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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Sept 19, 2010 22:39:56 GMT -5
I HATE CILANTRO!!!! I am one of many who can taste a chemical that cilantro plants produce. It's a very putrid and vile chemical flavour. Much like soap, but worse. Some people think it's a recessive gene as people either love cilantro or HATE it, with very few in between. I for one almost vomited once after tasting it. It reminded me like eating crushed stinkbugs. Even though i've never eaten stinkbugs. It's that gross. It even sometimes makes my tounge feel numb, but that could be my imagination. It ruins everything it comes in contact with. (i just blogged about my cilantro hatred for those interested) I also found another blogger who blogged about his hatred of the soapy plant. www.mikescircularfile.com/2004/05/objective-measured-treatise-on.htmlwww.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/dining/14curious.html.....But, on the plus side.... supposedly it can remove heavy metals from your system. And, it may contain a new antibiotic. I personally would like to test it to see if it can be used as a pesticide, since i hate it so much. If anyone else hates this plant, please i urge you to blog about it. And buy an "i hate cilantro" t-shirt. I'd also like to know anyone else here who can taste the chemical. .......... If i ever move to mars. I'm going to BAN the plant from the planet.
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Post by johno on Sept 20, 2010 0:18:31 GMT -5
This is cracking me up. I taste that soapy stink bug taste, too. I can put up with it in some Mexican and Asian dishes if there's just a little bit. Still tastes like stink bug stank, though. No way in hell could I eat it plain! It's nice to find out I'm not alone.
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Post by darwinslair on Sept 20, 2010 1:53:04 GMT -5
you know, i dont taste it, but with our wildly variable weather we only eat it once or twice a year. It volunteers in the gardens, but bolts so quickly, the chances of getting it into a dish just doesnt happen that often.
Tom
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Post by atash on Sept 21, 2010 11:07:33 GMT -5
I taste it too. Cilantro tastes soapy and bitter to me.
I can tolerate it in small amounts. Once I accidentally took a BIG bite of what I thought was mint chutney at a Pakistani cafe. It was in fact cilantro ground with really hot onions. Sent tears down my cheeks.
My wife does not taste anything soapy or bitter about it. She can not understand why I don't like it. She says it's delicious, and not at all soapy or bitter.
Tom, some types are grown more for seed (the spice Coriander which I can tolerate easily unlike the herb), and some types for leaf. The leafy types are supposed to be bred to be less prone to bolting. It seems to work best--in the right climate--sown in the Fall and overwintered. Then it doesn't bolt until late spring or early summer.
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Post by ottawagardener on Sept 21, 2010 17:52:12 GMT -5
There is a leaf variety called Slo-bolt but I find it bolts pretty fast too. I don't taste the soapiness but I do seem to taste bitterness in nightshade plants more than other people. New potatoes with their skin on are the worst! I enjoy them but they have an acrid, bitter taste.
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Post by garnetmoth on Sept 21, 2010 19:23:20 GMT -5
to each their own. My hubbie generally dislikes cilantro (and mushrooms, and any soft casserole type food) I like cilantro (but find it doesnt taste quite as good to me as it used to) but cant stand olives or many strong cheeses....
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Post by blueadzuki on Sept 21, 2010 19:29:22 GMT -5
In my case I have an odd variant. I absoutely LOVE the taste of cilantro (I'll pour it on top of my tacos by the handful, there's usausally more cilantro on them than lettuce) However when it comes to some of the so called cilantro analouges like Bolivian Coriander (a.k.a. papalo) and Vietnamese coriander (Rau-Ram). I absoutelly LOATHE them. I honestly cannot get why anyone thinks they taste like cilantro, to me the just taste acrid and unpleasant. Oh and for the record I'm O.K. with culantro (saw leaf herb) that DOES taste like cilantro to me, though I find it a bit too coarse and thorny to make much use of in actual cooking.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Sept 21, 2010 20:38:30 GMT -5
I hate cilantro too... But only because the taste is so glorious, and it is so hard to grow that I get frustrated with it.
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Post by hiven on Sept 24, 2010 12:56:35 GMT -5
I hated it when I was a little girl, the smell was too much ,but that was then! I actually love it now and grow a whole row of it both for frozen herbs (leaves and young shoots) and for their seeds (a very versatile culinary spice). It is also a good companion herb to grow with carrots, radish and brassicas.
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