Why do so many people ruin their dishes with this shit?
Such a huge amount of people (at least most people I know) hate it, yet every time I watch a cooking show I see people put it on everything.
Even restaurants around where I live rarely have cilantro in their dishes because they know most people don't like it. Just mexican restaurants, even then, i constantly hear people ask to leave it out.
Why the fuck does everyone on television and youtube throw this into everything? Is it just the area I'm from and the rest of the world doesn't think cilantro tastes like shit?
>Is it just the area I'm from and the rest of the world doesn't think cilantro tastes like shit? Pretty much
Nathaniel Morris
Apparently some people have a genetic variation that makes cilantro taste like soap to them.
Personally, I like it. But that being said it is easy to overdo it and add too much.
Zachary Thomas
oh look, it's another faggot who thinks the world should cater to his genetic deficiencies.
Easton Cooper
F L Y O V E R L Y O V E R
Jeremiah Kelly
I'm not asking anyone to.
I'm asking why it's fucking everywhere.
When you watch cooking shows, they put it on everything, even places it doesn't really belong. I remember watching episodes of Emeril when i was a kid, and every dish he made, he just threw the shit in it "BAM BAM BAM!" and the whole audience is all "oooooh, aahhh", like they're having orgasms. 10% of the human population genetically can't stand this shit, I don't know why it's overused so much.
Not even other herbs, ones that almost no one dislikes, are used like that. You never see these chefs putting basil on everything. They just use it when it's called for.
Television and youtube chefs use cilantro more often than italian chefs use garlic. And almost everyone loves garlic.
I'm just asking what makes people like it, when they themselves admit it kind of tastes like soap. And why people use it so often when 10% of people watching the show not only hate it, but don't even have a choice but to hate it because of genetics.
Ayden Perez
Everyone else loves it. Only genetic freaks like you think it tastes bad. This is like an autismic complaining about why so many people insist on having empathy.
Aaron Baker
STOPLIKINGWHATIDONTLIKE - the thread
Isaac Anderson
Because it goes well with pretty much everything
Jeremiah Myers
Meme plant
Henry Nguyen
I feel the same way about Mayo and Ranch.
Ian Flores
what do you even call the taste of coriander? I can't really describe it. I put a generous amount of it in falafel and it adds that distinct note that truly completes the dish.
Matthew Morris
>Is it just the area I'm from and the rest of the world doesn't think cilantro tastes like shit?
yes
Juan Nelson
The same reason parsley and pepper is everywhere. Most people really like it.
Austin Hall
I know people who think it gets overused sometimes, but don't know anyone that actually hates it, or has ever requested to have it left out of a dish.
Leo Martinez
>able to taste a chemical compound other can't >deficiency are people who can detect cyanide by smell deficient too? nah, the ones who can't smell the deadly poison clearly have the better gig.
Connor Bennett
>I'm asking why it's fucking everywhere. >When you watch cooking shows, they put it on everything,
I disagree. I watch a lot of cooking shows and I only see it when it's typical for the type of food being prepared: either Mexican/Central American & related (Southwestern US, etc.), and in Southeast Asian cuisine. I sometimes see it subbed for culantro in Spanish cooking.
But I've never seen it on cooking shows featuring Japanese, Chinese, French, Italian, etc. I think it's not as prevalent as you think it is--either that or you're watching a ton of Southwestern & SEA to the exclusion of all else.
Nathan Diaz
>even places it doesn't really belong
I challenge you to give me one example of Emeril adding cilantro to a dish for no reason. I will be happy to accept multiple examples, but only one is necessary.
Nolan Cox
It becomes a "deficiency" when it causes you to hate something that isn't toxic at all.
Kevin Sanders
Are people such children they can't deal with the taste? I've been eating it all my life (spic side of the family) and even though it's not my favorite, it isn't so bad that I need to ask the chef to omit it. Goddamn so many pansies on this board I swear
Aiden Peterson
It's not a matter of being picky, its one of the only things to do with taste preference that is actually due to genetics. 10% of humans actually taste soap when the eat it because they can taste a certain chemical in it that the other 90% can't.
Xavier Jackson
Hey, good idea Will try it next time I make falafels
Brayden Gutierrez
not my fault the plant is poorly designed
Jason Robinson
>not my fault my genes are poorly designed ftfy
Adrian King
Is this a cilantro love thread?
I load pico de gallo up with this stuff.
Love the way it feels around all the wet veggies and the herbal kick it throws out there.
Jonathan Rogers
Nobody said it was your fault, user. But it still is your deficiency.
John Mitchell
Salsa is not salsa without cilantro I don't give a fuck what you say
Also nice b8 OP
Brandon Davis
Potatoes+cilantro+mayo is best potato salad
Nolan Adams
Just use little on some dishes so you'll get used to the taste I wasn't a big fan but I kept using it and I like it now Throw some in guac, really works wonderfully there especially
Christian Torres
Relax stupid, you just have a genetic defect that makes you think it tastes like soap. It affects mostly females so maybe you're a effeminate faggot.
