rocket. I mean fucking hell, it's just lettuce.

sassafras

Saffron, with it's super expensiveness

the calorie

a slab of fucking translucent granite.

balsamic anything

>>2633776
mango

>>2633798
I love balsamic vinegar though ;__;

Dry Ice

MSG

Ramen.

No, seriously. It's terrible. It's bad for you. It tastes bad. It doesn't even deserve to exist.

AND IT KEEPS TROLLING MAH /CK/

Cholesterol count is the biggest bullshit out there. It is only a problem is you believe it is.

Sea salt. Or any other hyped up salt, including OP's pic

>>2633810
let me tell you about cholestol, it's a lipid which means it is not water soluable, it is required to synthesize testosterone and progesterone, but the rest of it just goes into your blood stream, which is mostly water. since the cholesterol can't disolve it just floats around until it sticks to the wall of a vein (usually coronary artery) and from there more cholesterol attaches to it as it passes, until it blocks the vein completely and you have a heart attack

people can go overboard with it but it is certainly important

tahini

shits like $13 for a tiny ass jar and doesnt make my hummus taste any better

>>2633838
you dont know how to use it properly

>>2633838

you can make it yourself for under two dollars

beluga caviar. its not really any better than good salmon roe, just different, and overvalued because it's expensive.

tofu.
>I'm so cool cause im good for you cause im not meat.
>Think of the animals you are harming when you eat meat!

Suck my dick tofu.

>>2633858
>caviar
>fish eggs
>beluga whale
>not a fish
>doesn't lay eggs

am i missing something?

>>2633864
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beluga_%28sturgeon%29

yes. you are missing something

>>2633871
ah, thank you, kind anon.

>fucking splenda
>mfw people think artificial shit made with chlorine is healthier than sugar

>>2633859
You know: Tofu isn't exclusively consumed by vegans/vegetarians.

>>2633809
ramen isnt disgusting. it's addicting as fuck though

>>2633859
MEAT IS MURDER!
.. and Baby, Murder Taste good.

Celery can go burn in an iron smelting facility.

>>2633913
>implying that vegans and vegetarians don't drone on about it whenever they get the chance

>>2633922

i try not to eat a lot of plants because theyre living beings as well. poor plants, spending their lives making use clean air to breath, only to be ungraciously torn asunder from the ground, slaughtered by the billions and nobody seems to care about them. im a metatarian because i dont like the idea of killing plants.

>>2633817
that is a highly generalized explanation of cholesterol... and moderately inaccurate. However, i do commend you for pointing out that it is important to the body. i hate when dumbfucks label it as poison when its needed all over the body.

>>2633878
this x1000000
>lets replace natural sugar with neurotoxins and carcinogenics because herp dont wanna be fat.

I am so surprised that Truffle Oil has not been mentioned yet.

>>2633800
don't talk shit about mango

>>2633809
clearly you have never eaten at a ramen stand

>>2633810

>>2633925
>implying they do.

How is living in a fantasy land working out for you, kiddo?

>>2633859
tofu is good
its extremely good with meat.
the way how american veggie fags eat them makes them nasty

>>2633809
it appears that your knowledge of ramen goes as far as $1 instant ramen packages

>>2634017
Ramen shops are better but they still aren't that good

cumin

add a little and the fucker already took up half the taste of the recipe

>>2634262
I dont even really like instant ramen but miso ramen with pork and chili oil is one of my favorite things to eat. If I was sickeningly full from eating something else and it was offered to me I dont think I would turn it down.

>>2633932
if you eat steak, about 10x the plant energy is needed by the cow as if you just ate the plant directly

>>2633814
sea salt tastes good though

i wouldn't say it's hyped overly

parsley. looks pretty, smells weird tastes weird.

>>2633817

What about HDL's and LDL's and everything?

>>2634301
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2009/01/04/119-sea-salt/

>>2634059
>its extremely good with meat.
Doing it wrong
You might as well eat two slabs of meat stacked together

>>2634285

humans can''t digest grass chucklefuck

So by your logic, humans can't digest any plants? Why is grass different?

I know you mean cellulose but we can digest other components in plants.

>>2633859
I eat tofu all the time. It's cheap. I am not a vegfag at all, just a poorfag.

>>2633809
Judging ramen based on the cheap shit you buy at the store is like judging chicken parmesan on the $2 TV dinner version of it. Real Ramen made with wheat noodles in dashi and stuff thrown in it is super yummy.

I'd have to say EVOO. If ever I've seen a hipster ingredient it's this. In the last 5 years or so this is all over every fucking TV show like it's the teen pop star of cooking, like nobody can possibly cook without it. Guess what, there are a lot of other tasty alternatives to EVOO.

