Cooking With Blood
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I ate pigs blood on many occasions while in Thailand. It's fine tasting, in my opinion. Not a food I'd go out of my way to make or eat here in the US though.0
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Sorry, but this thread is freaking hilarious and ewwww. :laugh:0
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Morcilla(blood sausage) is good. Not sure of how many calories are in the sausages.0
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I'm always looking for new recipes, and I think this is an ingredient I would attempt to play with, but probably not stick to.0
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Must...not...bait...the...vegan
Why a vegan would even read this thread boggles my mind... unless they are one of those who likes to bait people.
Dang it... I fell for it didn't I?
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Must...not...bait...the...vegan
This made me LOL, and very few things do that.
I have never knowingly eaten anything that was specifically using blood as an ingredient (other than meats, which obviously contains it). If it is something you are able to incorporate into your life and you enjoy it, all the power to you.0 -
Must...not...bait...the...vegan
Why a vegan would even read this thread boggles my mind...
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Doens't appeal to me to be honest as I don't like black pudding at all, although I love the idea of using more of the animal parts.
White pudding is blood-free.Blood sausage (we call it black/white pudding here) is delicious. I could eat it every day! Have never cooked with blood though.0 -
Humans needed tools before they started catching prey and cooking meat. Therefore, they developed the intelligence eating plants that enabled them to use tools to eat meat.
The very first stone tools were used to extract bone marrow and brains from animal carcasses. Australopithecines were already eating meat before that. Even chimpanzees co-operatively hunt small mammals such as various small monkeys, and humans split from chimps around 7 million years ago, much earlier than the use of the first stone tools. So meat eating in hominins predates stone tools by a long way. The innovation that stone tools provided was the ability to extract brains and bone marrow from carcasses.
Meat eating was a major driving force in human evolution. Let's look at the evidence:
1. the earliest stone tools were used to smash bones to extract brains and bone marrow
2. there was no expansion in brain size in hominins until after these tools were invented - prior to that australopithecine brain size had pretty much flatlined....... but after being able to extract brains and bone marrow - rich in essential fatty acids necessary for brain growth... slightly larger brained hominins called Homo habilis emerged very soon after, followed by Homo ergaster with their even larger brains, i.e. the earliest humans, who evolved into larger and larger brained humans......... so basically, shortly after the invention of stone tools, hominin brain size started expanding and kept on expanding until Homo neanderthalensis evolved, and they hunted huge animals like mammoth, woolly rhino, bison, etc.
3. every species of human has been found alongside the remains of animals that have been butchered with stone tools. If a bone has cut marks on it made by stone tools, then it was a human that did it, because with the exception of a modern bonobo named Kansi (who was taught by humans) only humans and their immediate australopithecine ancestors made stone tools. The very earliest humans butchered animals with stone tools that they made. The immediate ancestors of humans, Australopithecus sediba, used stone tools that they made to butcher animals.
3.5 if you want to mention tool use in chimpanzees at this point, yes they use tools to do things like extract ants from ant nests and crack nuts... no doubt hominins (sharing a common ancestor with chimps) did as well, but chimps co-operatively hunt small mammals, and one subspecies of chimps the females spear bushbabies on pointy sticks (another example of chimpanzee tool use to get animal protein) - human ancestors were no doubt eating insects and small mammals long before they were able to make stone tools... but it was the use of these tools to extract brains and bone marrow that set them and their descendants on a trajectory that led to the evolution of humans.
4. human evolution is also marked by more and more sophisticated hunting weapons, i.e. as brain size increased, the humans developed more sophisticated hunting weapons, got better at catching animals, were able to grow bigger brains, and thus make more sophisticated hunting weapons.... a positive feedback loop of increased meat eating, bigger brains and increasingly complex hunting weapons. Resulting, ultimately, in Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens
5. there's a correlation in primates between meat eating and brain size, as in the more meat they eat the bigger the brain. This trend exists in humans too, with Homo neanderthalensis being the species of human that had the largest brain, and also that ate the most meat. Homo sapiens comes in a very close second (although some Homo sapiens populations, e.g. the Inuit, eat as much animal protein or even more than neanderthals did... interestingly neanderthals were a cold-adapted sub-arctic species and the Inuit are an arctic Homo sapiens population... Inuit people can withstand even colder temperatures than neanderthals could, due to having much more advanced technology....)
If you want to see the evolutionary trajectory of a hominin that ate a diet similar to a gorilla's (which includes insects, by the way, not just plant foods... but is nevertheless more plant based than a human, chimp or bonobo's diet) look at Australopithecus boisei (sometimes classified in its own genus Paranthopus boisei) because while humans evolved bigger and bigger brains, they evolved bigger and bigger teeth, all the better to eat coarse vegetation with. And they had huge temoralis muscles (necessary for chewing coarse vegetation) which constrained their brain size, while in the lineage that ended up evolving into humans, teeth and temporalis muscles got smaller due to being able to get much more nutrition from soft foods like flesh, brains and bone marrow, and thus brain expansion became possible as the temporalis muscle was no longer constraining skull/brain size.But why promote evolution when humans have evolved into the species that will destroy the planet. Eating meat is the leading cause of environmental destruction. Ironic that you believe it was needed for our evolution, when in reality, it will be the leading cause of our demise.
lol yes, it was necessary for us to evolve. That's not my opinion, it's the current opinion of palaeoanthropologists based on the evidence from the fossil record.0 -
Must...not...bait...the...vegan
Why a vegan would even read this thread boggles my mind...
