cilantro

cilantrawesome

cilantro is more of a support ingredient than a star, so I'll go with "OKAY"

it's great but i also think it tastes like soap?

SOAP IS GREAT

I was actually hoping there would be a soap option. I wish I could love cilantro :(

Today I ate a panaeng chicken thing with lots of cilantro and it was...kinda like making out with my lunch.

soapy flavor never apparent to me until last year when, through a stridently anti-cilantro co-worker, i became aware of a coalition of like-minded individuals who had gathered to organize their uprising at ihatecilantro.com (though it looks like the site is now down)

got no beef with cilantro, happy to find a pile on my taco, pad thai, whatever sall good

classic in pho ( I think )

Kinda hate asking restaurants to remove it from everything I eat.

if it tastes like soap to some people and it tastes awesome to the rest of us, I don't get why soap doesn't taste awesome to the rest of us

cilantro y cebollos por favor

it's actually a, more, dirty wet sock kinda thing.

akaik the soap thing is genetic

those also taste gross to me xp

used to hate cilantro, now i love it. must be used in moderation though.

i was about to say imo moderation is not even necessary w/ cilantro u_u

There is a genetic component to cilantro flavor perception. The deficient will be the first against the wall.

why is the idea that cilantro hatred is genetic (is this really proven or just some hypothesis?) like a special thing? what about hatred of other foods?

Cilantro is great, green peppers make me sick. Venn diagram?

if it is genetic, it illegal to discriminate against cilantro haters in employment and stuff, also to prevent them from having kids

Wouldn't go that far- but close. DEMOCRACY.

The leaves have a different taste from the seeds, with citrus overtones. Some perceive an unpleasant "soapy" taste or a rank smell and avoid the leaves[3]. Belief that this is genetically determined may arise from the known genetic variation in taste perception of the synthetic chemical phenylthiocarbamide; however, no specific link has been established between coriander and a bitter taste perception gene.

Steve Shasta loves cilantro. The people who hate it are indeed genetically malformed which is awesome to have in your backpocket while sparring.

We are in the back pocket- you get punched square on. Fair enough. ))

cilantro haters should be culled to advance the human race

truth bomb

i also like any kind of pressed tofu (or any kind of tofu or shredded boiled chicken or plain boiled pork stomach), with vinegar and chili oil and black pepper and a bit of soy sauce but not too much and then a ton of chopped cilantro, put it in the fridge to chill. or, fuck, just cucumber, even, sliced up, with lots of cilantro and salt and vinegar and some mustard oil.

香菜炒牛肉: fry strips of slightly fatty beef until crisped right up. take out and clean pan. put a bit of oil in pan, throw in garlic cloves and dried chilis and hua jiao and the white part of green onion, fry fry fry, put beef back in, put a giant bundle of chopped up cilantro in, let it just chill for 10 seconds, DONE.

also love cilantro chutney.

^^^wkik^^^

like your style dawg.

w also kiw

http://pic3.nipic.com/20090610/2363388_110808019_2.jpg

this is kinda what i had in mind, made with 素鸡 aka vegetarian chicken (but not american grocery store fake meat style fake chicken).

see also:

http://www.78fz.com/upload_image/Restaurant/2008082615360736854.jpg

duck web, fish maw, cilantro, vinegar, etc. etc. etc.

feel we need a mod edit to add coriander to the thread title to get more britishers in here

^^^ Was coming to say that.

Like a lot of other stuff, shit when over-used, but the right amount in the right place is fine.

no, it's their own fault.

http://photo17.hexun.com/p/2009/0420/316175/b_vip_E70D92558323EB7BC25D9BDDC93EFE86.jpg

cilantro w/ ground lamb

i like cilantro okay, but there is a SUPER fine line where it totally ruins the dish for me

i voted for "soap" tho cuz i feel like most places don't know where that line is

cilantro and mutton is a wonderful combination imo - the gaminess is offset by the cilantro

people who are put off by soapy cilantro have obv. never had super strong jasmine tea

woo hoo

http://www.vansky.com/club/attachment/Fid_16/16_233147_deda38ee4b93080.jpg

Cilantro is very much one of those ingredients that I didn't really like at first but that I nevertheless felt an impulse to keep eating anyway. Cumin is one of the other obvious examples. "I don't like this but something about it makes me want to keep trying it. . ." Now I love it, of course.

