Carbonara sauce is a scam

Ubbquittious

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?

frozenfrozen

No cream in carbonara

Tork

There should be no cream in a carbonara sauce

Zaph

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.

Wing126

What kinda carbonara are you making with cream??

Tork

https://www.tomdoorley.com/recipe-of-the-week/3g5451qwr96560jpvysksrvxrhnnvp

Paolo (Tullio) ...reserved a special scorn for carbonara made with cream. In his book Paolo Tullio Cooks Italian he writes of this simple dish with a kind of missionary zeal (but is a bit hazy on quantities).

So, the day after Paolo died, I decided to make his version of spaghetti carbonara, taking careful measurements as I went along. So, now I can share Paolo’s recipe in a fairly easy-to-use way.

Spaghetti Carbonara
Okay, to serve four you will need the following:
A very large pot of boiling, heavily salted water
4 large egg yolks (The secret of creamy carbonara – without using cream – is to use only the yolks, according to Paolo)
60g of finely grated high quality Parmesan (use the best you can afford; it’s critical in this dish)
Freshly ground black pepper
A little water
2 tbsp olive oil
200g pancetta or unsmoked bacon lardons (Paolo pointed out that the purists insist on guanciale, a kind of cured pig’s cheek with plenty of fat; if you have it, use it, but it’s no vital).
400g good quality spaghetti (Barilla or posher)

I don't think it's been mentioned yet so..

There should be no cream in carbonara.

rapul

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I don't think it's been mentioned yet so..

There should be no cream in carbonara.

2nd post?!!!

Ubbquittious

Deleted User wrote: »

I don't think it's been mentioned yet so..

There should be no cream in carbonara.

Tastes good though

Tork

rapul wrote: »

2nd post?!!!

Every post, apart from the pancake one :pac:

rapul

rapul wrote: »

2nd post?!!!

Now how did I miss that? Still it was only mentioned the once wasn't it. So no harm in saying it again.

Happy4all

Wing126 wrote: »

What kinda carbonara are you making with cream??

A fake scam one

HeidiHeidi

Wing126 wrote: »

What kinda carbonara are you making with cream??

A packet or jar one, I'm guessing!

marcbrophy

Tesco carbonara is composed of 4% double cream!
Can't say that I hate it

https://www.tesco.ie/groceries/product/details/?id=267850431

rapul

I know Builebeag was just hasing the lols, waaay too late for me!

Ubbquittious

marcbrophy wrote: »

Tesco carbonara is composed of 4% double cream!
Can't say that I hate it

https://www.tesco.ie/groceries/product/details/?id=267850431

It wouldn't surprise me if the Dolmio one is the same. Many moons ago I had a jar of it in my fridge for too long, opened it and there was a ferocious stench of gone off dairy. It was horrible, put me off carbonara for years

nullzero

Pancetta egg yolks and parmesan. Jars of any type of pasta sauce are uniformly dreadful but the gelatinous gloop that passes for carbonara is particularly vomit inducing.

ozmo

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Tastes good though

I actually must try that and compare with the normal- messier- way - i do like carbonara.

dasdog

Ubbquittious wrote: »

It wouldn't surprise me if the Dolmio one is the same.

Pasta sauce is one of the easiest and rewarding things to make - it takes minutes to chop some garlic, fry in olive oil, add tinned tomatoes/passata, puree, herbs and a tiny bit of sugar. Dolmio is absolutely vile - it's sickeningly sweet I really don't know why people use it.

It's a pity guanciale is so hard to find in Ireland. Makes some difference.

Ubbquittious

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It's a pity guanciale is so hard to find in Ireland. Makes some difference.

Plenty of pigs sent to their death every day of the week here. Where does it all go?

marcbrophy

Ubbquittious wrote: »

It wouldn't surprise me if the Dolmio one is the same. Many moons ago I had a jar of it in my fridge for too long, opened it and there was a ferocious stench of gone off dairy. It was horrible, put me off carbonara for years

Wow, way more! 22% cream in the Dolmio one

https://www.tesco.ie/groceries/Product/Details/?id=250154135

dasdog

Deleted User wrote: »

It's a pity guanciale is so hard to find in Ireland. Makes some difference.

Jesus - I'd forgotten about that. Congealed bile from El Paso in a jar.

Again, just make your own. Chopped shallots, avocado, garlic, jalapenos, chili, de-seeded tomatoes with a squeeze of lime juice and a crack of rock salt.

Getting hungry now.

Leg End Reject

dasdog wrote: »

Jesus - I'd forgotten about that. Congealed bile from El Paso in a jar.

Again, just make your own. Chopped shallots, avocado, garlic, jalapenos, chili, de-seeded tomatoes with a squeeze of lime juice and a crack of rock salt.

Getting hungry now.

I'm not sure that guacamole would make authentic pig cheek.

Tpcl20

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 is categorically not how to make carbonara.

awec

frozenfrozen wrote: »

No cream in carbonara

Or mushrooms.

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

hynesie08

Lads, sorry if it's been asked, but is there cream in carbonara?

Leg End Reject

hynesie08 wrote: »

Lads, sorry if it's been asked, but is there cream in carbonara?

