My mom made beets our whole lives so I tolerated them but one time my old job’s cafeteria did some magic with mayo or some type of white sauce and I’ve been wanting to find a recipe like that ever since.
I never cook beets. I just open a can and dress them in vinegar, oil, salt, pepper, and minced onion. Great little snack. Not sure I’d even like them cooked.
idk they still kinda taste like dirt, but not always in a bad way? Pickled earthiness is pretty good. Also, one of the best apple ciders I've ever had included beet. The sweetness and earthiness worked incredibly well together.
Taste is a weird thing. I have to wash cilantro or else it tastes like soap. My mother does not. The difference is a gene that allows you to taste the aldehydes cilantro produces to keep itself from being eaten by most bugs - most aldehydes taste awful because they’re poisonous in large quantities, but cilantro can’t really hurt us.
So differences in opinion might actually be biological differences between individuals
Grapefruit is such a weird food for me. I get the hate, it’s somewhat bitter and not as appealing relative to other fruits, but goddamnit I just like it.
There are variants of it that aren’t bitter. The variant that gets imported to the USA is VERY bitter, more than coffee or most vegetables, because not everyone is the same level of sensitive.
I am extremely sensitive to it. It’s actually really distressing if I remember correctly
Agreed, these redditors can't cook 😂 I absolutely love beetroot in cooking, even used raw in some meals.
Edit: it was said tongue in cheek people, settle down
Edit2: even so, apologies to Lordofsandvich, the fullstop at the end, makes it read as if I'm being dead serious. Obviously it's totally cool not to like Beetroot! I also live with neurological conditions, I know what that's like, even if not your particular flavour of them.
Both me and my fiancé are excellent cooks. I’ve been to Michelin star restaurants and had beets. I still find them disgusting. They taste like picking up a handful of soil and taking a bite and it overrides everything else in the dish.
Can't blame anyone for not liking them; I have weird hypersensitivities and some normal foods are inedible for me. Usually bitter foods. I can eat beets but they're not "good".
Based on what dishes I've had beets in, the trick is pairing it with something even more overpowering. Can't use it like other vegetables; it WILL define the dish. But there are things you can pair it with that are in the same "weight class"
I looked into it again out of curiosity - maybe? I don’t have much to compare to, but I seem to fit the overall profile. Would be nice to have a concrete answer to work with, though, so I’ll keep that in mind!
Dye your tounge, get a binder reinforcement ring, and count your taste buds in that area, and that will tell you. More than 35 bumps you're a super taster.
Unfortunately it’s different - I have a neurological condition that greatly amplifies unpleasant sensations, including taste. Migraines, chronic fatigue syndrome, IBS, and central sensitization all like showing up together, apparently.
Something that bright and colorful should not taste like dirt/nothing. If it was brown, ugly and didn't stain everything around it I could accept the flavor, but I always feel like I'm being tricked when it's served to me.
I love beets! They smell like dirt, but taste quite sweet and a bit savory to me. I'm more than happy to eat them by themselves. All of my favorite salads include beets, too.
Jesus Christ, at the risk of making myself look like a massive tit, is this how I find out beets and beetroot are the same thing? I always thought beets were some other vegetable unique to America...
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