>>2633776
>>2633814
Actually, you can't live with NaCl alone, you need to vary your salt intake, and sea salt is composed of different kinds of salt.

Cilantro.
A little can be fine.
Most recipes contain too much

>>2634350
You get salts from the food you eat.

>>2633878

I hate retards like you. The final result isn't chlorine, so it doesn't matter one bit that chlorine is in the molecule that composes it.

You are like those tards who say shit like "OMG, margarine is one molecule away from plastic." Which if you aren't a total retard would make sense to you because:

1. Being one molecule off from anything means you can be a very long fucking way off.

2. Plastic is made from oil. Oil is made from dead plants. Margarine is made from plants.

Or retard observations like "OMG margarine is so bad that flys won't even eat it." Which makes sense because flies are carnivores and margarine is made from plants (if you didn't catch that point the first time).

Splenda is shit because it is shit, not because of some retarde dmisunderstanding of cheamistry.

>>2634283
Im just not a fan of Japanese food in general. I've been to quite a few ramen shops in Tokyo but eating it regularly would just annoy me as Im always hungry pretty soon after. Especially with that one slice of meat they give you.

Olive oil. I use it all the time, and I love the stuff, but I feel that some olive oils are so pretentious. Am I really going to be able to tell the different between the $7 liter of olive oil and the $30 liter of olive oil?

I kinda agree with the evoo sentiment.....

I buy this one kind of evoo it's 10 bucks for a bottle. I have to go to a italian grocery store for it, but it's completely worth the hassle of a special trip. It's got this real light taste and it makes all my dishes taste better, I even put extra on after plating. One time, I bought grocery store brand evoo. It was pretty rank.

I'm thinking about getting a premium bottle seeing what the taste difference is.

bacon, broccoli and spinach

fiber. I mean, really? what's wrong with having turds that are like snake shaped bricks?

any type of salt
its fucking bullshit who ever asks me if i want some fucking salt on my food i will fucking kill them

>>2634313
I like you. You made me laugh heartily.

>>2634313
>You might as well eat two slabs of meat stacked together
And how is that a bad thing?

Swallow's nest.. jesus christ.

>>2633858
Except one tastes like salmon and the other doesn't....

ketchup. ketchup is like "I'm the king of all things food because I sit on top of it". When actually parmesan cheese goes on top of the ketchup.

tofu

Brasserie - anything brasserie is pretentious bullshit.

>>2634369

>Splenda is shit because it is shit, not because of some retarde dmisunderstanding of cheamistry.
>retarde dmisunderstanding of cheamistry
>dmisunderstanding of cheamistry
>cheamistry
>can't explain that

>>2635369

>ruining Parmesan with ketchup

But my vote goes to ketchup too, because it overwhelms absolutely everything it touches.

The tiniest dab on my fries has my mouth tasting slightly of red and paste for the rest of the day. And that's when I learned to dip my fries in balsamic vinegar.

>>2634815
What kind of olive oil do you buy? I have been buying the cheaper ones for a while, but if you can recommend a good brand, I would like to give something new a try.

This is the stuff I have been using for the past couple of months.

cumin

sounds dirty

fucking panini presses in restaurants

so haute cusine!

not

>>2633920
the word is addictive not addicting

frous gras

>>2635638
Panini presses fucking rule. Shut up, you.

>>2634369
You think you just swallow something and that's it? No, your body will eventually break it down and the chlorine molecule will be broken off from the sugar and go on to poison you in one of many ways.

Garlic.

>>2635935
fuck you die

TRUFFLES

WHY SO EXPENSIVE, FUCK

>>2635953
you best be trollin', nigga

truffles are the food of the gods

>>2635953
Basic economics, scare resources cost more.

You go hunt for truffles with a pack of pigs and stop the pigs from eating the odd one you'll find. Then tell me truffles aren't worth shit?
Tasty as fuck ingredient, totally worth it.

>>2635621
>tasting slightly of red
>tasting
>red

>>2635968
Who the fuck uses pigs anymore?

>>2635971
This. People train dogs now.

>>2635972
The people with the best wild truffle use pigs.

>>2635968

Fun fact! Before WW1, France and many other countries got really good at cultivating the trees that Truffles grow on. Truffles were so common that they cost next to nothing, and thus why they show up in so many old french cuisines. After the war, the Orchards were devestated, and France simply did not rebuild them, thus the price went up, a lot.

So the price of Truffles, totally artificial.

>>2636000
No they don't, they use dogs. Pigs are just traditional.

>>2636002
Truffles were never dirt cheap... plantations take at least 15-20 years to establish before truffles are produced... assuming you even get the right truffle you inoculated it with.

>>2636010
Dogs have to be trained and pigs can find them naturally and are actually better at it. The only plus side to using dogs is that you don't have to worry about the dog eating the truffle once its found.

