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Food Crimes - Offenses against nutrition

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looks like testicles pulled out and boiled

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (3 children)

This looks like the time I jerked off in the hot tub.

I’m never allowed at that house again.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Some hot tub hosts have no humour.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Swimmers became streamers…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Did you release one of your patented maggoty cum farts in the hot tub as well?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Manslaughter is an accident and a crime.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

unless the prosecution hides the bullets for no reason

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Foodslaughter then

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Magnificent for halloween!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Goes well with this (well, at least visually):

Alien Brain Hemorrhage

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

the method requires to poach eggs on water with few drops of vinegar, not 100% vinegar

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Helps hold the whites intact I believe? Maybe I was lied to about putting some vinegar in with boiled eggs to stop seepage if they crack?

[–] Reverendender 6 points 1 month ago

My research into this previously had indicated this is an old wives tale. Don't take my word for it though, since I can't poach an egg to save my life.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Makes sense. Both acid and heat denature protein.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, but typical white vinegar is 5% acetic acid. Putting a few drops, or even a teaspoon in a pot of water would reduce it to a negligible concentration and would have no effect on the eggs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That's also not really considering any chemical reaction with the calcium in the shell just neutralizing the vinegar anyway.

[–] southsamurai 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Legit though, a few drops of aged balsamic on eggs is amazing.

The "fake" balsamic, meaning regular vinegar that's flavored and colored to be kinda similar to aged balsamic, but lacks the best parts, is barely acceptable for salad dressing and roasting Brussels sprouts. And that's what was used here. Either that or they have way too much money to be wasting stuff that's as much as a hundred bucks for a small bottle that's meant to be used a few drops at a time.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Where the fuck are you spending 100 bucks on balsamic? It's €1 a bottle

[–] southsamurai 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not aged, DOP balsamic. And I specified the aged balsamic in my comment.

That stuff is aged in barrels until it's a thick, syrupy bit of heaven. A minimum of 25 years to meet the DOP standards.

The IGP standard for balsamic is less stringent, and it is cheaper, but you still aren't paying 1 euro for it anywhere that I could find online. It's more like 5 or 6 euro. It's essentially the same as the cheaper stuff; grape must added to other vinegar, but processed in Modena.

Here in the US a decent IGP balsamic is closer to 25 USD.

The cheapest aged balsamic I can get here is 35 a bottle, and it isn't DOP, it's made here in the states, and isn't aged as long; it goes 12 years. The DOP stuff can actually end up over 100 here by the time all the costs of it getting here get involved. And they're small bottles compared to the U.S. made aged stuff.

This is a decent IGP balsamic on us amazon

And here's a DOP that's supposedly amazing, but way outside my budget, so I'll never know

And this is just "balsamic" with no standard applied at all

I don't know if the listings there includes an ingredient list at all, but the pompeian is just cheap wine vinegar with some grape must and coloring added. It just isn't made in Italy at all, much less Modena.

And there is a major difference in taste, texture, and thickness between IGP and DOP, even on the cheapest DOP available here in the US (about 35 bucks, so not different in price grin the us made stuff). There's only minor taste difference between IGP and the typical stuff on grocery store shelves here. And I suspect that is down to the vinegar used as the base.

Aged DOP, or the equivalent regardless of where it's made, you treat it like the luxury it is. You put drops of it on things because that's all you need. You don't cook it at all because it destroys the flavor.

The process of aging the stuff is slow. You start the batch off in a big barrel. After a time,,a few years, the wood has sucked out water and imparted its own flavors. They'll then move it to a smaller barrel where it sits and gets further reduced and aged. By the time it's done, the original amount is down to a gallon or so, depending on exactly how the maker does things. That is then bottled.

So, it's a labor intensive, time consuming process. Even the least expensive stuff that's only aged 12 years or so that isn't DOP still represents a buttload of resources. You aren't going to find that for 1 euro. Even if it cost so little to make they could sell it for that, they wouldn't.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I never knew anything about this ever but my interest in incredibly piqued now thank you.

[–] southsamurai 3 points 1 month ago

No worries :)

You really gotta try some of the more affordable DOP stuff, it is an experience

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wtf does vinegar have to do with poached eggs in the first place? Are they boiling a pot of vinegar for some reason?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The vinegar helps the denaturation of the ovalbumin in the egg white which speeds up the solidification process and helps the egg hold its shape better.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've never heard the word ovalbumin before, but I like it. Albumin largely means protein, but it's using Latin words ovi (egg) and albus (white) so you're saying "the denaturation of the egg white in the egg white."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Ah, maybe! I'm a better cook than I am a student of Latin!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

To add to the other reply: it's just a splash of vinegar in a pot of boiling water.

https://www.allrecipes.com/article/hacks-to-master-poaching-eggs/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

If I saw this godless sight, I’d never think to try and eat it anyways

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I've never had a poached egg, and I didn't know that making them required vinegar. Seeing this makes me never want to try them even if done correctly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Now do apple cider vinegar.