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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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[-] Owl@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The whole idea of general-purpose substitutions for ingredients is silly. Nooch is a great powdered cheesy flavoring for a snack. Those imitation cheese slices made out of, like, compressed soybean oil or some nonsense, are great on a sandwich. If you swap them around, they're nonsensical. Foods have complex chemistry and different recipes are built around different properties of those foods.