Eating Tofu is like eating

[undeterred]

paper from the shredder. I mean, it is exactly the same taste, texture, and nutritional value. :hide:

[NightWatcher]

1. it's like eating nothing, a big pile of soft nothing

ick

[Blue-Jay]

2. Chipmunk poop.

[lutefisk]

25. from a chipmunk that only ate tofu........n/t

[undeterred]

3. Its the sort of food that actually needs french dressing

or a flavored lubricant or something. :shrug:

[Left Brain]

4. Silly Putty

[LeftyMom]

5. Nah, you just have to get used to the idea of doing something with it.

It's like chicken breast or white rice, on it's own it doesn't taste like a damn thing. You have to let it soak up some flavor to make anything good out of it, which makes it very versatile.

Oh, and for a main dish you probably want to press some of the water out to get a firmer texture.

[LostinVA]

70. The texture is what gets me

I have to have it crisped to be able to enjoy it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. It tastes like your own tongue.

It can be good in some things, but by itself -- bleh.

[cwydro]

7. I've enjoyed it in spaghetti sauce

But not real good with it otherwise. Wonder if dogs can eat it? I'm in a cooking frenzy for my doggies.

[LeftyMom]

9. Yep, they can.

:)

[cwydro]

10. Hey thanks!

I was just thinking I should have replied to you on my last post, because I knew you would know! I am not a meat eater, but I have spent hours in the last week perusing the meat aisle (organ meats yuck!) and then cooking for my girls. I feel dirty just having that meat smell on me, but I know they love it. Oh god...right now I can smell kidneys and liver and turkey. Erk.

But cool, I will try some tofu mixtures and see how that works out as well.

[LeftyMom]

13. I know the feeling, since I've got a cat.

It's damn near impossible to get that meat smell of one's hands. A citrusy hand soap helps a lot though.

[cwydro]

18. are you making her own food?

recipes welcomed.

Dogs are easy, but the cats are so much more difficult.

[LeftyMom]

19. oh heck no

I think it's a decent idea if one's up to it, but I have neither the time nor the ability to smell meat without gagging. Dinnertime for Trin consists of me opening up a can of Natural Balance, dumping it in a bowl and then washing my hands in case any got on me and going somewhere that doesn't smell like cat food while she eats.

Once she's gone (hopefully many years from now) I think I'm going back to bunnies. Their food and poo don't smell.

[WindRavenX]

8. fried teriyaki stir fry tofu = nummy

:9

[trof]

11. And it's blander than grits.

[JitterbugPerfume]

12. mixed in with eggs for scrambling

it makes eggs less sinful

same goes for spaghetti sauce ,spanish rice etc

It is a staple at my house , but then I live alone. :shrug:

[SKKY]

14. Tofu tastes a lot like rice cakes...

...which are little compressed patties of absolutely nothing.

[Maineiac]

15. It's like eating everything

Think of it as a sponge for other flavors. If you crispy fry it, it taste like bacon. If you stir fry it, it absorbs all of the other flavors and extends the dish.

[yewberry]

16. Awwwwwww.

*snif*




Nutritional Highlights
Tofu, 1/2 cup (126g) (firm, prepared with calcium sulfate and magnesium chloride)
Calories: 97
Protein: 10g
Carbohydrate: 3.7g
Total Fat: 5.6g
Fiber: 0.50g
*Excellent source of: Calcium (204mg)
*Good source of: Iron (1.8mg), Magnesium (58mg), Selenium (11.8mcg), and Folate (41.5mcg)

[undeterred]

20. I didn't know you were a person, tofu

or I would never have been so harsh... :hug: come here, you big, soft pile of nothing :grouphug:

[yewberry]

30. I'm not nothing! I'm a good source of selenium!

In sudden disgust, the three lionesses realized they had killed a tofudebeest--one of the Serengeti's obnoxious health antelopes.

[undeterred]

34. But you're still a carbon-based life form, right?

:bounce:

[LeftyMom]

44. And good sources of selenium are very important!

For, erm... well, look it up fellas.

/me starts "Tofu: good for your boys" ad campaign, since linking virility and food seems to work for the meat slinging food places.

[MorningGlow]

17. Near-instant physical incapacitation

For people with thyroid problems, like me, imbibing soy sends you straight down a short path to some of the worst health problems imaginable.
:scared:

[unsavedtrash]

21. Spongebob

[rug]

22. It's like performing oral sex on a corpse.

[undeterred]

24. ...

:scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared:

[lutefisk]

26. ...

