• Krem [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    These things are all absurd, but the funniest part is they offer wagyu chili. They took a type of beef that is considered premium for its unaltered flavor and texture….and made chili. They seasoned the out of the flavor and cooked out the texture.

    hell yeah that is epic. everyone know wagyu is the best beef. i don’t eat meat and I still know that. so, of course it would make the best chili. i hope they have an otoro tuna melt as well

    • What’s the vegan equivalent in your opinion? Deep frying a small batch nut cheese? Boiling a premium king oyster mushroom? Making a seasoned to hell tomato sauce with high-grade heirlooms?

      The thing about vegan cooking is it tends to be low waste, so I’m drawing a blank on anything 1:1 in terms of total ingredient abuse.

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          I remember going to the party of a friend of a friend who came from money. He was in his early 20s. He busted out a bottle of Johnny Walker Blue and poured everyone shots. Then he cracked open a Red Bull and poured out little chasers for everyone. I was planning to sip mine since thats like a $150-200 bottle, so I was pretty whatever about it. Then before I could even process what was happening, he poured the shots into the Red Bulls and handed them to us. I looked at the drink in my hand with great dismay.

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            Johnny Walker Blue in and of itself is a tell. There are many better whiskys and whiskeys at that price point, but JW has the better name recognition.

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        As someone who was raised vegan my answer is just the sad way the majority of vegans make tofu

        Seriously just watch a few Chinese cooking videos at least, Chinese people have been cooking with tofu as an ingredient for like 1000 years and they know what they’re doing

        Stop following the failed recipes of white hippies from the 70’s because the entire foundation of information that westerners are using to cook tofu is wrong

        Tofu wants to be cubed, tofu wants to be fried, tofu wants to be used in soups, tofu does not want to be scrambled or blended into a sauce

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          pressing it between stacks of books (just buy pressed tofu if that’s what you want)

          coating it in cornstarch and spices

          in europe you can even buy tofu marinated with basil and tomato (???)

          i love all kinds of tofu though, even the occasional scramble and cream cheese, but i think to get your tofu drivers license you should have regular tofu dishes (卤豆腐, 家常豆腐, 铁板豆腐, even the in the west so often misunderstood 麻婆豆腐) before you start doing some western shenanigans

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          Im gonna scramble tofu and put it in breakfast burritos and im gonna love it.

          Is it the best way to enjoy tofu? No. Is it the best way to make a breakfast burrito? Yes.

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        using a premium miso and some virgin coconut oil to make a cultured butter, and then using that butter to fry a supermarker sliced bread sandwich

        getting the first fresh tender spring bamboo shoots and cutting them up for hot and sour soup

        taking a high-grade craft soy sauce and mixing it up with sweaty onion powder, smoked paprika and le epic nutritional yeast to make a marinade for tvp steaks

        idk i enjoy making weird stuff when cooking but i can see epic vegan youtube cooks doing all of these

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      I love doing trash food with fancy ingredients, and while also vegan i feed meat guys as a job and need to imagine what they like. Waygu would be really bad for chilli cause its too fatty, it would split the sauce. One of the only meat foods I still get a weird craving for is my mom’s mid as hell tuna melt, I’ve tried to replicate with a lot of things but its just never quite there. All she did was mix canned tuna, mayonnaise, relish and diced onions and spread it on a bisquivk based dough. I’ll figure out a recipe that hits that spot one day but its my trash food white whale.

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        lots of people use mashed chickpeas instead of canned tuna but imo the texture and flavor are both off. you could use finely chopped green jackfruit maybe but shit’s expensive in the west i’m sure

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          Ive tried both. I think a combo and some tofu can make it all come together. I’ll get it and ill lost about it when I do. Jackfruit is actually cheap af but you gotta go to an Asian market for it, which is fine and dandy, they have the cheapest domestic veggies too