/ck/ - Food & Cooking

It's not a special gene. It tastes similar to soap and picky eaters freak out about that.

>>20335432
No it doesn't but I'm glad to hear you've overcome your genetic disability.

>>20335432
It actually is a gene.

>>20335413
ürb

I wish /ck/ could just go back to the good days, where everyone was nice and didn't come from reddit.

>>20335413
coriander is my favourite fresh herb.
marjoram is my favourite dried herb.

>>20335768
redpill me on marjoram

>>20335790
it's a really nice floral flavour, people say it's like oregano but it's less 'spicy' and has more depth.

>>20335790
>>20335851
similar herbs ranked in terms of how pungent they are: marjoram < oregano < thyme

they're all a little similar, but marjoram is super gentle and thyme is a like a brick to the face. they all have their place but once you start cooking with them the differences start to become very important

I dislike tarragon, perhaps due to the awful carrots my dear mother made long ago. Marjoram seems overwhelming on its own but tolerable in poultry seasoning. And bay leaves, i just don't get, except for the science, though i still never use them. I like all the rest but don't use as much as i should.

>>20335855
I find them all quite different but you're right about the intensity. Mexican oregano is my favorite. Wish I could get my hands on some real Za'tar herb.

>>20335919
>Za'tar herb
you mean sumac? fuck m8 that shit grows all over the place where I live. It's a horrible weed in fact.

>>20335924
There's more than one kind of sumac, retard-kun

>>20335934
nah

>>20335924
Nah it's what's traditionally mixed with sumac and sesame to make the zaatar spice mix, usually substituted with thyme/oregano.

>>20335432
doesnt taste like soap to me

>>20335413
Basil

>>20335432
There literally are genes that make certain compounds perceptible to some people's taste and not to others depending on whether or not they have that gene. When I was in middle school the science teacher handed out little strips of paper and told us all to stick the end in our mouths and say what it tasted like, and everyone other than me and one other kid said it tasted nasty and bitter, and all I tasted was paper. I don't remember what it was, but the point the teacher made was about how the ratio of people who could taste the thing to those who couldn't was very close to the data we have on the broader population. It's not that some people are just more sensitive certain things. It's that some people don't have the taste receptors to even register those compounds at all.

>>20335413
Dill.

>>20335685
I know everyone thinks their own pronunciation sounds correct to them, but there are certain things you should be able to recognize just sound better in a different dialect, and "herb" with a hard "h" always sounds awkward.
>best erb
>best herb
Just say the two out loud and one has a much nicer flow to it.

>>20335413
Parsley as it works with/in everything.
>>20335790
Great for sausages or thick soups like pea, lentil or potato soup similar to savory.

>>20337098
Best herb sounds better.
I'm sorry but urb sounds like brain damage.
Like you're saying "err"

"The beshd errr um errb ish podado :)"

My favourite is Basil. Super easy to grow, grows fairly quick, can be grown indoors even in low light, grows new leaves quickly if cut correctly, clones easily, if grown indoors it makes the area around the plant smell great, can be thrown into salads, makes pesto etc etc. not saying it is the best but I like it the most.

>>20337111
You have no ear for language.

>>20337098
It doesn't sound awkward unless you have to pause to insert an H sound, which you don't because it's made with a simple exhalation that is easily performed while moving your tongue from T position and shaping it for the E.

>>20337131
Cunt theres only one english speaking nation that says erb and they are the same nation that gave us fr fr no cap bussin on god

>>20335432
>he has the inferior soap taste genes

>>20338104
Herb isn't an English word.

parsley (coriander) goes with anything cooked with butter. So namely everything good and Christian

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>>20338134
If you trace it back to Latin the pronounciation with h is even more logical.

>>20339013
tastes like christmas :)

>>20335413

>>20338134
I didn't say it was an English word, I said in the English speaking nations where it's employed only one drops the H and it's the nation that is, by and large, turbotarded as fuck.

>>20337078
based teacher using his students as guinea pigs

>>20335919
I thought Mexican oregano was weed

>>20340490
>I didn't say it was an English word, I said in the English speaking nations where it's employed only one drops the H and it's the nation that is, by and large, turbotarded as fuck.
Why do you hate the British?
Modern British English sounds more like African-American Vernacular English, or something you might expect Alex DeLarge to say in A Clockwork Orange.