Carbonara sauce is a scam

Greyfox

Leg End Reject wrote: »

So a recap on all the advice so far:

Lots of cream
Lots of mushrooms
Substitute the above with cream of mushroom soup for extra authenticity
Fatty pig cheek made from guacamole
Pasta from the pasta trees in your back garden - protect these from slugs, greenfly or possibly whitefly

There's still some debate on parmesan but you can't go wrong with loads of red pepper added to the mix.

Cream is very important but throwing loads of protien pancake mix in is absolutely crucial

El Tarangu

ozmo wrote: »

Heard a story - that when they started making cake mix etc in the 50's - that a decision was made to omit powered eggs - for the only reason that the people cooking it would feel like they weren't cheating using mix if they got to crack their own egg in.

This is true - this was an innovation of Edward Bernays - he is also credited with popularising smoking among women, and convincing the U.S. government to overthrow the government of Guatemala for the United Fruit Company


American recipes are gas, though:

"Take 4 cups of Aunt Jemina™ cake mix. Bake at 500 for 20 minutes. Finish with a can of Acme® Ready-Made Frosting-in-a-Can"

- wow, I feel like Anthony Bourdain right now, creating this...

sydthebeat

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Just fukk a pack of bacon lardons into a frying pan and slosh a bit of cream over it. Tastes way nicer too



Same with pancake mix, this is only powdered egg and self raising flour and a load of synthetic chemicals to lengthen the ingredient list to make it look like a very complex product that took a lot of R&D.



What other cooking product is a scam?

What heathen puts cream into a carbonara?

Egg yolk and some of the pasta water.... Simples

igCorcaigh

Don't put sugar in your tomato sauce either.
Long slow cooking will release the natural sugars.

Kermit.de.frog

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

It's the biggest scam since sliced bread OP.

And if people knew what went into most bread these days (thanks to the Chorleywood Bread Process for making industrial bread) you'd not touch it with a barge pole

WoollyRedHat

spook_cook wrote: »

I'll never forget the joy at my Mam's home made spag bol. She let me in on the recipe.

Fry up onions and garlic.
Throw in the beef mince.
Dunk a jar of Dolmio on it.
Throw in a few random veg and ketchup.

Serve on spaghetti, with a side of chips and two slices of white bread with which to make little sandwiches and to dip into the sauce.

Was your mam on MasterChef?

Cordell

Adding cream is not a mistake, it's an improvement over the original recipe, which, like a lot of italian stuff, it's good but far from perfect.
An actual real mistake is cooking the pasta and the sauce separately until they are served from separate bowls. Even worse, overcook and then wash the pasta.

Hector Savage

True Carbonara should be crumbly ..

whisky_galore

People who make carbonara with cream or those packets with dried "ingredients" are idiots.

JasonStatham

There's carbon in it, innit.

Gardesana Pecher

Grest, now we have high society telling us how to make carbonara. I just use rashers with salad cream

MidlanderMan

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Just fukk a pack of bacon lardons into a frying pan and slosh a bit of cream over it. Tastes way nicer too

That's not carbonara.

El Tarangu

I think we should maybe have a sticky on this forum specifying what is and what isn't carbonara.

awec

awec wrote: »

Or mushrooms.

To be clear, there is no cream and there is definitely no fcuking mushrooms in carbonara.

I ordered a carbonara for my lunch from an italian takeaway last tuesday and what was in it? Fuxking mushrooms. What kind of a psychpathe puts mushrooms in carbonara? I hate them so the entire thing was inedible and it went straight in the bin. I even wrote to them complaining, its how strongly I felt about it.

artanevilla

Salato come il mare.

silverharp

spook_cook wrote: »

I'll never forget the joy at my Mam's home made spag bol. She let me in on the recipe.

Fry up onions and garlic.
Throw in the beef mince.
Dunk a jar of Dolmio on it.
Throw in a few random veg and ketchup.

Serve on spaghetti, with a side of chips and two slices of white bread with which to make little sandwiches and to dip into the sauce.

Dolmio is a scam , 2 euro for 500g. all you need is tinned tomatoes and add some spices to it. at least half the cost and less additives

COVID

Gardesana Pecher wrote: »

Grest, now we have high society telling us how to make carbonara. I just use rashers with salad cream

Yes, I do that myself, though it must be Heinz.
Any other type of salad cream is just horrendous.


Btw, I mix melted Mars bar and overripe bananas into my Carbonara sauce.
Is this ok?

looksee

You tell us?

COVID

Be grand.

Mr. CooL ICE

I make vegan carbonara by replacing the bacon with Special K

stoneill

I just want to mention, no cream in carbonara.

ElJeffe

Zaph wrote: »

Anybody who buys pancake mix has failed at life, especially considering you still have to add milk to it, which you'd be doing making them from scratch yourself.

The same idiots buy bottled water.

Ash.J.Williams

Deleted User wrote: »

I ordered a carbonara for my lunch from an italian takeaway last tuesday and what was in it? Fuxking mushrooms. What kind of a psychpathe puts mushrooms in carbonara? I hate them so the entire thing was inedible and it went straight in the bin. I even wrote to them complaining, its how strongly I felt about it.

ha an Italian i know used to give out about us (irish) dumping all sorts into their dishes and mushrooms was the biggest gripe!

although mushrooms and pasta are unreal together!

Mr. CooL ICE

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

ha an Italian i know used to give out about us (irish) dumping all sorts into their dishes and mushrooms was the biggest gripe!

although mushrooms and pasta are unreal together!

Sher even mussolini himself loved chips and coleslaw with lasagne

Cordell

Mr. CooL ICE wrote: »

I make vegan carbonara by replacing the bacon with Special K

What do you use to replace the cream?

Ash.J.Williams

Mr. CooL ICE wrote: »

Sher even mussolini himself loved chips and coleslaw with lasagne

hung upside down on a railing wasn't he?

Mr. CooL ICE

Cordell wrote: »

What do you use to replace the cream?

(˵ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°˵)

marcbrophy

Mr. CooL ICE wrote: »

I make vegan carbonara by replacing the bacon with Special K

The cereal or Ketamine?

COVID

I think he's referring to Potassium.

Patrick2010

I don't get this that dishes here have to be always made as in their native country, no cream in Carbonara?, why not if people like it, call it something different if it offends people. Consider pineapple on a pizza an abomination, fine don't eat it, I think its lovely.
Complain that Chinese food sold here isn't authentic?, you're free to make your own chicken feet with rice etc if it makes you feel better. Most people who get the likes of sweet and sour chicken balls from their local takeaway don't care if its eaten in China or not.