Sunday, July 15, 2012
Cheating carrots
My recent return to vegie and home-cooked food was basically motivated by digestion and quality control. I'd been using Campbell's "chunky soup", but found the recipe and quality were unreliable. Most batches contained onions, not listed in the ingredients. Some of the ingredients were clearly bad stuff.
When I started returning to fresh, I happened to pick up a package of "baby" carrots, because they didn't require any cutting. The last time I'd done any real cooking was at least 10 years ago, and I wasn't sure of my cutting skills.
Last week's package of "baby" carrots looked strange and tasted worse. Contained some form of toxin; not enough for all-out food poisoning, but enough to irritate the tongue and leave a bad taste and weird feeling for a couple days.
I looked up the subject on the web, and was surprised to find that "baby" carrots aren't actually "babies" at all. They're actually the carrot equivalent of sausage or Masonite. They're mechanically cut into a carrot shape from parts of a low-quality full carrot!
In other words, they're an attempt to snatch quality control from the hands of the customer.
So, now that I'm sure of my cutting skill, I switched to real carrots and regained quality control.
And my innards are fine again.
¶ 5:25 PM 
When I started returning to fresh, I happened to pick up a package of "baby" carrots, because they didn't require any cutting. The last time I'd done any real cooking was at least 10 years ago, and I wasn't sure of my cutting skills.
Last week's package of "baby" carrots looked strange and tasted worse. Contained some form of toxin; not enough for all-out food poisoning, but enough to irritate the tongue and leave a bad taste and weird feeling for a couple days.
I looked up the subject on the web, and was surprised to find that "baby" carrots aren't actually "babies" at all. They're actually the carrot equivalent of sausage or Masonite. They're mechanically cut into a carrot shape from parts of a low-quality full carrot!
In other words, they're an attempt to snatch quality control from the hands of the customer.
So, now that I'm sure of my cutting skill, I switched to real carrots and regained quality control.
And my innards are fine again.
¶ 5:25 PM
