Question of the Day: Mayonnaise, Miracle Whip, or a soy alternative?
I was raised eating Miracle Whip and can't eat anything made with Hellmans. I now use Miracle Whip light.
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Question of the Day: What cuisine can't you stand?
Have to agree with Guilty Carnivore.Cilantro rocks.
The famous no-knead bread: does it work for everyone?
I've made this bread many times but do a few things different. After the 18 to 24 hours I scrape the dough out of the bowl onto a floured flexible cutting board. Fold it over on itself twice and cover with plastic wrap. Let rise 2 hours srape any excess floor from aroung the dough off the cutting board. Use the cutting board to pick the whole thing up and just basically dump it into the pre-heated dutch oven. No need to try and form a ball. Bake per the instructions and it has come out great every time
The famous no-knead bread: does it work for everyone?
I've made the bread many times and do a few things different with good results. After the 18 to 24 hours I pour the dough onto a floured flexible cutting board. Cover with plastic wrap rise for 2 hours. Scrap off any flour around the edges of the dough. Pick up the whole cutting board and pour the dough into the pre-heated dutch oven. No need to try and form a ball. Bake according to directions. Comes out great every time.
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Question of the Day: What cuisine can't you stand?
Unfortunately, I've yet to meet a specific cuisine where I couldn't find things I liked! Now there are particular dishes I don't like, but as general as a 'cuisine'? No. Nothing so far.
Of course I've yet to have Yemen.
Question of the Day: What cuisine can't you stand?
I didn't mean anything derisive by it. I just wanted to point out (to myself, mostly) that it shouldn't be surprising to find a high proportion of people who are unable to enjoy cilantro (and apparently it's a really foul taste for them) converging in a thread about food aversions.
Ie., if you're genetically predisposed to have a strong distaste for a flavour, and have experienced that distaste featured prominently in popular cuisines (Mexican, Thai, Vietnamese, etc), then sure, you may also have an interest in a thread on foods people dont like: you've had a real experience of it.
What's so wrong about that connection?
From what I've heard, this cilantro=soap thing is really strong. It was mystifying to me when I first met people who had this aversion (and I didn't know it had some physiological root). I can't think of another food/taste that, when disliked, is disliked with such intensity.
Question of the Day: What cuisine can't you stand?
@Ren, you said "Then again, shouldn't be surprised to find a lot of soap-tasters in a thread about hating food."
I'm not sure what you're getting at with that comment. If it's a lack of a particular enzyme that makes one perceive cilantro to taste like soap, and therfore a genetic issue that cannot be "fixed," (your statement seems to check out from some quick Googling), then what could possibly be the correlation between a genetic predisposition and people discussing what foods they hate?
Please enlighten us cilantro-challenged folks.
Question of the Day: Mayonnaise, Miracle Whip, or a soy alternative?
Hellman's RULES. End of report.
Question of the Day: Mayonnaise, Miracle Whip, or a soy alternative?
My grandmother used to use both Hellman's and Miracle Whip. Hellman's was for the macaroni salad; miracle whip is for potato salad, and since Miracle Whip is sweet, she'd counteract that with a little pickle juice.
Question of the Day: Mayonnaise, Miracle Whip, or a soy alternative?
Being a Cali girl, it's Best Foods all the way.
Miracle Whip *cough, cough... gag* is anathema and not allowed in my fridge. EVAR.
It's not even fit to be in the same paragraph, although I once wrote a blog entry about the differences between "Best Foodies" and "Miracle Whippers." I had just discovered I was dating someone who's lips had touched Miracle Whip. We stopped dating a couple of weeks later.
What can I say? It was Asparagus Season (an annual holiday in my book,) and bringing Miracle Whip into my house when I'd asked for Best Foods was the last straw.
Yes. I will dump a man for bad food ways. No. I'm not ashamed of that fact. I mean, how could I trust a Whipper to make a sandwich for me?
Question of the Day: Mayonnaise, Miracle Whip, or a soy alternative?
If she's getting a rash then maybe she's allergic... my allergy wouldn't seem so weird then...
Question of the Day: Mayonnaise, Miracle Whip, or a soy alternative?
Was raised on Hellman's..love the taste but recently I read the ingredients on the jar of Hellman's Light and I recoiled in horror..plus it may be giving Izzy a rash so I am testing new organic varieties that have real ingredients. Perhaps it is only the Light Mayo that has such unhealthy ingredients, haven't read the orginal ingredients yet. I tried Whole Foods brand which was decent and plan to try the one from T.J's soon.
Question of the Day: Mayonnaise, Miracle Whip, or a soy alternative?
Not a mayo fan, but when it's absolutely necessary, I'm a Hellman's girl all the way. (And Miracle Whip scares me!)
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