Veggie water

[tp4tissue]

So I've been blanching veggies to reduce salt, and get less fat yea?


Is it worth it drinking the water from this ? or is it too diluted anyway to matter..

[Moistgun]

yes

[mobbo]

yes

[Halverson]

Use the water for an enema

[Sniping]

Yes, the water is good. I don't like the taste of it sometimes but most of the time it's alright to drink. If you're into smoothies you can just add veggies to your smoothies to get in extra veggies. Spinach is good for smoothies because it doesn't affect the taste.

[digi]

Use the water for an enema

Took the words out of my mouth..

[jerue]

And should you need to reverse these effects, drink some potato water...  )

[DALExSNAIL]

Use the water for an enema

Took the words out of my mouth..

And the dirt out of your....

[noisyturtle]

TIL veggies are full of salt and fat

[tjcaustin]

TIL veggies are full of salt and fat

Probably been using oil/butter + salt in a pan.

[noisyturtle]

TIL veggies are full of salt and fat

Probably been using oil/butter + salt in a pan.

ahh yeah, guess I always steam of bake veggies. But blanching after cooking veggies makes no sense. Why would you blanch stir-fry, that is insane and counterproductive to the texture and flavor. You blanch the veggies BEFORE you fry them up.....

guess I don't understand what tp is talking about.

It prevents flavor loss during cooking and removes dirt and any nasty organisms that may be living on your veggies, so you are drinking bacteria dirt water :/

[tp4tissue]

Well, you wash the veggies before blanching. .

[fanpeople]

DRINK THE WATER

[Blackehart]

EAT THE CAKE, ANNIE MAE!

[shrubkeys]

Also not sure why blanching veggies would reduce salt and fat. Properly-prepared blanched veg would use salt, and plenty of cooking techniques use no or little fat.

As to drinking the water? There are arguments back and forth over whether it contains appreciable healthful benefits. It certainly won't be bad for you. And if it tastes good, by all means use it to drink or cook with.

[tp4tissue]

Also not sure why blanching veggies would reduce salt and fat. Properly-prepared blanched veg would use salt, and plenty of cooking techniques use no or little fat.

As to drinking the water? There are arguments back and forth over whether it contains appreciable healthful benefits. It certainly won't be bad for you. And if it tastes good, by all means use it to drink or cook with.

Blanching only refers the quick hot water part, it does not imply the addition of Oil or other Seasoning such as salt.

Tp4 am reducing fatness by just eating blanched veggies without those components.

[shrubkeys]

Also not sure why blanching veggies would reduce salt and fat. Properly-prepared blanched veg would use salt, and plenty of cooking techniques use no or little fat.

As to drinking the water? There are arguments back and forth over whether it contains appreciable healthful benefits. It certainly won't be bad for you. And if it tastes good, by all means use it to drink or cook with.

Blanching only refers the quick hot water part, it does not imply the addition of Oil or other Seasoning such as salt.

Tp4 am reducing fatness by just eating blanched veggies without those components.

Right. But then again, *not* blanching also doesn't imply the addition of salt. To the extent of cutting salt out of your diet, blanching or not isn't important. To the extent of seasoning your food properly - again: blanching or not isn't important. No matter what method you use, too little salt almost invariably means underseasoned, under-sweet and under-acidic. Blanching is a useful cooking technique - but unless you're regularly deep-frying your asparagus, it just doesn't have a ton to do with your goal to "reduce salt, and get less fat"

edit:// gf pointed out I'm being unfair. Meals that I can think of that would serve well to complement the taste and the texture of your blanched veg do tend to be healthier. Damned if she's not right. So there's that.

[fohat.digs]

Weird topic.

It sounds like you are doing one process to remove something, then ingesting it anyway.

[tp4tissue]

There's no faster way to cook vegetables.

[shrubkeys]

There's no faster way to cook vegetables.

Listen - I don't mean to keep getting down on you here. Blanching is a wonderful technique to have in your arsenal, and trying to eat healthy is an admirable goal.

But the above is not a true statement.

Weird topic.

It sounds like you are doing one process to remove something, then ingesting it anyway.

And this is an even odder statement. What process is he doing to "remove something"? It's not like he's blanching veg to get rid of toxins.

[fohat.digs]

So I've been blanching veggies to reduce salt, and get less fat yea?

What process is he doing to "remove something"?

Maybe I had trouble with reading.

"So I've been blanching veggies to reduce salt, "
means that the blanched vegetables are taking the place of some other food that was salty?

"and get less fat yea? "
means that the eater will eventually become less fat on a diet of blanched vegetables?

[tp4tissue]

I'm eating blanched veggies, vs say, a butter stirfry with salt..

In order ---To get less fat--

If you assumed anything else, while possible, I would've thought an adult would have more deductive sense than that..  hahahaha



@ shrubkeys..

What faster way is there to cook veggies.. 

[fohat.digs]

Microwaving is almost always the fastest way to cook anything, besides dropping it on an already-very-hot griddle.

[tp4tissue]

Microwaving is almost always the fastest way to cook anything, besides dropping it on an already-very-hot griddle.

Griddle needs to preheat..


Microwave might do a small batch quicker..

But in terms of large quantity it's still always faster on the stove

[nugglets]

Microwaving is almost always the fastest way to cook anything, besides dropping it on an already-very-hot griddle.

Griddle needs to preheat..

Water needs to boil... I don't know about you, but that takes a lot longer than getting a pan hot in my house.

And then there's the ice bath, which a lot of people forget about.

[tp4tissue]

Microwaving is almost always the fastest way to cook anything, besides dropping it on an already-very-hot griddle.

Griddle needs to preheat..

Water needs to boil... I don't know about you, but that takes a lot longer than getting a pan hot in my house.

Hahaha.. it has to do with quantity..

If I'm making a small serving of veggies, the surface area of a griddle may be adequate to efficiently transfer heat at a rate equivalent to blanching in a pot

However, If I am making a large batch all at once.. because I don't want to cook 3 times a day..


THEN,  it is faster to heat some water,  and throw in a whole pot of veggies in the water.. which conducts heat evenly and faster than the pan bottom would..

[danielucf]

If you are not overcooking your veggies then you are not losing much in the ways of vitamins and minerals from them. I wouldn't waste my time drinking that water. If you grow plants then let the water cool off and toss it on them or onto your yard or something. I ate a macrobiotic diet for about 5+ years which was about being as healthy as possible. We never considered trying to save the water from cooking. I suppose if you wanted to make a soup then you could save the water for that, but a quick blanch really shouldn't get much substance from your veggies.

2-3 minutes steamed/boiled is perfect for most green vegetables like broccoli (I'll never understand people that like broccoli cooked into brown mush). However if you eat them raw then it is impossible to have destroyed or changed the vitamins/mineral content of your veggies.

[chyros]

NOTHING is perfect about broccoli D: .

[noisyturtle]

NOTHING is perfect about broccoli D: .

it's basically poison

[chyros]

NOTHING is perfect about broccoli D: .

it's basically poison

It's ****ing awful in simply every way D: .

You know how it starts to reek of poop when you cook it? Take a look at the shape again and you'll see it's actually a solidified fart, plume shape and everything. When you heat it, it's thawed out, hence the **** smell about it.