• NaoPb@eviltoast.org
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      More bread is thrown away in stores than is wasted by cutting the crusts off. So I don’t really care anymore how people eat their bread. Most of the time I eat the crusts but sometimes I cut them off.

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      7 months ago

      What about all those broken bits that fly everywhere? Also if I’m cutting the crust off a sandwich I’m eating as I go, but maybe I just like bread.

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    7 months ago

    I’ll get more mad about overcooked pasta than I will if someone breaks spaghetti.

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    I break the pasta so it’ll fucking fit in the fucking bowl; leave me alone!

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      7 months ago

      Have you tried just tossing it in whole? It gets soft, then you can fit it in.

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        And before anyone complains that that takes too long, it’ takes like 30 seconds. If waiting that long is gonna ruin your pasta night it’s already fucked.

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        I like it broken in half. It’s more manageable to eat without flinging sauce all over the place.

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        7 months ago

        Then half of it will be slightly more cooked than the other. Small issue, sure, but bigger issue than not keeping every strand twice as long which doesn’t benefit anything whatsoever.

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          It does if you twirl your fork to collect the spaghetti. The longer stands form a ball of sauce and noodles with only a few stands. If the noodles are half as long, they may not stay twirled, can flop around more, and require more stands to reach the same size. More mess, more work.

          Also, I would challenge you to tell which end of the pasta went in first. Actually, it would be a challenge to even find a way to test that…

  • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    Who gets upset about cutting the crust off? It’s just the part of the bread that was most directly exposed to the heat

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      Well, lots of us were parented to not throw food away. Just the thought of someone always cutting off the crust when they’re eating bread, that does irk me in that sense, too.

      But as someone else in this thread already said, with proper bread, the crust is actually good. Then it just seems really strange to cut off the interesting part of the bread and to just want the samey stuff in the middle.

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        Just because you cut off the crust doesn’t mean you throw it away.

        You can use it in all sorts of dishes, or even just dip em in egg yolk

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      What’s offensive is that some call that stuff bread

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        So I’m just curious, where the hell did all the wonderbread hate come from? It’s like suddenly everyone has a vendetta against it. I’m not particularly fond of it myself in lieu of traditional bread but like, it’s fine?? The added sugar/HFCS is fucked but I’m pretty sure you can buy varieties that don’t have that.

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          Theres a lot of studies that say yes and that say no. The crust contains more nutrients, but also more potentially not great compounds. So its not like its 100% true or false, I just dont want my kid refusing to eat 20% of the bread I buy, so Im going with true.

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            Bread doughs are homogeneous unless they have inclusions.

            The crust is the exact same stuff, but extra maillard browning reactions. Certainly more tasty compounds, but I have a hard time believing they’re more nutritious.

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          The skin of fruits and veggies sometimes have more and usually different nutrients in them than the meats of the plants. This is the skin of the bread which also is mostly made of plants. Checkmate.

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      The crust is barely perceptible on toast anyways, so it’s just wasteful. I get it if people don’t like the crust on things like rye bread, but then why do they even buy it?

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    Meanwhile in Japan

    Gaijin: Yo Japan I made the weirdest fusion dish with your traditional Japanese dish.

    Japan: You made this?

    *tastes dish

    Japan: I made this.

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    Broken pasta is good for soups where the noodles should be small, such as chickpea or lentil soup. Otherwise, if you have a pot large enough to hold the noodles, there is no reason to break them.

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    I toss pizza crust. Useless log. Where does that stand? I’ll accept down votes as whole hearted agreement, brothers in down with crust movement.