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https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/24/us/meat-recall-usda-star-meat-delivery-hnk
Probably applies to Canadians too.
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Sounds like a great time to go vegan. 🖖
Yeah 'cause we know all the fresh veggie product from such brands as Taylor Farms is perfectly safe...
(jk going vegetarian or vegan is an admirable choice even if you do it noncommittally by reducing your animal protein consumption. Every 1 gram of animal protein required ~9g of feed depending on the animal.)
You... don't... need to buy those manufactured food products, either, you realize? Chickpeas and rice, mushrooms, tofu, etc. can all lend you to making your own tasty recipes.
Yeah mostly joking. I actually do like some of the veggie substitutes. I also like tofu. My grocer carries a brand of ultra dense stuff that's great breaded and fried.
Any advice on how to make tofu flavourful? I've been trying to use it but anytime I do, it's more just kinda there rather than really adding anything to the flavour profile. Ironically, some of the "failures" where it all crumbled into something similar to scrambled eggs might have been one of the times where it did seem to pick up flavour, but while I wouldn't say the texture was bad that way, I'd like to get more out of it without it falling apart if possible.
Some chefs on shows like culinary class wars put great effort into making tofu for their dishes (one guy even won the whole show with a dish like that), so I feel like there's gotta be something I'm missing.
Lots of people on YouTube have tons of tips on ways to doctor up the taste and texture of tofu, but personally what I think it comes down to is just eating it regularly enough for it to become an acquired taste. It's not the best absorber of flavors, sauces and marinades will only penetrate about a millimeter or two. You can get deep flavor infusion with brines, but then you're eating a lot of sodium too.
People often recommend cutting it into smaller pieces so you're getting a better sauce to tofu ratio. As you said, crumbling it does increase surface area and help it hold more flavors.
So just keep trying things, and keep eating it, cause eventually you will start to actually enjoy it's own natural flavor (some brands taste better than others too). I'm at the point now where I keep it as simple as possible. Forget the unnecessary kitchen gear like presses. I take it right out of the package, maybe squeeze a little water out, and then I'll just smash the thing and crumble it right into whatever I'm cooking.
Ah ok, that sounds consistent with what I've been seeing. So if I'm understanding correctly, tofu has a flavour/texture tradeoff (best texture I've gotten from it was once when I cut it into like 1cm slices and seared them, managed to get a decent sear on both sides without them sticking to the pan and crumbling. Actually the flavour wasn't that bad either, that one was more simple so I think it was mostly just the tofu and the sear, plus some olive oil that infused it.
I just realized I haven't tried marinating it yet and a quick search looks like people are saying good things about that.
I don't make it often, but if you marinate it in something like half soy, one quarter rice wine vinegar, and one quarter mirin, then bread with corn starch, egg wash, and panko, you can make awesome deep fried tofu bites. This works well with the less dense stuff most stores carry.
How long until I get my Vegan powers?
They start the first time you can mention you are vegan in a conversation that isn't about food or animal products.
I use arch btw.
Arch is the veg-pescetarian of Linux. If you're going to act smug, at least install Gentoo or one of the "fully free" distros.
The meme is Arch btw.
I also do CrossFit, do you even lift bro?
It's a gradual building process, but some perks happen very quickly. Like your whole body being in distinctly less pain - that can happen in days depending on your inflammation status. Or being super bloated because you started eating way too much fiber way too soon, that can happen in a day.
After a few years you may find your immune system starts to become superhuman. Not even joking, it's kind of wild how much more resilient I am to sickness these days. Getting sick far less frequently, symptoms consistently becoming laughably mild, and duration is far shorter too.
I stopped craving junk food and lost the pudge I'd been carrying most of my life.
🙄
well, I'm a decade in, and still no powers D:
You have to be more righteous about it
i think that is the powers of a vegan. as far as ive ever experienced with them.
It’s milk n’ eeeeeegs, bitch!
It's a passive, you just statistically live longer and feel better.
there is education that goes along with it to actually manage nutrients/macros than just 'go vegan' and leave it at that
beans are not a protein that every body can digest
That's why I said statistically. Yeah you can go vegan on oreos and french fries and drag down the stats, but on the whole vegans do better.
It know, not a great superpower.
Personally, I think that stat is going to see some dips soon, with everything being loaded with coconut oil these days.
I don't think so. The processed vegan meat substitutes are almost as bad for you as the real deal, but they're also really expensive. After a year or two of that most of us are forced to learn to cook for ourselves from scratch, and once we do that we learn that you can get way tastier / healthier / cheaper meals that way. At least, that was my trajectory.
once you go vegan you instantaneously get the power of a smug sense of superiority. though, admittedly, it doesn't do anything but make you an annoying asshole.
It sounds like you're a vegan...
That will get you sick or kill you too, I'm afraid.
Sounds like a great time to die or get sick.
What if I can’t afford to get sick or die?
Then you'll get sick and die.
In that case the government will step in to help you to get sick and die.
It's free. But also it costs money. But it totally also doesn't cost any money.
It's the cheapest there is!
No seriously, that is the cheapest we got.
As a vegan, uh, no. Lol. Quite the opposite.
Did we already memory hole the diarrhea lettuce?
Don't forget the killer frozen blueberries.
That's the real danger. It's a misconception that vegans eat a ton of tasteless nearly nutritionless lettuce but we probably do eat way more berries than others.
If I'm not buying meat, I can afford the berries.
Like half of my freezer is just frozen berries :)
So cook your greens.
Under today's FDA, everybody dies of foodborne illness.
equal opportunity
or vegetarian. or stick to chicken. as per article in what it was recalling.
nah. I'll just continue purchasing meat from my local butcher that sources from local farms.
thanks though.
edit: leave it to vegans to get butthurt over someone ethically sourcing meat from local farms that don't mistreat their livestock. vegan forbid enjoining a succulent Chinese meal if it contains beef that likely had a happy life.