue this diet today. TychoCelchuuu posted:The raw meat diet is like the fruitarianism of carnivores. Veganism is perfectly healthy and reasonable. No, the Vegan diet—with a lot of research and work—can be healthy. The way it’s practiceed mostly, at least here in the US it isn’t that healthy. My 2 1/2 year experience as a vegan was that I was extremely unhealthy; as for reasonable, that’s debatable too. Most political vegans are the opposite of reasonable. ZombieLenin fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Apr 4, 2021 |
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ZombieLenin posted:No, the Vegan diet—with a lot of research and work—can be healthy. The way it’s practiceed mostly, at least here in the US it isn’t that healthy. ZombieLenin posted:My 2 1/2 year experience as a vegan was that I was extremely unhealthy
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Hell yeah for you getting your paperwork in order too dude.
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ZombieLenin posted:I was a vegan in college too. Then I realized, animals don’t have an abstract understanding of death—and they taste good. If i became vegan it would t be about whether animals comprehended death or not: it’s more their lives up to that point that matters.
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I was a necessatarian for brief period when I was at university: I ate only vegetables because they were cheaper and it meant I could afford necessities, like beer and cigarettes
Scientastic fucked around with this message at 14:00 on Apr 4, 2021 |
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Scientastic posted:I was a necessatarian for brief period when I was at university: I ate only vegetables because they were cheaper and it meant I could afford necessities, like beer and cigarettes I buy meat for my son and me about once a month. If we ate meat regularly I would be buying organic free range etc, and it would become very expensive very quickly. Meat should be expensive. It should reflect the true cost of its production and we as a society should eat less of it and better. We eat vegetarian at home about 99% as my wife is vegetarian and it’s a lot cheaper, even though we don’t skimp on ingredient quality.
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Ethical consumption of meat is why I own guns. That, and sporting clays.
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I just wanted to impress somebody but I found out afterwards that I felt healthier and enjoyed eating and making my food a lot more.
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# ? Apr 4, 2021 16:35 |
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it’s easy to speak from places of privilege sometimes and talk about how everyone should and shouldn’t eat meat. with that said i largely agree that the current system is both awful and unsustainable and until cultured meat is truly affordable its probably better to reduce where possible and buy high quality local stuff where not. i eat a lot of meat and eggs but we’re privileged enough to stick to local, small farm-raised stuff. i’m definitely way healthier since i substantially increased the animal segment of my diet but everybody is going to be different.
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# ? Apr 4, 2021 17:34 |
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I'd be healthier if I ate less meat. Too many years eating fatty, delicious meats...
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mediaphage posted:it’s easy to speak from places of privilege sometimes and talk about how everyone should and shouldn’t eat meat. with that said i largely agree that the current system is both awful and unsustainable and until cultured meat is truly affordable its probably better to reduce where possible and buy high quality local stuff where not. I am absolutely talking from a position of privilege and freely admit that. I still think I’m right though! (I think we mostly agree, really). We had Beyond Burger hamburgers for lunch today. They’re better than about 95% of hamburgers I’ve had, including higher-end burger chains like Byron, Honest Burger, Gourmet Burger Kitchen, etc. I don’t ever feel the need to eat a beef burger again. They are pretty pricy though.
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Oh! That reminds me. I have a dalemma. I bought some white urad dal out of curiosity. I made dal with them but did not care AT ALL for the weird glutinous texture. Now I have most of a bag still to use. What should I do with them?
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Manuel Calavera posted:Hell yeah for you getting your paperwork in order too dude. Aw thanks it seems we both simultaneously were ready to figure out our DLs How Wonderful! posted:I just wanted to impress somebody but I found out afterwards that I felt healthier and enjoyed eating and making my food a lot more. Same, although I pretty quickly found vegetarianism wasn't for me. My home cooking is pretty much pescatarian at this point - I have canned tuna and like some shrimp every now and again - and eating out I'll eat chicken or seafood if the veggie option doesn't appeal to me. But yeah I feel like I do a better job eating healthy, lots of vegetables etc and I very much do not miss prepping meat therattle posted:We had Beyond Burger hamburgers for lunch today. Theyre better than about 95% of hamburgers Ive had, including higher-end burger chains like Byron, Honest Burger, Gourmet Burger Kitchen, etc. I dont ever feel the need to eat a beef burger again. They are pretty pricy though. same. I've had some delicious burgers before, but in general when I'm craving a burger it's more about the char and the fixins, both of which I can have without a beef patty.
