MSG General

[Anonymous No.4861177]

Just bought myself a shaker of this stuff. I have no experience with it but I'm excited to try it out. What should I put it in? What should I definitely not put it in? Would it be good in falafel?

>inb4 hurr msg is evil. at least read the wikipedia article about it first.

[Anonymous No.4861183]

>>4861177

You can add it to anything that you would like to give you diarrhea followed by a high probability of gastrointestinal cancer.

[Anonymous No.4861187]

never used it on anything not meat. i sprinkle it on meats i intend to grill or pan-griddle. that's it.

[Anonymous No.4861203]

>>4861177
Add it to meat and veggies. Keep it to half a teaspoon on fruit and desserts.

Even Gordon Ramsay admitted his chinese food tastes like shit vs traditional recipes with msg.

[Anonymous No.4861205]

>>4861187
>>4861203

hehehe good goyimses, consume your brain-destroying MSG

*handrub*

[Anonymous No.4861206]

>>4861177

[Anonymous No.4861216]

I suggest you do your homework, OP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excitotoxicity

http://www.amazon.com/Excitotoxins-The-Taste-That-Kills/dp/0929173252

[Anonymous No.4861287]

>>4861216

I'll risk it.

>>4861203

Does it really do anything for fruit/desserts? I've never heard of using it on sweet stuff.

[Anonymous No.4861292]

>>4861287
>Does it really do anything for fruit/desserts?

Not in my opinion. It's a savory/umami flavor. You use it as a shortcut for natural savory flavors like worcestershire sauce, anchovies, fish sauce, browned drippings from meat, parmigiano-regianno, dark meat broth/stock, etc.

[Anonymous No.4861294]

>>4861216

Joel sucks!

[Anonymous No.4861610]

I've worked in several Michelin starred restaurants around the world, and every one of them uses accent in almost every dish.

[Anonymous No.4861614]

>>4861610

thanks anon, you made me laugh.

[Anonymous No.4861627]

>intentionally putting msg on your food
I don't even

[Anonymous No.4861669]

I make a lot of soup, and any time I'm making one without any meat on hand, I'll put a maybe a teaspoon or so for a gallon of soup.

[Anonymous No.4861722]

>>4861627

Why not?

[Anonymous No.4861726]

>>4861177
>using crappy ingredients and covering them up with herbs and spices to hide their subpar flavors

[Anonymous No.4861734]

>>4861726

>implying anyone said they would be using crappy ingredients

[Anonymous No.4861757]

>>4861734
That is Accent's main function. It is implied by just existing.

[Anonymous No.4861761]

>>4861757
Nope.

[Anonymous No.4861762]

>>4861757

As implied above, that's quite a strawman you're creating there. It can improve the taste of dishes composed of quality ingredients just as it can in dishes composed of crappy ingredients.

[Anonymous No.4861767]

OP here is what surprisingly no one has told you (who am I kidding, this is /ck/)

Don't use MSG, it's basically cheating. Remember that one episode of Spongebob Squarepants where King Neptune makes hundred of burgers that no one liked, but Spongebob made one extradorinary patty because he put his passion into making it perfect? It's like that- put your passion into cooking, not trying to find the easy way out.

[Anonymous No.4861773]

>>4861767
> Remember that one episode of Spongebob Squarepants

No, and I stopped reading right there.

[Anonymous No.4861781]

>>4861773

Shit Anon, if you kept reading you would never have needed to watch the show to still understand the moral of what that Anon was saying.

[Anonymous No.4861782]

>>4861767

But I'm looking for flavor, whether that comes from "passion" or not. And who are you to say that I can't put passion into my cooking and use MSG? Your logic that MSG is cheating is lie saying salt is cheating, or any other spice for that matter.

[Anonymous No.4861784]

>>4861762
>It can improve the taste of dishes composed of quality ingredients just as it can in dishes composed of crappy ingredients.

No, you can't. If you used quality ingredients and can still improve them it means you are a shitty cook and using shit seasonings like Accent as a crutch.

[Anonymous No.4861788]

>>4861782
Quality ingredients and good cooking methods are all you need.

/troll thread hidden

[Anonymous No.4861790]

>>4861784
Thanks for your shitty opinion. I can assure you I put no stock in it. I'll enjoy my food that is already good and made better by a spice that is not a crutch anymore than salt, coriander, oregano, paprika...

>>4861788

Explain to me how MSG is, objectively, not a quality ingredient.

[Anonymous No.4861803]

ITT: muh purity garbage

MSG is perfectly legitimate to use in a number of dishes. Obviously you can overdo it, just like any seasoning.

[Anonymous No.4861818]

>>4861205
/pol/ pls go

[Anonymous No.4861836]

If MSG is so bad for you why is it so delicious?

[Anonymous No.4861872]

>>4861782

It's like using a microwave to cook all your food and claiming to be a chef. Any dipshit can microwave food, and it almost always turns out worse than cooking it stovetop/oven. MSG is like using the microwave to cheat cook your food.

if you are such a good cook with your nice dishes as you point out in another post, then you have no need for MSG anyways.

Also are you retared? You pose a question on an internet forum, then "put no stock in" someone opinion. Also nice Ad Hominem, confirmed for fucking tard, but we all already knew that since you decided to make a post about MSG. I had nothing better to do tonight so thank you for the entertainment, I'll go to bed knowing my food is good becuase I use quality ingriedients and know how to fucking cook, not use a cheating "spice" that fucks your body up

6/10 because I got emotionally involved.

