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I’m sorry but tofu is not cheese nor does it taste anything like it, vegan cookbooks need to be better. Stop massacring time honored dishes with uncreative replacement ingredients (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by gueybana@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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You can’t just replace paneer with tofu and call a dish palak paneer you twat. Like replacing black beans with lentils and calling it black bean soup IT’S NOT THE SAME AND DOESN’T TASTE THE SAME.

I swear half the reason people hate veganism is the fucking half assed garbage cooking content put out by vegan incluencers.

‘Hi today I’m going to make a yummy vegan grilled cheese sandwich but instead of cheese I’m GOING TO USE FUCKING ELMER’S GLUE’ And This doesn’t just go for cheese

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[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 54 points 3 months ago

When people told me they hated tofu or (far worse) that they were “not fans,” I wish I had said in no uncertain terms: “I love tofu. I am in awe of it. I am set free by it. It will be the finest staple food our galaxy has ever seen.”

I wish, in those exchanges, I had not asked gentle, tolerant questions about a hater’s ridiculous allergy to it, or tofu’s fictional misdeeds and imagined character flaws. More deeply still, I wish I had not reasoned with anyone, patiently countered their ludicrous emotionalism and psychologically disturbed theories. I wish I had said, flatly, “I love tofu.” As if I had been asked about my mother or daughter. No defensiveness or polemics; not dignifying the crazy allegations with so much as a Snopes link.

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

People can simplify all sorts of relationships to a food to as an allergy. Plenty of people are allergic to soy though and even things like rice or certain kinds of blood. Body works weird. I have a friend that just gets incredible diarrhea whenever they eat specific stuff so they just say they're allergic so people will take better care of not serving them that food

Honestly, not sure why some vegans believe allergies are just made up though, its down to a science, you can go get tested for it. Some foods also are just factually more gut irritable. Look into FODMAPs. Some healthy body builders avoid them even to digest protein faster.

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

Plenty of people are allergic to soy though

Good thing you can make tofu from all kinds of beans, then. You can make it from many different kinds of seeds, too, though I suppose you might technically call that "zifu" instead.

[-] HelltakerHomosexual@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

but the wide variety is soy milk or soy beans based, hard to get any other alternatives

[-] LaBellaLotta@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

You’re right that Tofu is incredible but my love of Tofu runs so deep that i genuinely like it best when it’s retaining its original texture In some way. Of course this only applies to firm tofu. I can see silken tofu being a good paneer substitute so maybe that’s where this user went wrong. I generally find when you try and use firm tofu to make something creamier I am often dissatisfied with the results.

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Is the lying about allergy thing common? I know a guy who is a pathological liar of sorts. He is supposedly allergic to tofu. But that's first case of it I've seen. Granted though tofu is not a popular food here.