• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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        2 months ago

        I do the same because I love garlic too … unfortunately, this past winter, I discovered there is an upper limit to this ‘one neat trick’ … an entire head of raw garlic on a piece of toast is enough to wish you could physically remove your colon from own body for a few hours.

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      2 months ago

      No recipe should ever have only 1 clove of garlic. Unless it’s a recipe for 1 clove of garlic and even then you should at least double it.

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      There’s actually a better way to get more garlic flavor into your dishes without adding more. The secret is to add the garlic at the last possible moment in the cooking process to reduce the garlic oxidation. The more it oxidizes the less flavor it has. It oxidizes the second you break the cell walls so waiting until the end of possible helps retain the flavor and make it more potent!

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      Maybe you aren’t very sensitive to garlic flavor, or just really like the flavor enough to not notice it is overpowering everything else?

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    I might be an outlier here, but I absolutely think there is such a thing as too much cheese. My partner and I have regular disagreements about how much should be put on a pizza when we’re making one at home.

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      Adding too much cheese can keep the the middle of the pizza from cooking properly, just like too much sauce or too many large chunks of vegetables with high water content. It takes a LOT of cheese to reach that point, but it is very possible when combined with the large chunks of vegetables.

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        It could be the cheese basically sealing in moisture from the sauce. Usually the cheese itself isn’t too wet, just oily, but if it completely covers a wet sauce and prevents that moisture from escaping, I think that would do it.

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          That could be a factor as well. Keeping the moisture in would keep the crust from drying on top of the increase thermal mass of the cheese itself.

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        Sounds like we’re in complete agreement.

        What really gets me is when someone crosses the line from “enough to hold it together” all the way through “cohesive item you can take bites from” then dives headlong into “everything sloughs off as the cheese stays connected and drags every other topping with it”, then acts like nothing is wrong and it’s a good thing.

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    Oh, there is DEFINITELY a point where too much cheese becomes a mistake. Somewhere around 400%, I think. I felt sick for days…

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    Seriously. I sorta watched Netflix’s You are what you eat documentary. If you haven’t watched it, it’s basically veganism propaganda, in my opinion. The point is some expert says something like “OMG, cheese is actually addictive!”. It just baffled me. Like, what’s the damn problem with cheese being addictive? If it is at all, it is addictive for me and it will be like that my whole life, because I feel empty if I don’t include cheese in my diet… So, fuck yeah!

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        I’m not talking about dairy in general, just cheese. To me, it’s just wonderful to have so many different types of cheese and I want to taste them all, even those that smell awful.

        But yeah, the FDA recommends three daily glasses of milk for Americans (which I’m not, BTW). That by itself is absolutely ridiculous.

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        Water is addictive! Try to live without it a coupe of days and you’ll get the worst abstinence syndrome ever!

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    Who needs the leftover quarter bag of shredded cheese anyway.

    I do the same with anything that comes in a can. I’m not going to use a tenth of a tomato paste tomorrow. It goes in today.

    Good recipes take that into account.

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    As someone that had to stop themselves from eating an entire tub of jalapeno pimento cheese with cheddar cheese Doritos earlier today, I can confirm.