:scared: :scared: :scared: :yoiks:

[NewWaveChick1981]

27. And you know this...how??????

:yoiks: :rofl:

[rug]

31. I have my sources.

[WindRavenX]

33. wow

:scared:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

67. Post. Of. The. Fucking. Day.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Saphire]

85. o.k., that does it for me. never had it before, and now.....

I'll never get that image from my head.

[rug]

86. Sorry, it's just that cold, clammy, lifeless texture.

[leftofthedial]

23. congealed snot

[flamingyouth]

28. I love tofu

I just found out I'm allergic to soy, though. I miss it. :(

[undeterred]

29. If you still love tofu after reading this post, your heart is pure.

Your love for tofu is true.

[grannylib]

32. The only way I can eat it is stir fried, which, if done right, DOES make it

taste pretty much just like chicken. Gotta have a lot of spicy seasonings in it though, otherwise it's just too bland.

[slj0101]

35. If I feel the need to get protein from non-animal sources,

tofu is dead-last on the list. I like certain soy products, but that's not one of them.

[Crabby Appleton]

36. I usually use the fake tofu that's made out of hamburger. nt

[undeterred]

37. ...

Yeah. Tastes better.

[flvegan]

38. Well, being wrong must suck sometimes.

Taste is opinion, suggesting the nutritional value is equal to "paper from the shredder" sort of makes you look...uninformed.

Learn to cook. Food can be your friend.

[LeftyMom]

40. But who better to say how tofu tastes than people who don't eat it?

I mean, who wants your opinion? You haven't had any since last night, after all. :)

[flvegan]

41. Folks can choose to dislike the taste

I mean, some folks cook well, some don't. But, to suggest that something is nutritionally unsound is just bullshit, stupid and obviously meant to gear folks toward said opinion.

Maybe they have a degree in nutrition. I shoulda asked.

Haven't had any...what?

Minx.

[LeftyMom]

43. B12.

:evilgrin:

[flvegan]

45. Spirulina or human manure?

The jury is still out. I'll bank on what I've been doing. I'm not terribly deficient, I don't think.

[LeftyMom]

49. I think what you've been doing is definitely the way to go.

O8)

[undeterred]

63. Taste IS subjective, and I was wrong about nutritional value.

But I was still highly entertained while being wrong. :shrug:

[jpgray]

39. Something else that's an "acquired" taste in the true sense

If you really want to like it, odds are you will find a way to do so.

[hippywife]

42. I don't normally

go around eating paper from the shredder but to each his own, I guess. :shrug:

Tofu only tastes bad to unimaginative cooks.

[Left Is Write]

46. Eating tofu is like eating soybean curd or something.

:crazy:

[jobycom]

47. Sunday night must be weirdo night.

Tofu is delicious. If you don't like it, you either aren't cooking it right or your tastebuds have died to the point where they need tastebud porn to stimulate them. :)

Uncooked flour is rather nasty by itself, but cooked properly, it can become a cake, a cookie, bread, or any number of things. Tofu is the same way.

[petronius]

48. In my experience, when I run across a food that is bland, disgusting,

inedible, and so on, it usually turns out that the real problemn is that I just don't know how to cook it...

(Note: this does not apply to bananas, They are abso-fuckin'-lutely disgusting, and should be eradicated.)

[flvegan]

51. Holy crap, THANK YOU!!!

I hate bananas.

[LeftyMom]

52. zomg, finally somebody else who hates bananas

Thankfully, I'm not supposed to eat them anyhow, due to allergy. But ick.

[Evoman]

56. Bananas are awesome.

Your obviously a freeper.

;)

[petronius]

62. Are you nuts? Bananas are obviously freeper-food

Think about it: they're yelllow on the outside, symbolizing cowardice; they're white on the inside, symbolizing the freeperesque disdain for non-WASPs; and growing them requires the economic domination of small countries by powerful corporations. Really, bananas are a perfect mascot for freepers like you (and an ideal symbol of all that is evil in the world)...

:P

[Evoman]

64. No!

Freepers hate bananas because they look like penises. And genitals are the soft, warm tool of the devil! Only liberals like bananas...freepers like you hate them because they remind you of your repressed sexuality.

Why do you think that people are making so much out of the choclate Jesus. I'll tell you why....

PENIS.

Case closed.

;)

[unpossibles]

72. you forgot that they are shaped like big wieners too

:)

[qwlauren35]

100. No bananas????????

I grew up eating banana-pineapple salad. I love banana nut bread. And fried plantains are to die for. I'm not going to say I like everything banana. Don't like banana pudding, ice cream or popsicles. But once again, I think you need to experiment more before you give up on anything...