[Anonymous No.4861880]

>>4861872

>I'm so mad about other people's choices and the fact that they reject my claim as arbiter of all things good and authentic!

[Anonymous No.4861882]

>>4861872
>not use a cheating "spice" that fucks your body up

oh, you mean salt?

[Anonymous No.4861891]

Try sprinkling some of it on buttered bread.

[Anonymous No.4861892]

>>4861880

You asked for an opinion, and I'm giving it. You're the one who got so defensive because the majority were telling you what you personally didn't want to hear, thus dismissing their entire opinion.

MSG is not salt. Read something other than wikipedia. Saying MSG is salt is like saying H2O and H2O2 are the same things because they are made of the same elements.

>>4861882

Everything is good in moderation. Salt is just wayyyy over used and causes all sorts of health problems, but it does has it's benefits if, like I said, taken/eaten in moderation.

Even things intrinsically healthy for you (let's say apples) can be deadly for you in immense amounts. The seeds in apples contain cyanide, that lovely stuff that Hitler supposedly took to kill himself. Also all that vitamin C can actually poison the body. I shouldn't need to explain what excess sugar can do to a body

[Anonymous No.4861897]

>>4861892
>However, researchers have found no definitive evidence of a link between MSG and these symptoms. Researchers acknowledge, though, that a small percentage of people may have short-term reactions to MSG. Symptoms are usually mild and don't require treatment. The only way to prevent a reaction is to avoid foods containing MSG

Yeah, there's no point in avoiding this shit if I'm not allergic to it.

[Anonymous No.4861901]

>>4861836

Everything that's delicious is bad for you.

[Anonymous No.4861906]

>>4861892
>MSG is not salt.

Of course it's not salt. It's very comparable to salt, in that it is a seasoning that represents a very basic taste in the human palate.

[Anonymous No.4861910]

>>4861892
>You asked for an opinion

no, he didn't actually. OP asked for dish ideas and you said "don't use MSG, it's cheating."

[Anonymous No.4861912]

>>4861892
I'd love if you can show me even one proper study that concludes that MSG is harmful, because the only ones I've found so far say the opposite.

[Anonymous No.4861918]

>>4861906

Salt is not a seasoning, or a spice. It's a catalyst. Ever hear of salting a steak before grilling it? Or putting salt in a cake? Potatoes seem created to be combined with salt. Salt works with other ingredients not to enhance, but flat out directly change the makeup of food.

Salt should never be labeled as a seasoning or spice, don't believe me? smother your food with salt like you would MSG, and try to tell me it tastes great. I dare you.

[Anonymous No.4861921]

>>4861918
>Salt is not a seasoning, or a spice
Here we go. You know someone's getting desperate when they have to change the definitions of things to suit their argument.

[Anonymous No.4861933]

>>4861918
>Salt is not a seasoning, or a spice

This is getting ridiculous. So you don't shake salt onto your cooked fries? How is that different than putting pepper on them?

>smother

The bottle of accent itself recommends 1/2 tsp per pound of meat. You're getting really desperate here, friend.

[Anonymous No.4861934]

>>4861912
this stuff kicks the shit out of salt for popcorn.

[Anonymous No.4861940]

holy shit a troll thread with anon troll trolling OP troll

[Anonymous No.4861946]

>>4861940

OP here, I'm not trolling, I legitimately bought a shaker of Accent and I'm looking for ideas. I just put a tsp in a batch of falafel mix; it's going to sit in the fridge until I have time to cook it tomorrow, will post results.

[Anonymous No.4861975]

>>4861940
How retarded are you on a scale of 1-potato? I

[Anonymous No.4862008]

>>4861891
gees louise that sounds pretty decadent

[Anonymous No.4862017]

>>4861975
as retarded as how you keep responding to your own thread to in shameless self-bumping.

you're not going to get much more ideas (if any) since everyone at /ck/ except trollfags like you don't use MSG

[Anonymous No.4862023]

>>4862017

OP here, that's not me, and again I'm not trolling.

[Anonymous No.4862037]

What if OP and Anonfag are the same person trolling each other in a heated argument to keep thread on page 1? What If I'm OP?

Good God I'm High. MSN makes everything taste great

[Anonymous No.4862242]

>>4862037
yah I know right I put that shit on literaly everything
>got bad food? sprinkle some msg
>got good food? sprinkle tons of msg (it hides the caliories)
>got heartburn? that's right, put some msg in that peptobysmal
>got athlete's foot? rip off those toenails and apply msg
>got shit life? well then put some msg in those shotgun shells and give those assholes in the mall a good scare

[Anonymous No.4862823]

>>4861934

I assume you'd need to use far, far less.

[Anonymous No.4863349]

OP here, falafel turned out great, noticeably better than previous batches. At first I was worried I used too much (1 tsp for the whole batch) but it seemed like just the right amount.

[Anonymous No.4863883]

I put a few sprinkles on pretty much everything, haven't really found anything that went bad with it. sanwiches, chilli, fruit, veggies, steak, pizza, etc. etc.

[Anonymous No.4863909]

>>4862037
>What if OP and Anonfag are the same person trolling each other in a heated argument to keep thread on page 1?

who the fuck doesn't use the catalog anymore?