/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>7437705
vegetables taste like fuckin garbage m8

>good broccoli cheese soup: tastes like cheese
>bad broccoli cheese soup: tastes like broccoli

They are all different, if you can't find veggies you like you may have problems.

most fatties hate vegetables because they dont know how to cook them properly or buy shitty walmart vegetables

im fat as fuck and love most vegetables.

You just have to look up how to prepare them properly. Most Americans grow up in homes where they pop open a bag of frozen veg and steam them till they're droopy. No shit kids grow up hating that.

I'm fat and I think most vegetables taste delicious. You just have to prepare them right. For a long time people just boiled them and maybe tossed them with some butter and salt. This isn't a very good way to make anything taste good. Add some aromatics and herbs. Roast them when it's appropriate.

I feel like shit if I don't even veggies. I feel fine, but a little more hungry, if I don't eat meat.

loads of fat people love vegetables, i'm willing to bet there's almost no correlation between vegetable hating and fatness.

also vegetables can have a really strong flavour. i eat more vegetables not because it's good for me but out of preference.

basically i take issue with everything in your post.

>>7437733
but cheesy potatoes lady

>>7437705
>Am I the only one who thinks it doesn't taste much. You just eat it because it's good for you

it does taste and if prepared properly can honestly eclipse the protein on the menu. I've fallen into the habit of using it as a side dish for health reasons but occasionally you'll go to a restaurant that uses vegetables properly and be reminded just how fucking unbelievably tasty and satisfying they can be. I keep telling myself I'll get more adventurous with vegetarian recipes but I don't. Lazy or dumb, I guess.

>>7437705
>Fat people always talk about how disgusting vegetables are
veggies taste good
t. fat vegetarian

I think fat people miss out on the subtle sweetness of things like carrots because they're used to Pepsi and shit.

>>7437709
This I eat vegetables, but they are tasteless at least the healthy ones are on their own. Try eating a salad WITHOUT resorting to oils, bacon bits, cheese, and dressing.

The only way to do it is to salt and spice them.

>>7437705

Steamed Broccoli tastes like water and I love it. Just no flavor at all and it almost melts in your mouth.

>>7437705
Carrots are GOAT, how do you not like them. Also cucumbers are p good.

>>7437781
Agreed

>>7437705
>Fat people always talk about how disgusting vegetables are


Well meme'd lad
Fatties eat everything, that's the point.

>>7437796
>steam broccoli tastes like water

Are you fat?
Maybe it's just me but I can always taste a butter-like flavor in lightly steamed, fresh broccoli. Unless you're talking about frozen broccoli steamed in a bag, that shit is garbage.

>>7437930
Fatter people, in the US at least, tend to eat more processed/pre-packaged foods than anything fresh.

I'm a fatty fatfuck and I love my veggies. Roasted brussels, roasted cauliflower, greens, asparagus... I'd eat 'em till I get sick. That's why I'm fat. Portion control. I don't have it. When you consume enough calories for 2 people, you become two peoples.

Fat just means you're lazy as shit.

>>7437705
Vegetables can taste really good when well prepared or really shit when badly prepared, just like any other kind of food.

>>7437705
Choke em down because they taste like shit, except for carrots and sweet potatoes. Carrots are great.

>>7438068
You're fat because your veggies are roasted in loads of oil and butter. Veggies won't ever make you fat on their own, it's very hard to eat too much of them.

>>7437777
wa la!

Some vegetables are an acquired taste. For me one was cherry-tomatoes. I couldn't stand them until I went to college and every salad I ate had them. Now I can eat them straight and not even think of gagging. Similar with salad. I started eating sweet peppers a lot, later I had developed a taste for lettuce.

It doesn't taste much.

Ok yes but when you add salt and butter you up the flavors alot and it makes it better.

Simply steam some Broccoli and eat it.

Then take Broccoli and steam it and add butter and Salt

100x better.

>>7438110
Are you fucking retarded? You can gain weight eating anything you can think of if you end the day with a calorie surplus. Vegetables just make it harder because of low calorie content. Anon is right, he's fat becausr of portion control and a sedentery lifestyle.

>>7438350

he said it's possible but difficult to gain weight just eating vegetables, you'd have to eat a fuckload of carrots to gain weight. don't call him retarded and reiterate what he said.

>>7437715
>im fat as fuck and love most vegetables.
this

>>7437705
i eat brocoli because it is a great source of vitamins minerals and nutrients. it is a very bland taste.

