SubscribeVeggies: Tastiest vs Easiest to Eat
A few weeks back we published a (fairly comical) chart graphing fruits - on a scale of taste against ease of eating.
Here is a follow-up (artfully created by Gerry Pugliese of Disease Proof).
Broccoli? Tasty? Somebody tell that to my kids - I don't think they got that memo.
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This chart makes no sense to me...
Radishes are delicious! So are onions. What's wrong with onions? And how on earth are peas difficult to eat?
ReplyDoes anyone else think that onions smell like body odor?
ReplyThey only smell like BO when they are going bad. Otherwise, they just smell onion-y. Shallots or scallions are a good option for you if you think onions are too powerful for you.
ReplyAlso an option: Vidalia onions (they have white skins). They are very mild and great to use raw, in salads.
If you just buy regular onions and want to use them raw in a salad without them being too strong, cut them and soak them in cold water for about 10m. Then drain them and eat.
ReplyI know they make you taste bad, if you know what i mean...
ReplyWouldn't you have to eat a lot of them for that to happen?
ReplyJalapenos not tasty? Something's wrong here!
Replyonions++
broccoli--
expressing one's food preferences is sure death.
ReplyPumpkins (and other winter squash) are very easy to eat, IMO.
Cut in half (butternut or acorn). Or cut in quarters if it is larger (pumpkin). Scoop out the seeds and set aside for toasting.
Then get out your pressure cooker, fill with a half inch of water and suspend the squash in a steamer basket. Cook with 15 lbs pressure for 10 minutes.
After that, you just peel the skin off the squash (it pretty much falls off). Add some salt, pepper, butter, pumpkin spice or whatever you want. Then mash it up in a bowl.
Voila. Squash is easy.
Replymmmh. I love winter squash. You do have to remove the seeds and stringy stuff, and I bake them to convert more of the starch to sugar (tastes better to me). I then stuff them with all sorts of stuff - poblano chile mixtures are great.
Then again, I think broccoli rape (rapini for Italianophiles) is awesome and easy to prepare. Make a pasta with ceci, aglio, e paradiso questo...
Great cartoon!
ReplyI think the fact alone that it took a paragraph to eplain how to eat it, pretty much says it's hard to eat! now, a cucumber, on the other hand... just pick it up and take a bite! MUCH easier!!
ReplyThis looks like my DH made it. Except... it needs an extension where spinach is put way off the untasty scale, a mile down. He complains when I cook it, or put it in my salad, even if it's not for him. Says he hates the smell.
I LOVE spinach :(
ReplyWhiskey Tango Foxtrot? Broccoli, peas, and garlic are the tastiest and radishes are "untasty"?!
I think he must have labelled the "tasty" axis backwards.
ReplyAgain, cute, but too subjective.
ReplyJalepenos are the the complete WRONG corner of the scale! They're delicious, but any food that requires you to don gloves before handling is certainly NOT easy to eat.
Onions are the tastiest vegetables ever, and what's so difficult about tomatoes? I loved the fruit chart, but this one is just ridiculous.
ReplyMaybe it depends on how you like your tomatoes? For sandwiches they are kinda annoying to slice because the insides tend to gush out.
Or maybe I'm awful at slicing them.
Either way, I usually just eat them whole now, like apples XD
ReplyTomatoes can be super easy or a tad difficult...it depends on the tomato! Cherry tomatoes are really easy because you just rinse and eat them but the big slicing tomatoes can be a bit messy if you aren't using a really sharp knife.
ReplyPumpkin is only difficult to eat if you are scooping all the revolting pulp out of the real deal...canned pumpkin, on the other hand, is one of the easiest and most nutritious foods you can eat.
And I'm sorry, but I can never think of celery as delicious again...ever since a kid in my 6th grade class got it caught in his retainer, gagged, and vomited in the lunch room, I can never look at an innocent stalk of celery the same way again...
:P
ReplyStick pumpkin in a steamer for 20 minutes. Takes time, yes, but easy. No vegetables are really hard to cook, some just take longer than popping something in the microwave.
ReplyI just stick a whole pumpkin in the oven, I don't even bother to cut it. When it is roasted, I cut, scoop the insides out, and use it to cook. Couldn't be easier.
As for potatoes, I buy new potatoes and stick then in the microwave. No peeling and cutting, yay.
ReplyHow is cauliflower hard to eat? Pick it up and eat it raw.
Peas? Don't eat them one at a time with a fork.
ReplyI get pretty gas-y with raw cauliflower and broccoli. But hey, 30s in the microwave or just putting them in a colander and rinsing with boiling water solves the problem, so still not hard.
Out of the "just rinse and eat" vegetables, arugula, celery and chinese cabbage are all pretty annoying to rinse, in comparison to lettuce, cause they trap so much dirt.
ReplyYeah sometimes I don't rinse celery thoroughly enough, UGH!
ReplyHow is lettuce difficult to eat, just wash it rip it and put it in a bowl. Also veggies are very subjective as everyone has different tastes
Replyi think everyone views different foods in different ways. the same is with veggies. people just need to finds the ones they like and incorporate them in their diet as often as possible.
ReplyThere's no artichokes on the chart. So very delicious, but I have the hardest time cooking them.
ReplyI hate artichokes. I made them once and I thought they'd taste good, but they tasted gross. I do like the hearts though. I suppose if you cook the whole artichoke just to get the heart, it'd be "difficult", but if you buy the pickled or frozen ones from the store, they're "easy".
ReplyHi Heather. Artichokes are not hard to cook.
Trim 1" of the stem, and 1" from the pointy area so it's flat. This is where it will sit in the pot.
Boil some water in a pot, about 2-3" deep.
I also like to trim the pointy/hard section of each leaf with kitchen scissors.(This is optional).
Then put them flat end in the boiling water and close the lid, reduce heat and let them steam!
You'll know they are done when the stem is soft.
ReplyMake a vineigrette dressing, and start eating it! :)
This chart is super messed up. Onions are YUMMY! I love them, even raw. And how hard is it to tear up lettuce? And I think dandelion greens (and all bitter greens, for that matter) are delicious, especially if you use the right kind of viniagrette with them. I also agree with everyone who said pumpkins are easy to prepare...they really don't involve a whole lot of work. Same with all other winter squash. And how hard is it to prepare potatoes?? It really depends on how you're making them, I suppose. I usually just scrub 'em and pop them in the microwave whole, but if you want to cut them up or make hash browns or what have you, it's a bit more labor-intensive.
ReplyHello all. I think this is my first post here. I would like to say that some of my favorite veggies are the ones in the 'Most difficult/Untasty' quadrangle.
ReplyDandelion greens? Are you kidding me? Saute them with olive oil (or veggie stock to cut down on fat), onions, some pine nuts.. They are to die for. It's a popular middle eastern dish :)
So that's why our chickens go crazy over dandelion. Great big dandelion patches are demolished almost as quickly as our cherry tomato plants.
Granted, last I checked they weren't sautéing them in olive oil, but since they have the alarming tendency to jump into open flame I wouldn't trust them with a stove.
ReplyI surprised peas are ranked as difficult to eat. Opening the shell isn't that hard is it? :)
ReplyHow are broccoli and cauliflower on different sides? They are the same thing to me :)
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