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tbh i am not that impressed with beyond burgers. they're...fine? they definitely taste like a veggie burger, too hard on the char and onion flavour imo. i am absolutely content to have them when out and about, though i won't bother with them for home eating. definitely not as good as the burgers i get around here. they're not bad, i just don't think they're some revolution in veggie burgers that a lot of people do. i really dig their beyond meat sausages, though. and i used to order 5lb foodservice bags of the beyond meat chicken, but has that product like just entirely disappeared? i am more interested in seeing how the impossible burger tastes; they're in groceries around here but it's not a chain i can get delivered and i haven't been inside a store since last summer.
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therattle posted:We had Beyond Burger hamburgers for lunch today. They’re better than about 95% of hamburgers I’ve had, including higher-end burger chains like Byron, Honest Burger, Gourmet Burger Kitchen, etc. I don’t ever feel the need to eat a beef burger again. They are pretty pricy though. I got some Impossible ground beef from Trader Joe's and made the best burgers I've ever eaten (smash burgs in this case), I'm never going back except for cookout guests. Right now it's too pricy for everyone but I'm glad to pay extra to help it get to scale. I agree Beyond isn't as good as real meat, though it is an improvement over e.g. Morningstar Farms Grillers.
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Stringent posted:Well, caveat that I'm not trained or anything, I just drink a lot of sake, but there's basically two elements I consider when I'm choosing a bottle Thank you for the overview, I'm also interested in learning more about sake. There's an importer in Oregon who has an always revolving webstore and did a zoom session to explain namazake. I'm trying to parse this label to find out if it is tanrei or houjun as explained but can't even find that. I liked the producer in the past and want to find more identifying characteristics to match in the future.
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# ? Apr 4, 2021 20:29 |
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It might be a few pages back or god forbid trapped in the archives but I distinctly recall there being a sake thread in here at some point. If I had search I'd dig it up but I remember it having a pretty informed OP and it's not like the info had changed over time making it out of date. You might also try the japanese cooking thread.
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I'm a p big fan of impossible meat. It doesn't scratch the same itch as a standard classic burger w/ like onion, pickle, ketchup, mustard or whatev. It has a not-meaty enough flavor to be noticeable. But, if I want something stronger like a mushroom swiss or a pile of burg sauce or something, impossible has been great. The texture is spot on and when paired with other strong flavors, it's a good enough meat substitute for me.
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therattle posted:We had Beyond Burger hamburgers for lunch today. They’re better than about 95% of hamburgers I’ve had, including higher-end burger chains like Byron, Honest Burger, Gourmet Burger Kitchen, etc. I don’t ever feel the need to eat a beef burger again. They are pretty pricy though. Same with pizza. Pizza is hugely popular, but an astonishing number of pizza places produce pizza that's just execrable. Not quite as popular but still common, and to illustrate it's not just American food staples, sushi is also a hugely hit or miss genre of food. Good nigiri and/or a good bowl of chirashi is among one of my favourite things to tuck into, but most randomly sampled sushi places are just kinda bad. This could be amplified by the fact that sashimi is one of those things where the drop-off from "great" to "good" is pretty narrow and the drop off from "good" to "bad" is much, much wider. On the other end of the scale I feel like the average bowl of phở I've had is always at least "good" (and phở isn't even my favourite Vietnamese soup).
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I can't remember if I had beyond or impossible but it tasted like someone had frozen and thawed a beef patty a dozen times before cooking it
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therattle posted:Oh! That reminds me. I have a dalemma. I bought some white urad dal out of curiosity. I made dal with them but did not care AT ALL for the weird glutinous texture. Now I have most of a bag still to use. What should I do with them? Dosa Ninja edit: Just noticed what you did there. Excellent.
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