Most people are fat because they eat too much on a regular basis, it has nothing to do with vegetables.

hams that hate veggies are a different breed, tho, they are food addicts that are looking for a chemical fix from eating fatty, salty and sweet foods, they are disordered and not that different from a cokehead or a junkie.

>>7437717
this

Parents have a garden where I get most of my veg, but during the winter I have to resort to supermarket imported stuff.
Anything below extortionate price is fucking horrible in taste.

I get the feeling that most peoples' knowledge of veg in this thread doesn't go beyond carrots, broccoli and lettuce.

People, use chickpeas, beans, sauerkraut, the list could go on!

>>7438399

why do you get that feeling? i see very few posters who in any way imply that they agree with the op

>>7437782
>he doesn't understand the joy of running out to your garden barefoot as a child and plucking a tomato and eating it right there
>he thinks you need fats and salts to make things like rocket, arugula, and bell peppers to taste good
Jesus fuck how dumb and fat are you

>>7438452

cauliflower has a nice texture

i've never had broccoli that i like but i still eat it

>>7438452
>tomato picking as a kid literally GOAT

glad i wasn't the only one who fuckin loved it. dad always had me dip big fatty slices of tomatoes in sugar for some reason, but it's pretty tasty

>>7438491
Just a quick cross sliced into the bottom and dipped in salt for me, senpai

>>7438491
>>7438534

>not dipping it in pumpkin oil with just a tiny bit of feta and a fresh basil leaf on top

dude, genuine and rustic lmao

>>7437705
simply the best way to crank veggies up to 11/10 is with a nice herb butter

also fried spinach with garlic is the best thing ever

>>7437715
>>7437717
>buy bag of frozen mixed veggies
>dump in a bowl and microwave for 5
>tastes delicious

>>7437705
>tfw love vegetables
>by far the largest component of 90% of my meals
>still chubby

Because the fat youths of today grew up under Baby Boomers, who overcook and underseason everything they touch.

Outdoorsy people always talk about how horrible movies are and shut-ins talk about how great they are.

Am I the only one who thinks they don't offer much? You just watch them because they pass the time.

>>7437705
I love vegetables and think they taste great and I'm a fat fuck.

I don't even do gross shit like put tons of cheese on them, I love me some cauliflower with lemon/lime juice.

>>7437705
roast them bruh

>>7439158
I feel you my man :(

People who hate vegetables as an adult probably carried on that preference from childhood, where the bitter flavors more common in vegetables like brussel sprouts, cooked spinach, and arugula are especially off-putting and sharp to the unexperienced palates of children. Either that or their parents prepared them poorly, in a way that gave them unpleasantly squishy/rubbery textures and off tastes, and now that's what they associate with vegetables in general.


That said, you can prepare vegetables in very appetizing ways, and many carry their own delicious flavors, like squash, tomatoes, pepper, broccoli, carrots, celery, etc.

>that one guy you know who absolutely refuses to eat vegetables

My uncle will only eat a vegetable if it is slathered in hollandaise sauce.

>you're not preparing it right
good meme

>>7438365
Pretty much this.

I love cutting an onion into eigths and skewering them with green bell pepper slices. I drizzle a little oil or oil, salt, and black pepper over them and grill them

sometimes I'll also skewer whole garlic cloves that have been seasoned with soy sauce and cayenne pepper and grill those too

>>7437705
Par boiled Broccoli with salt is good
Roasted carrots and onions with a little s&p amazing when they caramelize. A pico de gallo with some grilled chicken or steak is GOAT.

>>7437705
I'm a fattie who likes a lot of veggies (literally the only one I can think of I dislike is carrots). Veggies have flavor, it's just not as extreeme as the fourth big mag you cram down your throat. When cooked well and with a bit of seasoning, veggies can be a highlight of a meal. I oddly dislike fruits. I blame America's 'put sugar in everything' culture that has desensitized me to natural sweeteners. Citrus is fine, but I can't stand apples or bananas.

I HATE the crunchy texture. It signals me to barf.

I fucking hate that I cant enjoy lots of shit because of that and a stupidly high sensitivity to capsaicin.

>>7440501
>I oddly dislike fruits [...] Citrus is fine, but I can't stand apples or bananas.

Are you me?

