Ranch is gross, I’m sorry
That’s your opinion. It’s wrong, but you are entitled to it.
Out of curiosity are you also one of the genetically-deficient that think cilantro tastes like soap?
Nah I like cilantro!
Don’t be sorry, it is gross.
Ranch from a dressing bottle is gross. A home made ranch sauce is actually pretty good, basically like white sauce with more tang.
Homemade ranch with fresh herbs, garlic, buttermilk and fish sauce is amazing.
Never thought about fish sauce! I usually just use a cheap packet and a small container of sour cream. Might throw in a scoop of mayo if I’m feeling frisky. But I did just get a new bottle of squid brand, and I want to use it as much as possible before the flip top takes a shit.
I think I’m about to fuck up some veggies.
I like using tarragon in place of dill.
there’s no need to be sorry for stating relevant facts
and I want to point out that I fucking love mayonnaise. but ranch is gross.
Right there with you on mayonnaise, and I despise bottled ranch, but you gotta try making your own with some carrots and broccoli and shit.
It’s really good.
All these posts make it sound like people just discovered the US for the first time ever. It’s just clickbait/trend bandwagoning.
There are a lot of people visiting the US for the first time for the world cup
Apparently, they only care about soccer because we’ve been here for a while. I guess we lack culture, unlike the French cooking methods?
In the current political climate it’s hard to see what “culture” would draw anyone to the US. Being detained by CBP and deported by ICE isn’t the kind of experience most people want in their holiday.
I’m sure there are people that only care about soccer, and are coming to see the world cup despite it being in the USA. Maybe some of those people were pleasantly surprised by what they found here 🤷♂️
Ranch is your culture
Ranch is not skinny America’s culture. Greek and Italian all the way.
Greece and Italy would like a word.
French-ranch, or Franch
For sure. But they’re acting as if they’ve never tasted food before. It’s just a little over the top for my taste I suppose.
Many of these people will be taking the piss, too.
This surely won’t validate the fascists, at all. It’s why the ‘38 Olympics were such a starter.
1936 olympics
TIL all food is the same throughout the globe and that ranch dressing doesn’t only exist in the U.S.
Don’t tell me what to do you’re not my real dad
You can make it yourself for a fraction of even the price of the packets.
Just made a small batch for wings. It’s much better than anything store bought.
Hidden Valley Original Ranch Dressing Clone
1 cup mayonnaise 1/2 cup buttermilk (Greek yogurt works fine) Dried Parsley Flakes Ground Black Pepper Msg (optional) 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon garlic powder 1 tablespoon onion powder Dried ThymeI like to add a touch of dried dill or dill seed also.
MSG IS NEVER OPTIONAL!!!
Makes Shit Good
I added that so people that don’t have any at home don’t stress.
Lower the salt and add a bit of white pepper.
If not tangy enough, add a (very small) pinch of citric acid.
can confirm, I also add a touch of lemon juice or rice vinegar.
One potential problem: I don’t know how it is in the rest of Europe, but in France basically all mayonnaise includes Dijon mustard, so you can’t just use it straight in an American recipe. I did usually see at least one brand labeled “American mayonnaise” that did not include mustard, but people would need to be aware of the difference.
I’d be curious to know if mayonnaise more or less always included mustard and it was for some reason stripped out of the recipe that made its way to the US (my guess would be the British having some role), or if mustard was a later addition to the French recipe after it had already crossed the Atlantic.
As a German I don’t think I’ve ever seen mustard in regular mayonnaise
That is a good question… Any recipe for homemade mayo I’ve ever seen includes mustard. A casual investigation makes it seem that mayonnaise originates from France or Spain to begin with (I guess it’s contested).
That said, I feel like in France all the mustard I have had is much punchier than what we have here in the States. Possible France has just added more and better mustard as a stabilizer?
It is my understanding that mustard is often used as an emulsifier, especially in homemade mayo. But I don’t really like mayo, so I’m not an expert.
Is the mustard flavor you’re talking about subtle, or in your face?
It should be fairly simple to make a pull through mayo at home if you have a stick mixer.
Mustard is used as an easy “natural” emulsifier to keep things together, since the ingredients in mayo don’t really want to be in that configuration and it is easy to “break” that mix.
The amounts needed to do so is very small though, and usually imperceptible at the scale of a whole jar of mayo. Definitely not something you’d notice in most cases.
But again, every brand is different. Some probably are more mustard forward for whatever reason.
It’s not universal across Europe, for sure, so I’d say this is A France problem.
Dutch, English, German mayo would be just fine. Can’t speak to Spanish or Italian mayo. Farther east, blander it gets.
But the added buttermilk/yogurt really makes it a negligible issue overall.
If you don’t have any of these ingredients, it will cost you $24 to buy them all. And, you’ll only get 4 batches, before you need to buy more mayo, and 16 batches out of the buttermilk, but you’d better use it up before it goes bad in two weeks. So, you’d need to make and use about one batch per day.
Unless you commit to making it ongoing, and use it regularly, this is not an economical way to get Ranch.
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shit, it’s spreading
also, finally an article whose body is oniony!
I might be crazy, but I feel like I am the only one who dislikes ranch. Its just so bland and always prefer blue cheese. I mostly only have it with wings anyway. There is a place by me that does mexican food and im pretty sure they give me ranch with this chicken appatizer, but its filled with dill and tastes great. If it was a variation of ranch then there is definetly hope for it! Just to bland on its own and cant figure out what all the rage is for it.
There’s lots of different kinds, but there isn’t a bottled ranch that isn’t trash imo. So if most of what you’ve tried is bottled/pre-packaged then i get it. And yes, many times ranch has dill in it but not always. Typically the store bought ones rely mostly on parsley/onion for flavor.
The best I’ve had has basically always been a recipe made in-house at a restaurant. Maybe there are some foodservice versions sold to restaurants that are good but with recipes that never make it onto grocery store shelves. I know Sysco has or had a decent Caesar dressing and I’ve never found one in grocery stores that was as good, so I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case with other dressings.
I also don’t like ranch… I’ll eat it on cold baby carrots but that’s about it. I don’t like blue cheese, though… or mayonnaise. I think it’s just white creams, I don’t like any of it. Other than cum, I guess.
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Finally another person that can spot them.
For… Ranch dressing? Which brand? Or a plot by the Ranch Dressing Council?
It’s like the got milk campaign. Just all milk. All ranch.
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I’m loving the cultural exchange the world cup is providing, euros now understand why we’re so fat when the food’s this fire!
And we’re smack dab between 2 places known for slow cooking in fat. Ffs we got heavy French plus a harsh winter to the north, and mfers who bury half a pig for a day in hot coals to the south!
Unexpected couchon. You haven’t had pork till you’ve eaten a couchon de lait seasoned to Creole standards and cooked in good swamp earth.
Edit: wait. Half a pig?
It’s how I’ve had it. There was a butcher in South Florida years and years ago that sold them for cheap, and it was an easy thing to do for medium sized gatherings.
That’s weird, I’ve never seen anyone do it with less than a whole pig. You just take the guts out and put seasoning in.
I made ranch for the first time today. A lot of buttermilk and sour cream and cream cheese
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So… Watery aoili?
It’s a much stronger taste, it’s awful.
Nice “freedom” there
