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Who What Now posted:I've never cooked tofu but I like it in miso soup when we get sushi. My wife hates it so I get her extra. I should learn how to make miso soup at home since it'll be awhile yet before we go get sushi This is probably a bad take but miso soup is so cheap from a sushi restaurant and I feel like, best case, a homemade version will cost and taste the same. One of those things that there's no benefit to making at home, like ketchup or something.
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Yeah but I can't go to a sushi restaurant right now
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Aug 26, 2020 17:16
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The miso soup in Chinese restaurants tastes like a pleasant, rich stock, but instant miso soup powders taste like fried tomatoes and seawater. Why is there such a big difference?
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Aug 26, 2020 17:17
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Who What Now posted:Yeah but I can't go to a sushi restaurant right now i'm pretty sure miso soup is just miso paste and dashi. you can probably sub dashi for any kind of broth and get more or less scratch the it ch
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Aug 26, 2020 17:18
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End of Shoelace posted:The miso soup in Chinese restaurants tastes like a pleasant, rich stock, but instant miso soup powders taste like fried tomatoes and seawater. Why is there such a big difference? I don't know the answer, but please order a different soup at Chinese restaurants. West Lake, hot and sour, congee(I guess thats more of a stew?), Won ton soup are all good options. Birds nest or shark fin (with fake shark fin hopefully) if you're feeling fancy
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Aug 26, 2020 17:32
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Would if I could. It's a buffet-style restaurant with really good dishes in general, but only miso soup as an option.
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Aug 26, 2020 17:36
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I'm the basic bitch that likes egg drop soup and clear soup
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Aug 26, 2020 17:40
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I like to toss firm tofu in some corn starch and oil and herbs and soy sauce then douse it with lemon juice when it's on the pan (don't soak it in the juice I made that mistake once, tofu is a sponge), then just oven bake it for a while. comes out crispy and firm and tasty. Nutritional yeast is gross and tastes like old sweatsocks. I'd rather never eat cheese again than eat that.
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Aug 26, 2020 17:41
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I love any and all soups Soup owns Especially when you take the leftovers next day and boil it down with some rice to make a delicious porridge doing this with the broth left over from your instant ramen is also recommended
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Aug 26, 2020 17:41
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Throw it in the garbage, op. You'll get the most enjoyment out of it that way
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Aug 26, 2020 17:42
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start first by informing yourself, and thanking the curd. This 'taste like nothing' thing, is a malformed thought preventing you from the experience it has to offer you.
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Aug 26, 2020 17:45
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Who What Now posted:I've never cooked tofu but I like it in miso soup when we get sushi. My wife hates it so I get her extra. I should learn how to make miso soup at home since it'll be awhile yet before we go get sushi it's not too hard, but you have to get some odd ingredients
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Aug 26, 2020 18:37
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Skratte posted:Nutritional yeast is gross and tastes like old sweatsocks. I'd rather never eat cheese again than eat that. Whoa, I've never heard that take. Have you tried sprinkling it on some popcorn?
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Aug 26, 2020 18:42
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End of Shoelace posted:So I'm finding out that the skin that forms on boiled soymilk is a delicacy??? This is really good in a hotpot OP. Spicier the better, add in some fried tofu and veggies and rice cakes and poo poo and you've got a big tasty pot of good stuff. The bean curd is still just a weird chewie thing that reminds me of raw hide dog treats but it has its charm, yano?
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Aug 26, 2020 19:22
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Buy it from a good Japanese restaurant and stop trying to make it at home
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Aug 26, 2020 19:29
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Shoot it into your femoral artery.
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Aug 26, 2020 19:37
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I suck at cooking but the only thing I know about cooking tofu is press all the water out of it like you are pressing the life force out of your most hated foe. Then replace all that water with soy sauce or something else idfk
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Aug 26, 2020 22:22
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Kalit posted:Whoa, I've never heard that take. Have you tried sprinkling it on some popcorn? Sounds nasty.
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Aug 26, 2020 22:23
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With firm tofu you can dry it a bit, cube it and coat it in starch+seasoning. Then fry it up and top with sauce.
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Aug 26, 2020 22:31
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Cut a big slice and fry it like spam
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Aug 26, 2020 22:43
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Skratte posted:Sounds nasty. From an anecdotal perspective of my friends, it seems to be the most enjoyable use of nutritional yeast. Very unscientific. But I would recommend if you're somewhere with popcorn and nutritional yeast (or if you still have some laying around), to give it a shot before 100% burning the bridge with nutritional yeast. E: Pawn 17 posted:With firm tofu you can dry it a bit, cube it and coat it in starch+seasoning. Then fry it up and top with sauce. Now I'm really craving sesame tofu...I need to try to make it one of these days.
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Aug 26, 2020 22:48
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flashy_mcflash posted:This is probably a bad take but miso soup is so cheap from a sushi restaurant and I feel like, best case, a homemade version will cost and taste the same. One of those things that there's no benefit to making at home, like ketchup or something. Miso soup is cheap because it’s basically just a freebie when you’re effectively paying 50 dollars a pound for fish, but it’s even cheaper at home and is boil water levels of difficulty, you buy it as a paste and add it to water. Avoid ones that advertise as vegetarian (unless you are a vegetarian I guess) because fish is an important part of the flavor profile. Making the paste otoh probably is one of those things where it’s more trouble than it’s worth unless you’re into it as a hobby. I do basically everything from scratch that’s reasonable but fermentation just feels like a bridge too far.
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Aug 26, 2020 22:53
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tofu is best enjoyed rectally, op
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Lucky Guy posted:tofu is best enjoyed rectally, op I mean, if you eat it you get to enjoy it both orally and rectally...
