>be me >discover mexican cuisine >don't have cilantro (climate too hot) >make a lot of dishes without it >mexican is by far the best cuisine I have ever tried >find cilantro >can't wait to make some mexican food with it >put a shit load of it in my salsa >realise that it kinda tastes like stink bugs >fuck me
From what I have read cilantro is an acquired taste. Is this true? Should I keep putting it in my food in small doses and eventualy I will like it? I really wanna like it because as I said I love mexican food and cilantro is a big part of most 'recipes'. Help por favor.
Joshua Diaz
It's a genetic thing. For some people cilantro tastes like soap. For other people it doesn't have that soapy taste.
Be aware that cilantro can easily overpower a dish. I like it, but even so I'm very careful with how much I use. Salsa can be especially insidious because the cilantro flavor gets stronger over time. If you make fresh salsa and you add cilantro until it tastes right it will become a cilantro bomb as it sits for a few hours. For many dishes with cilantro add less than you think you might need because the flavor will become much stronger as the dish sits or cooks.
Logan Reyes
A decent salsa or pico is kinda like a macaroni salad or potato salad, best made 24 hours before you want to eat it.
Cilantro kinda bleeds into a dish over a day and becomes eatable, but it needs that time. I'm not really a big fan of it, and I find it retarded as a garnish, but it has it's uses.
Jaxon Anderson
This. I go out to eat every Thursday with a couple of friends. One friend and I both love this Mexican place because they put cilantro in everything, but the other dude hates it and says it tastes like soap.
I would be careful about using a "shitload" I love the stuff, but it can be pretty overpowering.
Owen Rogers
OP knew that. This is a bit thread. A mild, well constructed bait thread, but still one.
He knew this and your reply is exactly what he wanted.
Nicholas Powell
I think I must have the genetic thing s well as I hate the stuff. I've found good results replacing it with flat leaf parsley where required.
Cooper Morales
To me, a salsa without coriander (cilantro) is trash.
Kevin Richardson
>climate too hot Where the fuck do you live user? It grows in my sister's yard like a weed. She can't get rid of it fast enough. In Phoenix Arizona
Asher Fisher
So, if I let it sit will taste less than stink bugs?
Also for anyone reading my main question is this: Will I get used to it?
Robert Evans
If it's too hot cilantro is prone to bolting/going to seed.
Lincoln Green
Yep, that's why they don't sell it here. Greece.
Henry Cox
This is true. I live in the south and we grow it. It starts coming on in the fall (it reseeds itself) and wee get as much as we can use through the winter and spring. But it goes to seed at the end of spring and we can't get it to grow in the hot summer. I'm making Tom Yum Gai tonight and I'll just have to do without the cilantro.
Jackson Scott
No. Cilantro taste is one of these weird DNA-defined thing. Either you have the gene and like it from the start, or you don't and it'll always taste weird. It tastes like soap to me.
Michael James
Soap is manmade Is the flavor not also included into soap in order to make it more pleasant, if so why have so much roundabout whining about this Is this so confusing I heard similar complaining about rootbeer Really what gives
Andrew Brooks
How the fuck do you know what stink bugs taste like?
Lincoln Richardson
OP here. Because I ate stink bugs. I also tried my own poop but it was too bitter to put on my gyros.
Bentley Jones
Definitely it tastes nearly identical to how stink bugs smelt when they sprayed you and I didn't like it at first but after I turned 13 I now love it. I figure some people just don't like interesting flavours.
Jaxon Lewis
i find cilantro to taste a bit soapy and i still think its one of the greatest herbs ever made
Connor Russell
This Not sure what the supposedly 'normal' taste is suppose to be like but I love it regardless.
Lincoln Ross
So it IS an acquired taste Today I cooked it without the stems and it was really nice. Anyway, thanks for your help, everyone. I'll go back to /adv/ now.
John Brown
If you find the cilantro overpowering it's a sign you have too little chilies in there.
Carson Nguyen
>>don't have cilantro (climate too hot) What the fuck? Mexico is literally 120 degrees and they can grow the shit just fine.