But if you want to see what all the hype is all about try out Culantro. Culantro is just like cilantro but doesn't have the compounds that triggers your genetic defects into thinking it's soap. By the way some soaps taste fucking delicious.
Hudson Adams
>Apparently some people have a genetic variation that makes cilantro taste like soap to them. Yeah, it's something like 1% of the population has it, yet my mom, dad, sister and I all have it.
Almost died having dinner at my friend's when I stopped eating the soup his dad made because it was full of cilantro, yet he insisted there was none.
Adrian Phillips
It's a key component of pho, which I really like.
Luke Robinson
I used to think I liked coriander because I'd only had it in small quantities in foods where other flavours were more dominant and so didn't really pick up on it.
Then one day I ordered coriander & chilli chicken from a Chinese place......
It would've been cheaper just to drink a bottle of liquid soap. Fortunately, the coriander was in big sprigs so I could eat around it, but I learned my lesson that day.
Isaac Baker
Do you come from an inbred family? Maybe that's why the genetic defect is affecting all of you.
It doesn't taste like soap, it's delicious and it's the reason it's prominent in some of the best world cuisines, not just Mexican.
Alexander Morris
>It doesn't taste like soap Yes it does and it will never not taste like it unless I get a tongue transplant you dipshit.
Kayden Reyes
only a small percent of the world's population has that unfortunate genetic disposition.
git gud.
Asher Lopez
>coriander >sprigs choose one
Jeremiah Carter
Ok you special deformed snowflake, then just don't eat it and quit whining about it. If you don't want to further curse your family I suggest you quit fucking your sister. Do humanity and cooking a favor and never reproduce, spare the world your defected genetics and let us enjoy cilantro.
Xavier Clark
It means you are untermensch desu senpai
Dominic James
It's hereditary.
Congratulations, your children will also inherit your defective taste buds.
Aaron Miller
>projecting this hard over fucking leaves
Justin Gonzalez
I don't have the gross soap thing, but I still think cilantro is shit
It's like the laziest herb there is. They only put it on stuff because it's flavorful, but it's not like the flavor is particularly good
Ayden King
Just because of this thread, I went outside and picked some fresh cilantro leaves from the garden, and then grabbed some dried leaves of a different variation of cilantro from the garden last year.
And then I chewed them up, and they were both good. Suck it OP you fat fuck.
Robert Mitchell
I can eat cilantro just fine and I don't think it really limits a person's diet that much not to be able to eat it.
Still, good luck enjoying Southeast Asian cuisine because they pile that shit on in a lot of dishes.
I can't imagine not being able to have pho the way it was meant to taste. It's honestly like ramen on steroids, very delicious.
Thomas Cruz
ayy lmao the faggot that cant taste cilantro is getting buttmad
Elijah Watson
Cilantro is starting to grow on me.
It used to taste like soap and ruined every dish that even had trace amounts of it.
But it's growing on me. It's come to the point where it doesn't bother me anymore, and even adds to some food like Indian.
So whether this whole "le genes" thing is true or not, I think anyone can learn to like cilantro with enough exposure to it.
However, cilantro should be kept optional in dishes because of how potentially offensive it is to the senses of a very vocal minority.
Jace Robinson
It doesn't taste like soap to me, but it is really bitter and tends to overpower anything that's on it or in it.
Dylan Bell
Cilantro is sex. Mouth gasm. Period. That's why
Landon Richardson
I can taste it, you're the one who cant taste it
Samuel Gonzalez
That's why dishes that use it often tend to have very heavy, rich flavors to go along with it.
You're making a big mistake if you put cilantro on a light dish. It will quickly overpower it until all you taste is cilantro.
It's one gene which makes you slightly more sensitive to a handful of molecules that make up part of coriander's taste, and there are plenty of people with the gene that also like coriander. It's not like a genetic on off switch, it's still primarily just a matter of personal preference and acquired taste.
Christian Lewis
Stop with this fucking genetics bullshit. It's just an acquired taste like every other food you're not used to. Finally some common sense in this cringeworthy thread.
Camden Jones
You need to use it in a small dose first. I hate the pure coriander leaf taste. But i dig it if i use some in a dish. It´s just awful to aquire where I live. Gonna plant some on my balcony. Nobody I know uses it and i dont watch cooking shows (living in germany)
Liam Howard
reddit: the posting style
Bentley Rodriguez
I can taste the soapyness in cilantro, but I eat it anyway because I enjoy the flavor.
Christian Scott
I like cilantro, but a lot of people use WAY too much. It's supposed to compliment the other flavors, and people overpower them instead.
Levi Cook
Except it's actually for real a genetic defect, you are physically unable to smell the plant and therefore the taste is off.
Hudson Torres
For some reason, I can eat it when it's cooked in soups or sauces to where the leaf itself becomes soft and the flavor is mostly dissolved into what you cooked it in.
But completely raw? Hell no. I tried eating a couple leaves just for the hell of it and nearly threw up. After that, whenever I taste raw cilantro in any dish I can't help but gag. Cooking it thoroughly relieves some of the soapy flavor, at least in my experience.