Which makes me wonder if there is any overlap between people's perceptions of cilantro and their perceptions of cumin.

cilantro and cumin complement each other really well

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/1493/200929240189872.jpg

damn right. fried lamb slices, cumin, cilantro. on the cumin/cilantro combination, i also dig big platter chicken 大盘鸡 with a mountain of cilantro riding on top, just waiting to be slurpily stirred up into the mixture.

http://www.women88.com/Article/UploadPic/2007-5/20075281844126546.jpg

i don't like too much cilantro in soupy things, but it's great in pulled noodles, esp. lamb variety, with a pour of black vinegar and some chili sauce on the end. damn. china is a cilantro powerhouse.

http://www.gs.xinhuanet.com/jdwt/2007-07/13/xin_17070413164946815661.jpg

Dicing a fresh bunch is one of my favourite things in cooking.

dylannn is sooo otm on this thread

Cilantro rox; PARSNIPS taste like soap. Blech!

PARSNIPS taste like soap

You're doing it wrong.

My parents both like coriander and parsley and I think both taste kind of nasty. Does this ruin anyone's theories?

(Fine with a little coriander in my curry sauce or a small sprinkling of either on something with enough flavour to mask the taste, but anything more than a small garnish is ;_; )

When I was 6 I found a dead bird on my property..at the same time I could smell the cilantro growing in my neighbour's garden, and thought I was smelling "rabies." cilantro never stood a chance with me.

that is such an incredibly sad story

Was at the market on Sat and could barely stand to dig through the bin for good potatoes because it was directly underneath a mountain of v v fragrant cilantro.

It doesn't taste like soap to me, it tastes like...green metal.

cilantro haters should be culled to advance the human race

― lmfao @ credulity (velko), Tuesday, March 9, 2010 9:05 PM (Yesterday)

truth bomb

― nitzer ebbebe (gbx), Tuesday, March 9, 2010 9:09 PM (Yesterday)

I was thinking cilantro stans should be temp banned to advance the human race.

Fortunately, neither one will happen.

Love this in pozole

request for amended CILANTRO SMELLS LIKE RABIES option cuz I don't really think it tastes like soap, but I definitely also think it is Not Okay

I'm willing to compromise w/ "RABIES TASTES LIKE SOAP"

is that why rabies makes mouth froth?

Jaq made MIND-BLOWING posole for Theresa and me when I was in Seattle and because she is the kitchen angel and she loves me, she left out the cilantro and everyone could garnish their own at table. <3 <3 <3 ad many

When I was 6 I found a dead bird on my property..at the same time I could smell the cilantro growing in my neighbour's garden, and thought I was smelling "rabies." cilantro never stood a chance with me.

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, March 10, 2010 8:00 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

this is just

I just like the idea of rabid birds

I know it's a weird story.. Until I was 22 I never knew what it was I must have smelled, I would just taste cilantro in dishes from time to time and be like UGH DO NOT WANT and finally a friend tasted my meal and told me what the problem was. I don't ever order pad thai or Indian food because of cilantro :(

there was supposed to be a sequel to the birds called the cilantro

xpp.s. I was 6! don't hate, Michael White. I don't hate on you, even though you share your name with Toronto's #1 Robert Plant impersonator!

Whoa- I had no idea that coriander seeds and cilantro leaves are from the same plant!

I don't hate on you, even though you share your name with Toronto's #1 Robert Plant impersonator!

OUCH.

No hate at all, finefinemusic, I just lolled at the idea of brids flying around foaming at the beak and acting crazy.

It is a pretty good visual! I have just been waiting for the perfect opportunity to tell you about Michael White & the White. ;)

Does he do Zep covers or just Plant solo covers?

