Imagining paleo diet dorks speed running the history of cooking methods. They've discovered soup, what's next, brick ovens?
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I'm eating this thing called "wheat". You'll never know what happens next
Eating a cup of dry flour for the "raw bread" challenge. 
nah wheats processed, that's right out with the paleo people. Next up should be whole wheat gruel made by smashing it with a rock. After that, they might even invent the mill
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Toast enthusiasts in shambles
You ever hear of this goddess named Ninkasi?
That or vbbpf "vinegar/brine based preserved food". And they have a ball trying to say "vbbpf" smoothly because "veeb-pfff" is considered cheating.
Yeah that's why we invented the word "pickling".
Vbbppbf
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I have one that involves chicken and noodles. I call it "chicken noodle water-based meal".
What has went wrong in American cuisine and food culture that it came to a point where eating soups and stews is considered subversive and transgressive by these health enthusiasts?
soup/stews are rarely eaten in average american cuisine, sauce buckets or soggy casserole is the closest that come near it. I was surprised myself.
Depends on the poorness of the people lol the continuum of saving money by making soup etc from scratch vs time saved from slopping together canned items. Only reason I can make the fuck out of a soup with whatever scraps and pantry items are on hand. I am an outlier though - I’ve long thought of opening a soup restaurant - or as these schmucks would call it a “liquid based dining experience” haha
IDK where (outside my own kitchen) you can get a good soup that's not 100 cal and 200 sodium for less than $10.
Well yeah, who the hell buys soup out
Me. Not at a restaurant or whatever, soup should be sold by like hot dog cart standards. give me soup
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All cooking is water based. Managing water is half of what cooking is, next to heat.
Now doncha wanna taste the meat and not the heat?!Psh, you've obviously never had my meemaw's anhydrous dextrose chews, lovingly cooked to perfection in dichloromethane
American diets are so full of soft drink and fast food that simply adding water to a dish is considered novel and original.
Well you see, she was making the stew with coca cola before and just couldnt figure out why it wasnt quite right /s
No joke though, a little citrus soda is actually great in a chicken marinade. I tried it out of desperation once because I had no actual citrus (best chicken marinade base is always good oil+citrus) and boy is it fantastic. Especially with a little soy sauce as well
Yeah, it's great for marinades and things. Sugar really helps bring out savoury and spicy flavours well. I always add a bit of brown sugar to any sauces I make, just a tiny bit goes really far.
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Soups and vegetables? You discovered soups and vegetables…
New bit idea: a normal cookbook but the deeper in you get the more deranged the recipes become
“Honey, do they have eye of newt at Whole Foods? I guess we’ll have to go to trader joes”
They woud have it. I am pretty sure eye of newt was just the fancy name for mustard seeds
Tofu Apple pie was something that popped into my head
are we talking like "gruel spiced with cardamon", "casserole concoction straight out of the hellgate of Fort Worth, TX" or "doing molecular crimes to pineapple to make it be a meat" here
Yes
why not all of the above?
~~rabbit hole~~
cooking hole
Arrested Development hot ham water.
The year is 14500 BCE. A very clever woman has been experimenting with putting lots of random things in the fire, and she has just invented water-based cooking.
next they're going to reinvent ital cooking but for the settler-crakkker palate
We need to stop Americans from posting food until we figure out what's going on
pov we live in a broken society that demands we come up with stupid bullshit trends to make money from engagement
Look up Ital food movement you appropriating heathens 
damn, i need to learn this tech, im still out here foraging for berries
I'm not putting water in my food like a chick. regolith from the moon is all I eat
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American discovers soup
I’ve lost weight by switching to an all-physical matter-based edible materials diet! 
I don't know if anyone in here needs to hear this, but: eat a variety of foods. Pay attention to how you feel after eating different foods, especially as you get older. Eat less of the ones that affect you negatively. Barring specic allergies, ignore fads and bullshit about seed oils, carbs, gluten, etc. Get some kind of regular exercise. This next part really sucks for some of us, but your genetics are the most important determining factor for your overall health and longevity. Enjoy your life the best you can.
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