Interesting thread!
Me myself isn't exactly a master at cooking. But I definitelylikelove to cook. Especially simple, but tasty meals with the right balance of seasonings. I like vegetarian, vegan, fresh smoothies and all that stuff, but I love meat. At some point in my life I will try out the Wagyu beef if I get the chance to buy a small piece.
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The thicker the pot the better, at least have a thick bottomed pot if nothing else. Funny thing is I had just started to know how to properly cook rice on the stove top. But I watched quite a few videos touting rice cookers and I thought, sure why not. Plenty of Asians use them now. But I digress. As I said I am going back to the stove top. And as you pointed out, people still use the stove top or in some cases ovens or fire places, etc.
) Did you know that hospitals have the worse idea on how to treat a patient? They load them up on expensive medications which can do more harm in other ways, while keeping them in areas full of electronics and the food they serve are all or mostly processed.)
I knew about Arsenic in rice but I didn't, and still don't know how to get rid of most of it, and/or how to get the best rice product where I live. It just sucks that basically everything we want to eat is poisonous.
Another, perhaps even more shocking thing is the fact that there's so much plastics in our environment that it's found everywhere. Plastics have been found in raindrops collected in national parks, and snow in the rural areas of the world. They literally find it everywhere they look.
Data from 50 studies on microplastics (plastics smaller than five millimeters) found that people consume on average every week 2000 tiny pieces of plastic mostly through water (and I thought the food source was bad enough), but also through the air we breathe.
Every year humans eat an entire dinner plate of plastic particles. Yummy.. Imagine what that sums up to in a life time.
I tried to found the exact notes I wrote but couldn't find them but this is what I think I remebered from the study: Out of a number of young men, 89% of them had high levels of BPA in their urine. BPA is an Estrogen-mimicking organic synthetic compound.
Why are testosterone levels at the absolute bottom, especially among the young? Why are sperm counts dropping at an alarming rate? Why have men become so feminine just in a few years? There is of course much more to the reasons why but these chemicals are playing a massive role in this because they're everywhere. Add to that that our bodies (including the brain and the genitals) are bathing in 4G, soon the untested 5G radiation for the first time in human history and china already planning for 6G.
* I highly recommend storing certain foods in glass jars. At least most of it. I try to do so.
* I'm even thinking about getting a water filter for my tap water even though they say we have the highest standard in the world. I don't buy that at all.
Eat as healthy as you can. Whatever you eat make sure it's fresh and cook it yourself.
Interesting info you have there, I didn't know about the so called bamboo rice.
I did not know about plastic in the air, but I know it is collecting in the ocean like an island. I had a water filter, but it broke. I need to get another. What country do you live in blixt and Truck and anyone else who may happen by? I am in the US.
The issue with arsenic is that they claim soaking it for hours or cooking it in high amounts of water and then draining the water will take out a good portion of the poison. But if you do that, it also takes out a good amount of minerals and vitamins. Brown rice is argued to hold more arsenic, because it still has much of the shell still attached and more ways for the arsenic to cling to/hide in. Plus I am sure it will be "boiled" and not "steamed" rice. Depending on how you like your rice, you might not even want to eat it.
But rice does not have to be eaten though. Plenty of other grains and vegetables that you can easily substitute it for. Many cultures around the world do not even eat rice or very little of it and instead use corn or potatoes, lentils, etc. I just had for the first time and will again shortly, is bamboo rice. Not the dish, but the actual type of rice. Supposedly grown from a dying bamboo tree ( plant? grass?) in the forest. I doubt, but I still need to research it, it has that much arsenic in it. Also it is about three times as expensive for rice and looks green and they say it tastes like green tea. I notice a slight different flavor, but I wouldn't call it tasting like green tea, maybe a "hint" of it. Although there is an actual dish where you pour green tea on top of your rice. ^^!
They claim soy is to be blamed for males being more "feminine". No actual study that I am aware of, but some guy claiming to of drank gallon after gallon of soy milk, eating a package of tofu with every meal and yadda yadda yadda he really loved tofu, but he grew man boobs or something like that. Even if it were true, why was he eating so much of it? I would not recommend a baby or a toddler to drink soy milk, or even animal milk for that matter at that young of an age, but soy is fine unless obviously you have a serious allergic reaction to soy or something, like some are with nuts. The majority of the world can not drink or eat dairy products without some kind of negative reaction. I myself am lactose intolerant. Does not keep me from drinking it or eating it if I really wanted too though. Would be an interesting experience later on however. ^^! My father was also the same way.
I have also heard concerns of wifi and microwaves and some other things in our homes and at work. It may have a small effect, but then again we use them (I am not currently using a microwave) every day all the time. We keep cell phones in our pockets next to our groins and most of us still put them to our faces to talk. (Has anyone thought about those who keep them in their back pockets and then fart on them and then use them? Any thoughts on that? Any at all?
I actually just thought about starting to store my food in glass or ceramic jars, like the old fashioned ones with roosters on them. ^^! I was not thinking so much about the plastic, although it makes sense not to keep them in bags, but to keep them handier about the kitchen. I may really start to have to do that now. I even have the holding other things at the moment. It is also just simply more convenient to lift a tight fitting lid, than to have to untie a bag each time as well. And looks nicer too! ^^!
And as the video shows, plastics are everywhere and for ridiculous reasons. Peter from Japanology has complained more than once, on the show of all things, (more like pointed out) that the Japanese will wrap everything in plastic. We understand the reason behind it, but it still does not tackle the issue. Even for books they will wrap it with a plastic or paper cover so no one knows what you are reading on the train. (hentai
Good point.
Taco Bell does not sell Mexican food though...
Taco Bell does not sell Mexican food though...
.I just tried some azuki beans. Apparently that is one of the beans the Japanese use as a healthier treat option... not sure why... I think you could probably sweeten dog turds just as easily if you added enough sugar to it...
In all seriousness though, it has a good flavor, just not sure why they would choose "that" to sweeten. There has to be other things they have that could be used and be easier to make. Maybe a traditional thing? Maybe the consistency after preparation? Regardless, ate it with collard green leaves and bamboo rice, with chopped garlic, roasted sesame seeds and a pinch of salt. Sort of like a vegetarian taco. Not too bad, provided the greens are crisp, which mine were. May make some cooked greens as well with vinegar and add it as a topping to it.
Adzuki beans are $3 a pound organic. Not the cheapest bean in the bin for sure.