Turns out he is not as local to Toronto as I thought: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_White_&_The_White My friends and I used to go to his concerts, he and his band would play entire albums front to back. Zeppelin definitely, never saw any Robert Plant solo stuff but I wouldnt put it past him.

There's a Mexican restaurant near us now where I actually like the like the cilantro on the tacos -- it's much less intense and soapy. I don't know if there are new varieties being developed, or if my allergy/aversion is fading.

Have any of you cilantro haters had papalo?

I don't know what it is so I'm gonna say "no".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivian_Coriander

key ingredient in a cemita:
http://www.corazondepuebla.com.mx/images/cemita.jpg

Wasn't too fussed about cilantro when I first tried it. Now I actually get a small 'high' when I eat it. It really is awesome.

There is definitely an optimum amount to put on a dish, though.

infinity?

the bird story. fuck. when i was a kid, i lived in germany and my sister and i had to take two buses to get to our international school. but they weren't timed well, so it left us wandering around in an empty bus parking lot every morning. there was a patch of wild green onion growing there, beside some unused railway tracks. we used to pull it out and mash it up between heavy flat rocks and make a kind of green onion sauce, for no particular reason. our hands were always green and oniony. the smell memory of it is so strong that i'll still think of it when i crunch into a stick of green onion.

love love love love cilantro. it is divine.

http://i7.meishichina.com/Eat/UploadFiles1017/200912/2009122915070465.jpg

pushing the cilantro/other things ratio, cold cilantro salad, 凉拌香菜.

ingredients： cilantro, shelled peanuts, wood ear fungus, mashed up garlic, salt, dried chilis.

1、wash and cut cilantro into pieces；

2、fry peanuts in oil；

3、combine cilantro, peanuts, and all other ingredients together。

oooh, i could basically make that tonight, but w/cashews and shiitake and dried chipotles...

i love cilantro! it is even in the soup i made this week! also: i finally made soup again! it has been a while
also, cilantro is in banh mi sandwiches! and they are the best sandwiches
i wld like to have a cilantro plant

what we should all really be hating on, so-called genetic dispositions or not, is fucking CARAWAY. way to ruin bread there.

mint too

I'm cool with mint

itt yuppies

I like caraway bread (at least, I love the one a local restaurant does, they serve really great freshly-made flavoured bread before every meal), but goulash tends to be a bit too caraway-heavy for me. For me it's not a flavour that goes with meat very well, but obviously plenty of people disagree.

CARAWAY. way to ruin bread there.

one of the most otm statements ever posted.

i read somewhere that cilantro-hate was down to a certain enzyme that some people have?? it doesn't really taste soapy to me, but it tastes... unfood-like. i don't know how to explain it any better. but the taste of it always seems completely foreign and out of place to me. i avoid it like the plague.

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of course it's great ffs

Picked up some fresh culantro (check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eryngium_foetidum ). Going to teach myself some basic Puerto Rican dishes over the weekend.

Nasty stuff. I'm really sick of picking it out of things when restaurants fail to mention it on the menu.

I didnt know that coriander seed tastes diff to coriander leaf. Hm. I might have to re-taste powdered coriander for my curries. I'd been avoiding it assuming it tasted like the leaves do.

ground coriander seed is kind of cumin-y if I recall...?

Oh ok, see I like cumin :)

You don’t taste cilantro, you smell it. You smell it before it’s in your mouth, and as you put it in, but it isn’t good for much after you start chewing.

Taste and smell are intertwined of course, but I definately taste cilantro. We eat a lot of fresh herbs as vegetables (rather than seasonings/garnishes) however -- dill, cilantro, basil, various types of mint. My partner prepares a lot of traditional Vietnamese and Lao dishes, and cilantro is a staple of that cuisine.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/dining/14curious.html

http://i.imgur.com/EKERBvT.jpg

i use so much cilantro in my cooking lately. verdict: cilantro is good

Cilantro and I have turned a corner in our relationship