QFT
That's what I thought. But... I... could... not... resist........
and the first vegan post on here was to preach.... it's like when religious proselytisers knock on your door....0 -
Black pudding is pretty common here in Scotland. Hated it as a kid but when I got older, not gonna lie, I thought it was amazing. I'd absolutely try any other blood based dish at least once.
I don't actually like black pudding! I'm more interested in using blood in sweet cooking: this Sanguinaccio Dolce looks amazing!
Oh this looks fantastic! Let me know it turns out please. As far as cooking with blood, if you don't like it nobody's forcing you to eat it. I personally don't see anything wrong with it & would love to try it! My husbands philosophy is if it had a pulse you eat it! There's currently deer, beef & snake in my freezer that he killed & cleaned himself. So fresh!!0 -
If people are going to use animals for food, I'd rather see them use ALL the parts - not just the tenderloins.0
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mmm...Czarnina! http://www.soupsong.com/rczarnin.html0
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Must...not...bait...the...vegan
Why a vegan would even read this thread boggles my mind...
QFT
That's what I thought. But... I... could... not... resist........
and the first vegan post on here was to preach.... it's like when religious proselytisers knock on your door....
Your long post is brilliant!
I'm very accepting of people from every walk of life - vegans included! - but when they get all preachy and almost try to deny everyone else's lifestyles - "cook with love, not violence" - it's difficult to be accepting.0 -
Black pudding is pretty common here in Scotland. Hated it as a kid but when I got older, not gonna lie, I thought it was amazing. I'd absolutely try any other blood based dish at least once.
I don't actually like black pudding! I'm more interested in using blood in sweet cooking: this Sanguinaccio Dolce looks amazing!
Oh this looks fantastic! Let me know it turns out please. As far as cooking with blood, if you don't like it nobody's forcing you to eat it. I personally don't see anything wrong with it & would love to try it! My husbands philosophy is if it had a pulse you eat it! There's currently deer, beef & snake in my freezer that he killed & cleaned himself. So fresh!!
I will do! Please tell me what snake tastes like in return!If people are going to use animals for food, I'd rather see them use ALL the parts - not just the tenderloins.
Exactly! People are not going to stop eating animals, so we might as not waste them.0 -
Must...not...bait...the...vegan
Why a vegan would even read this thread boggles my mind...
QFT
That's what I thought. But... I... could... not... resist........
and the first vegan post on here was to preach.... it's like when religious proselytisers knock on your door....
Your long post is brilliant!
I'm very accepting of people from every walk of life - vegans included! - but when they get all preachy and almost try to deny everyone else's lifestyles - "cook with love, not violence" - it's difficult to be accepting.
thanks
and I agree0 -
If people are going to use animals for food, I'd rather see them use ALL the parts - not just the tenderloins.
I agree.0 -
Try cooking with love instead of violence. It is much more effective.
I was going to say....
I think eating blood is weird. A little sadistic IMO but that is just me, I tried blood pudding once and it was the most repulsive looking and smelling thing. If we were meant to suck blood I'd imagine the ppl of Vampire diaries and Twilight would be real, and a hot guy would be biting my neck? Not reality, welp there goes my fantasy!
Everyone is different. Cultures and cuisines are all different but this is just my opinion so. HELL NO! haha0 -
Vampires used to be really sexy and mysterious. Thanks a lot Twilight for ruining that!!!0
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I absolutely love black pudding.0
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Vampires used to be really sexy and mysterious. Thanks a lot Twilight for ruining that!!!
Oooh sparkly!! :grumble:0 -
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What violence? I go to the store and buy it, then come home and put it in a pot. Didn't rob anyone, steal from anyone, or threaten anyone to get it.Try cooking with love instead of violence. It is much more effective.
And I LOVE cooking it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get that you're vegan, but portraying people that eat animal products as "violent" is kinda out of line. Respect others decisions as you want them to respect yours.
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Part of evolution is demise. Ask the dinosaurs.Humans needed tools before they started catching prey and cooking meat. Therefore, they developed the intelligence eating plants that enabled them to use tools to eat meat.
But why promote evolution when humans have evolved into the species that will destroy the planet. Eating meat is the leading cause of environmental destruction. Ironic that you believe it was needed for our evolution, when in reality, it will be the leading cause of our demise.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you'll say why not be in control of it? Tell that to Mother Nature when you lecture.
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Wasn't expecting this to turn into a carnivorism vs veganism thread, but I'm definitely enjoying it!0
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Im Puerto Rican.. we eat blood sausage and its sooooo delicious.0
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