>>2636013
Being able to handle a 50 lb vs. 500 lb animals is a big pro.

>>2636002
The price of truffles is basic economics you tool.
High demand + low supply = prices rise
It's not artificial, the price of truffles is due to demand for them within the economy.

Truffles I buy from the suppliers who use pigs are generally better, probably coincidence but my supplier uses pigs and is the best I have found. I think it's the traditional touch and experience.

>>2636026
But the truffles and dogs find the same truffle species. There would be literally no difference between the collection methods.

>>2636036
I think where he has done it so long and still favours pigs allows him to find the best truffles.

>>2635927
Salt is sodium chloride. Hell, your stomach acid is hydrochloric acid. Your body can easily deal with chlorine and chloride in the tiny amounts that would pop off the molecule.

As for the one atom away thing - water and hydrogen sulfide are one atom away, and they're pretty hard to confuse.

>lets replace natural sugar with neurotoxins and carcinogenics because herp dont wanna be fat.

The fuck?

>>2635969

>he's never described the taste of something as a color

Tell me stuff like this shit doesn't taste like straight up purple. I dare you.

>>2636097
TASTE PURPLE?

>>2635953
I understand why they're expensive, but there's still no reason to want to slap them on everything.

They taste like dirt, people. Dirt with a crunch like celery. Anyone telling themselves different is lying to themselves because it's expensive.

NUTELLA

>>2633791

Tumericfag detected.

Three thousand years of prized use can't be wrong.

>inb4 proving op's point

>>2637102
oh fuck. this. this wins everything in this thread

I agree with whomever said saffron and Himalayan salt. Saffron is the most expensive spice ever and does next to nothing for the flavor.

Pink salt is just expensive pink salt.

>>2637102
Yeah, can't top that.
Only thing I had with gold leaf in it was some Goldwasser once - it was pretty good, but not thanks to the gold.

god this thread is full of fucking retards

>>2637140
>obviously butthurt that his favorite pretentious ingredient(s) have been listed.

- parsley
- rocket
- celery

>>2637107
How is a green pepper bullshit full of itself? That's like saying pepper is pretentious.

ocra, also named ladies' fingers in some places, you know why? because both of those things make everything they touch disgusting.

>>2637186
Yeah, that was a pretty weird post.

Celery it tastes disgusting no matter how you cut it. It adds nothing to food and just tastes bad

phoostream1

>>2637159
i missed the part where vinegar, saffron, mango, msg, garlic, tahini, broccoli... what's left to cook with?

>>2637259
gold leaf

..oh shit

>>2633925
I'm vegetarian....I never talk about it unless asked...even then there is not much I have to say lol.

ITT illiterate people mistake the OP's question for "what ingredient do you hate?"


The most bullshit ingredient is gold leaf because it adds nothing to the flavor and only exists for decorative purposes / to increase the price.

I always found PHRS kind of funny (I laughed when I got some for Christmas, and nearly called my stepdad an adorable yuppie freak). Saffron and truffles are up there... Champagne vinegar, Cognac (shit's expensive, and better IMHO in a glass)... there are so many to choose from.

I think I'm going to go with walnut oil, but it's a close race.

>>2633817
Let me tell you about veins.

They're not arteries.

Other than that, good job sir.

>>2637186
it is, it tastes like nothing, has the worst texture ever (i'd imagine it's what having a mouth full of foreskin would feel like) and people use it on fucking everything because it takes up space within the food and adds the illusion of variety.

I posted my three bullshit ingredients in order from worst, gold leaft, cabbage and bell peppers.

Bell peppers are only second to cabbage because cabbage actually has a taste and it's of shit, it also feels like chewing on pieces of plastic. Cabbages ruined shwarma wraps for me, the fucker who makes them fills it with 10% meat and 90% shredded cabbages (both normal and red to make it look somewhat interesting)

>>2637406
you must have some serious crunch to your foreskin.

>>2637408
Sorry I should have said once cooked.

Raw bell peppers are bearable if cut into small pieces.

My first time in /ck/ I had a thread hijacked by trolls making fun of me for not owning a marble slab.

>>2637436
>he doesn't own a marble slab

I don't like saffron most of the time. I think maybe when it's been overused. Tastes somewhere between rotten and medicinal. I rage at people hating cilantro, but I think maybe saffron is my cilantro.

Have had saffron dishes many times and I'm still not a fan. The only other thing I've had many times, and I still don't love it, is chicken livers. If offered a heavily saffronned dish or chicken livers, I'd go for chicken livers.

>>2637475
People hate on cilantro because they used it in the wrong food or tired to eat it without cooking it in something so that the flavour disperses.