>>7440607
>I HATE the crunchy texture. It signals me to barf.
My coworker is like this. He only eats fast food. Only. Has since he was a kid. Anything that's not fast food causes him to feel ill. Please don't tell me you're like this; the guy is 29 but looks 45 and is horrifically malnourished and obese.

>>7437705
>plants that taste good
They are called fruits and spices

Literal idiot here,
is there any difference between roasting/baking?

I've done plenty of asparagus, zucchini, squash, and cauliflower cut up, tossed with oil, salt, and pepper, and baked at 425 on a tray. Am I roasting or just baking?

>>7441300
In another thread it was your roomate

Please stop shitposting

>>7441919
Not that guy, but I've posted stuff like that about people I know

Maybe it's just that a lot of people like that exist

Maybe you're one of those people

Maybe your parents should have tried harder

>>7441888
you bake bread and roast chicken/vegetables
also you could argue you roast at a higher temp but eh, not really

>>7437705
Broccoli and cauliflower are fucking delicious, what the fuck is wrong with you people.

Corn Carrots Zucchini Turnips

These are the vegetables that have taste without adding anything extra in the cooking process or raw.

Leafy greens, Celery and Cucumbers taste like nothing to me, and any other vegetable taste like dirt without adding spices, butter, salt

>>7441888
That sounds like roasting.

They're pretty interchangeable. Roasting is usually uncovered, on higher heat and the surface of the food should be brushed with oil or some other kind of fat. It also refers to the consistency. If you put dough into the oven, it bakes into bread, not roasts.

>>7441941
Peppers onions Garlic Tomatoes also have taste

313 lbs here. Was 320.7 lbs as of the 1st of this month. I've been dieting for a few days now, reducing my calorie intake to 1200 a day and measuring everything I eat. I replaced my usual 2 pancake breakfast with a breakfast shake+hard boiled egg and replaced the 1 cup of rice I eat at dinner with 1 cup of cauliflower rice and maybe some other assorted veg and it seems to work well. I actually love vegetables, but keeping fresh around constantly can be expensive.

>>7437705
How ignorant of cooking do you have to be to make such a sweeping generalization?

>>7441919
I did not post that. Do you honestly believe that these people don't exist? Do you honestly believe that multiple anons have not encountered them? I've met multiple throughout my life, lots of poor people grow up with horrible habits - especially with food.

>>7438350
>You can gain weight eating anything you can think of

Try just hitting your maintenance cals with tomatoes and cucumbers

>>7438452
God, bell peppers are fucking delicious.

>>7441977
Thats a pretty drastic cut. You should look into eating more and losing weight a little slower.

In decent shape here
But I like the taste ofost veggies
It's the texture that that gets me
And the texture only gets worse as you cook them usually
I hate that cellulose small then it turns to mush

>>7439158
Yeah, but eating 3 healthy meals and snacking on sugary drinks, high-fat/sweetened snacks, and refined carbs won't cut it, fatty.

I gave up on vegetables not too long ago after years of forcing myself to eat that shit. I don't mind a slice of pickle on my burger or a slice of tomato on a sandwich but I get stomach ache from eating too much raw vegetables, so yeah, fuck that shit.

>>7437782
Dude I eat salads with only a few blackberries on top. No dressing, oils, cheeses. Stop being so fat.

>>7438462
>Watery
>Mix of mush and firm
>Skin is the strangest thing ever
>Seeds everywhere
I wouldn't feed it to my enemies, the byproducts are okay, the actual thing is not unless it's under literally every bit of a sandwich or burger. This is not just a problem with couple day old tomatoes either, I've had those gourmet dishes where it's a fresh picked tomato with goat cheese on top drizzled with olive oil and it still has the same shitty consistency except now you have some oil and cheese to try and hide it. I don't get tomatoes.

>>7443661
American tomatoes are shit.

>>7443799
American tomatoes aren't even tomatoes, the essence of the tomato flavor is just gone. Not just me saying this, botanists and shit are saying we went too far in selective breeding, choosing yield over flavour so much that now they taste like nothing.

>>7444177
Why do europoors hate science?

Vegetables usually taste better than fatty junk food and fast food if you actually know how to cook.

>fat
>lazy
>stupid
>buys cheap canned veg so they have more money for doritos and oreos
>complains all veg are terrible
>?
>repeat vicious circle

Lemon-garlic sauteed swiss chard is one of the most delicious things I've ever eaten. Another topper is some brussel sprouts, nicely browned and soft on the inside. Yet another is a homegrown tomato, just eat it like an apple.