With that said, I'm still waiting for decent recipes for: lima beans, kale, collards, liver.

[TommyO]

50. OOH, Agedashi Dofu - very yummy!

I may need to make some tomorrow.

[Art_from_Ark]

81. Have you ever tried mabo-dofu?

That is a really spicy, delicious way to cook tofu.

Chopped green onion and soy sauce on top of raw tofu is also good.

[Evoman]

53. I've tried to like it...I really did.

I've bought a great deal of Tofu desserts and Tofu meatless meals....I've even tried to cook it myself a couple of times (and anybody whos says I'm a bad cook hasn't tasted what I'm capable of). I've had other tell me many years ago that I didn't give it a fair shake,and I decided they were right, so I've tried. I even went so far as to go to a restauraunt whose "Tofu Stir fry" was legendary among many of the health conscious people around here....and...

..and its so fucking gross. The texture, no matter how much water you press out of it, is just...unnatural and wrong. It somehow manages to taste like nothing and like ass at the same time. It certainly isn't nutrionally unvaluable...it has a good amount of protein, without having TOO much fat (albeit most of it is soy protein, which doesn't have a very high biological value...if they kept the whey, it would be better...but who knows how that would taste).

I don't like Tofu. And its not because I'm not open to it....I hate when people tell me that. I hate cabbage too, but nobody argues that I'm eating THAT the "wrong way".

[Left Is Write]

55. You know what?

I don't like cabbage either. :)

And I'm definitely not tofu's biggest fan.

[Evoman]

57. I HATE cabbage.

I have never had cabbage that I liked.

That being said, I eat it anyways when its offered. I have an amazing ability to eat things that I hate if they are at all good for me. Its how I managed to develop a taste for sardines (i.e. I hated them...but kept eating them anyways until I found them quite good...unfortunately, its never happened with Tofu or Cabbage).

[Left Is Write]

58. Yeah...I can eat raw cabbage if necessary, but I really don't like it cooked.

[qwlauren35]

102. No cole slaw????????

I can't live without cole slaw.

[LeftyMom]

59. Cabbage is the devil, in plant form.

There is no stage of the cabbage to food process that does not stink. :puke:

[Left Is Write]

60. Very true.

[jpgray]

76. Not true

If you get some good Nepalese chow chow it works extremely well. And I -hate- the smell of almost all cooking cabbage.

[undeterred]

93. are you talking about us?

[Rockit]

54. tofu! n/t.

:hide:

[Cobalt-60]

61. indeed

Tofu alone taste like tofu.
It has to have a flavor to pick up or it's ..too tofuey.

[marzipanni]

65. skim milk jello

:9...Not!

[Frank Cannon]

66. drywall compound (n/t)

[youthere]

68. floral foam?

[BluePatriot]

69. It's good fried with peanut sauce

...then again, I have eaten Oreos, Snickers, and pickle-chips fried...

[eppur_se_muova]

75. i.e. Thai-style "golden triangles" ... very yummy. nt

[unpossibles]

71. It has tons of nutritional value

and you have to know how to cook it.

I made veagn chili for a few hundred bikers this weekend and did not tell them it wasn't meat - not only did most of them love it and not even ask if it was veggie, but many said it was too hot. wimps.

[KiraBS]

88. See a trick like that would make me ill...

I am allergic to tofu and any other soya based food.
I don't mind veggie food but when it is meat substitute then I would rather have the
choice to just eat bread.

[unpossibles]

96. I wasn't trying to trick anyone - I did not advertise it as veggie

but the people serving it knew it was, and told anyone who asked what was in it.

I was not trying to trick anyone, but I have some hard core meat eater friends who not only give me crap for being a vegetarian but who say they would never eat it themselves. And they had 3 bowls.

[grace0418]

73. I love it. To each his/her own. Although you are wrong about nutritional value.

To me tofu is a vehicle, like pasta. Plain noodles don't taste like that much either. It's the sauce and other ingredients that make it what it is.