>>2637475
>>2637483

People also hate cilantro because a fair number of people are "allergic" meaning instead of tasting Cilantro's flavor it tastes very very very strongly of soap. I had a friend that had this and it was quite incredible, he could tell cilantro was in a dish with an insane accuracy.

>>2637483
To people with a certain genotype, cilantro tastes strongly of soap.

Not an ingredient, but anyone who uses the word 'umami' is a fucking pretentious, food hipster douchebag. Why do we need another goddamn word for 'savory'?

>>2637666
Why do you need to act retarded over something that really doesn't matter?

>>2637666
Well trips, "Umami" does not necessarily mean "savory", it refers to the inherent quality of a good steak, the feeling of satisfaction you get from eating something that creates an overall sense of flavor harmony, as I understand it. It's not food hipster-ism, it's an attempt to describe something very abstract but present in all food and examinations of palette.

>>2633809
/CK/ IS NOT YOUR PERSONAL KITCHEN

>>2633814

But table salt is bullshit in mineral form.

>>2633817

The problem is that it is overboard. One does not need to label certain vegetable oils as "cholesterol free."

>>2637501
>he could tell cilantro was in a dish with an insane accuracy

Everyone should be able to do that. That's the point of adding an herb to a dish: to taste it.

Olive oil

>>2637707
it's better than using lard for everything.

>>2637722
have you cooked anything in lard..that shit is god tier

sure itll kill you../but youre gonna die anyways

Semen. They never swallow!

>>2637729
me?
I fucking love lard, I have a very german family...lots of delicious artery clogging deliciousness. But...I can't use it for everything...my heart does not allow it,

liquid n2

>>2637666
u obviously never went to biology class

>>2633878
10/10. all of my fucking hate.
ricin is all natural. go try some of that in your tea, its a great sugar replacement, i swear

>>2637788
most sugar substitutes are fucking hard to find, and well my mom is diabetic and uses splenda for tea and cooking...tastes fine to me.

OLIVE
OIL

You don't need to cook with so much of it. Ever.

>>2637791
the point is splenda has absolutely no documented adverse effects, not even under absolutely ludicrous doses. it's completely fucking benign. so to say it is bad because it isnt natural is full motherfucking retard.
you can make a case that aspartame is not safe, and while it's weak it's there. the same goes for sodium saccharine. but not splenda.

Crème fraiche.
They even put the stuff on a $1000 pizza. It's nonsense, it's just less sour cream.

>>2637792

You ever seen Jamie Oliver cook anything? He fucking uses half a bottle of olive oil in anything he's making.

I saw him use an entire fucking croakus of saffron in a stew aswell, the man makes too much money.

>>2637798
so...why am I a fucking retard? I didn't say anything against splenda.

You're an asshole.

>>2637803

On the back of every Jamie Oliver microwaveable meal, it says "Prick with a fork."

>>2637817

He endorses microwaveable meals?

Man, that's a damn shame I actually had a little respect for his passion for food before this.

Ever seen Nigella Lawson aswell? She burns everything mistakenly and then trys to pass it off as "how it's supposed to be done".

>>2637817
>"prick with a fork"
I lol'd at that.

>>2637823

Nigella Lawson cooks? I thought it was some kind of fetish play or something.

fucking mirin man. Shit is disgusting.

Pasta. The butter, cheese, herbs, ground meat, and sauce are the parts of your meal that taste good. Pasta is this queer, white substance made from grass seeds without much flavor unless it's egg noodles and then it's just the damn egg you're tasting. Completely worthless nutritionally and it tastes like water.

truffle oil

>>2637903

I could live off plain pasta and salt.
Guaranteed, I'd be very unhealthy. But pasta makes me ever so happy!

This shit. Thanks /ck/ for making the internet a more pretentious place.

>>2637929
Ever used it? A $10 bottle lasts longer than a quart of olive oil unless you're abusing the stuff.

>>2638047
If you get anything worth going anywhere near your food $10 is a tablespoon or so

Anyone who buys "truffle" oil is an idiot.

>>2638055
Protip: Truffle oil isn't actually made with truffles.

>>2638056
Because nobody ever uses man-made flavors when cooking... EVER. How dare anyone soil the high standards of /ck/

>>2638058
Protip: I know but I don't care. Please remove your gonads.

kosher salt

fuck you jews

>>2638062
If you knew that, how come you thought that "good" synthetic truffle oil would be $10/tbsp?

lolwut

If any of you fags ever HAD truffles you would understand that using "truffle oil" is nothing like truffles at all and could never be a substitute.

It's cute when poor people try to live it up.

>>2638066
Fuck Jews, but learn your facts:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosher_salt#Name

>>2638066
Dumbass, most salts are kosher. Kosher salt is used to absorb liquids from meats to make them kosher.

soy. it tastes like shit and makes your balls fall off, yet somehow everyone thinks it's some kind of miracle food.