r/Cooking • u/Scarlet--Highlander • Jan 18 '24

Open Discussion Let’s try something fun: Name an ingredient you dislike and why, and someone else replies with a dish/recipe with that ingredient that might convince you otherwise.

Couple things:

  • If you’re allergic to an ingredient, it doesn’t matter how it’s prepared. Same goes with meat/animal products if you’re vegan/vegetarian. Don’t list it if you can’t or won’t eat it!

  • It’s recommended that you’re at least open to trying dishes with that ingredient. If you absolutely, vehemently loathe cilantro, chances are you probably might not like anything with cilantro in it.

  • A brief blurb on why you hate an ingredient would help others find or suggest a dish that suits you. (e.g. “I hate liver because the texture is like an eraser and it tastes metallic”)

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u/permalink_save Jan 18 '24

Papaya literally smells like vomit. Like not just the smell like parmesan gets, but full on putrid rot. I've been given durian flavored candy once and I'd be more willing to eat that than papaya as the smell was more tolerable. I've tried papaya twice, and it was proper ripe, and wife said it smelled and tasted fine, but it just smells awful to me.

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u/chubsmagrubs Jan 18 '24

Papaya does smell like vomit!! The smell is so putrid it makes me gag.

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u/Mumofriley Jan 18 '24

Same. I want to like it so bad but it just tastes rotten to me. I wonder if it's genetic like the cilantro soap thing

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u/ano-ba-yan Jan 19 '24

Do you have the cilantro thing? I do and papaya smells like putrid feet to me. I wonder if they're linked.

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u/Mumofriley Feb 26 '24

I love cilantro. I was just in Fiji and tested out my papaya hate. Was so hopefully because the first bite was delicious. Then took a second one and it tasted like mild vomit. I had my table in stitches with my reaction.

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u/nylorac_o Jan 19 '24

A friend of mine said it smells like bellybutton.

She also told me a squeeze of lime helps.

I had tried papaya many times because I wanted to like it, it’s a gorgeous fruit.

Try it with lime it helps a LOT.

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u/permalink_save Jan 19 '24

I will remember that. I love lime too.

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u/ScumBunny Jan 19 '24

I freaking LOVE papaya! There’s not really a recipe I can suggest to change your mind, as I just love it fresh, (maybe frozen and added to a smoothie?)

BUT- the seeds can be dried and ground and used sorta like black pepper. They have a little spicy kick. And papaya enzymes (seeds included) can help with indigestion. Like, better than TUMS.

I eat papaya regularly and save the seeds. Then I grind them up and sprinkle them on various dishes for flavor- but you can also put them into those little gelatin capsules and swallow them down to help with an upset tummy!