[undeterred]

74. Song for Tofu

Vehicle Lyrics

Hey well
I'm a friendly stranger in a black sedan
Won't you hop inside my car.
I got pictures, got candy
I'm a loveable man
And I can take you to the nearest star.
I'm your vehicle baby
I'll take you anywhere you wanna go.
I'm your vehicle woman
But I'm not sure you know
That I love ya
I need ya
I want ya,
Got to have you child,
Great God in heaven you know I love you.
Well if you want to be a movie star
I'll get a ticket to Hollywood.
But if you want to stayjust the way you are
You know I think you really should.
I'm your vehicle baby
I'll take you anywhere you wanna go.
I'm your vehicle woman
But I'm not sure you know
That I love ya
I need ya
I want ya,
Got to have you child,
Great God in heaven you know I love you.
Hey well
I'm a friendly stranger in a black sedan
Won't you hop inside my car.
I got pictures, got candy
I'm a loveable man
And I can take you to the nearest star.
I'm your vehicle baby
I'll take you anywhere you wanna go.
I'm your vehicle woman
But I'm not sure you know
That I love ya
I need ya
I want ya,
Got to have you child,
Great God in heaven you know I love you.
And I'm your vehicle babe.
You know
I love ya
I need ya
I want ya,
Got to have you child,

[Dastard Stepchild]

77. ...whatever I mix it with....

It's like cooking with congealed air, which is pretty much the most awesome thing ever.

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE me some tofu.

[Critters2]

78. I love tofu!!! If you stir-fry it just right, it's crispy on the outside but like

cream cheese on the inside. My favorite food is General Tso's tofu, but a good sweet and sour or spicy Sechuan tofu is tasty, too.

I'm making me hungry!!

[KT2000]

79. Tofu explodes

in the refrigerator!
Just couldn't bring myself to eat it and it started to blow up like a balloon. I caught it just in time.

[Algorem]

80. scientific studies have proven

that hard-core douchebags make fun of non-dead-animal protein sources.The smarter ones do it for profit,like TV writers,who the meat companies bribe to write this kind of horseshit.The others are just the unpaid brainwashed douchebags.

[Evoman]

83. Really? Cuz I read a study just yesterday that said that

people who liked tofu and eat it regularly smell like wet dog and pee dangerously concentrated hydrochloric acid. Apparently, their own smell has made them unable to differentiate tofu from real food.

Although, I didn't think the methodology behind the study was sound.

[undeterred]

91. That was my study.

Wow, I didn't know anyone was actually reading my vanity scientific journal! :freak:

[AshevilleGuy]

82. Try White Wave brand. It's the best. n/t

[NuttyFluffers]

84. i love it. hate bitter melon though.

but then i'll eat pretty much anything.

[Karenca]

87. It's not disgusting -

because it has no taste on it's own, but it can be prepared with ingredients to be quite tasty.

And nutritionally, it's a really healthy protein source.

(I'm not a vegan/vegetarian),

[Lil Missy]

89. Tastes like poi to me. Water and flour, which is paste.

[Taverner]

90. Eating tofu straight is like eating flour out of the bin

Tofu is something you add to a dish, not a dish itself

[maveric]

92. Spackling compound.

And it sands out really well for painting too.

[Roon]

94. It's amazing how much tofu you can eat

when you are dieting and you are hungry. Tofu tastes great!!!

[Generic Other]

95. soy sauce and tabasco for flavor

It rocks!!

[KamaAina]

97. Actually, it's sort of, kind of like eating, in a way

but not quite -- unless you come out here and get someone to feed you "tofu trash", which is a much more realistic facsimile of actual eating.

[qwlauren35]

98. You haven't had good tofu.

Tofu can be a great substitute for ricotta type stuffing for lasagna or manicotti if you know how to fix it. You take silken or soft tofu, put it in the blender with some lemon juice and parsley (and something else probably, but it's been a while), and you're pretty much good to go.

I used to go to a Thai restaurant where the tofu was THOROUGHLY marinated and grilled, and even after I went back to eating meat, I would still order their tofu. It was probably frozen, then marinated, then grilled or fried. Freezing tofu changes the texture and makes it more porous, and easier to marinate.

I have a cousin who makes fried tofu with peas in a curry sauce. It is to die for.

You have to know how to do it. ABSOLUTELY, tofu that is indifferently prepared tastes bland and boring. Throwing a sauce over it really doesn't help much. But here and there, there are people who know how to make tofu taste good. If you're stuck with tofu in your diet, do some research.

It beats going hungry.

[Nickster]

101. Exactly. I'm a fairly recent convert. Tofu is great for soaking up the right kinds of marinade

it's a blank canvas for the right flavorings. I prefer mine extra spicy and fried up with rice and other assorted side dishes. I've also done a pretty decent soup with it.

[wildhorses]

99. eating tofu is like eating toe jam

somebody had to say it:P

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:yoiks:

[undeterred]

103. Ok, I missed my thread...

:shrug: