Does Anyone Have a TIFU Moment When Cooking? (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by Farksnatcher@lemmy.one to c/food@beehaw.org

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I was finishing a jar of extremely hot peppers (7 pot primos) that I had fermenting on Thanksgiving day. I made a hot sauce with them and cantaloupe. I had them in a pan at a low simmer to meld the flavors. The problem was the steam coming off was potent as hell. It filled the house when everyone was arriving and coughing from the hot sauce in the air, me included. We had to open all the windows, dig out the fans to get it out of the house, freezing everyone in the process.

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[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago

Veganism isn't a food allergy. Wouldn't expect people to have much of an issue with that. Not that I grill with a lot of vegans.

[-] idiomaddict@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

I’m a relatively recent vegan, but a lifelong vegetarian. If you share dairy or chicken utensils, I’ll be fine. If my food gets contaminated by pork or lamb (possibly others, I don’t intentionally try them), I will shit my pants. I’m sure there is a tolerable limit, but it’s lower than sharing utensils. It’s also less than sharing a pan, but I’m not sure about a grill, because you can clean a grill relatively easily by just letting the heat flare up.

[-] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, although vegetarian / vegan is a choice, it can definitely become a food allergy because we stop making the enzymes to digest certain proteins if we don't eat them.

I still eat food from conventional restaurants, like veggie burgers and stuff, so maybe I get enough exposure that it's not an issue for me (yet)

[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, although vegetarian / vegan is a choice, it can definitely become a food allergy because we stop making the enzymes to digest certain proteins if we don’t eat them.

Is that actually true? I don't think that's even the case with lactose. You're either born with the gene or not.

[-] idiomaddict@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Most people eventually lose some degree of their ability to digest milk, because adults don’t rely on it as much. If you’re worried, a full serving of dairy a couple of times a month is more than enough for most people to keep up their digestive ability.

I’m not sure if I lost the ability to digest fatty meats or never had it, because I’ve never intentionally eaten pork, and was 26 the first time I ate lamb. My doctors have advised me not to try eating red meat, as it would be too hard for my body to digest it now. That could be an old wives tale, but it’s good enough for me

[-] Knusper@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

To many vegans/vegetarians, it's just genuinely repulsive. Either they adopted the diet, because they found meat gross from the start.
Or, for many folks, even if they started from purely a moral conviction, it still becomes repulsive over time. You just don't really think about whether you find something gross or not, when you eat it regularly, grew up with it etc.. Taking that step back, allows you to re-evaluate.

[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Appreciate your response. Do you think when friends/family cook you food they should make the effort as if you did have a food allergy?

[-] Knusper@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Well, me personally, yes. I'm much happier, if you just give me some salad and some noodles and I can throw together a makeshift noodle salad than if you expect me to eat a fancy vegan burger soaked in meat juice. But yeah, every vegan will have a different stance on that...