>>7443345
>Falling for the raw vegetables meme
Cook them

please, thats like a blind person saying the visual world does not exist.

your taste buds are fucked out of stimulation. that does not mean vegs have no taste,

God damn can we talk about how good zucchini and yellow squash is?

>>7444761
>white people vegetables

>>7444803
>one of the "three sisters" of native american food
>white people food
pick one

>>7444803
>2016
>being a shitskin
>>>/trash/

>>7444814
Whites suck shit at cooking vegetables, that's just a fact.

Fatty here who loves veggies. Especially raw broccoli and celery and carrots

>>7437705
Nah I love fucking vegetables fuck you

>>7437782
>Try eating a salad WITHOUT resorting to oils, bacon bits, cheese, and dressing.

bullshit you fat fuck

try arugula and lemon juice

tons of flavor

>>7438452
Can't be as awesome as eating raspberries straight from the bush.

>>7444839
This is about eating vegetables not fucking them you cunt

>>7444180
Europeans invented science, nigga.

People who don't like vegetables are just really bad cooks.

>>7445063

One of those little bed wetters is going to prick themselves and start crying in 5, 4, 3...

>>7445079
Or have fucked palates from growing up eating shit food.

>>7444816

>>7445086
Yeah that too.

>>7445085
Raspberries don't have thorns.

>>7437705
5/10 of what I eat is vegetables&rice

>>7445097

Most do.

>>7445112
The ones in my grandma's garden didn't.

>>7445120
Because they have been selectively bred to remove the thorns.

>>7445127
And wild tomatoes are toxic, your point being?

>>7445136
He probably means that statistically speaking the thornless raspberries in your grandma's garden are completely irrelevant.
And he would be right.

celery and kale can kill itself
everything else is ok except carrots
carrots are godtier

>>7445168
>mfw eating properly made carrot soup

>>7445175
>>7445168
I find carrots to sweet for most things, to be honest.

>>7444761

>repping two of the vegetables which ACTUALLY have no flavour when trying to praise vegetables for having flavour

>start growing own vegetables
>find out i actually do like zucchini when it's fresh

>>7445373
Wait until you grow your own cucumbers and laugh at all the plebs who think it's tasteless.

I'm skinny and I think steamed broccoli smells like shoe.

Just eat them raw, it's way better imo

>>7445461
>steaming vegetables

Baby boomer please. Shit texture, shit taste. It's like baby food.

>>7445548
If your steamed vegetables come out like baby food, you need to learn how to not overcook them.

>>7445548
Steaming is one of the best ways to cook vegetables when you actually know how to do it.

>tfw no comfy backyard garden full of veggies

almost done with school familia i might make it.

>>7441888
roasting is cooking with hot air, baking is cooking in an enclosed area. they're mostly interchangeable now though. you roast a pig over a fire and bake potatoes in the embers of a fire.

>>7445715
>those healthy plants
>those organized rows
>that simple design
>that dense population of vegetation
>perfectly ripe for the harvesting

I fucking love growing plants more than anything else.

>>7438358
>Veggies won't ever make you fat on their own

Are you retarded?

>>7438358
Nigga, you ever heard of potatoes or yams?

>>7438582
This.

I loved veggies from anywhere when i was a kid, and to this day. frozen, from the grocery store plant area, or from my parents garden. it's all bomb as fuck as long as it's vegetables i like. which is most.

>>7437705
No, I eat them because they're fucking delicious. A whole bowl of cabbage with a little butter, s & p? A whole bowl of peas and corn with a little butter, s & p? A whole bowl of steamed broccoli with a little cheese? A whole bowl of properly roasted squash? The list goes on. Veggies are amazing.

>>7446493
Some root vegetables like potatoes are part of the starch/grain group due to their nutritional content. Have you ever heard of the food pyramid?

>>7437705
I'm a fat fuck and there's plenty of things I dislike and plenty more I like

I cannot eat bell peppers, I tried so many times with various approaches, it just doesn't taste good to me, people tell me it's sweet, all I taste is bitterness and anger

I love broccoli, it's a good green, although I don't eat much of the stem.

I don't like beets, I eat em, but I don't like em

Love me some cauliflowers, especially blanched then grilled

I love zucchini, it's great

I used to dislike mushrooms, but now I love them when fresh, in cans I still can't eat em, feels like plastic and rubber

God bless tomatoes, sliced up with a little olive oil, some salt and pepper and just enough balsamic vinegar. Put it on a cracker with a leaf of fresh basil and a boccocini slice and its marvelous

>>7446507
>moving the goalposts

>>7437782
>Try eating a salad WITHOUT resorting to oils, bacon bits, cheese, and dressing.
I eat salad with no dressing or anything. It's carbs that need extra flavouring, since they are bland as fuck for the most part.
If you're just eating iceberg lettuce I could see why you would want dressing, but if you need it for rocket or watercress then you're nothing more than a child.

>>7437705
I'm a fat guy and I fucking love vegetables. I genuinely enjoy vegetables more than I enjoy fruit, which is a godsend because I'd probably die of scurvy if I didn't get either.

>spinach
>pepper
>artichoke
>onion
>garlic
>cucumber
>broccoli
>gailan
>butter lettuce
>kale
>eggplant
>scallion
>leek
>okra
>chickpea
>pea
>corn
Motherfuck, I love vegetables.

>>7446482

because you'd have to eat an unfeasibly large number of them to gain weight off them, at least in most cases.

>>7446493

nigga, you ever heard of exceptions?

>>7437705
Depends on how you cook it actually.

I found store bought rucola absolutely disgusting but when a chef in a chique hotel made it for me once, I loved it.

The origin of the product is important aswell.

I'm fat and I like vegetables.

Asking here because I don't want to start a new thread.
Will the quality of my leafy greens be diminished if I chop them the day I bring them home and then cook them later throughout the week, as opposed to chopping and cooking at the same time?

>>7447924

Most things will start to go bad faster the more they've been cut up.

>>7447382
But still you can't say it's THAT good compared to most other foods. Compare it to a delicious piece of meat

>>7448078

>compare it to a delicious piece of meat

Do you actually think a piece of meat will always taste better than a vegetable, all else being equal?

That's fucking crazy, man.

>>7445168
> celery can kill itself
You realize celery is a base ingredient for fuckloads of soups, right?

>>7448097
A mediocre steak is still better than the most deliciously cooked vegetable

>>7448119
You're a pleb with shit taste

>>7437705
I tthink you mean, mainly, poor ass Americans.

Also, cauliflower is the worst fucking vegetable ever. I will eat a ton of bitter ass raw frisee before I touch one fucking piece of cauliflower.

>>7448119

I'm guessing you grew up poor.

>>7437705
Is radish good for you? I have a ton and was thinking of eating them plain.

>>7437705
I know a bunch of skinnyfat people who refuse to eat any sort of fruit or vegetable, unless it's potatoes or bananas. I feel really sorry for them.

>>7447924
cutting most plants makes them taste worse. Its part of the plants immune system, the plant realises it's being eaten and releases bitter chemicals, it's better to cook leafy green plants as soon as possible after preparing.

>>7438538
>pumpkin oil

hnnnnngg nigga that's like the best thing there is.

>>7448378

> Its part of the plants immune system, the plant realises it's being eaten and releases bitter chemical

hahahaha no what the fuck where are you pulling this shit from

>>7448567
The happening

>>7448183
Yeah, it helps with digestion in some way, Mexicans serve it on the side to help quell indigestion from all the spicy shit they eat

Even vegans don't eat enough vegetables. They just don't taste great without copious amounts of oil/butter and salt/pepper.

>>7437705
Because the vast majority of them are bred to look good, in large quantity and stay fresh longer, not for taste.

>>7437925
Carrots yes cucumber repulses me. I love a good sweet potato or purple sprouting is god tier

>>7448378
Well In an hour I'll prepare some swiss chard that I pre cut 3 days ago. I'll tell you if it's more bitter than normal.

>>7448567
pulling this shit form peer reviewed articles
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v500/n7463/full/nature12478.html
http://www.apsnet.org/edcenter/intropp/topics/Pages/OverviewOfPlantDiseases.aspx
and wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_defense_against_herbivory#Chemical_defenses

plants don't want to be eaten, a part of their immune system is dedicated to not being eaten.

>>7448920

obviously plants have defence mechanisms, but the oxidation that occurs when a plant's cell walls are ruptured is not one of them.

>>7448758
It turned out fine, there was little difference if any in comparison to chard that would've been freshly chopped. Next time I'll do a blind taste test with family and friends to see if they would consistently rate chard that was chopped freshly, differently to chard that was chopped on day of purchase.