Do certain foods turn you off?

[xOPUSx]

Wait you are vegan and cook....I respect the fact that you cook meat and all....but how do you taste the food you make....without eating it? do you spit it out?

well most of it you dont have to taste, your not gonna cut a piece of a customers steak and taste it. and for sauces that aren't vegan a level of skill comes into play(if you've made a thousand demi glace you just know)....and if im workin on something new its not hard to grab someone and get a salt check. herbs and spices its just a matter of volume and consistency salt is the only iffy ingredient for me at times. I also make many of your traditional sauces vegan and people tell me its the best hollandaise or aioli they have ever had, not even knowing its vegan.(served a 300 person brunch eggs benedict with a egg and butterless hollandaise and they re-booked 2 weeks later for the same menu)

[xOPUSx]

Hey for me to eat, animals have to die. When i was a kid i saw pigs, goats, deer, chickens all killed in my grandma's backyard. Only time it ever bothered me was when the kill wasn't quick and clean(usually due to the fact a novice was given the job) but i still ate. I have no problem with vegitarians, vegans but don't lecture me on why i shouldn't eat meat or ask me why should an animal suffer for me to eat.

this is why i have a lack of respect for the vegan community, i eat a vegan diet strictly for health.

[iCraig]

this is why i have a lack of respect for the vegan community, i eat a vegan diet strictly for health.

I find it hard to believe a purely vegan diet is all that healthy for you.. We're omnivores by design. We weren't designed to be living strictly on a vegan diet.

As for me, I have zero misconceptions about where my food comes from and I don't particularly give a crap. I'm higher on the food chain. Beef, pork, chicken, turkey, rabbit, kangaroo, fish, shellfish, whatever... all delicious and I'm not too concerned about it as long as it's on my plate, delicious, and doesn't make me sick due to poor handling/cooking of the meat.

[bballbaby]

i'm just a sucker for good food. Doesn't really matter what it is to me, as long as it's goooooo-oood. {in the tone of Cousin Eddie from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.}

And i try to live by the words of my mother...everything in moderation. I have trouble with that concept with beef though. i could eat beef 5 times a week.

[xOPUSx]

I find it hard to believe a purely vegan diet is all that healthy for you.. We're omnivores by design. We weren't designed to be living strictly on a vegan diet.

As for me, I have zero misconceptions about where my food comes from and I don't particularly give a crap. I'm higher on the food chain. Beef, pork, chicken, turkey, rabbit, kangaroo, fish, shellfish, whatever... all delicious and I'm not too concerned about it as long as it's on my plate, delicious, and doesn't make me sick due to poor handling/cooking of the meat.

what could possibly be unhealthy about NOT eating dairy(which we are not supposed to eat anyway) or animal proteins? i eat more protein than most people that eat meat and NOTHING i eat contains any chemicals or antibiotics and is 100% organic. even triple a rated 4 and 5 diamond restaurants serve chicken that contains arsenic. there are plenty of diet calculators you can addd up all the foods you eat and it will give you a score, average score for a healthy diet is around 160-200 my diet is usually around 550-600.

I agree with you, we absolutely are higher on the food chain and im not saying eating meat is wrong i could care less. I just prefer a whole foods diet and its not for everyone, its super expensive but the way you feel when you eat foods I do makes it worth every penny.

[flyboy]

Cauliflower and asparagus.

Bleah.

[NickThePyro]

Being a cook for my profession I have cooked all types of food but really am not disgusted by anything. I have tried foie gras but prefer not to eat it because its health factor. Veal Marsala I have cooked many times and everybody who has had it loved it. But the difference is I buy my meats from local butchers out in the country who raise their animals in better conditions. The beef I buy from the butchers is so much more tender and marbled because they treat the animals with better living conditions as done with famed Kobe beef.

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants

[Shmear]

I usually have a hard time when I eat lobster... but that's because my uncle is evil and likes to show me the lobster a live before boiling it to death but I put it at the back of my head and think how darn good it is, that usually saves me.

[flyboy]

I usually have a hard time when I eat lobster... but that's because my uncle is evil and likes to show me the lobster a live before boiling it to death but I put it at the back of my head and think how darn good it is, that usually saves me.

As a friend who had spent 30 yeas as a Maine fish and game warden once said to me about lobster:
"You think it wouldn't eat YOU if you were laying on the bottom of the ocean?"

[bballbaby]

Anything deep fried in old oil. HUGE turnoff!!

And anything fried in oil that isn't hot enough...like an eggroll. THe stuff gets so soggy and just drips out the oil. HUGE turnoff

[NCost]

i eat more protein than most people that eat meat and NOTHING i eat contains any chemicals or antibiotics and is 100% organic. even triple a rated 4 and 5 diamond restaurants serve chicken that contains arsenic. there are plenty of diet calculators you can addd up all the foods you eat and it will give you a score, average score for a healthy diet is around 160-200 my diet is usually around 550-600.

I agree with you, we absolutely are higher on the food chain and im not saying eating meat is wrong i could care less. I just prefer a whole foods diet and its not for everyone, its super expensive but the way you feel when you eat foods I do makes it worth every penny.

You can add it up all you want, but the reality of the matter is, your vegan diet and high protein isn't a complete protein. Therefore you have to eat multiple sources of plant based proteins to get all of your protein needs or supplement like crazy in the Amino Acids to make up for what your diet lacks. Animal based proteins are the best proteins in relativity of health and PDCAA's.

[Tobacco Giant]

Vegetables really turn me off. Most of them literally induce my gag reflex (insert penis gagging joke here).