what's the point of quorn?

[jefmcg]

What do you keep it in, then?

If I was a chef, I'd make it as required. I'm just a cook though, so I usually get it in a jar with ingredients listed on label, like the "chef" above.

Though, honestly, if he doesn't know pesto contains cheese, I don't think he even reaches the status of "cook". "Microwave operator", perhaps?

 

[Motobecane]

I've got plenty of friends who claim to be 'mostly' vegetarian. They used to be fully vegetarian but these days they eat the occasional bit of chicken or pig... but for some reason, the seem to continue to take great pride in supposedly not being a meat eater, when they bloomin well are. If you eat meat only 10% of the time, then you're not a vegetarian. And you're no more an 'occasional' vegan than i am... so it's time you stopped deluding yourself

They have a new trendy name: Flexitarians. Its true!

 

[AndyRM]

They have a new trendy name: Flexitarians. Its true!

I didn't know this, what an excellent word!

 

[User482]

If I was a chef, I'd make it as required. I'm just a cook though, so I usually get it in a jar with ingredients listed on label, like the "chef" above.

Though, honestly, if he doesn't know pesto contains cheese, I don't think he even reaches the status of "cook". "Microwave operator", perhaps?

You do know that you can make it in batches and keep it in jars?

 

[jefmcg]

You do know that you can make it in batches and keep it in jars?

Am I aware you can put food in jars? Yes, I am.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Pesto fight!

Middle class or wot...

 

[User482]

Am I aware you can put food in jars? Yes, I am.

Yet doing so would mean you're not a chef, apparently.

 

[smutchin]

Yet doing so would mean you're not a chef, apparently.

There's a significant (and commonly understood) difference in meaning between "get it from a jar" and "put it in a jar".

 

[jefmcg]

Yet doing so would mean you're not a chef, apparently.

<sigh> The "chef" bought the jar out to "prove" it was vegan. The only way it could do that is for it to be a jar that had a list of ingredients on it.

 

[smutchin]

<sigh> The "chef" bought the jar out to "prove" it was vegan. The only way it could do that is for it to be a jar that had a list of ingredients on it.

You do know that you can write a list of ingredients on the side of a jar yourself?

 

[srw]

The last time I made something that I'm going to call pesto, even though I'm sure a pedant will have a fit when he discovers it was made with wild garlic from the garden rather than basil, I made about enough for the meal I was cooking. With the benefit of a cheap hand food processor it's easy enough to make that there's no point in storing it, and like much fresh food the flavour deteriorates so it's better to make it fresh.

In fact there was a bit left over, so it went in a bowl in the fridge and then into a plastic tub so that I could transport it.

 

[User482]

<sigh> The "chef" bought the jar out to "prove" it was vegan. The only way it could do that is for it to be a jar that had a list of ingredients on it.

My comment was aimed at your suggestion that a person cannot be a chef if they get sauce from a jar.

 

[User482]

The last time I made something that I'm going to call pesto, even though I'm sure a pedant will have a fit when he discovers it was made with wild garlic from the garden rather than basil, I made about enough for the meal I was cooking. With the benefit of a cheap hand food processor it's easy enough to make that there's no point in storing it, and like much fresh food the flavour deteriorates so it's better to make it fresh.

In fact there was a bit left over, so it went in a bowl in the fridge and then into a plastic tub so that I could transport it.

Each to their own. I always prefer to make a double quantity and keep the rest. In a jar.

Anyway, must go. I need to make some sauce.

 

[MontyVeda]

Yep, it got me to bite. Haven't had my handbag out for a while, maybe MontyVeda has a future as a Daily Mail reporter with micro quotes & spin like that.

If i'd known you were so delicate, I'd have kept my trap shut.

 

[Piemaster]

Dunno what Quorn is, but I'm sure I don't want any for lunch