Lol these are always funny. Look up people complaining about a "leaf" in their food when the recipe uses Bay Leaf. It's like complaining someone put leaves in your tea.
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Leaves obviously don't belong into tea. Everyone knows tea grows when you hang those little paper bags on a tree. And depending on the kind of tree, you get a different type of tea.
Right and chocolate milk comes from brown cows.
This is actually a common misconception. The truth is any cow can produce chocolate milk. The misconception comes from brown cows featured on the majority of chocolate milk cartons.
I will say though, I've had curry where the bay leaf is chopped up which makes it rather obnoxious.
Sure that wasn't a curry leaf? Either way I'd agree they're beat removed before serving.
Aren't bay leaves supposed to be removed after cooking?
Big pot of something and hope you find all the bay leaves. You might pull some out, think you've got them all but they like to hide.
I always leave them in because pulling them out is more trouble than it's worth. I'm lazy as hell, but I'm also cooking for just my wife and I.
Literally worst case nobody's going to crack a tooth or something. They get a spoonful of soup with a big leaf in it and they just put the leaf aside.
If it's not edible it shouldn't be in the plate. Bay leaf, cinnamon sticks. Etc shouldn't end up in the plate. They're used just for flavor.
What a weird hill to die on!
So I assume you eat the bones of chicken wings, legs, thighs, etc? You eat the stems of apples and other such fruit? And you eat the cores or pits?
Or were you one of those children brought up by parents who cut off the crusts of the Wonder Bread sandwiches to make sure you never encountered any iota of challenge or even the most trivial work while eating?
I fucking hate bay leaf, if you don't have a plan for getting it all out at the end don't put it in the food because it's gross.
Reminds me of people complaining their vanilla flavored things having nasty little black dots.
We were at a very authentic Chinese restaurant and and a family showed up and asked waiter for recommendations they said the roast duck is very good which is very true. The roast duck shows up to their table and the guy takes a bite and bites straight into bone and he starts loudly complaining how there's bones in it and why isn't there meat and that chicken has a lot more meat and why doesn't the duck have more meat and that this is a rip off and then it's all bones and he's mad that they sold him this. The restaurant ended up taking back the dish and giving them a refund simply because of the customers ignorance it was so cringe.
This is exactly why some Chinese restaurants have a special Chinese menu that you need to ask for.
To be fair, not every Chinese restaurant knows how to slice duck properly. The proper way slices the meat and skin off of the bones, so that each piece has a bit of meat and skin, and presents the flesh separately from the bones.
Some places though just hack into the carcass so that every piece has bone. They say it's 'fun.' I as an ethnic Chinese say it's ridiculous. I have had it done right and I have had it done poorly and surprisingly the price point is the same! Some places really skimp on the seasoning too, at the same price point.
Other dishes tend to be fairly similar across different restaurants but it seems like with duck you can really tell who gives a shit / was trained properly as a chef.
Never let that guy try frog's legs.
I bet he'd like eating boners
They're practically all meat
Well, the human ones anyway...
it's still fucking weird to me that cinnamon is tree bark.
Dude couldn't tell the difference between plastic and tree bark!?
The fuck is a tree? You mean those sticks in a car park?
When an American goes to an Arabic or Indian restaurant 😂
The guy couldn't just bring it to the staff and ask them what it is?
I seek that shit when I'm spooning biryani onto my plate at events/buffets. The rice stuck in between the bark is the best thing ever.
Dude .... no. Thats the worst part wtf. Cinnamon is great, but in that particular case, absolutely not.
Idiotic behavior but who puts a cinnamon stick in there?
Chefs
I mean in the serving, in the cooking yes shure but im used to take it out again.
Get some culture. It's incredibly common to add whole spices to dishes in many cuisines.
Man its also common to take them out again for serving.
And it's also very common to leave them in, especially in eastern cuisine.
It's a spice. Where else should it be?
Taken out after cooking? You don't usually serve with the thing in. At least where i worked.
It depends on the culture. In Thai cooking for example it is purposely left in. Generalizing all cultures based on your own limited experience is incredibly ignorant. People are telling you it's common and instead of just looking it up and confirming it's true, which it is, you're digging your heels in to maintain your ignorance.
Im not saying anything against that, i just say that i personally think of it as usual to leave such things in. And the review and awnser are in English, so probably From UK or USA. And calling leaving cinnamon sticks in the dish Coulter is pretty... Whats the cultural relevance of that? Is it supposed to mean something?
I have a Thai uncle and I've never heard of this -but to be fair he is only an uncle. I have had his cooking though and never encountered any inedible spices.
Food keeps cooking in the latent heat of the cooking pot even after it's been taken off the heat and so whole spices are not usually removed from food unless the spices are in a bouquet garni, in which case the spice bundle is removed just before serving.
Leaving the whole spice in also helps people who are allergic/ intolerant to a particular spice to avoid the dish.
First, which part of the world do you work?
For me, it's more of cultural difference. For Indian cuisine catered for Indian people, they will leave the spices in. But I imagine, in the western world, they will pull them out when served to the westerners, because the westerners are not used to them in their dishes.
For context, consider the inclusion (small) bone in dishes, especially fish. If you go to South East Asian countries, they'll serve fish with bones intact. But generally westerners are not used to that and will get annoyed and encounter difficulties by small fishbones in their meal. One of the quite possible reason is for the fact that the food will be cooked over a long period of time over heat. Without the bones, the flesh will likely got disintegrated into smaller pieces. And local people in SEA like in Malaysia and Indonesia use their hand when eating rice. So, it's easier to get rid of the bones compared to those using fork and knife. So having bones in their food is no big deal.
So.... it depends on culture. The more you get used to them, the more you understand them.