Plate or bin?

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Just started off a jar of kimchi. Never tried it before. Hence the question, will it finish up on my plate or in the bin. What do you reckon?
 
i vote bin too
 
Kimchi and cheese toasty is a recent discovery of mine. No chance of that going the bin. Especially when the toasty is made with sourdough bread.
It makes a good veggie alternative to the usual cheese toasties.
 
Mine is from a recipe I saw in Saturday's paper. Main ingredient is cauliflower leaves and core. Secondary ingredients are ginger, garlic chilli and soy sauce. Recipe says it needs a month to mature.
 
Interested that you have made it from such unusual ingredients but like the no waste idea of it..... my horses would complain as they always get the cauli leaves and stalks and cabbage cores etc. I buy it sometimes ..... not cheap.... so maybe I need to find this recipe and starve my poor horses of their treats. I used to alternate between kimchi and sauerkraut each week and I just ate a couple of forkfuls from the jar every now and then for the probiotics rather than having it with other food. I tend to graze more than eat regular meals, so I would just dip into it when I went into the fridge for something else. Can't say I am a huge fan but I am happy enough to eat it for the possible gut health properties.
 
I tried kimchi and didn't like it, though I don't mind Branston, but I don't like to throw out any food unless I absolutely have to, so -

I washed out & saved a few small yogurt pots

tipped out the kimchi onto a board and chopped/diced it fine

put 2 or 3 spoonfulls of the diced kimchi into each pot and froze them

when I do a stew, veg or otherwise, I put a small amount of kimchi into it, and it gets lost/blends in so I don't notice it
 
rebrascora said:
Interested that you have made it from such unusual ingredients but like the no waste idea of it..... my horses would complain as they always get the cauli leaves and stalks and cabbage cores etc. I buy it sometimes ..... not cheap.... so maybe I need to find this recipe and starve my poor horses of their treats. I used to alternate between kimchi and sauerkraut each week and I just ate a couple of forkfuls from the jar every now and then for the probiotics rather than having it with other food. I tend to graze more than eat regular meals, so I would just dip into it when I went into the fridge for something else. Can't say I am a huge fan but I am happy enough to eat it for the possible gut health properties.
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Saw this recipe and just happened to have a cauliflower in the cupboard. Leaves and stalks normally go into my veg soup but I thought, why not give this a go. @zuludog, like the idea of using it for stock if it proves too much on its own.
 
I love kimchi! I eat it out of the jar, as well as with pretty much everything else savoury. I buy mine though as I’m not organised enough or patient enough to make my own.

Um…so I’m going with plate 🙂
 
I bought my kimchi, from supermarkets; one canned & one in a jar but can't remember the brands, and as I mentioned, I didn't like it
Perhaps it would be different if I made my own, so maybe one day - which I suspect means never.......
 
Well if I should happen to go anywhere where there is some on a buffet, I will certainly try it. Otherwise I shan't as I have zero expectations of liking it. Plus I'm not sure they stock it in our Tesco where we do the rest of our food shopping, since none of the other major supermarkets are within 5 miles - I know a young woman asked if they had any one evening during the winter but the staff member she asked had never heard of it, so I told her then I'd seen it a fortnight previously in an Aldi in another part of Coventry where we rarely need to go and also in a very large Morrison's in Blackpool last November, where we had to look for practically everything we needed, not knowing either the store or in that location.
 
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Well if I should happen to go anywhere where there is some on a buffet, I will certainly try it.
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We do have it in the breakfast buffet where I work. There is where I tried it...and it's a big no from me :D
 
Never ever tried it, sounds fine & probably good for gut health looking at info on product.
 
Went to a meeting last night (local charity AGM) with standard pub buffet and the most exotic thing on offer was a dish of coleslaw LOL.

Only ever worked in an office, and though daughter works at a Vintage Inn so gets involved with breakfast buffets there - kimchi is not a delicacy offered as a brekkie choice by M & B !
 
Update on kimchification of cauliflower bits.

Something is going on in the jar... definite change in aroma on sniffing and liquid level is rising. Big decision to make. Do I try some of it next Tuesday or do I wait for three more weeks to get the full month. Also, how will I know if it has worked...never tried kimchi before so have nothing to compare it with.
 
The month is all but up and it is decision time. The taste is like nothing I have ever eaten before and clearly will have to be acquired if I am to eat the whole jarful. I am assuming it must be kimchi because I followed a recipe. The problem is I have no idea whether it is good kimchi and well worth persevering with in order to appreciate its subtlety or rubbish kimchi which only a lunatic would put anywhere near their mouth.

Any observations on how to resolve the matter will be much appreciated. The sillier the better.
 
Buy a jar and compare would be my suggestion. It is definitely an acquired taste though nut also a cultural thing in that figuring out what to eat it with is more difficult with a more traditional western diet. I was treating it more like a health supplement and eating a few forkfuls on it's own each day, which is probably not the best way to adjust your tastes and enjoy it. It might be nice with savoury pastries like pork pie but I don't eat those things so I haven't figured out a way to enjoyably fit it into my diet. I didn't let that stop me with olives or blue cheese and I love those now just on their own, so maybe if I persevere I can crack Kimchi too but to be honest I am not sure I saw enough improved gut health to make it worthwhile. I like eating cabbage in other ways more.
 
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