The general consensus seems to be yes, lots of it.

awec

hynesie08 wrote: »

Lads, sorry if it's been asked, but is there cream in carbonara?

The people that put cream in carbonara are the people that add extra stuff to Lasagne. Like mushrooms or peppers.

These people, they're a lost cause. Don't eat their food, or if you do, be prepared to be surprised.

WoollyRedHat

hynesie08 wrote: »

Lads, sorry if it's been asked, but is there cream in carbonara?

I'm glad you asked that, nobody has thought to raise this question yet. The truth of the matter is that there is no ice cream in carbonara.

Leg End Reject

Leg End Reject wrote: »

The general consensus seems to be yes, lots of it.

And don't forget the fcuking mushrooms!!

ozmo

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.

Leg End Reject

[Deleted User] wrote: »

And don't forget the fcuking mushrooms!!

And guacamole.

murpho999

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Tastes good though

Not really.
It's used be people who want shortcuts and don't want to do it the proper way with egg yolks.

It's funny when you see restaurants here claiming to be genuine Italian but on their menu they have cream in the carbonara.
Turns me off the whole menu then.

Zaph

Deleted User wrote: »

And don't forget the fcuking mushrooms!!

You could make it easier for yourself if you just use a tin of cream of mushroom soup instead.

awec

awec wrote: »

These people, they're a lost cause. Don't eat their food, or if you do, be prepared to be surprised.

Yup, that's me. Can't resist adding a pile of extra's beyond what a dish is 'supposed' to be. Oddly enough though, I do get asked for second servings.

Aidan Harney

And cream

Leg End Reject

Zaph wrote: »

You could make it easier for yourself if you just use a tin of cream of mushroom soup instead.

A culinary revolution revealed right here!

Zaph

Zaph wrote: »

You could make it easier for yourself if you just use a tin of cream of mushroom soup instead.

Perfect! Close the thread!

Man Vs ManUre

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?

Lol on the pancakes. I been watching these YouTube gym muppets, out of curiosity of how they make a living if anything else. It’s bizarre how some of them seem to do so well. Big trips to Dubai, Ibiza, Mykonos, Bali, Maldives (in a pandemic year!!) is a normal year. This 1 Irish fella who is well known, been going on for past few months about his project X, that he has pumped a load of money into and was keeping shush on what it was. His big product launch happened last week, and his product is “fuel cakes”, a protein pancake mix. Does this crap seriously make money?? This wouldn’t be picked on the apprentice. Only the sheep that follow these muppets and call everyone ‘bro’ will buy this overpriced crap. Puke cakes.

endacl

In exactly the same way as there’s no pineapple on pizza.

*runs away*

:pac:

WoollyRedHat

If you want really good pasta, get the one that grows on trees, so fresh and delicious!

Zaph

endacl wrote: »

In exactly the same way as there’s no pineapple on pizza.

*runs away*

:pac:

Ah here now, we'll have no more of that sort of crazy talk. :mad:

Ubbquittious

Man Vs ManUre wrote: »

Lol on the pancakes. I been watching these YouTube gym muppets, out of curiosity of how they make a living if anything else. It’s bizarre how some of them seem to do so well. Big trips to Dubai, Ibiza, Mykonos, Bali, Maldives (in a pandemic year!!) is a normal year. This 1 Irish fella who is well known, been going on for past few months about his project X, that he has pumped a load of money into and was keeping shush on what it was. His big product launch happened last week, and his product is “fuel cakes”, a protein pancake mix. Does this crap seriously make money?? This wouldn’t be picked on the apprentice. Only the sheep that follow these muppets and call everyone ‘bro’ will buy this overpriced crap. Puke cakes.

Yes this stuff sells. These protein bars are a huge market. Lots of youngsters now flee the nest not knowing how to cook themselves a dinner and modern society with its abundance of pre-packaged stuff and restaurants mean they can stay in this state for a lot longer. You also have the too-rich-to-care market as well who think nothing of spending 3 or 4 quid on a little bar with only two mouthfulls in it.



Print a nice spunky label and a bit of bullsh1t about how much nutritious goodness is packed in and you'll be rolling in it as long as your outsourced manufacturing facility keeps up the good work

Mam of 4

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

If you want really good pasta, get the one that grows on trees, so fresh and delicious!

Absolutely , and in your own garden too , priceless!

Alfredo sauce is lovely though, to be fair to the OP.

WoollyRedHat

Mam of 4 wrote: »

Absolutely , and in your own garden too , priceless!

Yes, but the crop hasn't been great this year unfortunately, the slugs can't keep away from it.

Tork

Dammit 2020. You are the gift that keeps on giving

Leg End Reject

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Yes, but the crop hasn't been great this year unfortunately, the slugs can't keep away from it.

Greenfly destroyed mine this year.

WoollyRedHat

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Greenfly destroyed mine this year.

Oh really that's a shame. Greenfly actually makes an excellent basil substitute, mixed in with a bit of garlic, my guests loved it.

gozunda

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Greenfly destroyed mine this year.

No no its whitefly on pasta. Greenfly is pesto!