/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18165588
eggplant

>>18165588
Mines bigger

>>18165588

Deep fry them or cook them in chili sauce

>>18165590
The ancient Indo-aryan name is brinjal. It's not even an egg. Get used to brinjal.

aubergine innit

Leftypol is behind brinjal posting: https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/1085549.html#q1087766

>eating nightshade

>>18165677

what the fuck are you talking about

>>18165677
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsNHeSoABYQ

>>18165677
I can just see you sitting in your desk chair smirking like a dumbass

literal Chinese erosion thread. typical one too.

>>18165703
>borrowed from Portuguese beringela
>beringela
How do you not see the similarities to brinjal?

do the needful, eat the brinjal sir

>>18165677
Why would anyone voluntarily use a word from the most disgusting people on earth? Nothing good has ever come from India

>>18165854
black pepper

>>18165691
What strange behaviour.

>>18165822
You can imagine some dumb anglo asking the name of the fucking thing to a portuguese:
>berinjela
>"brinjal?"
>no, BERINGELA
>"brinjal!"
>say with me: BE-RIN-GE-LA
>"BR-BRIN-JA-AL"

>>18166054
eggplant

>>18165588
aubergine

>>18166061
aubergine is okay too

Gooey char-grilled eggplant is so good

>>18165588
hahaha, you eat with your hands off the floor!

Melanzane

Brinjal best

>>18165854
word its not even indian, its portuguese

>>18166036
I guess it's an easy way to excuse and justify wanting to troll and shitpost.

>aye, lad. and for me, it's you.

>>18165677
>doesn't know how cognates work
The Aryan side of that went with bodnjan which became aubergine, but fuck the French, it's eggplant.

>>18166054
what a terrible bait. you can imagine some dumb anon asking what to write:
>something smart
>"something stupid?"
>no, cmon something witty
>"something stupid!"
>please man stop fucking up the board
and then anon wrote his post.

I, too, brinjal

reminder that starting your sauces by cooking an aubergine until it's soft puree will always improve the final texture and works for everything from curry to tomato sauce

>>18169670
I am def gonna try this to see how it works. thanks anon, I love a good cooking expearmint.

just make sure you use male aubergine

>>18169683
Dots, not slots

>>18169692
everything Chef John says is true

>>18165588
eggplant

>>18165588
For me, it's melongena

>>18169683
>male aubergine
That's... not how plants work.

>>18165590
Aubergine

>>18165588
MELITZANA, fucking barbarians

>>18169876
Yes... it is.

>>18169881
eggplant

>>18169946
Flowers have male and female parts, the fruit they produce is not male or female in the same way the plant as a whole that eventually develops from them is not male or female. Plants are not like people.

>>18170018
then why do male eggplants have a dot in the base and contain almost no seeds (therefore the most sought-after and most edible version) while the female eggplants have a slot shaped dot and they are busting with seeds inside? to the point where my supermarket doesn't even sell female eggplants anymore.

clearly there's a difference in the fruit in this case

>>18170023
Maybe the supposedly "female" one is formed from multiple ovaries and ends up seedier, it's not a sexual difference though. I don't really believe there is a difference to be honest, I've probably bought 500 aubergines without peeking at their bottom and I've had maybe one bad one, but if the customers all believe the myth then the supermarkets are going to be pressured to throw perfectly fine aubergines out.

>>18170237
you're buying male eggplantos from distributors who sort them long before they put them on the shelf

>>18170239
https://depts.washington.edu/hortlib/pal/on-sex-difference-among-eggplant-fruits/
https://www.garden.eco/male-eggplant
https://sciencing.com/difference-between-male-female-eggplant-13427476.html
https://www.melindamyers.com/audio-video/melindas-garden-moment-audio-tips/vegetables-herbs-fruits/no-gender-difference-in-eggplant-fruit
https://planyourpatch.com/are-there-female-and-male-eggplants-fact-or-fiction/

>>18170241
yuh huh

>>18170251
https://www.uaex.uada.edu/farm-ranch/crops-commercial-horticulture/horticulture/ar-fruit-veg-nut-update-blog/posts/bell-peppers-myth.aspx
https://blog.mountain-plover.com/2012/05/31/eggplant-sex/
https://lifehacker.com/vegetables-do-not-have-gender-1839642337
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Don%27t+worry+what+sex+it+is%2C+as+long+as+it+has+nice+skin.-a0155804320
https://veganfoundry.com/which-eggplants-have-fewer-seeds/
I know you're too stubborn to consider changing your mind, but it doesn't really matter.

>>18165588
It's fucking disgusting is what it is

>>18170261