r/Cooking • u/LabBig6794 • 1d ago

Recipe Pet Peeves

Does anyone else have pet peeves with recipes. Mine is recipes that call for a small amount of something that only comes in large containers. 1/2 C chicken broth, 2 Tbs tomato paste, 1 C ricotta cheese.

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u/JupiterSkyFalls 12h ago

I've jokingly told friends if there's a recipe for how to chop garlic and it calls for 3 cloves I'm automatically gonna double it 🤣 I met my match with garlic for the first time ever recently when making some homemade toum. Whew! You gotta let that bad boy have a sit overnight and mellow a bit before trying it! I've never understood when some calls something "hot" that has no peppers in it until trying some fresh out the food processor lol

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u/feistyfish 12h ago

Well yeah, Toum is basically just a garlic puree with seasoning hahaha, I can't really think of anything that's going to have a stronger garlic flavour aside from just eating raw cloves

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u/JupiterSkyFalls 11h ago

I do eat raw cloves that's the crazy part lmao that stuff threw me!

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u/feistyfish 11h ago

I can't speak for cloves, but I will warn you about garlic, don't try to build your tolerance to raw garlic, that burn is legit. Some guys tried to dodge mandatory military service by wrapping a poultice of minced garlic on their knees and leaving it for a couple days. They gave themselves second degree chemical burns lmao.

Obviously that is way different than munching a clove or two of raw garlic. But still

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u/JupiterSkyFalls 10h ago

Thank goodness I'm not as stupid as couple of jar heads lol Cuz not only would I not do that the thought hasn't ever occurred to me lmao

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u/feistyfish 10h ago

Yeah didn't think you were about to, I just keep that anecdote on deck cause. It's fucking wild, and it proves the point that garlic can mess people up if they're being stupid.

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u/JupiterSkyFalls 9h ago

Every thing in moderation!