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Aug 26, 2020 23:57
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drain the tofu and cut it into rectangles, put a paper towel down, put the rectangles flat on the paper towel, sprinkle some kosher salt on them, put another paper towel on top and then a cutting board and wait a while after you've waited a while take a frying pan and put some oil in it and put it on the heat, fry the tofu one side then the other until its nice and golden and with crispy edges put it on a paper towel to drain the oil, then make some sauce and meat and veggies or w/e, braise it in the sauce a little bit and eat it The best way to prepare tofu is the pan fry with the optional quick braise in sauce something like this there are infinite variations      
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Aug 27, 2020 00:32
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Tofu is just bland protein and can be treated almost identically to something like chicken breasts and come out fine. Coat it and fry it, stir fry it, chunk it into a soup, etc. it is no more or less bland than most lean protein and should be prepared accordingly, to most people this means a dish that adds salt, fat, and flavorful spices/herbs, or to a body builder it just means putting it on top of carefully portioned rice and wondering to yourself if this meal will be the one that breaks you. Nothing beyond that needs to be done, and if you think it does my guess is you just have a weird western hang up with tofu because there’s a lot of social stigma that swirls around it relation to vegetarians, hipsters, and soyboys. The non racist fact is that it’s actually very boring by itself but an otherwise great flavor sponge and even pairs well with fattier meats so there’s no reason to be weird about it. Dice up some bacon and cook it, fry some green beans, mushrooms, onions, and tofu in the grease and enjoy it, do whatever the gently caress you want with it. I put tofu in casseroles, try and stop me. If you already like tofu and are looking for something different, get some on the firmer side, cube it, freeze it, then thaw it out and drain before adding to a soup (or otherwise saucy dish). As the water freezes the tofu expands and cracks and when you thaw it out you get a more porous airy structure, the texture is different and it will fill up with whatever liquids you cook it in. Be careful when eating because even if you let the outside cool a bit when you bite into it you’ll get an explosion of boiling liquid in your mouth.
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A discovery. I've heard that "abura-age", twice fried thin tofu, is a really kickass noodle topping.
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ArbitraryC posted:Miso soup is cheap because it’s basically just a freebie when you’re effectively paying 50 dollars a pound for fish, but it’s even cheaper at home and is boil water levels of difficulty, you buy it as a paste and add it to water. Avoid ones that advertise as vegetarian (unless you are a vegetarian I guess) because fish is an important part of the flavor profile. I've never been able to find a paste that really gets it right. Do you have a preferred brand? I have access to lots of Asian grocery stores but maybe I've just been picking the wrong things.
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Also: aren't Afro-Asian grocers great? Really cheap sauces, vegetables you can't get at Walmart or wherever, kickass condiments, amazing snacks... I do kinda feel like a culture tourist whenever I visit one, but I can't find any of that tasty stuff anywhere else.
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flashy_mcflash posted:I've never been able to find a paste that really gets it right. Do you have a preferred brand? I have access to lots of Asian grocery stores but maybe I've just been picking the wrong things. I would bet you heaps of cash most of the restaurants that have served you miso are just using paste also, so it might be a placebo thing unless you’ve been overseas. Only real recommendation I’d make is that it includes dashi (not vegetarian).
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Aug 27, 2020 01:30
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Seitan is really good too, it's fermented soy beans that still have texture and aren't just an even block of protein. Also textured vegetable protein which is dehydrated soy beans left over from extracting the oil from them, rehydrate them with some broth and you have some amazing crumbles.
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Hail seitan for sure
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Aug 27, 2020 01:39
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Cube it, press it, run it through a dehydrator until completely dry, grind it to powder, mix it 50-50 with heroin and smoke it on foil, OP.
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Aug 27, 2020 01:39
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Xaintrailles posted:Cube it, press it, run it through a dehydrator until completely dry, grind it to powder, mix it 50-50 with heroin and smoke it on foil, OP. I would turn into a crack fiend, but also get REALLY interested in the feminist theory of Judith Butler
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Aug 27, 2020 01:46
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Every year or two I'll see some tofu dish on the menu at a restaurant or a cooking website and think "maybe this is when I'll star liking tofu". It never is. I think the best tofu thing I've had was some sort of fried tofu skin sushi at a sushi place in Japan and even then it was least good part of that meal.
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Aug 27, 2020 01:51
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here's a good tofu lifehack if you're lazy like me but love tofu: if you didn't drain/press your tofu, you can microwave it for a little bit. It hardens it up and constricts, squeezing the water out, which leaves it in a state that's perfect for stir frying
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Aug 27, 2020 01:54
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Eat tempeh instead
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Sleeveless posted:Seitan is really good too, it's fermented soy beans that still have texture and aren't just an even block of protein. Also textured vegetable protein which is dehydrated soy beans left over from extracting the oil from them, rehydrate them with some broth and you have some amazing crumbles.  Tempeh is fermented soy beans, seitan is wheat gluten.
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End of Shoelace posted:Also: aren't Afro-Asian grocers great? Really cheap sauces, vegetables you can't get at Walmart or wherever, kickass condiments, amazing snacks... If I could live at the T&T Supermarket in Metrotown I would tbh Hell I'd even live in any of the other ones in the city but the Metrotown location owns
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The trick is not to use tofu as meat replacement because then it tastes either like nothing or like slightly less tasty meat. Yes even if you mix it with a gallon of sugar sauce. Exception is fried tofu but that ain't healthy. Instead, add it to a dish and it good. Or, if you are vergan, just stop cooking a meal around a center protein cause that's dumb.
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