Bentley Sanchez
What does Cilantro taste like to you guys? I don't get soapy vibes but it kind of tastes like cricket to me.
Easton Smith
honestly, to me it tastes like any other herb, just with a hint of soap and stomach acid
Dylan Miller
It tastes citrusy, without the acidity or bitterness of citrus.
I've eaten cilantro in foods my whole life. It never stopped overpowering everything with its nauseating foamy taste. Fuck all of you.
Owen Mitchell
I dunno, why do people even eat tarragon? Shits nasty
Charles Ortiz
I really wish Chipotle kept a tray of cilantro-free rice. There's four times as many cilantro-haters in the US than there are vegetarians, yet Chipotle sees fit to offer sofritas to cater to vegetarians. Just replace the sofritas tray with cilantro-free rice and bam, you're instantly satisfying way more of your customers.
Matthew Gray
>degenerate mutant >tells us we have poor taste
whatever, bruh
Jayden Peterson
This.
Cooked it's ok, but raw and even a trace of it will make me spit food out like a little kid. Soap isn't a good description of how bad it tastes. It tastes like pure poison to me. Soap mixed with battery acid and mexican leprosy pus is more accurate.
Hunter Jones
I don't understand that either. They put that shit in everything. I wouldn't doubt that was also the culprit making so many people sick. Sub human mexicans shitting in whatever god forsaken fields they grow that weed in. Fuck you chipolte
Tyler Price
It used to taste like soap to me but just like any acquired taste I learned to like it and now it tastes like this user said plus a bit grassy.
Julian Cox
Gotta deep fry it for you burger. Cilantro is love. t. Ukrainian
David Clark
You know I used to fucking hate Cilantro, but now I really enjoy it in a lot of dishes. Don't know what changed, but I heard that your taste buds become desensitized to certain bitter tastes as you get older.
Jonathan Brown
this is actually the reason I don't go there. I love a burrito assembly line, but I can't eat their rice
Ayden Reed
>has been scientifically proven >calls it bullshit
Keep living under that rock, kid.
Jackson Barnes
Often, it's the result of the "add cilantro and lime juice to it and it will be an authentic Mexican dish"-meme, which spread over to some other cuisines or perceptions of it. I personally like it, especially in guacamole, but I can understand how the taste wouldn't appeal to everyone. Just be thankful you don't dislike basil, too. That shit is piled on everything with tomato in it, for "le authentic Italian taste". I like it, but sometimes it's overdone.
Brandon Walker
I can't tell if I like cilantro or not
Sometimes it's fine and other times it almost ruins the dish/taco for me.
Related question, I was in Ecuador two years ago and the food was delicious, except some of the dishes had something in them that tasted really bad, and I couldn't figure out what it was. It think it was these things that looked like onions but weren't actually onions. Does anyone know what that is?
Brayden James
I hate mayo, except in tuna and egg salad
It just tastes rotten to me
Easton Collins
I've had cilantro taste like dish soap before, and I've had it not taste like dish soap before. I don't know what's what.
Parker Nelson
Same thing here. My dad would make lots of fresh salsa with cilantro and I always thought it tasted soapy. A few years later now, I'm fine with how it tastes.
Isaac Sanchez
i like parsley and cilantro they fit my meals very well thank u
Joseph Green
>scientifically proven You don't know shit about science, you've just heard other people say it's scientifically proven and now you say it as well. Fuck off.
Nicholas Allen
>I can taste the soapyness >I enjoy the flavor.
Do you enjoy the flavor of soap user?
Logan Brooks
i have a huge cilantro plant in my flat
my rabbit and i eat that shit up like candy
the dog can go fuck himself
Camden Sanders
aww yeah me and my rabbit all bout dat cilantro life too namean and watercress we fuck up some watercress
Grayson Lee
It's not even that strong of a flavor, the fuck you fags on about?
Jayden Stewart
Well, for one, 10% is a small number. It's like if out of ten people at a party only one is vegan, but that means that the other nine have to cancel a pizza order and eat quinoa. Fuck catering to minorities. Then you have to step back and realize that it's not nearly as common as you think. It's sort of rare to see it used like you're describing, so it's a bit of a luxury to some people. I wish we could trade places, it sounds like you live near some nice restaurants. I'd gladly trade.
Leo Miller
And you do know shit about science? How about you and your shit genetics go fuck off and die.
Dylan Sanchez
how come seeds have an ok taste/aroma but the leaves taste weird?
Jace Brooks
Sorry you can't taste one of the most delicious herbs known to man
Luke Lopez
You haven't even read the report you fucking weasel.
Christopher Scott
Yes. I used to drink cod liver oil as a child because I unironically enjoyed the flavor too.
Jaxson Miller
Cilantro>>>>>>>>parsley
Brandon Johnson
Why are all American retarded rednecks that only eat things that their alcoholic moms force-fed them during their childhood (burgers, mac'n'cheese, cigarettes)?
Colton Brooks
Cause you are probably a genetic abomination if you dont like it, deal with it op.
Grayson Bailey
I see you have the genetic defect that makes cilantro taste bad. Sucks to be you.