What's the deal with food snobs?

[JayJay]

Originally Posted by gdl203

I eat take-out at least three times a week.
I have pizza delivered once or twice a week.

 

[gdl203]

Originally Posted by JayJay

I have pizza delivered once or twice a week.

We rotate between pizza, Japanese, Chinese, Italian and Thai.

 

[Thomas]

Originally Posted by Manton

It's false to say there is no point to tourne.

1) The veg is evenly sized and so cooks evenly.

2) It rolls around so that you can brown stuff more easily.

3) It looks cool.

4) It upholds tradition.

5) It allows you to show off.

6) If you can do that, you can do anything because it is the hardest knife skill.

7) It's a way to get some use out of an expensive culinary school education.

8) For instructors, making you do it is a valuable form of hazing.

Man, that is poetic in its symmetry: one point for each side of a tourne' Well-done!

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by Thomas

Man, that is poetic in its symmetry: one point for each side of a tourne' Well-done!

Only 7 sides to a proper toure.

 

[Thomas]

Originally Posted by Manton

Only 7 sides to a proper toure.

that's okay: I'm easily distracted. I'm sure I lost count somewhere along the way.

 

[itsstillmatt]

Originally Posted by mharwitt

impressive knife work is its own reward?
I have turned thousands of vegetables in my life. It is not that rewarding. Since it is Friday, and you went to such a nice school, I made this.

Seriously, I think any skill in the world is good to have, but this is not one of the more important.

 

[Thomas]

Originally Posted by iammatt

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Seriously, I think any skill in the world is good to have, but this is not one of the more important.

I can do up goofy fake teeth from an orange rind. Not that it compares, but it gets a chuckle out of the little one, so I'm kinda proud of it.

 

[Manton]

If you keep denigrating the only halfway impressive thing that I know how to do, I will get revenge somehow.

 

[kwilkinson]

Originally Posted by iammatt

Seriously, I think any skill in the world is good to have, but this is not one of the more important.

Maybe you'd be more impressed with yourself if you knew how to do a really nice tourne. I can show you next time I'm in SF, if you'd like.

 

[itsstillmatt]

Originally Posted by Manton

If you keep denigrating the only halfway impressive thing that I know how to do, I will get revenge somehow.
I think it is a good skill to have, but kind of like you said, it is a skill that shows that you probably have other, more useful, skills. FWIW, I think fluting mushrooms is a lot harder. I can't do better than one in five adequately.

 

[mordecai]

Originally Posted by iammatt

I have turned thousands of vegetables in my life. It is not that rewarding. Since it is Friday, and you went to such a nice school, I made this.

Seriously, I think any skill in the world is good to have, but this is not one of the more important.

beautiful, thank you. and i actually am really impressed by knife skills and attention to detail. mccall's, a market near my home, gets 95% of my meat and fish purchases for this very reason.

 

[itsstillmatt]

Originally Posted by kwilkinson

Maybe you'd be more impressed with yourself if you knew how to do a really nice tourne. I can show you next time I'm in SF, if you'd like.
The really impressive part about that one, other than that it is pretty much perfect, is that I only made 7 cuts. No trimming.

 

[kwilkinson]

Originally Posted by iammatt

The really impressive part about that one, other than that it is pretty much perfect, is that I only made 7 cuts. No trimming.
You perform well under pressure. I can imagine one bead of sweat rolling down your face as you work with surgeon-like precision. And your wife is undoubtedly rolling her eyes off-camera as you once again tourne vegetables for your internet friends.

 

[itsstillmatt]

Originally Posted by kwilkinson

You perform well under pressure. I can imagine one bead of sweat rolling down your face as you work with surgeon-like precision. And your wife is undoubtedly rolling her eyes off-camera as you once again tourne vegetables for your internet friends.

I leave for Las Vegas in two hours. She is happy.

 

[Manton]

Fluting mushrooms is harder. I can't do that at all.